Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.
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. ...
Young alum shares power of poetry to promote critical dialog
Tim Harrison ’20 brought a powerful spoken-word performance to campus for a FWIS class
‘Hydras’ artwork inspired by Robinson Lab imagery
Conrad’s newest piece installed at BRC; opening reception Saturday
Grad students ask: Is this the end of English?
Alemán to give keynote at department’s annual graduate student conference
Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Rice student Jasmine Manansala to compete in 'Jeopardy!' National College Championship
Rice‘s Jasmine Manansala, a Brown College senior majoring in computer science and cognitive science, is a contestant in the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship that begins Feb. 8. Manansala was selected from tens of thousands of hopefuls after a rigorous application process.
imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity
Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning
Energy transition could be headed for ‘valley of death,’ says report
Investments in oil and gas have decreased in favor of alternative energy in recent years, but with alternative energy technologies still able to supply only a small fraction of useable energy, rushing the transition would be a costly mistake, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
People, papers and presentations for Feb. 7, 2022
Laura Kabiri, an assistant teaching professor of kinesiology, has won the Sam Drogo Technology in the Classroom Award for 2022 from the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.
Redistricting project wins Rice Datathon
Four Rice undergraduates top this year’s Rice Datathon with their analysis of Houston voting districts.