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. ...
Two Owls among Houston’s 50 most influential women
Ana María Martínez, professor of voice, and Kathi Dantley Warren, vice president for development and alumni relations (DAR), have been named to Houston Woman Magazine’s annual list of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2020-21.
Doerr Institute spearheads efforts to develop leaders across the country
The Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders, in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education, plans to launch Leadership for Public Purpose.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 28, 2022
Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan is co-lead author of a forward-thinking perspective of quantum materials manufacturing in Advanced Materials, and Will Rice College senior Eduardo Gonzalez Villarreal was named the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2022 Undergraduate Major of the Year for Rice University.
Gas flares tied to premature deaths
Rice engineers suggest that flaring of natural gas at oil and gas fields in the United States, primarily in North Dakota and Texas, contributed to dozens of premature deaths in 2019.
Rice mourns Kelley Lash, longtime director of student media
Kelly Lash, beloved mentor and colleague who served as Rice’s director of student media, died Feb. 21
Fondren updates collection of William Blake replica prints and plates
Michael Phillips’ recreated Blake sets offer a rare opportunity to interact with 19th-century printing technology and artistry
Voyage reveals wonder and beauty of ‘long-dead ocean dwellers’
Rice Ph.D. student Debadrita Jana is part of a scientific voyage exploring deep beneath the Indian Ocean.
Army touts Rice contribution to graphene collaboration
Rice's graphene research is making its presence felt in the U.S. Army’s work to develop applications using the single-atom-thick form of carbon.
Rice Business Plan Competition announces 2022 teams
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
Houston’s low-income neighborhoods bear the biggest burdens during catastrophic events — from damage to older homes during natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and last year’s winter storm to economic hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — according to a Harris County Community Services Department analysis prepared by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
