Ion and Houston Methodist to open health care innovation tech hub
Houston Methodist has joined the Ion as the first health care-centric partner in the growing innovation hub.
Researchers at Rice have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken th...
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting. ...
The Rice women's basketball team was crowned the American Conference regular season champion after a 77-66 win at Temple Wednesday night at The Liacou...
Frank Klaus Tittel, a physicist whose career paralleled the rise of modern laser technology and who helped build Rice’s reputation in laser spectrosc...
Art teachers, artists and comics enthusiasts gathered at Rice University Feb. 20 for Teaching Comics, a one-day symposium exploring how comics can fun...
Nearly 700 prospective graduate students, current scholars, faculty and staff gathered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science for Rice University’s ...
Martono, a second-year master’s student in violin performance, won the title of Miss Chinatown Houston 2025, her first-ever pageant....
Undergraduates at Rice are digging into real, possible wrongful conviction cases this semester, examining evidence to bring renewed attention to indiv...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was honored with a Community Trailblazer Award Feb. 19 by the city of Houston’s controller Chris Hollins during his ...
Rice commends Stacy Mosely for 14 years of service. As executive senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator, Mosely maintains admin...
Students convened at Rice University Feb. 20 for what organizers called a rare chance to hear and learn directly from one of the most influential musi...
The role brings Cristian Măcelaru ’06 ’08 back to campus several times each year to coach, conduct and mentor students across departments....
Record 17 Rice University graduate students named GEM Fellows
A record 17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium.
Rice history professors offer timely course on Russia’s war with Ukraine
Russia shook the international order when President Vladimir Putin launched a massive military invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. This fall, nearly six months from the war’s beginning, a pair of Rice history scholars along with several guest experts will guide students through the causes and consequences of the conflict.
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 15, 2022
A paper co-authored by postdoctoral research associate Mohammad Salehi and President Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering, was selected as the featured article for a recent volume of the journal Engineering Structures.
Rice welcomes Class of 2026 with open arms on jubilant move-in day
A light drizzle didn’t stand a chance of dampening spirits inside Rice’s hedges when the university’s incoming Class of 2026 arrived on campus Aug. 14 for their jubilant move-in day celebration.
Lee named Rice University’s director of internal audit
Lisa Lee has joined Rice University as director of internal audit.
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative that provides students and instructors with free learning resources, will publish the 10th edition of Cornell University professor emeritus John McMurry’s bestselling organic chemistry textbook next year.
An Aug. 17 webinar from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy — the first in a three-part series on health policy and how it will impact this year’s midterm elections — will examine what policymakers can do to destigmatize mental illness and improve access to care.
Smalley-Curl Institute rewards students’ summer research
The Smalley-Curl Institute held its annual Summer Research Colloquium Aug. 5.
Remembering Larry Rachleff, beloved conductor of Rice’s symphony and chamber orchestras
Larry Rachleff, the longtime conductor of the Rice Shepherd School of Music symphony and chamber orchestras who was renowned throughout the classical music world for his deep musical understanding, powerful interpretation of scores and rapport with performance ensembles, died Aug. 8 after a long battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 67.