Rice’s annual United Way campaign concludes, raising over $264,000 in 15 weeks
After 15 weeks of fundraising, the annual Rice United Way campaign ultimately brought in $264,720.
Artificial intelligence is infamous for its resource-heavy training, but a new study may have found a solution in a novel communications system that m...
Rice experts are available to comment on digital health topics, including AI, wearable and ingestible devices, imaging and robotics....
Visitors are encouraged to browse, read and linger, connecting the work they see on the gallery walls to broader histories and artistic traditions thr...
For John B. Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice, the Gulf Coast is personal. ...
A new coating for glass developed by Rice researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially during the cold season, by preventi...
Rice Athletics will host a donation drive July 10-11 to assist with the ongoing recovery efforts in Central Texas in the aftermath of the flash floodi...
The study by Rice scientists shows why genetic sequences are not equally prone to errors....
Rice researchers showed that even if the materials used in thick battery electrodes have nearly identical structures, their internal chemistry impacts...
Rice helped launch a new speaker series at the Ion spotlighting the human side of space exploration....
Scientists at Rice and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multi...
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research offers critical statistics on Hurricane Beryl's lasting impact one year later....
A Rice graduate student has launched a company aiming to make graphene production faster, cheaper and more scalable. Alex Lathem founded Pattern Mater...
Heffes appointed co-president of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Gisela Heffes, professor of modern and classical literatures and cultures, has been appointed co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
Glasscock School students — including a 101-year-old — persevere during the pandemic
COVID-19 hasn't stopped students at Rice's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies from continuing their lifelong-learning journeys, including a centenarian who has taken courses almost every semester for a decade.
Biologists discover new insect species at Rice University
Newly discovered insect Neuroterus valhalla is barely a millimeter long and spends 11 months of the year locked in a crypt. It’s legendary sounding name stems from where it was discovered: A tree outside Rice’s graduate student pub Valhalla.
Black and Hispanic communities bore disproportionate share of Texas’ early COVID-19 deaths
Texas state officials did not publish the race and ages of COVID-19 victims in early 2020, but a county-level statistical analysis spearheaded by Rice University undergraduates in collaboration with university faculty has found deaths statewide were disproportionately concentrated in Black and Hispanic communities.
Rusting iron can be its own worst enemy
Atom-level simulations reveal the reason iron rusts in supposedly “inert” supercritical carbon dioxide fluid. Trace amounts of water can cause a reaction at the interface between iron and the fluid, prompting the formation of corrosive chemicals.
Sperandio’s genre-bending, post-apocalyptic comic presents puzzles, one-eyed pigs
The newest comic book from the VADA professor comes from respected Latvian publisher Kuš
When graphene speaks, scientists can now listen
Brothers working in a lab at Rice University discover that sound can be used to analyze the properties of laser-induced graphene in real time.
Relax, marathoners, we’ve got your back
Rice’s Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology student club helped provide more than 400 post-race medical massages to runners at the 2022 Chevron Houston Marathon.
Data from beneath the South Atlantic Ocean
Rice graduate student Kevin Gaastra is in the South Atlantic Ocean this week, working to process and inspect samples on the scientific drill ship JOIDES Resolution.