Double-welcome back barbecue bash held at President Leebron’s house to greet the classes of 2024 and 2025
A delegation of law enforcement officers from South Korea recently visited campus to learn how the Rice Police Department addresses domestic violence ...
Biotechnology Innovation Organization president and CEO John F. Crowley visited Rice as part of a tour highlighting regional biotech hubs across the c...
Rice anthropologist Gökçe Günel traced her path from childhood novels in Turkey to groundbreaking ethnographic research during a Sept. 10 talk at Fond...
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and professor of history at Rice, has been selected to deliver the 2025 National...
“Impluvium Redux,” an innovative architectural structure designed by Juan José Castellón of Rice’s School of Architecture, has been shortlisted for th...
Rice sociologist investigating how features of the built environment — like dead-end streets, highways, fences and railroad tracks — shape patterns of...
Rice continues its upward trajectory in national and international rankings, earning the No. 17 spot in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best College...
Rice is fostering sustainable water and energy solutions by convening leaders across industry, policy and research to confront one of the most pressin...
Rice junior Ankhi Banerjee spent 10 weeks over the summer building a data-analysis pipeline to help NASA Johnson Space Center scientists track microbe...
Rice has entered into a research partnership with Locksley Resources Ltd....
Semyon Malamud, senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute and associate professor of finance at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, will host ...
To recognize a growing investment in the visual arts and creative writing, Rice’s School of Humanities is changing its name to the School of Humanitie...
Spring Big Questions courses consider what makes a terrorist and what makes a classic
New classes from Humanities professors explore essential issues of our time
Magnetene’s ultra-low friction explained
Rice scientists help make the first measurements of ultra-low friction in 2D magnetene.
Rice Business ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship by Princeton Review
Rice Business is ranked the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the United States for 2022 by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. This is Rice Business’ third No. 1 ranking in a row, its sixth year in the top three and the 13th year in which it has ranked in the top 10 on this prestigious list.
Big data privacy for machine learning just got 100 times cheaper
Rice University computer scientists have discovered an inexpensive way for tech companies to implement a rigorous form of personal data privacy when using or sharing large databases for machine learning.
Houston must take steps now to preserve affordable housing for future, report says
Houston’s supply of affordable housing is on the decline, and a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research says the city must take advantage of community, state and federal support to reverse the trend.
Rice Transportation adds on-demand night shuttle service to new transit app
Thanks to the blossoming partnership between Rice and transit software company TransLoc, the Rice Transportation Department recently unveiled a new smartphone app with more ways than ever to help the Rice community get across campus and beyond quickly and safely.
As a growing number of hospitals face unprecedented financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is concern that they might become acquisition targets by private equity firms. New research from Duke University and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy indicates those hospitals are significantly more likely to offer services that maximize profit and cut those that don't.
Rice’s new arts building will be Sarofim Hall, designed by internationally acclaimed firm
Architecture team led by Rice alumnus will create new gateway to campus
Morín’s new book of poetry, “Machete,” roars onto the scene
Assistant professor’s latest book of poetry incredibly intimate, rebelliously joyful