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...
Persistence is crucial in the classroom, new reports from Kinder Institute’s HERC show
Possessing lots of persistence leads to better academic outcomes for Houston Independent School District students, according to a newly released series of reports from the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a research center within Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Rice lab uncovers dynamics behind protein crucial in breast cancer
Just as a puppeteer moves a puppet by manipulating its strings, estrogen receptors, which play a crucial role in breast cancer, work in similar ways when they facilitate the interaction between hormones and DNA, according to Rice scientists.
First event in new Humanities lecture series examines Jainism, comparative religion
The School of Humanities, in collaboration with the departments of Transnational Asian Studies and Religion, is set to host Rice’s first-ever Bhagwaan Mahavir Lecture in Jain Studies Feb. 3.
New ‘Narrative Threads’ exhibition at the Moody excites with dazzling textiles
“Why is it that artists would be working in a very modern moment with a very historic material?” asked Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody, in reference to the recently opened exhibition “Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today,” which showcases 40 fiber-based artworks from 22 artists based across the globe.
STAT’s Hopkins co-authors National Academies report. CAREER Awards keep coming. DOE funds NEWT desalination research.
Chinese prefer Europeans to Americans, but the feeling isn’t mutual
People in China have more favorable opinions of Europeans than Americans, but the feeling is not mutual, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University of British Columbia.
Balancing spousal loss and career is a one-two punch for health of widowed individuals
Coping with the loss of a spouse while dealing with the 9-to-5 grind can take a serious toll on the health of widows or widowers, according to new research from the Biobehavioral Mechanisms Explaining Disparities Lab (BMED) at Rice University.
Rice's Danielle King named 2023 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star
Danielle King, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has been named a 2023 APS Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.
Front-row seat to a thrilling triumph
Rice President Reginald DesRoches and his wife, University Associate Paula DesRoches, provided courtside support for the Owls men’s basketball team as it took on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Jan. 26 at Tudor Fieldhouse.
People, papers and presentations for Jan. 30, 2023
Richard Baker, executive director for institutional equity and equal employment opportunity and Title IX coordinator, has been named to the editorial board of INSIGHT Into Diversity, a magazine and website dedicated to advancing conversation on diversity and inclusion.
