Voter research amid pandemic wins Rice students new national award
Undergrad team wowed judges by helping secure millions for polling place safety across Harris County.
Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...
Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....
Ten years after the 2016 Tax Day flood inundated parts of the Houston region with nearly two feet of rain in a matter of hours, new research from Rice...
Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series....
“This moment reflects the scale and direction of Rice’s global engagement,” said Caroline Levander, vice president for global strategy. ...
The production pairs one of the most demanding works in the operatic canon with a creative team intent on making it feel startlingly current. ...
RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio dedicated to rapidly building companies based on breakthrough medical technologies, today announ...
When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean April 10, a critical piece of the spacecraft’s safe return traced back to research at Ric...
Rice Emergency Medical Services recently welcomed moulage artist Katie McKinney to campus for a hands-on workshop designed to enhance the realism of e...
JC Davis' RBI single in the fifth inning was the difference, and the Owls' pitching held Charlotte to just four hits, as they defeated the 49ers, 3-2,...
The Rice women's tennis team closed the regular season with a 4-0 win over UAB on Monday morning....
The Rice bioengineering department helped host the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, where two Rice fac...
Rice professor’s research wins 2020 Moskowitz Prize
A Rice University professor is among three researchers who have won the 2020 Moskowitz Prize awarded by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management for their work showing how shareholders can positively influence a company’s environmental impact.
Rice U. convenes expert group to help guide Greater Houston's long-term pandemic response
HOUSTON – (Nov. 19, 2020) – As governments and municipalities in Greater Houston prepare their long-term public health responses to the COVID-19 crisis, Rice University has convened a panel of internationally renowned biomedical experts to provide guidance to health departments, social service agencies, school districts and other policymakers.
Police oversight groups need more resources, better training, fewer legislative hurdles
HOUSTON – (Nov. 19, 2020) – With police departments around the country under heightened scrutiny, a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research finds that civilian police oversight groups need more resources, fewer legislative hurdles, and proper experience and training.
Christmas week: Worlds will align for spectacular heavenly sight
Early in the evening of Dec. 21, people the world over will get a chance to see Jupiter and Saturn line up closer together in Earth's night sky than they have been since just before daybreak on the morning of March 4, 1226.
Rice’s graduate entrepreneurship program again ranked No. 1 in US
Rice and its Jones Graduate School of Business have the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S., according to the 2021 rankings announced Nov. 17 by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. This marks the second consecutive year the Rice program has topped this category, its fifth time in a top 3 position nationally and the 12th year in a row ranked in the top 10.
Rice names new round of IDEA winners
Six teams of Rice researchers have won backing from the InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards.
First-ever virtual Fall Chamber Music Festival to be held Dec. 3-9
The festival will include a tribute to Beethoven's 250th birthday and contemporary pieces such as Lutosławski's "String Quartet."
Books outline what it takes to put astronauts in space
A new set of books edited by a Rice University psychologist provides an overview of the research necessary to put astronauts in space, what is needed to keep them safe on future missions and practical applications for space exploration teams.
Houston companies awarded top honors at premier life science venture capital conference
HOUSTON – (Nov. 16, 2020) – Life science investors, leaders and innovators from around the world gathered virtually to discuss the pandemic, medical technology and the future of the industry at the Texas Life Science Forum, where Houston companies claimed top honors.