Fox named vice president for finance and administration
Kelly Fox, a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president for finance and administration.
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 ...
Immigration policy, aggressive enforcement harm mental health of people living in US illegally
Restrictive immigration policies and aggressive law enforcement are harmful to the mental health of immigrants living in the United States illegally, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for July 18, 2022
A paper by Rice physicist Edison Liang and colleagues titled “A scintillator attenuation spectrometer for intense gamma-rays” is featured on the cover of the June 2022 issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.
Registration opens for Rice’s continuing studies courses
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has released its course guide for fall 2022.
Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.
Syed named Rice University’s vice president, general counsel
Omar Syed, an attorney with 15 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president and general counsel.
Rice student and Shepherd School classmates bring new musical works to rural Texas
Small-town Texas might not be the first place you’d think of as a destination for a musical premiere from some of the country’s top composition students, but that’s exactly what took place at “Full Circle — A Musical Museum Experience,” held in May in Canadian, Texas, thanks to a Rice University Shepherd School student and some of his classmates.
AMP! ramps up for a new year of STEM training for teachers with a day at Minute Maid Park.
Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second
Rice neuroengineers and collaborators have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits.
Strain-sensing smart skin ready to deploy
Carbon nanotubes’ natural fluorescence enables a method to detect high strain concentrations, which can lead to damage that threatens the integrity of critical infrastructure like aircraft, buildings, pipelines, bridges and ships.