Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 2 startups
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator’s second annual class will put a spotlight on 17 early- to mid-stage startups that collectively have already raised more than $54.5 million.
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 ...
Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials
Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.
Cherukuri named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation
Paul Cherukuri, the executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation.
Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change
A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.
VegSense makes sense for forest studies
Rice ecologists have created open-source software to rapidly gather field data with Microsoft’s mixed reality headset.
Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security
Rice computer scientists are leading the development of programmable networks that respond to change in seconds without downtime.
Ken Kennedy Institute will host AI in Health Conference Nov. 7-9
Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute is organizing and hosting the AI in Health Conference Nov. 7-9 at the BioScience Research Collaborative.
Interns bring innovative design to health technology engineering challenges
Rice University’s Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies and Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) this summer merged two internship programs and brought together 17 students over the course of seven weeks to employ inventive engineering design methods tackling health technology challenges.
Ramesh named Rice University’s vice president for research
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University’s vice president for research.
OwlSpark, Rice University’s high-growth tech startup accelerator, is celebrating 10 years of facilitating entrepreneurship and its 10th cohort, along with debuting the inaugural class of the small business accelerator BlueLaunch, which is focused on growing ventures of any industry.