Nicole Lennon kills it on and off the court at Rice
Maria Garza-Lennon recruited Rice long before her daughter Nicole was recruited to be a volleyball player for the Owls.
Rice recently served as the host site for the 2025 Genuine World Cup — an international soccer tournament that brings together athletes with intellect...
In a powerful testimony before a joint hearing of the Texas Senate and House committees on disaster preparedness and flooding, Philip Bedient called f...
CHHAIN, supported by a $500,000 NEH grant, will serve as a central hub for exploring how humanities-based insights, particularly those grounded in eth...
Startup founders from Rice and the University of Houston came together for the 12th annual Bayou Startup Showcase July 31 at the Ion, Houston’s innova...
With the first whistle of training camp Friday morning, the Rice football team officially kicked off its 2025 campaign — launching a season of new lea...
For more than 30 years, the School Literacy and Culture program at Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has been steadily transforming classr...
Rice's Andriy Nevidomskyy is part of a team that has mapped and explained a puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic ...
Schilke was one of 31 advocates to represent the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers on Hill Day....
A new report from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy compares the cost of receiving care at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston Methodist ...
In preparation for its August trip through Belgium and France, the team participated in two cultural workshops designed and led by School of Humanitie...
In low-resource settings, babies born with gastroschisis — a congenital condition in which the developing intestines extend outside the body through a...
In an impressive display of creativity, collaboration and global impact, undergraduate students from around the world gathered at Rice July 24 to pres...
Rice announces plans for 2021 Commencement
President David Leebron, Provost Reginald DesRoches, Dean of Undergraduates Bridget Gorman and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Seiichi Matsuda sent a message to the Rice community March 5 regarding 2021 Commencement plans.
Cancer ‘guardian’ breaks bad with one switch
A mutation that replaces a single amino acid in a potent tumor-suppressing protein makes it prone to nucleating amyloid fibrils implicated in many cancers as well as neurological diseases.
Study aims to help governments maximize profits from oil and gas auctions
Federal and state governments auction leases to oil and gas companies to extract natural resources from public land. A revamp of the auction system — utilizing a new model developed by a Rice University economist — could lead to more competitive bids and, ultimately, more money for governments.
Rice Crisis Management Team honored by Board of Trustees
The Rice Board of Trustees honored the university's Crisis Management Team (CMT) for its extraordinary work during the last year.
Religion in the real world: Rice's Religion and Public Life Program celebrates 10 years
Over 80% of the world’s population is religious, and for a decade, Rice University's Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP) has been dedicated to promoting better understanding of religion's impact on the world.
First Rice Alliance Venture Day selects four 'most promising' companies
Twenty emerging energy technology companies were pitched to investors at the first Rice Alliance Venture Day @ CERAWeek at the Agora, and the audience voted four of those companies -- Connectus Global, DrillDocs, Revterra and Revolution Turbine Technologies - as the event’s “most promising” investment opportunities.
Christopher Tunnell wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice University computational astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell is getting help in his search for the nature of the universe through a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Physics camp has proven benefits for high school girls
HOUSTON – (March 5, 2021) – Even a small effort up front can boost the abilities and confidence of girls as they anticipate taking challenging science courses.
Camera traps reveal newly discovered biodiversity relationship
In one of the first studies of its kind, an analysis of camera-trap data from 15 wildlife preserves in tropical rainforests revealed a previously unknown relationship between the biodiversity of mammals and the forests in which they live.