The heat is on for building 3D artificial organ tissues
Bioengineers at Rice and the University of Washington are devising a hot new technology to remotely control the positioning and timing of cell functions to build 3D artificial, living tissues.
Rebecca Schreib is the recipient of the 2026 George R. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award. ...
Rice professor Caroline Ajo-Franklin’s group, working in collaboration with researchers from Tufts University and Baylor College of Medicine, recently...
For Rice University junior D. Fitzgerald, what began as a personal journey of self-discovery has quickly grown into a powerful platform for advocacy —...
Composer and conductor John Adams rehearsed his iconic “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” with the school’s symphony orchestra in Stude Concert Hall....
One team rose to the top of this year’s Veterans Business Battle: IntuBlade. Their win capped a competitive two-day event at Rice Business that brough...
A team of Rice undergraduates set out to find a better solution for keeping Flamingos at the Houston Zoo warm during the winter months. ...
“The Logos” is a yearlong immersive installation that opened Easter Sunday and transforms more than 4,000 fast radio bursts into spatial audio....
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. ...
Humanities pauses admissions for Ph.D. programs
In response to challenges caused by COVID-19, Rice’s School of Humanities has paused admissions to all five of its Ph.D. programs — art history, English, history, philosophy and religion — for one year.
Karl Ecklund named American Physical Society Fellow
Karl Ecklund, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society.
'States of Mind: Art and American Democracy' exhibit at the Moody demands attention, contemplation
A highly political art show isn’t easy, but that’s the point.
'Religion and Black Lives Matter' to be tackled in Rockwell Lecture Series
Next talk Oct. 1 features leading Africana philosopher Lewis R. Gordon.
Ocean water could melt precarious Antarctic glacier
Rice University researchers, alumni and staff are part of an international effort that has discovered a pathway for warm ocean water to melt the underside of Thwaites Glacier, a precarious body of west Antarctic ice that could add as much as 25 inches to global sea level if it were to suffer a runaway collapse.
Alumni Emmett, Parker and Gray to hold virtual discussion on upcoming elections
With Election Day just over a month away, Rice University's School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science are hosting a virtual discussion about the presidential, congressional, state and local contests.
Grant will help Rice researchers improve mobility for the visually impaired
The number of blind or visually impaired people in the U.S. is expected to double in the next 30 years as the country's population ages.
Virtual Energy Summit to explore industry’s resilience
HOUSTON – (Sept. 28, 2020) – The fourth annual -- and first virtual -- Energy Summit hosted by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Baker Botts LLP will feature an examination of the industry by more than 20 of its leading experts.