X-rays show how light transforms photosynthesis ‘switch’
Researchers at Rice and their colleagues get their first detailed look at how plant proteins reconfigure themselves when exposed to light.
The Rice-Houston Methodist Digital Health Institute will host an inaugural summit Oct. 8 at Rice, launching what will become an annual gathering at th...
Rice climatologist Sylvia Dee has been awarded the 2025 Nanne Weber Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union’s Paleoceanography and Pale...
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded...
Carrie Masiello, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry at Rice, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s l...
The 22nd annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum saw 50 ventures pitch their companies to a full crowd of investors and corporate leaders Sept....
The Rice football team is off to a historically great start following a 28-17 win last week against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte....
No. 25 Rice rallied from an early deficit to defeat Grambling State 3-1 on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Holloway Field in the Owls' non-conference fina...
Rice researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into an ultrathin crystal....
Rice has released two new editions of its flagship publications — Rice Magazine and R3: Rice Research Review — offering readers a look at the universi...
Rice and Lehigh University have announced the launch of the Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe Modeling, a research initiative design...
A delegation of law enforcement officers from South Korea recently visited campus to learn how the Rice Police Department addresses domestic violence ...
Biotechnology Innovation Organization president and CEO John F. Crowley visited Rice as part of a tour highlighting regional biotech hubs across the c...
Treat nonviolent drug offenses as public health issue, Baker Institute paper recommends
Drug use among people arrested for nonviolent drug offenses should be treated primarily as a public health issue, according to drug policy experts at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition.
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
Theoretical simulations at Rice University suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.
Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record
Keeping track of a child’s shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues.
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
With initial support from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub's goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are not burned. Instead, they are split to make clean hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materials.
Newborn baby deaths in Africa targeted in $68M initiative
A new global health initiative with Rice University roots could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of babies.
Malawi study confirms lasting impact of life-saving technology
A new study finds Malawi made sustained improvements in the survival of babies with respiratory illness by adopting CPAP nationwide.
Reflections on the beloved community
Students from Rice’s Black Male Leadership Initiative convened in Herring Hall Sept. 9 to reflect on their five-day cultural excursion to Atlanta, sponsored by the Dean of Undergraduates and the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance.
The Way I See It: Engineering healthy environments inside and outside the lab
Inspired by their professor, Rice bioengineering students find their mojo on the running track.
Physicists find first possible 3D quantum spin liquid
Rice physicists show cerium zirconium pyrochlore qualifies as the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid.