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. ...
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 27, 2023
Lorraine Kung, a Rice Architecture master’s student, has received an Expanding Horizons Fellowship, which funds research-related travel that also benefits the communities where the research takes place.
Brandon Levin wins NSF CAREER Award
Brandon Levin, an assistant professor of mathematics at Rice University, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue his research on major unsolved problems in number theory.
New electronic sound and light composition to debut at James Turrell Skyspace
“RETURN,” a brand-new sound and light composition by electronic music composer Yvette Janine Jackson, is set to debut at the James Turrell “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace on Rice’s campus the evening of March 3.
President Reginald DesRoches joined HOOTS (the High Order of Owl Tailgating Society) in the Fondren Library colonnade for breakfast tacos Feb. 24. Proceeds from sales benefited the HOOTS scholarship fund.
MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman to give lecture at Rice March 7
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar P. Gabrielle Foreman will present a lecture focused on the history of 19th-century Black activism March 7 at Fondren Library.
Theory can sort order from chaos in complex quantum systems
Theory can sort ‘order’ from ‘chaos’ in complex quantum systems.
Rice senior Joseph Asfouri awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Rice senior and electrical engineering and neuroscience student Joseph Asfouri is one of a select few American students to have been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Asfouri is Rice's second Churchill Scholar in nearly three decades.
Owls make their first splash in American Athletic Conference
The Rice Owls swimming team got an early taste of championship play in the American Athletic Conference last week, as the rest of the university’s programs prepare to make the leap later this year.
Rice acquires rare replica of William Blake printing press
Rice University is the only place in North America where you can find an authentic, functional replica of the star-wheel copper-plate rolling press that famous Romantic poet and artist William Blake used to produce his masterworks.
Hands-free tech adds realistic sense of touch in extended reality
Rice mechanical engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated a new hands-free approach to convey realistic haptic feedback in virtual reality.
