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....
More than 100 people turned out for a screening of a documentary that examines the alarming rise of antisemitism and radicalization on college campuse...
Rice will break ground on the Moody Center Complex for Student Life at 3 p.m. May 8, marking a transformative moment for the university’s commitment t...
Alexander Byrd appointed Rice’s first Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
July 27, 2020
The lauded history professor and Rice alum will guide diversity initiatives.
People, papers and presentations July 27, 2020
July 27, 2020
Haotian Wang, the William Marsh Rice Trustee Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is among 59 early-career scientists selected to take up the challenge of greenhouse gas accumulation in Earth's atmosphere and oceans in Scialog: Negative Emissions Science
Systems librarian Sun honored with Fondren’s Shapiro Award
July 24, 2020
The award honors members of the Fondren staff who have developed innovative library services programs or shown exemplary service to the Rice community
How to stop the next pandemic: Reduce wildlife trafficking and forest loss
July 23, 2020
The ultimate global financial cost of COVID-19 could top $15 trillion, but governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new paper from an international team of scientists including Rice University's Ted Loch-Temzelides.
China’s energy infrastructure mapped by Baker Institute
July 23, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 23, 2020) – Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has released its latest China Energy Map, an open-source, interactive chart of the country’s energy infrastructure.
Architecture students win first place for pandemic-proof dormitory design
July 23, 2020
An elegantly imagined college dormitory designed for use during a pandemic has won top honors for a duo of Rice University students in the 2020 American Institute of Architects Houston (AIAH) Gulf Coast Green Student Competition.
HISD partners with Rice University to conduct districtwide study on educational equity
July 22, 2020
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has partnered with Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a program of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and School of Social Sciences, to conduct a comprehensive study on educational equity across the district.
Contact-tracing software takes top prize at Rice Design-A-Thon
July 21, 2020
Top honors went to a team of Rice engineering students who created software to approximate COVID-19 contact tracing in schools.
Remembering John Lewis: Activist, Civil Rights Icon and Humanitarian
July 20, 2020
The Black Male Leadership Initiative (BMLI), with support from the Dean of Undergraduates and Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, is honored to have serendipitously met John Lewis during our cultural excursion in May 2019 to Atlanta
Japanese students create online cookbook of cross-cultural recipes
July 20, 2020
Ahead of a typical study-abroad trip for Rice in Japan, professor Naoko Ozaki tells her second-year Japanese students to prepare a recipe they’ll be able to make using ingredients found in Tokyo or the countryside town of Fujieda, Ozaki’s hometown.