Rice alumnus Wesley Sinor ’97, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Jones School of Business, has been flagged as Houston Livestock Show and ...
Rice’s academic year is about to launch, but dozens of incoming Owls started early by engaging with the city and its social justice issues, addressing...
Even for the nation’s highest achieving students, the transition from high school to college can be an intimidating experience. That’s where RISE (res...
Rice will kick off its annual orientation, lovingly dubbed O-Week, Aug. 17 in a series of programs that familiarize incoming students with their new s...
Fort Bend County has grown from around 50,000 residents in 1970 to nearly 1 million in 2024....
Rice researchers have demonstrated a form of quantum interference two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported....
Rice has been selected to join the 2025 cohort of the FirstGen Forward Network, a national initiative that recognizes colleges committed to advancing ...
Rice's OwlSpark accelerator's newest cohort included twin founders with projects aiming to solve overlooked problems in patient care....
Luay Nakhleh, dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation ...
A new study reveals how L. lactis regulates the production of a key precursor in vitamin K₂ biosynthesis....
Niamh Ordner is spending her summer as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at the ...
Marcos de Moraes, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Devel...
People, papers and presentations for May 31, 2022
Rice track and field athletes Grace Forbes (10,000 meters), Erna Gunnarsdottir (shot put), James McNaney (javelin), Tara Simpson-Sullivan (hammer throw) and Alex Slinkman (pole vault) qualified for the NCAA Championships with their performances at the NCAA West Prelims May 25-28 in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Rice Alliance seeks entrepreneurs for energy transition program
Entrepreneurs who are interested in running a startup that can impact the energy transition can apply to be matched with a novel technology in a new Chevron Studio program through Rice Alliance.
Rice bids fond farewell to finance wizard Kathy Collins
One of the top administrators at Rice University never taught a class here, but grateful colleagues who joined together last week for a celebration of her long and distinguished career hailed her as nothing less than one of the great teachers and leaders on campus.
Mental health of Black and Hispanic veterans improved after Obama election, study finds
The mental health of Black and Hispanic veterans improved when Barack Obama was elected president, according to new research from Rice University.
Schneider selected to direct Religion and Public Life Program
Rachel Schneider has been named the new director of the Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP), which will now be housed in Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance .
Howe wins Berlin Prize, will complete fellowship next year
Cymene Howe, a professor of anthropology at Rice University and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology, has been named a Berlin Prize fellow by the American Academy in Berlin.
Top hospitals blatantly violating price-transparency mandate, says Baker Institute report
Many of the nation’s most prominent hospitals are blatantly violating federal mandates requiring transparency in pricing, and all too often patients are being kept in the dark about dramatic differences between publicly reported prices for services and their actual cost, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Cars could get a ‘flashy’ upgrade
Rice University chemists, working with the Ford Motor Company, processes waste plastic from end-of-life trucks into graphene for composite materials in new vehicles.
Sociologist Ecklund named director of Boniuk Institute
Elaine Howard Ecklund, an internationally acclaimed sociologist of religion, is the new director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University.
Stephen Klineberg: A retrospective
Through most of the 20th century, Houston thrived. It was a one-horse industrial town, riding its location near the East Texas oil fields to continued prosperity. The city was also world-famous for having imposed the least possible controls on development of any city in the Western world. Houstonians proclaimed themselves to be the epitome of what Americans can achieve when left unfettered by zoning codes, government regulations or excessive taxation.
