Registration opens for Rice’s continuing studies courses
Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has released its course guide for fall 2022.
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.
Syed named Rice University’s vice president, general counsel
Omar Syed, an attorney with 15 years of experience in higher education, has been named Rice University’s vice president and general counsel.
Rice student and Shepherd School classmates bring new musical works to rural Texas
Small-town Texas might not be the first place you’d think of as a destination for a musical premiere from some of the country’s top composition students, but that’s exactly what took place at “Full Circle — A Musical Museum Experience,” held in May in Canadian, Texas, thanks to a Rice University Shepherd School student and some of his classmates.
AMP! ramps up for a new year of STEM training for teachers with a day at Minute Maid Park.
Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second
Rice neuroengineers and collaborators have created wireless technology to remotely activate brain circuits.
Strain-sensing smart skin ready to deploy
Carbon nanotubes’ natural fluorescence enables a method to detect high strain concentrations, which can lead to damage that threatens the integrity of critical infrastructure like aircraft, buildings, pipelines, bridges and ships.
RSVPs requested for Aug. 4 memorial celebration honoring longtime mathematics professor John Hempel
Rice will host an Aug. 4 memorial celebration to honor the life of longtime math professor John Hempel.
SARS-Arena reveals hidden hooks in virus
SARS-Arena will help to find conserved parts in proteins from SARS-CoV-2 that could be a key for the development of wide-spectrum vaccines.
Flashing creates hard-to-get 2D boron nitride
Rice University chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.