Global health students’ innovation not stopped by COVID-19
Students at Rice University and in Malawi present device designs to deal with the COVID-19 crisis during the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health Intern Showcase.
The building consolidates Rice’s visual arts programs, long scattered across campus, into a single state-of-the-art space that emphasizes collaboratio...
Researchers have engineered a fluorescent probe, into precise subdomains of protein....
Rice University’s Naval ROTC program hosted an inaugural stair climb at Rice Stadium Thursday morning to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, wh...
Rice has welcomed 31 Fulbright students from 20 countries this academic year, one of the largest groups of international scholars on campus. They join...
The Rice community celebrated the life and legacy of longtime political science professor Bob Stein and announced Fund for Social Policy Research. ...
Recent research from Rice and Houston Methodist shows how data-driven methods can sharpen doctors’ decisions for patients with aortic regurgitation, a...
Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week begins Sept. 15 and exemplifies how Houston is developing and scaling real solutions for the challenge of meet...
A project led by Rice and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research will build a new and improved version of the C...
Rice scientists have developed a new drug delivery platform that could make it easier for patients to take their medications and may even boost drug e...
“It’s a fresh perspective on a concept that has been around for a long time,” said curator Frauke Josenhans. ...
Members of the Jewish student community at Rice gathered recently at the Chabad Jewish Student Center for sushi and socializing to kick off the fall s...
At Rice Business, the Center for Customer-Based Execution and Strategy — better known as C-CUBES — helps scholars excel in rigorous, peer-reviewed res...
Indoor training facility a new tool for Rice athletes, campus community
Robert L. Waltrip Indoor Training Center's benefits to Rice campus extend beyond intercollegiate sports.
Rice lab helps power electric car research
Rice University researchers will contribute to a new project to make better batteries for electric vehicles.
Baker Institute: Politics are hindering public health
HOUSTON – (July 16, 2020) – Partisan divisions about the pandemic are negatively affecting public health and economic recovery, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Houston and Texas expected to fall short of postsecondary education goal
HOUSTON – (July 16, 2020) – As demand for workers with college degrees rises, Houston and Texas are predicted to fall short of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) goals for the next decade, according to a new report from Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), part of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and School of Social Sciences.
‘Bystander’ Cs meet their match in gene-editing technique
Biomolecular engineers at Rice have developed new tools to increase the accuracy of CRISPR single-base editing to treat genetic diseases.
HOUSTON – (July 15, 2020) – COVID-19 continues to spread in Texas and especially the Houston area, but nearly one-fifth of residents surveyed by Rice University's COVID-19 Registry say they’re less anxious now than at beginning of the pandemic.
Tale of the tape: Sticky bits make better batteries
Rice University scientists use an industrial laser to turn adhesive tape into a component for safer, anode-free lithium metal batteries.
Mayor, president dedicate redesigned Sunset intersections
A group of dignitaries and city workers led by Mayor Sylvester Turner and President David Leebron gathered outside Rice’s main entrance Friday morning, dedicating two newly reconfigured intersections that have been redesigned with greater safety in mind.
Bird droppings carry risk of antibiotic resistance
Rice University engineers analyze the droppings of urban birds and show persistent levels of antibiotic-resistant genes and bacteria that may be transferred to humans through the environment.