The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on f...
Humanities Days offered Rice students the chance to present their research and creative work in panels, poster sessions and art presentations....
A team of Rice researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal ...
In a classroom filled with the sounds of singing, storytelling and lively conversation, young children at Rice University’s Oral and Written Language ...
As Rice prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a collection of standout seniors....
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) has introduced the 2025 Rice Innovation Fellows cohort, a dynamic group set to lead the f...
Rice hosted a timely and intimate conversation about the personal and political fallout that continues to ripple across the Gulf Coast....
Rice launches a first-of-its-kind collaboration: the Texas Linguistics Consortium....
More than 50 Rice University students, faculty and staff visited the Texas Capitol in Austin April 14 for a day of advocacy, connection and celebratio...
Ocean water could melt precarious Antarctic glacier
September 28, 2020
Rice University researchers, alumni and staff are part of an international effort that has discovered a pathway for warm ocean water to melt the underside of Thwaites Glacier, a precarious body of west Antarctic ice that could add as much as 25 inches to global sea level if it were to suffer a runaway collapse.
Alumni Emmett, Parker and Gray to hold virtual discussion on upcoming elections
September 28, 2020
With Election Day just over a month away, Rice University's School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science are hosting a virtual discussion about the presidential, congressional, state and local contests.
Grant will help Rice researchers improve mobility for the visually impaired
September 28, 2020
The number of blind or visually impaired people in the U.S. is expected to double in the next 30 years as the country's population ages.
Virtual Energy Summit to explore industry’s resilience
September 28, 2020
HOUSTON – (Sept. 28, 2020) – The fourth annual -- and first virtual -- Energy Summit hosted by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Baker Botts LLP will feature an examination of the industry by more than 20 of its leading experts.
Rice U. Theatre Program livestreaming one-night-only production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
September 25, 2020
Actors will wear masks for Oct. 9 play broadcast from Hamman Hall.
Rice helps give Houston early COVID-19 warnings
September 24, 2020
Scientists and statisticians at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering have worked long hours for months to help the city of Houston monitor the spread of COVID-19 through traces of the coronavirus found in wastewater treatment plants.
State's top policy researchers to collaborate on Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy
September 22, 2020
A coalition of the state’s top public policy research institutions will work together to create the Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy, an outline for the future focused on a comprehensive suite of new plans for economic development, housing, land use and transportation.
Cooking demonstrations, bomba workshop among Hispanic Heritage Month virtual events
September 21, 2020
Annual celebration moves online with webinars, mixers, trivia nights and more.
How employers can soften the blow of furloughs and layoffs
September 21, 2020
HOUSTON – (Sept. 21, 2020) – Furloughs and layoffs are traumatic — especially during a pandemic —but new research from Rice University offers ways employers can ease the emotional impact when they deliver the bad news to their workers.
Freshman from China endures weeks long journey to reach campus
September 21, 2020
Anybody from Shanghai faces a long journey to Rice, but Apple Li’s globe-trotting adventure took weeks.