Rebecca Schreib is the recipient of the 2026 George R. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award. ...
Rice professor Caroline Ajo-Franklin’s group, working in collaboration with researchers from Tufts University and Baylor College of Medicine, recently...
For Rice University junior D. Fitzgerald, what began as a personal journey of self-discovery has quickly grown into a powerful platform for advocacy —...
Composer and conductor John Adams rehearsed his iconic “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” with the school’s symphony orchestra in Stude Concert Hall....
One team rose to the top of this year’s Veterans Business Battle: IntuBlade. Their win capped a competitive two-day event at Rice Business that brough...
A team of Rice undergraduates set out to find a better solution for keeping Flamingos at the Houston Zoo warm during the winter months. ...
“The Logos” is a yearlong immersive installation that opened Easter Sunday and transforms more than 4,000 fast radio bursts into spatial audio....
Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...
Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....
Ten years after the 2016 Tax Day flood inundated parts of the Houston region with nearly two feet of rain in a matter of hours, new research from Rice...
Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series....
“This moment reflects the scale and direction of Rice’s global engagement,” said Caroline Levander, vice president for global strategy. ...
Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Rice student Jasmine Manansala to compete in 'Jeopardy!' National College Championship
Rice‘s Jasmine Manansala, a Brown College senior majoring in computer science and cognitive science, is a contestant in the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship that begins Feb. 8. Manansala was selected from tens of thousands of hopefuls after a rigorous application process.
imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity
Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning
Energy transition could be headed for ‘valley of death,’ says report
Investments in oil and gas have decreased in favor of alternative energy in recent years, but with alternative energy technologies still able to supply only a small fraction of useable energy, rushing the transition would be a costly mistake, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 7, 2022
Laura Kabiri, an assistant teaching professor of kinesiology, has won the Sam Drogo Technology in the Classroom Award for 2022 from the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.
Redistricting project wins Rice Datathon
Four Rice undergraduates top this year’s Rice Datathon with their analysis of Houston voting districts.
Rice Architecture alums Super satisfied with their new venue
Two Rice Architecture alums were part of the team that designed SoFi Stadium, the spectacular site of this year’s Super Bowl.
Matthew Jones wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice chemist Matthew Jones wins an NSF CAREER Award to study controlled growth of metallic nanoparticles for biomedicine, energy storage and computing.
The Ion opens unique prototyping lab, names TXRX as partner
The Ion, Houston’s innovation hub developed by the Rice Management Co., unveiled its latest building feature Jan. 31 and named its operation partner for the space.
‘Soundwaves’ brings experimental art and music to the Moody
This spring’s group show features artists who are deeply engaged with sounds
