Flashing creates hard-to-get 2D boron nitride
Rice University chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.
Angel Martí is leading efforts to highlight chemistry’s role in advancing brain health research....
A team of researchers led by Rice, in collaboration with colleagues in Mozambique and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has developed...
A new class of Community Bridges Fellows is stepping beyond the classroom and into the community through the program run by Rice’s Kinder Institute fo...
Two student teams from Rice have been named finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame....
Scientists from Rice and Houston Methodist have developed a new way to reduce inflammation in the brain, a discovery that could help fight diseases su...
Through temporary installations and an expanding permanent collection, the Moody Center for the Arts brings thought-provoking art into spaces where st...
Rice will serve as the official host institution for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional at the Toyota Center, the NCAA announced this week....
The Rice-Houston Methodist Digital Health Institute will host an inaugural summit Oct. 8 at Rice, launching what will become an annual gathering at th...
Rice climatologist Sylvia Dee has been awarded the 2025 Nanne Weber Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union’s Paleoceanography and Pale...
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded...
Carrie Masiello, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry at Rice, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s l...
The 22nd annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum saw 50 ventures pitch their companies to a full crowd of investors and corporate leaders Sept....
Hidden genes may be tapped for new antibiotics
Rice University bioscientists learn to trigger “silent” gene clusters in bacteria that could be rich sources of new antibiotic candidates.
Interracial contact may not reduce racism, says report
Racial apathy and the belief that Black people no longer experience prejudice in today’s world represent the “new racism,” according to Tony Brown, professor of sociology at Rice University and lead author of the study, “Changes in Racial Apathy Among White Young Adults: A Five-Year National Panel Study,” published in the journal Sociological Inquiry.
Ten new professors join Rice Business
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added ten faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.
Padley named vice president for IT, chief information officer
Paul Padley, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of Rice’s Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, has been named the university’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer. Padley assumed the position on an interim basis last summer when Klara Jelinkova stepped down from the post.
New issue of Rice Magazine explores research, scholarship
The Summer 2022 issue of Rice Magazine highlights a sample of the dynamic, complex and ambitious scholarship underway in academic disciplines across campus.
Rice scholars, dignitaries meet with Fulbright-feted educators ahead of Argentina voyage
The 2022 Fulbright-Hays Delegation to Argentina spent July 27-29 at Rice for a pre-departure orientation on all things Argentinian. The 16 educators from across America will spend July in the South American nation.
Leebron accepts posts at Columbia, Harvard
Former President David Leebron will spend much of the coming year at the two institutions other than Rice that have played the most important roles in his education and career.
The DesRoches era begins as Rice’s eighth president takes office
Reginald DesRoches started his first day as Rice University’s newest president the same way he starts most Fridays: with a run around campus, on this particular dewey Houston morning, accompanied by his wife Paula and daughter Shelby, a Rice senior. Later, just as he has during his term as provost, he strolled into Allen Center. But on this Friday, he walked in as President DesRoches.
Nobel laureate, beloved Rice professor Robert Curl dead at 88
Nobel Prize-winning chemist and beloved Rice University Professor Robert Curl died July 3 at age 88.