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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...

The Rice Owls defeated Charlotte 28-17 in its American Conference opener on Thursday night....

For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked the moment humans rose from prey to predators, ...

Researchers led by Rice’s Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size an...

Rice scientists’ custom, large-scale neurorecording array sheds light on how the brain keeps the world looking familiar. ...

The Shepherd School of Music’s newest faculty members are already making their mark on Houston’s vibrant arts scene. ...