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...
Bird droppings carry risk of antibiotic resistance
July 13, 2020
Rice University engineers analyze the droppings of urban birds and show persistent levels of antibiotic-resistant genes and bacteria that may be transferred to humans through the environment.
People, papers and presentations July 13, 2020
July 13, 2020
Emmett joins Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies
July 12, 2020
Former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett has been named a fellow in energy and transportation policy in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the institute announced July 1.
Rice U. expert: Hagia Sophia should remain interfaith
July 10, 2020
A letter to Rice's international students
July 9, 2020
President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches send message of support.
July 8, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 8, 2020) – The best way to predict whether Houston ISD students will go to college is to examine a combination of attendance rates, grades, and credits in advanced courses, according to a study by Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), part of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Rice For Black Life empowers Black students to create change on campuses across America
July 7, 2020
The student group has big plans beyond its initial successful fundraiser.
Rice historian Melissa Kean retires
July 7, 2020
Her popular Rice History Corner blog will continue to live on.
Boron nitride destroys PFAS 'forever' chemicals PFOA, GenX
July 7, 2020
Rice chemical engineers discovered a photocatalyst that can destroy 99% of the “forever” chemical PFOA
Parents' pandemic-induced stress can do long-term harm to children, says Baker Institute expert
July 6, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 7, 2020) – The COVID-19 pandemic, which has accentuated long-standing challenges many families face, has put additional stress on parents that could harm the development of their children, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.