Rice remembers legendary Rabbi Samuel Karff, one of Houston’s 'Three Wise Men'
Rabbi Karff lectured at Rice for over 20 years and was influential in fundraising for its Jewish Studies program.
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. ...
Facilities, Engineering & Planning staff have been hard at work creating and placing signs across the Rice campus in advance of the fall semester.
Rice administers over 4,000 COVID-19 tests in first half of August
Rice University has been ramping up COVID-19 testing in advance of students returning for O-Week and the start of in-person and online classes Aug. 24.
Where lions operate, grazers congregate … provided food is great
Meals are typically family affairs for zebras, gazelles, cape buffalo and other grazing species in the African Serengeti, but in one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists have found grazing species can be more willing to share meals in areas frequented by lions.
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers
Rice University researchers report advances in their quest to make the best carbon nanotube fibers for industry.
Unprecedented move-in process puts Rice to the test
Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.
People, papers and presentations August 17, 2020
Department of Psychological Sciences faculty Mike Byrne and Philip Kortum are recipients of the 2020 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in recognition of their work on the usability of voting systems.
Automation increases income inequality, say Baker Institute experts
Automation does not kill jobs, but it does increase income inequality, according to new research from Dagobert Brito, Rice Faculty Scholar in international economics at the Baker Institute, and Robert Curl, the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.