A newly discovered waltz by Frédéric Chopin, recently unearthed from a vault at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, made its Houston debut Nov....
The Ion District, Houston’s hub for innovation, now has its very own pickleball experience with the newly-opened Pickle Lab....
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music is set to bring holiday magic to Houston with its annual “Spirit of the Season” concert Dec. 7 in Morrison Theater at ...
Rice celebrated the topping out of Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, a new visual arts building, Nov. 12....
Rice’s WaTER Institute and Yokogawa Corporation of America announced a new partnership in support of modular autonomous water treatment and reuse proc...
Students of Rice’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed original pieces in response to the themes of the Moody Center for the Arts’ fall 20...
Rice welcomed an assembly of leaders ranging from higher education and Texas Medical Center institutions to state and local elected officials to share...
Guests gathered at Rice on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lynn R. Lowrey Arboretum....
Eight representatives from Rice were selected to be part of the 2024-25 Scholars Transforming Through Research program hosted by the Council on Underg...
EcoStudio in Rice’s Sustainability Institute and the Rice Office of STEM Engagement have received a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Academies ...
Researchers including Jacob Robinson have developed a technique for diagnosing, managing treating neurological disorders with minimal surgical risks. ...
The Rice men’s basketball team used a strong defensive performance to defeat the University of Louisiana-Monroe 66-50 at Tudor Fieldhouse Nov. 12....
People, papers and presentations - May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021
People, papers and presentations - May 28, 2021
Unconventional Students at Rice 2021: Christen Smajstrla inspires the next generation
May 28, 2021
After getting her two degrees from Rice, she would return to her Central Texas hometown of Schulenberg and become a school teacher. But somewhere along the way through her years at Rice, something changed.
Molecular jiggling has implications for carbon nanotube fibers
May 28, 2021
New research suggests the jiggling motion of carbon nanotubes suspended in liquid solutions could have implications for the structure, processing and properties of nanotube fibers formed from those solutions.
Moshe Vardi earns top computer science honor
May 27, 2021
Rice's Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his influential work at the interface of logic and computer science.
Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei
May 27, 2021
A team of biologists studying the tree of life has unveiled a new classification system for cell nuclei, and discovered a method for transmuting one type of cell nucleus into another.
Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022
May 26, 2021
HOUSTON – (May 26, 2021) – Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
Bacteria have sensors to shut toxin down
May 26, 2021
Researchers at Rice University and the University of Idaho helped identify a protein that senses and binds to formaldehyde to tell cells that toxic formaldehyde is building up.
World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice
May 24, 2021
SlaveVoyages.org is the result of years of research, reengineered for the future by Rice and a newly formed consortium.
Mexico’s democracy examined in Baker Institute webinar
May 24, 2021
Ahead of upcoming midterm elections in Mexico, a half-day event from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine the future of democracy in the country.