Rice engineers WERC hard for the money
Students calling themselves “PFAS and PFurious” took four prizes, including first place, in this year’s 31st WERC Environmental Design Contest.
The Future of AI and Behavioral Health Workshop, a joint effort of Rice and UTHealth Houston, explored the intersection of artificial intelligence and...
The Friends of Fondren Library at Rice hosted its annual membership celebration and dinner at Cohen House Sept. 17, bringing together alumni, donors a...
Gyu-Boong Jo has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative....
After winning the Bayou City Collegiate Classic last week, the Rice Men's Golf team made history, earning co-champion honors at the Trinity Forest Inv...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading prog...
Researchers led by James Tour have developed a new way to extract lithium from salty water....
Rice has named 10 graduate students as recipients of the 2025-26 Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships, a program created through a partnership between ...
One year after launching its ambitious 10-year strategic plan, Momentous: Personalized Scale for Global Impact, Rice is already seeing the transformat...
Rice researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic ...
Whether it’s a journalist unpacking democracy, a historian reframing medicine or an artist probing the legacies of empire, these lectures invite the c...
The Water Research Foundation recently presented Lauren Stadler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice, with the 2025 Pau...
The mural, on view in the Moody’s Flex Studio, depicts a textured hill made of clay layered with papel picado figures that recall deities of both Cath...
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."
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.