

Kathryn Lavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly befor...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...

RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced th...

Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....

Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....

Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low ...

Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a tra...

An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in...

The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, o...

Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...

Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...

A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making hist...

Consumer surveys drive stock prices, research shows

One in four Black teens apathetic about racial justice

1 in 4 Black teens apathetic about racial justice
Researchers plan to conduct future studies to track racial apathy of Black teenagers and adults.


The 2020 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers conference brought together the largest number of attendees in the annual event’s 24-year history to award 17 university entrepreneurship programs top honors.


Remote work causes tax issues for both workers and employers
As employers evaluate whether remote-work arrangements are a viable longterm option, they should consider that these seemingly innocuous arrangements can trigger tax issues for both workers and their employers, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Rice wins Mayor's Early Vote College Challenge


Slave trade artifacts and records to be studied with aid of new grant
The institution of slavery caused centuries of harrowing misery, triggered wars and left a searing legacy of racial injustice, but many of the artifacts and records pertaining to slavery’s history have been understudied or altogether forgotten.