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....
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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...
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Humanities Days offered Rice students the chance to present their research and creative work in panels, poster sessions and art presentations....
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As Rice prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a collection of standout seniors....
August 23, 2021
Proving that the foamy stuff isn’t reserved exclusively for Baker 13 runs, shaving cream battles have become a standard during O-Week, as demonstrated here by Lovett and Jones College.
‘Truly magical’: O-Week welcomes new students despite pandemic pivots
August 23, 2021
Under challenging conditions, the experience remained as ‘intimate’ as ever thanks to Rice students' resilience and resolve.
Rice faculty address to Class of 2025: ‘Keep your curiosity close to you’
August 23, 2021
What is a fact? Who is science for? And who does it harm? These are just a few of the questions posed by Rice faculty during O-Week video addresses to the incoming Class of 2025.
Trailblazing Rice bioengineer is turning cells into disease fighters
August 23, 2021
Rice University bioengineer Isaac Hilton has been awarded an NIH Trailblazer Award to create synthetic circular DNA that can be used to reprogram cells as disease fighters.
August 23, 2021
University message shares important update on COVID-19 testing
August 23, 2021
We’ve discovered some anomalies with the test results we received this week from one of our three providers.
CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center
August 20, 2021
Rice faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million CPRIT grant to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.
National 2D materials research center wins NSF funding
August 18, 2021
Rice, Penn State and Boise State have won a federal grant to expand ATOMIC, a national research center that develops atom-thin 2D coatings via university, industry and government partnerships.
Shale oil investments may be protected from nationalization, experts say
August 17, 2021
Shale oil’s short-cycle production protects foreign investors from the risk of expropriation — government taking private property for public use — providing an opportunity for the increasingly risk-averse global petroleum industry, according to a new report.
Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power
August 16, 2021
Carbon nanotubes woven into thread-like fibers and sewn into fabrics become a thermoelectric generator that can turn heat from the sun or other sources into energy.