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...
X-rays show how light transforms photosynthesis ‘switch’
January 7, 2020
Researchers at Rice and their colleagues get their first detailed look at how plant proteins reconfigure themselves when exposed to light.
Treat nonviolent drug offenses as public health issue, Baker Institute paper recommends
January 6, 2020
Drug use among people arrested for nonviolent drug offenses should be treated primarily as a public health issue, according to drug policy experts at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
January 2, 2020
Theoretical simulations at Rice University suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.
Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record
December 18, 2019
Keeping track of a child’s shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues.
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
December 9, 2019
With initial support from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub's goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are not burned. Instead, they are split to make clean hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materials.
Newborn baby deaths in Africa targeted in $68M initiative
October 3, 2019
A new global health initiative with Rice University roots could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of babies.
Malawi study confirms lasting impact of life-saving technology
September 20, 2019
A new study finds Malawi made sustained improvements in the survival of babies with respiratory illness by adopting CPAP nationwide.
Reflections on the beloved community
September 11, 2019
Students from Rice’s Black Male Leadership Initiative convened in Herring Hall Sept. 9 to reflect on their five-day cultural excursion to Atlanta, sponsored by the Dean of Undergraduates and the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance.
The Way I See It: Engineering healthy environments inside and outside the lab
September 5, 2019
Inspired by their professor, Rice bioengineering students find their mojo on the running track.
Physicists find first possible 3D quantum spin liquid
July 15, 2019
Rice physicists show cerium zirconium pyrochlore qualifies as the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid.