Rice’s ENRICH and the Department of Kinesiology co-hosted a research and networking event with Houston Methodist....
Rice hosted five high school students for a forward-thinking summer pilot program named the ETC Lab, designed to equip high school juniors and seniors...
Rice Emergency Medical Services partnered with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center to host a campus blood drive July 12....
Whether you’re itching to write your first short story, finally tackle personal finance or get hands-on with photography or painting, Rice's Glasscock...
Some of the world’s top minds in machine learning, optimization and distributed systems gathered this summer in the heart of Paris. ...
Rice student-athletes and staff load donations as part of a two-day flood relief drive supporting Central Texas communities. ...
Artificial intelligence is infamous for its resource-heavy training, but a new study may have found a solution in a novel communications system that m...
Rice experts are available to comment on digital health topics, including AI, wearable and ingestible devices, imaging and robotics....
Visitors are encouraged to browse, read and linger, connecting the work they see on the gallery walls to broader histories and artistic traditions thr...
For John B. Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice, the Gulf Coast is personal. ...
A new coating for glass developed by Rice researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially during the cold season, by preventi...
Rice Athletics will host a donation drive July 10-11 to assist with the ongoing recovery efforts in Central Texas in the aftermath of the flash floodi...
Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits
Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temperature quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique.
Remembering E. William ‘Bill’ Barnett ’55: Visionary leader and former Rice Board chairman
Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a transformative figure in the university’s modern history.
Physicists confirm elusive quantum spin liquid in new study
An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in a rare quantum spin liquid.
Houston high schoolers uncover Jewish history through Rice’s South Texas Jewish Archives
The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, offering them a unique, hands-on dive into the rich tapestry of Houston’s Jewish history.
‘A transformational initiative’: Rice hosts college preparation camp for Houston youth
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high schools and middle schools to provide life lessons and college readiness activities.
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel discussion titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Leading in the Time of Black Lives Matter,” offered reflections and insights from former student leaders who navigated pivotal moments of leadership during the movement.
Internationally recognized ‘Woman Life Freedom’ mural makes US debut at Rice
A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making history on American soil. The “Woman Life Freedom” mural, created by Iranian-American filmmaker and activist Hooman Khalili, was recently unveiled at Rice, becoming the first temporary installation of its kind on a U.S. college campus.
Rice’s Archives of the Impossible offer insight and expertise for World UFO Day
Housed within the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, the archives have amassed more than a million documents, recordings and files related to unexplained phenomena.
Rice scientists harness vacuum fluctuations to engineer quantum materials
Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarized light in a single direction, achieving chirality — a feat that typically requires the use of a strong magnetic field.
Rice, Houston shine on global stage at VivaTech 2025
The university joined the Greater Houston Partnership in hosting the first city booth at the global event, which drew more than 180,000 attendees from across the international tech ecosystem.
