Three NSF grants support future of wireless
Rice engineer Ashu Sabharwal is part of three new National Science Foundation-backed projects to advance future generations of wireless communications.
Rebecca Schreib is the recipient of the 2026 George R. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award. ...
Rice professor Caroline Ajo-Franklin’s group, working in collaboration with researchers from Tufts University and Baylor College of Medicine, recently...
For Rice University junior D. Fitzgerald, what began as a personal journey of self-discovery has quickly grown into a powerful platform for advocacy —...
Composer and conductor John Adams rehearsed his iconic “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” with the school’s symphony orchestra in Stude Concert Hall....
One team rose to the top of this year’s Veterans Business Battle: IntuBlade. Their win capped a competitive two-day event at Rice Business that brough...
A team of Rice undergraduates set out to find a better solution for keeping Flamingos at the Houston Zoo warm during the winter months. ...
“The Logos” is a yearlong immersive installation that opened Easter Sunday and transforms more than 4,000 fast radio bursts into spatial audio....
Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...
Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....
Ten years after the 2016 Tax Day flood inundated parts of the Houston region with nearly two feet of rain in a matter of hours, new research from Rice...
Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series....
“This moment reflects the scale and direction of Rice’s global engagement,” said Caroline Levander, vice president for global strategy. ...
Onuchic wins top Biophysical Society honor
José Onuchic wins the 2023 Founders Award presented by the Biophysical Society.
The Rice Student Center and the Doerr Institute for New Leaders joined forces Aug. 25 to host a fun filled Owls After Dark Game Night.
Can fungi help Texas’ grasses cope with climate change?
Rice biologists are using Texas as a living lab to study how symbiotic fungi help grasses tolerate drought.
Cello meets multimedia in world premiere by Rice Shepherd School composer
A dynamic multimedia music experience awaits concertgoers at the Sept. 18 world premiere of a cello work by Shih-Hui Chen, a professor of composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Reflecting on President Kennedy’s ‘Moonshot’ speech 60 years later
As Rice and NASA prepare to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s historic speech, some of the alumni and guests who heard the president’s speech remember that distant day as a transformative experience.
Rice Architecture’s fall lecture series takes singular look at pluralism
“Engaging Pluralism” is the theme for this fall’s Rice Architecture lecture series, set to begin Sept. 7.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 6, 2022
Melodie French, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has won the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award.
Research teams win Dunn Awards to fight cancer
Researchers at Rice University will team with counterparts at MD Anderson to improve cancer therapy with the support of seed funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation.
SU(N) matter is about 3 billion times colder than deep space
Physicists from Rice and Kyoto University are using the universe’s coldest fermions to explore quantum magnets.