Rithika Iyengar, a rising senior at Rice, has been named a 2025 Key into Public Service Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society....
Rice Athletics hosted its annual Night of Flight celebration and fundraiser May 1, bringing together alumni, student-athletes, supporters, family and ...
Two members of the Rice community, one current student and one alumna, are among the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners recently announced, recognized for th...
Volker Rudolf, a professor of biosciences at Rice, is investigating just how powerful seasonal rhythms, known as phenologies, can be....
Freshman Daniel Zou and junior Lukas Boandl are in the top 15 of the NCAA Bremerton Regional after one round....
J. D. McCracken scattered three hits over seven innings and Michael Zito drove in three runs as Rice downed Wichita State 9-3 to capture the weekend s...
Rice’s Matteo Pasquali has been elected a fellow of The Society of Rheology (SoR)....
Rice scientist and engineer Naomi Halas was awarded the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry May 1 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia....
Faculty and students gathered for the latest edition of Research Relays, an event series that spotlighted the expansive, interdisciplinary work of CAA...
Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders capped off the 2024-25 academic year with its annual Leadership Celebration April 24 in Ray Courtyard, honoring...
Findings from the 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey, the nation’s longest-running metropolitan study of its kind, will be released May 19. ...
Rice conferred more than 250 doctoral degrees during its 112th commencement May 10 at Tudor Fieldhouse. Doctoral candidates along with friends, family...
OpenStax releases new features, titles in courseware
February 10, 2021
OpenStax, Rice’s educational technology initiative, has added more of its textbooks and new features for instructors to OpenStax Tutor, an online reading and homework platform designed to engage all students.
Better transit, emergency response, broadband access top post-pandemic priorities
February 10, 2021
The United States must focus on improving infrastructure as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the top priorities include increasing broadband access, expanding public transportation, and improving emergency response and health care facilities, according to a new survey and report from Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
New CRISPR tech targets human genome’s complex code
February 9, 2021
Rice bioengineers harness the CRISPR/Cas9 system to program histones, the support proteins that wrap up and control human DNA, to manipulate gene activation and phosphorylation. The new technology enables innovative ways to find and manipulate genes and pathways responsible for diseases.
‘Defective’ carbon simplifies hydrogen peroxide production
February 9, 2021
Rice scientists introduce a new catalyst to reduce oxygen to widely used hydrogen peroxide.
February 8, 2021
The 84-year-old textile artist Sheila Hicks has shown her rainbow-hued “Questioning Column” everywhere from the 20th Biennale of Sydney, where it cascaded down one of the stately Ionic pillars of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to the 2017 Venice Biennale.
New humanities podcast explores personal connections between life and scholarship
February 8, 2021
"Connections" was conceived as a way to explore a topic that’s long been fundamental to humanistic fields of study.
Nanotechnology is crucial to US energy independence, says Baker Institute expert
February 8, 2021
Nanotechnology can deliver solutions to U.S. economic, energy and geopolitical challenges while also helping the world meet climate targets and sustainability goals, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
US must do its fair share for refugees, says Baker Institute expert
February 3, 2021
Increasing the number of refugees resettled to the U.S. is critical for the well-being of refugees across the globe, according to an expert from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
February 3, 2021
"Screenspace" at Anderson Hall mimics the Turrell Skyspace, but with a more ominous message.
Rice presents new mission for former Marine
February 1, 2021
Transfer student Thomas Avalos — and family — receive a warm Rice welcome.