Political science professor Bob Stein recognized with the 2025 Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement....
Nine Rice faculty members received the 2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors Rice’s top instructors based on votes from alumn...
Each year, Rice University honors members of its community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. ...
Kasey Leigh Yearty has been named the 2025 recipient of the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching....
In a city defined by innovation and resilience, the Rice Water Technologies Entrepreneurship and Research (WaTER) Institute hosted its distinguished l...
The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 18, 2021
October 18, 2021
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 18, 2021
Anticorrosion coating sets new benchmark
October 18, 2021
Rice engineers adapt a compound to serve as a universal anticorrosive coating for steel.
October 18, 2021
The GCEC, hosted by Loyola University Maryland and the University of Baltimore on Oct. 13-16, showcased higher education’s role in supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs who have been most affected by economic crises and hold the most potential for growth. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at the Jones Graduate School of Business is the administrative home for the GCEC.
NASA’s Shannon Walker ’87 returns with gifts from space
October 15, 2021
NASA astronaut and Rice alumnus Shannon Walker ’87 returned to campus Oct. 12 to present more than a dozen Rice-related mementos that flew with her during her latest six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Design competition announced for Little Free Libraries
October 15, 2021
Jury of Rice judges will consider feasibility, durability, creativity and public impact
New members elected to Baker Institute Board of Advisors
October 15, 2021
The Baker Institute Board of Advisors added eight new members in 2021, with expertise ranging from business and health to energy, finance and technology. The new members are Jay Brown, Benjamin Cheng, Thomas Falk, Robert Ladd, Fred Lummis, Gerald Smith, Ann Stern and Guillermo “Memo” Trevino.
Boniuk Institute, empathy advocates to present Compassion Week
October 15, 2021
Compassionate Houston, a partner of Rice’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, is hosting Compassion Week Oct. 16-22 to provide the community with perspectives from a variety of backgrounds through virtual sessions.
Rice sociologists honored by Children At Risk
October 14, 2021
Ruth López Turley and Stephen Klineberg were honored at the 2021 Accolades Luncheon Oct. 8.
Nanoscale lattices flow from 3D printer
October 14, 2021
Rice University engineers are printing 3D lattices of glass and crystal with sub-200 nanometer resolution. The technique could make it practical to print micro-scale electronic, mechanical and photonic devices.
Packard Foundation backs Rice bioengineer
October 14, 2021
Rice University bioengineer Jerzy Szablowski wins a prestigious Packard Fellowship to pursue noninvasive brain research.