As Rice University prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a series of standout seniors....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, a nationally recognized leader in resilient infrastructure and engineering education, has been elected to the 2025 ...
Persona AI, the Houston-based humanoid robotics startup that recently closed $25 million in pre-seed funding, is significantly expanding its operation...
OwlSpark, Rice’s startup and small business accelerator for Rice-affiliated ventures, brings together 11 companies in the program’s 13th year who repr...
A team of researchers from Rice, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heter...
Rice University experts are available to discuss Kosmos 482....
Rice's Moshe Vardi was honored with the Defender of Courage Award at the Holocaust Remembrance Association’s Upstanders Arise gala at the George Theat...
Christopher Johns-Krull , professor of physics and astronomy, will serve as interim executive vice president for research, beginning July 1....
Rice University students Sara Denison and Khoi Nguyen have been named this year’s recipients of the Sallyport Award, presented annually at commencemen...
Rice will congratulate almost 3,000 students who have dutifully earned their college diplomas during commencement weekend May 9-10. For more informati...
Experts from Rice spoke about how AI is reshaping society, industry and human behavior....
Everywhere you turned at the final showcase for Design of Mechatronic Systems, something moved, danced, blinked or spun....
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker
August 20, 2020
In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.
Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow
August 20, 2020
Professor Oden is director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.
OpenStax Institutional Partner Network grows to reach diverse student populations
August 18, 2020
HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2020) – OpenStax, Rice University’s openly licensed textbook publisher, welcomed a dozen new colleges and universities to its Institutional Partner Network that together serve the most diverse student populations the program has ever seen.
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
August 18, 2020
Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.
Classical Mask: Art History’s punny posters encourage mask wearing, social distancing
August 17, 2020
New health protocol notices in Herring Hall promote safety, smiles.
'Faces in the Pandemic' opens at Fondren
August 17, 2020
Rice's football season now set to begin Sept. 26
August 17, 2020
The start of the Rice football season has been pushed back to Sept. 26.
Rice remembers legendary Rabbi Samuel Karff, one of Houston’s 'Three Wise Men'
August 17, 2020
Rabbi Karff lectured at Rice for over 20 years and was influential in fundraising for its Jewish Studies program.
August 17, 2020
Facilities, Engineering & Planning staff have been hard at work creating and placing signs across the Rice campus in advance of the fall semester.
Rice administers over 4,000 COVID-19 tests in first half of August
August 17, 2020
Rice University has been ramping up COVID-19 testing in advance of students returning for O-Week and the start of in-person and online classes Aug. 24.