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. ...
Korde opens Rice360 Global Health Seminar Series with focus on policy and global health
Sonali Korde, the MD Anderson Visiting Fellow at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, kicked off the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies Seminar Series Oct. 8 with a talk exploring the intersection of global health, foreign policy and humanitarian affairs.
Richards-Kortum elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Rice's Rebecca Richards-Kortum has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in health and medicine. She is one of two Rice faculty who are the only Texas researchers to share membership across the national academies of medicine, science and engineering — an honor held by fewer than 35 researchers nationwide.
Owls extend win streak to seven
Rice extended its win streak to seven games after edging Wichita State in five sets at Tudor Fieldhouse.
A new chapter for Rice: First fall schedule of classes in Paris proving to be success
The inaugural semester of student programming at the Rice Global Paris Center is a collaboration between the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and Rice Global with support from the School of Social Sciences and School of Humanities and Arts.
Shepherd School to reimagine ‘The Magic Flute’ with artistic collaboration, student focus
A daring prince, a beautiful princess, an evil queen and a birdman all collide in a world where trials of wisdom test the limits of faith and devotion.
Dance, science converge in Lamb’s ‘Bio Morphe’ performance at Moody Center for Arts
Choreographer Gabrielle Lamb presented an exploration of how the human body interacts with art, nature and science.
Rice celebrates 40 years since the discovery of carbon-60 or ‘buckyballs’ with 2 days of events
Rice celebrated the 40th anniversary of the discovery of carbon-60.
Digital Health Institute summit showcases Rice-Houston Methodist partnership in AI-driven medicine
The Digital Health Institute, a joint initiative of Rice University and Houston Methodist, held its inaugural summit Oct. 8 at Rice.
Rice, Houston Methodist developing soft ‘sleep cap’ to advance dementia prevention research
Rice researchers are working with physician scientists at Houston Methodist to develop a soft, wearable “sleep cap” designed to measure and improve deep sleep, a process critical for protecting the brain against dementia and related diseases.
Rice researcher develops interactive tool to track FEMA buyouts
A new interactive tool created at Rice shows that the vast majority of people aren’t relying on FEMA buyout program, which has major implications for resilience.
