Rice's SynthX Center is leading a new effort to improve how doctors detect and diagnose lymphatic diseases....
A technology designed to read gene activity in the brain from a simple blood test has now cleared a major translational hurdle....
Researchers at Rice have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken th...
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting. ...
The Rice women's basketball team was crowned the American Conference regular season champion after a 77-66 win at Temple Wednesday night at The Liacou...
Frank Klaus Tittel, a physicist whose career paralleled the rise of modern laser technology and who helped build Rice’s reputation in laser spectrosc...
Art teachers, artists and comics enthusiasts gathered at Rice University Feb. 20 for Teaching Comics, a one-day symposium exploring how comics can fun...
Nearly 700 prospective graduate students, current scholars, faculty and staff gathered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science for Rice University’s ...
Martono, a second-year master’s student in violin performance, won the title of Miss Chinatown Houston 2025, her first-ever pageant....
Undergraduates at Rice are digging into real, possible wrongful conviction cases this semester, examining evidence to bring renewed attention to indiv...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was honored with a Community Trailblazer Award Feb. 19 by the city of Houston’s controller Chris Hollins during his ...
Rice commends Stacy Mosely for 14 years of service. As executive senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator, Mosely maintains admin...
Scientific AI’s ‘black box’ is no match for 200-year-old method
Rice engineers discovered a 200-year-old technique called Fourier analysis can reveal crucial information about how a form of artificial intelligence called a deep neural network learns to perform tasks involving complex physics.
Shepherd School sophomore composer receives inaugural award from US Navy Band
Shepherd School of Music sophomore Jaylin Vinson's "Afrophilia" earned him earned him the inaugural Alton Augustus Adams Sr. Award for Emerging Composers, named in honor of the Navy Band’s first Black bandmaster.
Mosquito’s DNA could provide clues on gene expression, regulation
Rice University researchers discover that the Aedes aegypti mosquito’s DNA has the physical properties of a liquid crystal, a unique feature not found in any other species that could provide new clues on the factors that govern gene expression and regulation.
Bite this! Mosquito feeding chamber uses fake skin, real blood
Rice bioengineers teamed up with tropical medicine experts from Tulane to invent a high-tech way to study the feeding behavior of mosquitoes. To eliminate the need for live volunteers, the system uses patches of "synthetic skin" made with a 3D bioprinter.
Danish space delegation tours Rice campus
A delegation of Danish representatives from government, academia and the space industry visited the Rice University campus last week for a half-day series of meetings, lab tours and conversations on avenues for growth and collaboration in space education and research.
Peptide 3D-printing inks could advance regenerative medicine
How do you build complex structures for housing cells using a material as soft as Jell-O? Rice University researchers have the answer with a new 3D-printing ink.
With eye on future, Rice’s strategic planning process moves forward
Rice University is undergoing a revision of its strategic plan in order to maximize its impact as an academic institution.
Renowned firm selected for Rice Academic Quadrangle redesign
Following a thoughtful search for a design partner that included an invitational competition in the summer of 2022, design work is underway to significantly reimagine Rice University’s Academic Quadrangle.
Actors From The London Stage dazzle throughout campus visit
The Actors From The London Stage, the international touring troupe based in London and at the University of Notre Dame, shared their talents with Rice students and the Houston community at large during the group’s recent on-campus residency Jan. 31-Feb. 4.
Rice President Reginald DesRoches met with Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II Jan. 31 on campus to discuss current and future partnerships between Rice and the largest public school district in Texas.
