A delegation of law enforcement officers from South Korea recently visited campus to learn how the Rice Police Department addresses domestic violence ...
Biotechnology Innovation Organization president and CEO John F. Crowley visited Rice as part of a tour highlighting regional biotech hubs across the c...
Rice anthropologist Gökçe Günel traced her path from childhood novels in Turkey to groundbreaking ethnographic research during a Sept. 10 talk at Fond...
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and professor of history at Rice, has been selected to deliver the 2025 National...
“Impluvium Redux,” an innovative architectural structure designed by Juan José Castellón of Rice’s School of Architecture, has been shortlisted for th...
Rice sociologist investigating how features of the built environment — like dead-end streets, highways, fences and railroad tracks — shape patterns of...
Rice continues its upward trajectory in national and international rankings, earning the No. 17 spot in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best College...
Rice is fostering sustainable water and energy solutions by convening leaders across industry, policy and research to confront one of the most pressin...
Rice junior Ankhi Banerjee spent 10 weeks over the summer building a data-analysis pipeline to help NASA Johnson Space Center scientists track microbe...
Semyon Malamud, senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute and associate professor of finance at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, will host ...
To recognize a growing investment in the visual arts and creative writing, Rice’s School of Humanities is changing its name to the School of Humanitie...
Students who dream of a career as a CEO and want the education and real-world experience that can get them there should look no further than Rice University's Managerial Economics and Organizational Sciences (MEOS) major.
As the New York Times put it in a recent profile, artist Sue Coe “proudly labels her own work propaganda.” Coe’s “searing social-political art,” notes Times writer Hilarie Sheets, “can feel like a punch in the face or a call to action — or both.”
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, ex-Lockheed Martin CEO and chairman Norman Augustine and Alphabet Inc. board chairman John Hennessy will discuss the role of artificial intelligence and other technologies play in the United States’ prosperity during a free webinar Thursday.
Klara Jelinkova, vice president for international operations and information technology, has been named the 2021 Houston CIO of the Year ORBIE Award winner in the nonprofit/public sector category.
Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice, has been awarded the 2020 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
Rice Professor Anthony Pinn has been elected to the nation’s foremost society of scholars, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established by America’s founding fathers in 1780, the academy’s members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
HOUSTON – (April 22, 2021) – Rice University's Shepherd School of Music has joined forces with the Houston Symphony to bring classical music to children and adults from Houston's underserved communities.
There’s gold in them thar nanoparticles, and there used to be a lot of silver, too. But much of the silver has leached away, and researchers want to know how.
HOUSTON – (April 22, 2021) – During the pandemic, Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to experience lost wages or unemployment than whites, according to a new research brief from Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC).
Getting around during the pandemic often requires getting your temperature taken to check for COVID-19. A team of seniors at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering wants to make that practice more practical for facilities around the world.