ROBE Array could let small companies access popular form of AI
A breakthrough by Rice computer scientists could allow more labs and companies to use artificial intelligence.
The School of Social Sciences’ latest Research Relay gives new Rice faculty members a platform to share their research....
The Rice Center for Engineering Leadership launched the Summer Engineering Innovation Program, a 10-week interdisciplinary initiative where graduate s...
Rice’s student newspaper, The Rice Thresher, was named a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award. In university circles, the awar...
A team of researchers at Rice has developed a new membrane that selectively filters out lithium from brines, offering a faster, cleaner way to produc...
When Kathleen Ortiz arrived at Rice, she wasn’t sure if journalism would remain part of her life. A senior majoring in social policy analysis and spor...
The Kinder Institute ’s Houston Population Research Center finds roughly 10% of area residents are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Beryl....
When classes began at Venice International University Sept. 8, a delegation from Rice University was there to witness it....
Professor of cello Norman Fischer was the soloist in the premiere, which marked the first of four debuts still to come this season in a multiyear init...
A new study has found that energy transfers more quickly between molecular sites when it starts in an entangled, delocalized quantum state....
Rice secured its first conference win of the season with a 3-2 reverse sweep over Tulsa on Sunday at Tudor Fieldhouse....
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has launched a new EC-3 alternative teacher certification program to prepare the next generat...
A new study led by Rice, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that icefish reorganized their skulls in ways that ...
New Rice Owls get taste of Houston and service-learning through Civic Immersion program
A few weeks prior to Rice’s weeklong new student orientation, dozens of incoming Owls took time out of their summers to immerse themselves in the city of Houston and the social justice issues local advocates are striving to address through the Civic Immersion program, one of the flagships of the university’s Center for Civic Leadership (CCL).
Pain, loss and hope for tomorrow: Fischer Duo celebrates 50 years of music with ‘2020 Visions’
A new album from longtime piano-cello duo Jeanne Kierman Fischer and Norman Fischer, both professors at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the twosome performing together with music expressing the pain of loss and the hope for a better tomorrow.
Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities
Rice earns an “A+” grade and ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in the latest ratings of American colleges compiled by Niche.
Lilie event aims to inspire student entrepreneurship across campus
Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) is hosting a Festival of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology and Art (FIESTA) Aug. 29-Sept. 1 to showcase its work, resources and capabilities.
Stem cell research, misinformation to be examined at Baker Institute event
A Sept. 9 event from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine misinformation surrounding stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
English chair Ostherr gives lecture in Berlin in honor of Marshall Plan’s 75th anniversary
Kirsten Ostherr — the Gladys Louise Fox Professor and Chair of the Department of English, and director of both Rice’s medical humanities program and the Medical Futures Lab — was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to give a lecture July 13 at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the city’s Charité hospital, one of the largest university hospitals in Europe.
Puentes Consortium experience promotes binational, collaborative undergraduate research
An international initiative this summer gave Rice undergraduates an opportunity to meet with students from Mexican and American universities to promote collaborative, multidisciplinary research on issues critical to the relationship between the two countries.
Rice, NASA to celebrate JFK’s moon speech
Rice University and NASA will celebrate the 60-year anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s famous moon speech at Rice Stadium.
New weapon targets antibiotic resistance
A new class of molecular motors triggered by visible light kills harmful bacteria by generating reactive oxygen species. The new strategy could be a weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.