Rice Business Plan Competition to announce 2021 teams
The Rice Business Plan Competition — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — will announce the teams invited to participate in this year's edition on Friday.
Rice alumnus Wesley Sinor ’97, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Jones School of Business, has been flagged as Houston Livestock Show and ...
Rice’s academic year is about to launch, but dozens of incoming Owls started early by engaging with the city and its social justice issues, addressing...
Even for the nation’s highest achieving students, the transition from high school to college can be an intimidating experience. That’s where RISE (res...
Rice will kick off its annual orientation, lovingly dubbed O-Week, Aug. 17 in a series of programs that familiarize incoming students with their new s...
Fort Bend County has grown from around 50,000 residents in 1970 to nearly 1 million in 2024....
Rice researchers have demonstrated a form of quantum interference two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported....
Rice has been selected to join the 2025 cohort of the FirstGen Forward Network, a national initiative that recognizes colleges committed to advancing ...
Rice's OwlSpark accelerator's newest cohort included twin founders with projects aiming to solve overlooked problems in patient care....
Luay Nakhleh, dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation ...
A new study reveals how L. lactis regulates the production of a key precursor in vitamin K₂ biosynthesis....
Niamh Ordner is spending her summer as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at the ...
Marcos de Moraes, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Devel...
Laura Segatori named AIMBE fellow
Rice bioengineer Laura Segatori has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
UTHealth, Rice advance oral cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at Rice and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston develop a hydrogel that could destroy oral cancer tumors.
Haotian Wang named Sloan Research Fellow
Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang has been selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
‘Power Flower’ blooms as Bowdoin’s debut work of Rice Public Art
VADA professor’s sculpture is one of four new pieces acquired for campus art program.
Winter storm prompts campus closures as temps approach record lows
Rice, along with the rest of Houston, is approaching record-setting cold and a wintery mix of sleet and snow, with low temperatures dipping to into the teens and a windchill below zero degrees.
Junghae Suh named AIMBE fellow
Rice bioengineer Junghae Suh has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Kennedy Institute adds data scientist for COVID-19 research
Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute is collaborating with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center on data science research into long-term outcomes and improved treatment methods for COVID-19.
Biden must act swiftly on China trade policy, Baker Institute expert says
Competition with China is the United States' "existential challenge now and for the next three or four decades" and must be addressed by the White House immediately, according to a new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Collagen structures get the royal reveal
An algorithm by Rice University scientists predicts the structures and melting temperatures of collagen, the triple helix that accounts for about a third of the body’s proteins and forms the fibrous glue in skin, bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments.