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. 4, 2021
October 4, 2021
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 4, 2021
Rice remembers Miah Im, director of opera studies
October 1, 2021
Miah Im, Rice's dynamic director of opera studies who was celebrated in the opera world for her depth of experience, commitment to developing young artists and generous and supportive nature toward peers and performers alike, passed away Sept. 30 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 47.
OpenStax founder Baraniuk wins ‘Nobel Prize of education’
October 1, 2021
Richard Baraniuk has been awarded the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.
Rice remembers Hugh Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library
September 30, 2021
Hugh “Hughy” Davis III, an access services assistant at Fondren Library, died Sept. 23. He was 30 years old.
Corps of Engineers funds bid to ‘flash’ waste into useful materials
September 30, 2021
A $5.2 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers grant will expand Rice efforts to recycle waste into valuable products through flash Joule heating.
Fall plant sale starts Oct. 4 at Rice Holistic Garden
September 29, 2021
US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash
September 29, 2021
Rice engineers are developing a noninvasive device to understand how the brain disposes of metabolic waste during sleep.
Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study
September 28, 2021
Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wins an early-career fellowship to pursue Gulf of Mexico research.
Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do?
September 27, 2021
Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows
September 27, 2021
Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows