A new class of Community Bridges Fellows is stepping beyond the classroom and into the community through the program run by Rice’s Kinder Institute fo...
Two student teams from Rice have been named finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame....
Scientists from Rice and Houston Methodist have developed a new way to reduce inflammation in the brain, a discovery that could help fight diseases su...
Through temporary installations and an expanding permanent collection, the Moody Center for the Arts brings thought-provoking art into spaces where st...
Rice will serve as the official host institution for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional at the Toyota Center, the NCAA announced this week....
The Rice-Houston Methodist Digital Health Institute will host an inaugural summit Oct. 8 at Rice, launching what will become an annual gathering at th...
Rice climatologist Sylvia Dee has been awarded the 2025 Nanne Weber Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union’s Paleoceanography and Pale...
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded...
Carrie Masiello, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry at Rice, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s l...
The 22nd annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum saw 50 ventures pitch their companies to a full crowd of investors and corporate leaders Sept....
The Rice football team is off to a historically great start following a 28-17 win last week against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte....
No. 25 Rice rallied from an early deficit to defeat Grambling State 3-1 on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Holloway Field in the Owls' non-conference fina...
Doerr Institute spearheads efforts to develop leaders across the country
The Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education, plans to launch Leadership for Public Purpose.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 28, 2022
Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan is co-lead author of a forward-thinking perspective of quantum materials manufacturing in Advanced Materials, and Will Rice College senior Eduardo Gonzalez Villarreal was named the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2022 Undergraduate Major of the Year for Rice University.
Gas flares tied to premature deaths
Rice engineers suggest that flaring of natural gas at oil and gas fields in the United States, primarily in North Dakota and Texas, contributed to dozens of premature deaths in 2019.
Rice mourns Kelley Lash, longtime director of student media
Kelly Lash, beloved mentor and colleague who served as Rice’s director of student media, died Feb. 21
Fondren updates collection of William Blake replica prints and plates
Michael Phillips’ recreated Blake sets offer a rare opportunity to interact with 19th-century printing technology and artistry
Voyage reveals wonder and beauty of ‘long-dead ocean dwellers’
Rice Ph.D. student Debadrita Jana is part of a scientific voyage exploring deep beneath the Indian Ocean.
Army touts Rice contribution to graphene collaboration
Rice's graphene research is making its presence felt in the U.S. Army’s work to develop applications using the single-atom-thick form of carbon.
Rice Business Plan Competition announces 2022 teams
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
Houston’s low-income neighborhoods bear the biggest burdens during catastrophic events — from damage to older homes during natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and last year’s winter storm to economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — according to a Harris County Community Services Department analysis prepared by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Ancient DNA reveals surprises about how early Africans lived, traveled and interacted
A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others.
