American businesses moving operations out of China and into Mexico would be economically beneficial for all of North America, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Largest intercollegiate student startup competition announces 2023 teams
The 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be held on Rice University campus May 11-13. The competition brings together the most promising student ventures from top universities across the world to compete for prizes in front of active investors, entrepreneurs and the Houston business community.
Rice alum now youngest director of player personnel in college football
Peter Chung, a 21-year-old Rice graduate, was hired in February as the youngest director of player personnel in college football at Houston Christian University.
Rice selects Lane Martin to lead new Advanced Materials Institute
Lane Martin has been appointed director of the new Rice Advanced Materials Institute and Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering.
Visual Communication Symposium draws crowd to campus
Rice’s Program in Writing and Communication hosted the third iteration of the Visual Communication Symposium at the Moody Center for the Arts March 2-3.
Rice hosts delegation of Brazilian higher education leaders
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, along with a cadre of university administrators and the Office of International Students and Scholars, hosted a Fulbright Brazil delegation of Brazilian university presidents, provosts and other leaders in the country’s higher education world March 9.
British-born classical pianist Sir Stephen Hough gives Shepherd School master class
British-born classical pianist, composer and writer Sir Stephen Hough gave a master class for Shepherd School of Music students March 8 in Duncan Recital Hall.
Rice alum Cristian Măcelaru returns to guest conduct Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Rice University Shepherd School alum Cristian Măcelaru, music director of the Orchestre National de France, conducted the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra’s March 4 performance of Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Concertino Cusqueño,” Debussy’s “Jeux” and Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.”
Biden border policy will further strain Mexico’s asylum system, report says
President Joe Biden’s proposed border policies will put further strain on Mexico’s struggling asylum system and may endanger refugees, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator opens Class 3 applications for energy transition ventures
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is accepting applications for Class 3 of its Clean Energy Accelerator, the premier energy transition accelerator in Houston, through April 14.