Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.
Kaiyuan Yang wins NSF CAREER Award
Electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
A new view for science and engineering
Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, toured the construction site of the new Engineering and Science Building on April 5.
Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Rice University chemists treat waste plastic to absorb carbon dioxide from flue gas streams more efficiently than current processes.
Abducted journalist Austin Tice named James A. Baker III Prize for Excellence in Leadership honoree
The James A. Baker III Prize for Excellence in Leadership will be awarded to Austin Tice, an American journalist taken hostage in Syria nearly a decade ago, during an April 13 ceremony at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Marc and Debra Tice, his parents, will accept the honor on his behalf.
Georgia Tech team wins Rice360 Design Competition
A Georgia Tech team won Rice360’s annual undergraduate design competition for global health technologies.
Living sensor research wins federal backing
Rice researchers are leading a federally funded project to improve communications between microelectronics and microorganisms.
On April 2, Rice’s beloved Beer Bike returned in largely pre-pandemic form: races, water balloon fights and all.
People, papers and presentations for April 4, 2022
A multidisciplinary team led by Todd Treangen, an assistant professor of computer science, computer science graduate student Nick Sapoval and postdoctoral researcher Amirali Aghazadeh has published an open-access review paper in Nature Communications on the advances and limitations of deep learning as applied to the biosciences.
Rice hosts Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference
Rice hosted the 31st annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists from March 30 to April 3.
