Rice bioengineer Michael King and his team recently published a paper demonstrating that this ability to survive high-stress environments, or mechanor...
The Moody Civic Immersion program is a weeklong experience run by Rice’s Center for Civic Leadership that brings incoming students into the city befor...
Rice mechanical engineers and Baylor College of Medicine neurosurgeons have identified simple changes to surgical tools that could reduce strain on th...
The Sustainable Ecologies Installation was built by students and faculty. ...
Rice has joined the U.S. Department of Energy Quantum Science Center....
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its annual Honors Court with five Owl student-athletes earning the distinction, the or...
Rice women's track and field athlete Mckyla Van der Westhuizen added one more honor to her stellar career after being named a CSC Academic All-America...
Rice Athletics had a conference-leading five student-athletes be named an American Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year for their respective sports,...
Rice researchers will investigate whether carbon credits could provide a new source of funding for a major coastal erosion and wetland protection proj...
Rice has announced that the new building under construction for Rice Business will be named Asha and Farid Virani Hall in recognition of a gift from c...
“Nothing prepares you for a cathedral,” said Denva Gallant, associate professor of art history at Rice. ...
John C. Polking, professor emeritus of mathematics, passed away June 28 at the age of 93. ...
Extra ‘set of eyes’ for self-driving cars: Roadside radar sensors could reduce blind spots
EyeDAR, a low-power millimeter-wave radar sensor roughly the size of an orange, could provide radar-equipped self-driving cars with critical inputs about surrounding traffic, extending and enhancing their sensing accuracy.
Rice takes home three event titles at American Championships
The Rice women's track and field team shattered records and made several podium visits to close the American Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala.
Rice shot 51.8% from the field, answering every Temple basket down the stretch, to earn an 80-74 victory Sunday afternoon from the Liacouras Center.
Ethan Sanders and three relievers combined to take a no-hitter into the ninth while the offense pile nine runs on 11 hits to down Harvard 9-0 on Sunday and complete a sweep of the three-game series on Sunday at Reckling Park.
Pride, Not Prejudice: Rice celebrates Pride Week March 2-7
Rice will celebrate joy, resilience and community during its annual Pride Week, a campuswide tradition dedicated to highlighting and supporting the LGBTQ+ community. This year’s theme, Pride, Not Prejudice, was chosen to honor the history of the LGBTQ+ movement while raising awareness about issues that continue to impact the community’s lives today.
About 1 in 7 Houston-area residents say they know someone detained and potentially deported in 2025. There has also been a corresponding shift in attitude away from mass deportation with most Houston-area residents saying they prefer expanded pathways to citizenship over mass deportation, according to new data from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Rice’s SynthX Center leads up to $18M effort to transform lymphatic imaging
Rice's SynthX Center is leading a new effort to improve how doctors detect and diagnose lymphatic diseases.
Platform to map living brain noninvasively takes next big step
A technology designed to read gene activity in the brain from a simple blood test has now cleared a major translational hurdle.
New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics
Researchers at Rice have shown that hard-to-spot defects in a widely used two-dimensional insulator can trap electrical charges and locally weaken the material, making it more likely to fail at lower voltages.
On Feb. 17, the SSPEED Center welcomed Jed Anderson, founder and CEO of EnviroAI, for a lecture on environmental AI permitting.
