Avantika Gori, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, is leading an innovative project to address flooding ...
“Interdisciplinarity is not just something that happens between disciplines but actually many different knowledge projects with their own originary fo...
The Rice swimming and diving team has won its first conference championship since the 2013-14 Conference USA Championship....
Rice has established a new initiative aimed at refining world-class leadership development practices across campus, bringing together key representati...
Rice will celebrate the career of legendary baseball coach Wayne Graham by announcing several special commemorations of his enduring legacy as part of...
Rice will welcome bôa as the headline music act at the third annual Moody X-Fest April 25 at Founder’s Court. The signature, rain-or-shine event celeb...
Rice Business hosted a celebration Feb. 13 for the newly named Virani Undergraduate School of Business. Houston business and community leaders Farid a...
Leah Li, an international student pursuing a career in computer science, spent years looking for a program that would allow her to experience the worl...
Combining an existing small-molecule protein therapy called tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand with focused ultrasound can signif...
Rice has named seasoned special events executive Susan Christian as the first senior director of campus and community engagement and conference servic...
As a partner institution of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UTHealth Houston, Rice has received approximately $1.69 million in g...
The 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) announced today the 42 startups invited to compete for more than $1 million in prizes April 10-12 at Ri...
Where is utopia, and what was that?
January 30, 2020
People passing through Rice’s academic quad the evening of Jan. 23 may have wondered why a class of over 30 students was surrounding Willy’s statue, dressed in wild costumes and chanting “nonsense” into the night.
Cells’ springy coils pump bursts of RNA
January 30, 2020
Models by Rice chemists calculate the chemical and mechanical energies involved in “bursty” RNA production in cells.
Rice United Way Campaign brings in record donations
January 29, 2020
The 2019-20 Rice United Way Campaign raised $285,250 from 881 Rice employees, $35,250 over the university’s goal.
Rice earns Tree Campus USA recognition again
January 29, 2020
Rice received the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Campus USA designation for the eighth consecutive year in 2019.
Campus Services staff members honored with RICE MILE award
January 29, 2020
Rice staff members Fernando Gonzalez and Jay Lee were honored with the RICE MILE Award in January.
Ordering in? Plants are way ahead of you
January 29, 2020
Dissolved carbon in soil can quench plants' ability to communicate with soil microbes, allowing plants to fine-tune their relationships with symbionts. Experiments show how synthetic biology tools developed at Rice University can help understand environmental controls on agricultural productivity.
Rice fluids researcher earns solid federal support
January 29, 2020
Rice University engineer Jesse Chan wins a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop reliable simulations of fluid flow.
'Radical Revisionists' opens to full house at Moody Center for the Arts
January 27, 2020
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts welcomed over 600 guests for the opening reception of "Radical Revisionists" Jan. 24.
Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash
January 27, 2020
Scientists at Rice University are using high-energy pulses of electricity to turn any source of carbon into turbostratic graphene in an instant. The process promises environmental benefits by turning waste into valuable graphene that can then strengthen concrete and other composite materials.
Holocaust’s defiant diplomats: Jewish Studies exhibition honors extraordinary envoys
January 27, 2020
Rayzor Hall lobby now showing ‘Beyond Duty’ throughout spring semester.