TEDxRiceU Countdown to focus on ideas, solutions to climate change
Combating climate change will be the subject of featured speakers sharing their ideas from 5-8 p.m., Nov. 12 at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts.
Rice's Kaden Hazzard and his team recently developed a theory on how trions in quantum particles form and behave....
Rice researchers have developed a high-throughput method to measure the quality of diamond and other wide-bandgap semiconductor materials, providing r...
The Brain Health for Economic Resilience Commission, convened in collaboration with Nature Medicine, was announced at the Texas Brain Economy Summit J...
The university’s second appearance at Europe’s largest tech event paired seven startups with new research ties to France and Germany. ...
A new study by researchers at Rice and Baylor reveals that the brain maintains a geometric neural “map” for meaning that allows multilingual speakers ...
Rice bioengineer Julea Vlassakis has won $1.1M in federal funding for a project researching Ewing sarcoma....
As millions of fans watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 across North America, a team of Rice alumni is helping ensure the tournament runs smoothly behind th...
Rice Business today announced the launch of a new Early Career Track within its MBA@Rice Online MBA program. The new track gives high-potential profes...
Four Rice graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, earning opportunities to conduct research, pu...
Caring for a spouse with dementia is one of life’s most demanding responsibilities. While the emotional toll is well documented, the physical effects ...
A comprehensive international review published in the peer-reviewed journal Small Group Research ranked Rice faculty members Eduardo Salas and Daan va...
The Houston Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute recently welcomed Frank Marchetti, Consul General of France in Houston, and his team to discuss he...
Could state-sponsored retirement plans help workers save more? Maybe, says Baker Institute report
State-sponsored retirement plans could help workers save more and help retirees rely less on social services — as long as the cost-effectiveness of such plans aren’t bogged down by fees — according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The Rice volleyball and swimming teams celebrated the careerlong contributions of their seniors over the weekend while besting their opponents.
Rice, Baylor to study how screen use affects young children
Rice engineers and Baylor College of Medicine researchers are studying how screen use affects young children.
People, papers and presentations for Nov. 7, 2022
Phoebe Wang, a Rice Business alumna and clean tech venture capitalist who serves as an investment director at Shell Ventures, was selected as Clean Energy Education and Empowerment’s (C3E) 2022 Business Award winner and accepted the honor during the C3E symposium Nov. 2.
Early planetary migration can explain missing planets
Computer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators explain two puzzling observations of exoplanets orbiting distant stars.
Rice wins Moore Foundation grant for quantum vacuum research
Junichiro Kono’s lab will study how matter and quantum vacuums become entangled thanks to a new grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Tony Award-winning ‘Street Scene’ performed by Shepherd School opera program
“Street Scene ,” the fall opera production from the Rice University Shepherd School opera program, was performed Nov. 4 and 6 in Brockman Hall for Opera’s Morrison Theater, with stage direction by Pat Diamond.
Rice’s Luz Garcini named to American Psychological Association’s board of directors
Luz Garcini , an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has been named a member at large of the board of directors of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Why some Latino communities fear the COVID-19 vaccine, and what can be done to help
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some people in medically underserved Latino communities avoided getting vaccinated due to fears of side effects, mistrust of health officials and vaccine manufacturers and discrimination from health care workers, according to a new study from Rice University.