Rice University alumna Sofia Adrogué was sworn in as judge of the 11th Division Texas Business Court Nov. 19 at the Harris County Courthouse....
Mark Jones and David R. Brockman discuss the ongoing Republican-led initiatives in the U.S. to introduce more religious content into classrooms. ...
Rice’s Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences hosted its inaugural workshop Nov. 14-16....
Researchers at Rice have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Rice ...
Jonathan Mak, a third-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, recently earned the top prize at the inaugural Sorel-Tra...
Senior officials from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas visited Rice Nov.11 for a firsthand, comprehensive look at the university’...
Rice’s Center for Quantum Materials and Smalley-Curl Institute recently held two successive events aimed at advancing the field of quantum materials r...
Rice Emergency Medical Services recognized the 26th annual National Collegiate EMS Week Nov. 11-17 by hosting community education efforts and spirited...
The Rice community came together in a display of unity and purpose for the LUNGevity Breathe Deep Together Walk at Rice Stadium Nov. 16....
More than 100 students from local community colleges visited Rice’s campus Nov. 8 as part of a transformative pathway program meant to increase STEM d...
Longtime Houston restaurateur Benjy Levit debuted Local Foods Market at Rice, situated in the newly renovated Brochstein Pavilion, during a soft openi...
Rice drew more than 400 of the nation’s brightest undergraduate researchers to its campus Nov. 8-10 for the 16th annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Resea...
Rice launches online Visiting Owls program
July 6, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 6, 2020) – Rice University is welcoming visiting students into its classrooms this fall through a new online program. The pilot Rice Online Visiting Owls program allows high school juniors and seniors and visiting undergraduates to enroll in select online courses for credit.
Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?
July 6, 2020
Climate change will make fast-moving storms more likely in late 21st-century Texas.
Trade pact success tied to competence of American, Mexican presidents
July 6, 2020
The success of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) depends on competent leadership from two unpredictable presidents, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Charcoal a weapon to fight superoxide-induced disease, injury
July 6, 2020
Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal could have the power to curtail damaging levels of superoxides that appear after an injury.
Ken Goldsmith, 'pillar' of Shepherd School strings department, dies at 81
July 1, 2020
Ken Goldsmith, a recent retiree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music who shared his passion with hundreds of musicians throughout a long and distinguished career, died June 26 in Houston. He was 81.
Ogwumike is Conference USA's first repeat Female Athlete of the Year
July 1, 2020
Former Rice women's basketball player Erica Ogwumike is the first athlete to earn back-to-back Female Conference USA Athlete of the Year awards, the league office announced Tuesday.
Rice introduces temporary sick leave program for employees
July 1, 2020
Rice has implemented a temporary sick leave program amid the COVID-19 pandemic, effective July 1.
Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels
June 29, 2020
Bioengineers keep cells alive in lab-grown tissues by creating networks of branching blood vessels from templates of 3D-printed sugar.
Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon
June 29, 2020
Researchers at Rice University have discovered details about a novel type of polarized light-matter interaction with light that literally turns end over end as it propagates from a source.
Study finds new link between Alzheimer’s suspects
June 29, 2020
Researchers have described for the first time specific genes and pathways in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease.