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...
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...
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...
Visitors are encouraged to browse, read and linger, connecting the work they see on the gallery walls to broader histories and artistic traditions thr...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.