The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on f...
Humanities Days offered Rice students the chance to present their research and creative work in panels, poster sessions and art presentations....
A team of Rice researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal ...
In a classroom filled with the sounds of singing, storytelling and lively conversation, young children at Rice University’s Oral and Written Language ...
As Rice prepares to celebrate the Class of 2025 at commencement May 9-10, Rice News is spotlighting a collection of standout seniors....
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) has introduced the 2025 Rice Innovation Fellows cohort, a dynamic group set to lead the f...
Rice hosted a timely and intimate conversation about the personal and political fallout that continues to ripple across the Gulf Coast....
Rice launches a first-of-its-kind collaboration: the Texas Linguistics Consortium....
More than 50 Rice University students, faculty and staff visited the Texas Capitol in Austin April 14 for a day of advocacy, connection and celebratio...
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
June 29, 2020
Physicists discover plasmonic metals can produce “hot carriers” that emit unexpectedly bright light in nanoscale gaps between electrodes.
Back to Work help available to job seekers
June 29, 2020
HOUSTON – (June 29, 2020) – As unemployed workers struggle to find jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is offering a series of reduced-tuition virtual workshops as part of its new Back to Work initiative.
People, papers and presentations Jun 29, 2020
June 29, 2020
Topics to be discussed are agriculture, energy, women’s health and plastics.
Little Free Libraries on campus encourage ‘fun’ reading, lifetime learning habits
June 25, 2020
Just weeks after their installation, the boxes are bursting with popular titles.
June 25, 2020
The history professor — and Rice alum — is among the 10 best teachers in Texas.
Rice shares grant for AI-driven COVID-19 research
June 25, 2020
Todd Treangen received a C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Award for computational biology research to apply AI models to COVID-19 mitigation.
June 24, 2020
The Fund for Racial Justice Teaching and Programming will offer grants to students and faculty to counter anti-Black racism.
Tour scores prestigious Centenary Prize
June 24, 2020
Rice University chemist James Tour has been named a winner of this year’s Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize.
Message to the Rice community from President Leebron and Provost DesRoches
June 24, 2020
President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches wrote to Rice students, faculty and staff June 23 in response to a list of proposals for improving the Black experience at Rice.
Housing affordability in Houston and Harris County is declining, especially for renters
June 23, 2020
Housing affordability in the Houston area is declining for all households and renters are finding it almost impossible to buy homes without significant subsidies, according to a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.