Weaving together reflections on colonization and her family’s experiences in California, Cherríe Moraga recounted how over centuries the violence of c...
Mia X, known as the “Mother of Southern Hip-Hop,” made history once again by becoming the first woman inducted into Rice's Hip Hop Archival Colle...
Eight Rice student startups presented their ventures at the 2024 Summer Venture Studio Accelerator (SVS) Demo Day hosted by Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for In...
The installation of new temporary artwork in the Moody Center for the Arts’ Tent Series presents an intriguing dialogue between architecture, social e...
A team of Rice engineering students was awarded the top prize in a prestigious national design competition for their innovative medical device for uro...
We are excited to announce significant news regarding our residential college system. Lovett College, one of our foundational colleges named after the...
Rice and Baylor College of Medicine have received $2.8 million from the NIH for research on reducing inflammation and lung damage in acute respiratory...
For the next two years, 120 Division I Rice athletes will be part of a concussion study with Houston Methodist researchers to identify reliable and no...
When Robert Howell contemplates the future of artificial intelligence, he foresees a world where an app might guide your moral decisions just as Googl...
Rice experts John Diamond and Zach Bethune are available to comment on the Fed's decision to cut interest rates by a half percentage point....
Rice’s Grand Hall was boisterously filled with students, music and festivities as the university began its many celebrations as part of Hispanic Herit...
With last week’s unveiling of Rice University’s redesigned Academic Quadrangle came the introduction of a few new residents – the 42 species of plants...
Campus Kindness: Chinese Parents Association donates PPE to Houston institutions
As a token of appreciation to Rice and Houston for educating and hosting their children, the Rice University Chinese Parents Association has donated 65,000 disposable masks and 250 face shields to Memorial Hermann hospital and the Harris Health System.
New tool helps nanorods stand out
Rice scientists introduce an open-source method to simplify nanoparticle analysis using scanning electron microscope images.
Former Rice religion professor, legendary TSU debate coach Thomas Freeman dies at 100
Thomas Freeman, the legendary Texas Southern University debate coach who was the first African American professor to teach in the School of Humanities at Rice, has died at the age of 100.
COVID-19 webinar: Pandemic a 'global problem requiring a global solution'
Overcoming the challenges of COVID-19 and mapping the global community's path forward can only be achieved through cooperation and trust between nations, according to experts who participated in a webinar hosted by Rice and Zhejiang University.
Yvette Pearson: I can't breathe — and this is why
Systemic racism manifests itself throughout the fabric of our society
RUPD chief addresses death of George Floyd
Amid the worst pandemic this county has faced in more than a century, it’s with great sadness that we find ourselves fighting the familiar enemies of injustice and racism.
Rice team makes tiny, magnetically powered neural stimulator
Rice University neuroengineers have created a tiny surgical implant that can electrically stimulate the brain and nervous system without using a battery or wired power supply.
Rice's OpenStax Institutional Partner Program to offer expanded benefits
OpenStax, Rice University’s education technology initiative, today opened applications for its 2020-2021 Institutional Partner Program. The deadline to apply is June 25.
60,000 Houstonians, including Rice students and alumni, join march for George Floyd
Tens of thousands of Houstonians joined rappers Bun B and Trae tha Truth as they led a “Justice 4 George Floyd” rally June 1.
'Sheer awe': Rice group raises almost $100,000 to fight anti-black violence
Newly formed student organization Rice for Black Life raised $93,362 in 24 hours.