When many act as one, data-driven models can reveal key behaviors
Data science approaches can reveal subtle clues about the origins of such collective behaviors as aggregation of bacteria.
A team of engineers at Rice and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that can respond to touch, sense its own ...
As schools across the country increasingly embrace evidence-based approaches to reading instruction through the science of reading, two Rice researche...
Through a framing of North, Central and South America as interconnected regions, “Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous America...
Rice's Kaden Hazzard and his team recently developed a theory on how trions in quantum particles form and behave....
Rice researchers have developed a high-throughput method to measure the quality of diamond and other wide-bandgap semiconductor materials, providing r...
The Brain Health for Economic Resilience Commission, convened in collaboration with Nature Medicine, was announced at the Texas Brain Economy Summit J...
The university’s second appearance at Europe’s largest tech event paired seven startups with new research ties to France and Germany. ...
A new study by researchers at Rice and Baylor reveals that the brain maintains a geometric neural “map” for meaning that allows multilingual speakers ...
Rice bioengineer Julea Vlassakis has won $1.1M in federal funding for a project researching Ewing sarcoma....
As millions of fans watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 across North America, a team of Rice alumni is helping ensure the tournament runs smoothly behind th...
Rice Business today announced the launch of a new Early Career Track within its MBA@Rice Online MBA program. The new track gives high-potential profes...
Four Rice graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, earning opportunities to conduct research, pu...
Sustainability alone cannot fix waste management woes, says expert
Both sustainability practices and a circular economy can help maximize the world’s resources, but the ideas are not interchangeable, according to a new brief from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Padley named interim VP for IT, chief information officer
Paul Padley, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, has been named Rice’s interim vice president for information technology and chief information officer.
Iran’s water crisis is a warning for the US
HOUSTON – (Aug. 3, 2021) – Iran’s groundwater depletion and food security crisis is an issue of global importance reflecting not only climate change, but also a pattern of policy mismanagement, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
University message shares important updates to COVID-19 response policy
University message shares important updates to COVID-19 response policy
NSF grant kicks off Center for Adapting Flaws into Features
Rice University has won a Phase I National Science Foundation grant to establish the NSF Center for Adapting Flaws into Features to investigate nanoscale chemical phenomena and optimize the structures and electronic properties of materials.
How headless hydra feel, react to prodding
Researchers identify redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra. The work is a step toward modeling how internal states and external stimuli shape the behavior of an organism with a highly dynamic neural architecture.
Retired Rice economist Ken Wolpin receives prestigious Jacob Mincer Award
Ken Wolpin, the retired Lay Family Professor of Economics at Rice University and former department chair whose work revolutionized the field of labor economics, is this year's recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to the discipline.
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 2, 2021
Rice Architecture alumnus Cohen Hudson '21 won a Texas Society of Architects/AIA 2021 Studio Award for his master's thesis project USPS+, a proposal for a new post office in San Antonio that leverages mass timber technologies "to expand the United States Postal Service's functions and define a system for the construction of a new type of post office."
Science and technology research is critical infrastructure, says Baker Institute
HOUSTON – (July 30, 2021) – Investments in science and technology research are vital to the United States’ economic growth and global leadership, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.