Rev. William Lawson visits namesake grove at Rice for first time
"I hope that generations of students will look him up and see what he did to deserve such a hallowed spot on the campus here."
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...
Rice has entered into a research partnership with Locksley Resources Ltd....
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...
Rice team vying for $1 million Solar Desalination Prize
A Rice team's clever design uses the power of the sun to make fresh water from saltwater, even at night.
More English learners at risk of future academic struggles in Texas public schools
HOUSTON – (April 15, 2021) – Education researchers from Rice University have documented a troubling trend in the system Texas public schools use to reclassify elementary school students learning English, evidence of a problem they say could have a serious impact on hundreds of thousands of the state’s schoolchildren.
Special collections archivist Focke wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
Amanda Focke, head of special collections for the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, was recognized for her exemplary service.
Rice updates plans for May commencement ceremonies
President David Leebron, Provost Reginald DesRoches, Dean of Undergraduates Bridget Gorman and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Seiichi Matsuda sent the following message to the Rice community April 12 regarding updates to Rice's 2021 commencement plans:
Rice, Baylor part of research effort to advance genome editing
Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine are part of a national effort to accelerate genome-editing research and develop gene-editing technologies and therapies.
Unconventional Students at Rice 2021: Madison Morris has her eye on Mars
Madison Morris ’21 knew two things about herself early on in life: She had an interest in space exploration and she loved Rice University.
People, papers and presentations April 12, 2021
Nikhil Gattu, a junior kinesiology and chemistry major, has been named the winner of this year’s Undergraduate Scholar Award by the American Kinesiology Association.
Beer Bike comes barreling back for 2021
The annual relay race took place across two days thanks to the dedicated efforts of students and staff.
China positioning itself to dominate world’s copper supply
China is positioning itself to dominate the global supply of copper, a material in high demand as the world transitions to alternative energy systems, according to experts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.