Political science professor Bob Stein recognized with the 2025 Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement....
Nine Rice faculty members received the 2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors Rice’s top instructors based on votes from alumn...
Each year, Rice University honors members of its community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. ...
Kasey Leigh Yearty has been named the 2025 recipient of the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching....
In a city defined by innovation and resilience, the Rice Water Technologies Entrepreneurship and Research (WaTER) Institute hosted its distinguished l...
The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
Rice alum Shannon Walker '87 returning to space station
April 1, 2020
Machine learning can help increase liver cancer screening rates, says Rice expert
March 31, 2020
Targeting patients with machine learning can increase the number of people getting liver cancer screenings, according to a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study by a research team from Rice, Texas A&M University, Iowa State University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Machine learning can help increase liver cancer screening rates, says Rice U. expert
March 31, 2020
HOUSTON – (March 31, 2020) – Targeting patients with machine learning can increase the number of people getting liver cancer screenings, according to a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study by a research team from Rice University, Texas A&M University, Iowa State University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Rice violinist practices social distancing while performing 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'
March 30, 2020
A Rice University violin student won’t let social distancing stop her from doing what she does best.
Open enrollment for benefit plans set for April 6-24
March 30, 2020
Global health expert available to discuss COVID-19 threat to hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa
March 30, 2020
Rice University bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum is available to discuss how hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa are preparing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 30, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis plays out, Rice University faculty have been proactively making the best of a difficult situation for their students.
Rice University joins consortium to improve medical device design
March 30, 2020
The effectiveness of medical devices comes down to one simple question: Is it usable?
Remembering when Rice went to war during a deadly pandemic
March 30, 2020
From hurricanes to recessions to sending its students off to war, Rice has faced and overcome its share of trying times. COVID-19 seems to pose the university with an entirely different challenge.
Rice's spring commencement postponed
March 30, 2020
Rice's spring commencement, originally scheduled for May 15-16, has been postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the university announced Monday.