Scientists at Rice and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multi...
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research offers critical statistics on Hurricane Beryl's lasting impact one year later....
A Rice graduate student has launched a company aiming to make graphene production faster, cheaper and more scalable. Alex Lathem founded Pattern Mater...
Chihtong “Lily” Lee recently earned second place in the undergraduate category at the ASME SB3C Summer Bioengineering Conference, a competition hosted...
The VIU Assembly unanimously ratified Rice’s membership in mid-May, making Rice only the third university in the Americas to be welcomed into the asso...
Rice’s Lei Li wins NSF CAREER Award to develop a new generation of wearable medical imaging technology capable of visualizing deep tissue function in ...
Rice has advanced 22 spots in the 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings, climbing to No. 119 globally and No. 29 among U.S. universities....
Rice yoga instructor and alumna Alicia Dugar Stephenson is bringing wellness to the forefront through a unique yoga initiative that connects the Rice ...
Rice undergraduates transformed Kraft Hall's corridors into a vibrant showcase of original research and creative exploration during the 2025 Social Sc...
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts welcomed enthusiastic arts and music lovers for a Pride Month happy hour on the afternoon of June 26, which featured ...
As Houston’s pride parade made its way through the streets of downtown Houston, so did Rice’s students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters. The par...
Computational biochemist Linna An will join Rice’s Department of Biosciences with support from a $2 million award from the Cancer Prevention and Resea...
Housing in Houston: Tough times for tenants, would-be homeowners
June 22, 2021
HOUSTON – (June 22, 2021) – Houston's share of homeowners is dropping, and a growing number of renters interested in buying a home find themselves shut out of the market, according to a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
June 22, 2021
Family and friends of the Class of 2020 graduates have their cameras at the ready as Duncan College processes through the Sallyport — the final college of the day to make the march before the May 15 commencement ceremony that evening. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)
Rice updates COVID-19 policies following CDC guidance
June 22, 2021
Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
June 22, 2021
Rice scientists enhance models that could be used to detect magnetosphere activity on exoplanets. The Rice model adds data from nightside activity that could increase signals by at least an order of magnitude.
June 21, 2021
Girls in grades 5-9 visited the Rice campus April 17 for the Reach for the Stars STEM Festival. The students interacted with hands-on exhibits, workshops, a jobs panel and a keynote speech by Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, about the Mars Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity helicopter. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow.)
June 21, 2021
Lillian Wieland’s freshman-year presentation for the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) “went terribly,” as she recalls it.
Rice Business professor Zhou elected fellow of Academy of Management
June 21, 2021
Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, has been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM).
June 21, 2021
The Rice baseball program hosted its first FUNdamental youth camp of the summer June 14-17.
Rice welcomes teachers for in-person physics workshop
June 21, 2021
QuarkNet returned to Rice last week for the first in-person workshop on campus since the start of the pandemic.