OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources, has partnered with Micr...
Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories....
The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environm...
A new study led by Rice's Christopher Tunnell and Dorian Amaral sees the first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated...
Kathryn Lavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly befor...
In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitr...
RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies, today announced th...
Rice’s Department of Chemistry will soon welcome Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede....
Rice University has appointed three distinguished alumni to its board of trustees....
Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low ...
Rice University is mourning the passing of E. William “Bill” Barnett ’55, an esteemed alumnus, former chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees and a tra...
An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in...
Can plastics be defeated? New installation at the Moody puts science to the test
February 5, 2025
A new installation at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts merges biosciences and art in an experiment with an uncertain outcome.
Rice computer science professor receives Secretary of Energy Achievement Award
February 5, 2025
Rice’s John Mellor-Crummey was honored in January with a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award as a member of the leadership team of the Department of Energy’s seven-year, $1.8 billion Exascale Computing Project.
February 5, 2025
Rice researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living materials (ELMs), enabling more precise control over their structure and how they respond to deformation forces like stretching or compression.
Owls rally in support of victims of Los Angeles fires
February 5, 2025
Owl alums are springing into action to provide assistance for victims of the fires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area.
Brain health initiatives can learn from heart health, Rice Baker Institute expert says
February 5, 2025
A national commitment to improve the U.S. population’s brain health through research, education and investment can provide economic benefits, according to an expert from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
February 4, 2025
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has renamed two of its key research centers to reflect their evolving missions and strengthen their impact on policy debates.
Rice swimming and diving named CSCAA Scholar All-America Team
February 4, 2025
Rice swimming and diving was named a Scholar All-America Team by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
Shepherd School’s Jon Kimura Parker joins Los Angeles Philharmonic for Gershwin performance
February 4, 2025
Parker, who was called upon to replace pianist Yuja Wang due to illness, navigated a whirlwind of logistics to make it to the stage in time.
Rice alumna Whitson to lead historic Axiom 4 mission to International Space Station
February 4, 2025
Peggy Whitson ’86, a Rice alumna and former NASA chief astronaut, is preparing to lead the Axiom 4 mission.
Emilia Morosan on team awarded Kavli Foundation grant for quantum geometry-enabled superconductivity
February 4, 2025
Rice physicist Emilia Morosan is part of an international research collaboration that has been awarded multimillion-dollar funding from The Kavli Foundation to develop and test next-generation superconductors.