Two members of the Rice University community are among the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners....
Volker Rudolf, a professor of biosciences at Rice, is investigating just how powerful seasonal rhythms, known as phenologies, can be....
Freshman Daniel Zou and junior Lukas Boandl are in the top 15 of the NCAA Bremerton Regional after one round....
J. D. McCracken scattered three hits over seven innings and Michael Zito drove in three runs as Rice downed Wichita State 9-3 to capture the weekend s...
Rice’s Matteo Pasquali has been elected a fellow of The Society of Rheology (SoR)....
Rice scientist and engineer Naomi Halas was awarded the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry May 1 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia....
Faculty and students gathered for the latest edition of Research Relays, an event series that spotlighted the expansive, interdisciplinary work of CAA...
Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders capped off the 2024-25 academic year with its annual Leadership Celebration April 24 in Ray Courtyard, honoring...
Findings from the 2025 Kinder Houston Area Survey, the nation’s longest-running metropolitan study of its kind, will be released May 19. ...
Rice conferred more than 250 doctoral degrees during its 112th commencement May 10 at Tudor Fieldhouse. Doctoral candidates along with friends, family...
Rice conferred more than 2,900 degrees to its newest graduates — the most in the university’s history — during its 112th commencement weekend held May...
More than 750 freshly minted advanced degree graduates took their well-earned strolls across the stage at Rice's Tudor Fieldhouse May 10. ...
First worldwide survey of religion and science: No, not all scientists are atheists
December 3, 2015
Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon they call “Teslaphoresis.”
JFK’s 1962 moon speech still appeals 50 years later
August 30, 2012
Few moments in Rice’s history are as well known or oft remarked upon as the 1962 speech in which President John F. Kennedy boldly declared, “We choose to go to the moon!”
The story behind Rice traditions
November 4, 2011
Every university has its traditions, and Rice University is no exception. O-Week, Beer Bike and Willy Week top the list of Rice’s most well-known traditions, but in the university’s nearly 100-year history, it’s only natural for a few others to have developed along the way.
Revolution with a salad spinner
May 3, 2010
A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates.
Rice study suggests people are more trusting of attractive strangers
September 21, 2006
Beware of strangers. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We repeat these timeworn adages without even thinking, but new research suggests we live by neither of them.
Nanotech pioneer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
October 28, 2005
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball, died from cancer in Houston. He was 62.