OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources (OER), has partnered wit...
Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories....
The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environm...
A new study led by Rice's Christopher Tunnell and Dorian Amaral sees the first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated...
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...
Funding flows into liquid fuel strategy
September 8, 2020
The National Science Foundation awards a $2 million collaborative grant for the development of methods to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.
Boundaries no barrier for thermoelectricity
September 8, 2020
Rice researchers show how thermoelectricity hurdles some defects, but not others, in gold nanowires. The discovery has implications for making better thin-film electronic devices.
Rice football players march to protest racial injustice
September 8, 2020
Rice football players marched from Rice Stadium to the Academic Quad Sept. 4 to protest racial injustice.
Solomon, Siebach appear in science TV series 'Life 2.0'
September 4, 2020
Rice faculty members Scott Solomon and Kirsten Sieback appear in the first episode of "Life 2.0," a new television series that's available for streaming and slated to debut on the air this weekend.
Rice tops in Texas, No. 7 nationally in new Niche rankings
September 4, 2020
Rice University is ranked as the top university in Texas and one of the top universities nationwide in the latest ratings compiled by Niche.
Three research teams earn Dunn Awards
September 4, 2020
Three teams of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have been named winners of the 2020 John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Awards.
If you see something, say something
September 3, 2020
Rice’s ethics hotline has always given people in the Rice community a way to anonymously report illegal, unethical or improper conduct without fear of backlash. Now faculty, staff, students and visitors can use it to report COVID-19-related infractions, including failure to wear masks and follow social distancing protocols.
Rice Business expert available to discuss Postal Service financials
September 3, 2020
The U.S. Postal Service was not created to be a traditional profit-making business, according to an accounting expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Rice mourns artist Darra Keeton, professor emeritus of painting and drawing
September 3, 2020
Darra Rathbun Keeton, Rice professor emeritus of painting and drawing, died Aug. 28. She was 73.
Quantum leap for speed limit bounds
September 2, 2020
Nature's speed limits aren't posted on road signs, but Rice University physicists have discovered a new way to deduce them that is better — infinitely better, in some cases — than prior methods.