The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as...
Rice University students will build skills in science labs, take high-impact field trips, hear from guest speakers, curate art exhibits, enhance learn...
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review....
A new sustainability initiative is transforming the landscape outside Fondren Library at Rice University — and it’s more than just a garden....
A team of researchers at Rice has discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert c...
Rice faculty are available to help news media explore the deeper histories behind Juneteenth, its Texas roots and what freedom has meant in different ...
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison....
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research releases its 2025 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report....
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is...
Throughout the day, the Houston booth saw a constant stream of visitors with Rice-affiliated entrepreneurs introducing their ventures to global invest...
Volunteers from the Department of Psychological Sciences assemble gift bags for those supported by Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston....
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables...
Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities
September 7, 2021
Rice's Office of Research launches three Creative Ventures Funds to seed faculty initiatives and guide them towards commercialization.
September 7, 2021
Jazz musicians Brandon and Daleton Lee played a powerful send-off for Sondra Perry's monumental "Ocean Modifier," which closed its year-long installation at the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion on September 2.
Cristina Rivera Garza talks medicine, language and bodies in Sept. 22 lecture
September 7, 2021
The 'Genius Grant' winner and fiction writer will read from her work in English and Spanish.
Biden continues Trump’s ‘benign neglect’ of USMCA
September 7, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 7, 2021) – Mexican officials are right to worry that the United States’ “rules of origin” interpretation in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement could reduce Mexican automobile production and investment, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The Way I See It: Parenting is the mother of gender inequality in science
September 1, 2021
The pandemic has laid bare the gender inequities in the scientific community, as women’s publication rates have been hit much harder than men’s by the need, for instance, to home-school children.
Welch Institute names Matthew Tirrell to chair Scientific Advisory Board
September 1, 2021
The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials has named Matthew Tirrell to chair its Scientific Advisory Board
Rice physicists find 'magnon' origins in 2D magnet
September 1, 2021
Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three years ago in a 2D material that could prove useful for spintronics.
Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages
August 31, 2021
Rice theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.
OpenStax surpasses $1 billion in textbook savings
August 31, 2021
Less than a decade after publishing its first free, openly licensed textbook, OpenStax — Rice’s educational technology initiative — has saved students $1.2 billion.
Sim shows how COVID virus infects cells
August 31, 2021
A simulation shows the complicated mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus may infect cells, leading to COVID-19.