State of the University: President hails 'remarkable performance'
David Leebron delivered his 2020 State of the University address with a salute to the university’s faculty, staff and students for overcoming the year’s unprecedented challenges.
Frank Klaus Tittel, a physicist whose career paralleled the rise of modern laser technology and who helped build Rice’s reputation in laser spectrosc...
Art teachers, artists and comics enthusiasts gathered at Rice University Feb. 20 for Teaching Comics, a one-day symposium exploring how comics can fun...
Nearly 700 prospective graduate students, current scholars, faculty and staff gathered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science for Rice University’s ...
Martono, a second-year master’s student in violin performance, won the title of Miss Chinatown Houston 2025, her first-ever pageant....
Undergraduates at Rice are digging into real, possible wrongful conviction cases this semester, examining evidence to bring renewed attention to indiv...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was honored with a Community Trailblazer Award Feb. 19 by the city of Houston’s controller Chris Hollins during his ...
Rice commends Stacy Mosely for 14 years of service. As executive senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator, Mosely maintains admin...
Students convened at Rice University Feb. 20 for what organizers called a rare chance to hear and learn directly from one of the most influential musi...
The role brings Cristian Măcelaru ’06 ’08 back to campus several times each year to coach, conduct and mentor students across departments....
Isabella Bourtin balances GRE prep, lab work and upper-level courses as she pivots from pre-med ambitions toward a future in clinical psychology....
John Green, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, influential educator and global YouTube phenomenon, will serve as the speaker for Rice's 113t...
A Rice research lab’s signature keepsake helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces that could help decrease operating temperature...
It's lights, camera, gavel for Cinema and Media Studies minors
New course will explore the American courtroom drama.
Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
People, papers and presentations Dec 14, 2021
Marina Vannucci, the Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, is a co-author on a primer on "Bayesian Statistics and Modeling" that will be published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers.
Drop in activity along border could cost Texas billions, says Baker Institute expert
The reduction in mobility along the Texas-Mexico border caused by COVID-19 will hurt the state's economy as a whole, according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Top Rice data science team shows heart in plan to save babies
Winning Data to Knowledge Lab project uses data science techniques to help save babies with congenital heart defects.
Bad news for fake news: Rice research helps combat social media misinformation
Improved use of machine learning can double throughput of real-time information filters, Rice researchers find.
Rice's Pumani hailed for reaching 1 million babies
Rice global health institute's low-cost, neonatal CPAP joins Global Innovation Exchange's Million Lives Club.
Religious discrimination particularly high for Jews and Muslims, study shows
HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2020) – Although people of all faiths report growing religious discrimination during the past few years, the phenomenon is most common among Jews and Muslims, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University and West Virginia University (WVU). In addition, Jews and Muslims are much more likely to become victims of violence because of their religious beliefs.
Texas lawmakers see vaccine legislation as nonpartisan
Vaccine-related legislation should be promoted as nonpartisan, new research suggests, and most Texas lawmakers agree despite a vocal anti-vaccine movement.