The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
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....
Mech major Cofer named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
May 6, 2020
The Jones College senior will joining 75 other scholars from 26 countries pursuing Ph.D.s at Stanford University.
Rice faculty part of Baylor Superfund program
May 6, 2020
A $10 million federal grant establishes a center to study how toxic chemicals from Superfund sites impact preterm births.
Most Houstonians with symptoms are not being tested, according to Rice COVID-19 Registry
May 5, 2020
HOUSTON – (May 5, 2020) – The vast majority of Houston-area residents who are experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are not getting tested for it, according to initial results of a survey from the COVID-19 Registry at Rice University.
Houston must address housing and transportation affordability jointly
May 5, 2020
Only 44% of rental housing units in Houston are affordable for families with average income, and only 1 out of every 3 of those dwellings is near reliable and affordable transportation, according to a new joint report by researchers from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research and LINK Houston.
Senior is first Rice student to earn prestigious coaching accreditation
May 4, 2020
Noor Elsonbaty, a graduate of the CoachRICE program at Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has made university history in earning his International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.
Rice Management Co.'s Alan Arnold dies at 46
May 4, 2020
Alan Arnold, the investment director for real estate for the Rice Management Co. (RMC) who was best known for significantly increasing Rice University's funds for scholarships and scientific research, died April 28 after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 46.
Quarantine Q&A: Rice opera students sing praises for industry leaders’ advice
May 4, 2020
The Shepherd School's Department of Opera Studies has been thinking outside the box during the pandemic.
Baker Institute experts: Hydrogen and nanomaterials may transform energy industry
May 4, 2020
Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to fundamentally transform the global energy landscape
Three Ph.D. grads win NSF postdoctoral fellowships
May 4, 2020
Three Ph.D. graduates from the same Rice University research group have won prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences.
Federal grant bolsters Rice eye research
May 4, 2020
A Rice University researcher has won a prestigious federal grant to study how a recently identified protein in the cornea aids development, homeostasis and wound healing in the eye.