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...
Rice receives NSF grant to boost STEM education
July 27, 2020
A multi-institutional team led by Rice University has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a collaborative project studying persistence and retention of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers across the nation.
Link between education, income inequality has existed for a century
July 27, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 27, 2020) – Income is inextricably linked to access to education in America and it has been for a century, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford University and Rice University.
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.