OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources, has partnered with Micr...
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...
Where lions operate, grazers congregate … provided food is great
August 17, 2020
Meals are typically family affairs for zebras, gazelles, cape buffalo and other grazing species in the African Serengeti, but in one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists have found grazing species can be more willing to share meals in areas frequented by lions.
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers
August 17, 2020
Rice University researchers report advances in their quest to make the best carbon nanotube fibers for industry.
Unprecedented move-in process puts Rice to the test
August 17, 2020
Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.
People, papers and presentations August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020
Department of Psychological Sciences faculty Mike Byrne and Philip Kortum are recipients of the 2020 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in recognition of their work on the usability of voting systems.
Rice Rec Center reopens with strict safety measures in place
August 17, 2020
August 14, 2020
All are alumni with extensive ties to their alma mater.
Automation increases income inequality, say Baker Institute experts
August 14, 2020
Automation does not kill jobs, but it does increase income inequality, according to new research from Dagobert Brito, Rice Faculty Scholar in international economics at the Baker Institute, and Robert Curl, the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.
Rice Architecture duo honored for tower
August 12, 2020
An observation tower designed by Rice Architecture students wins a top prize in a Latvia competition.
Racial, social factors contribute to mental health inequity, says Baker Institute experts
August 12, 2020
HOUSTON – (Aug. 12, 2020) – Inequities throughout society influence mental health research, where they can become self-perpetuating and contribute to persistent disparities in mental health services, according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Jones School mourns loss of Bill Arnold
August 10, 2020
William "Bill" Arnold, a popular professor in the practice of energy management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, died Aug. 5 after a battle with gallbladder cancer. He was 75.