RUPD chief addresses death of George Floyd
Amid the worst pandemic this county has faced in more than a century, it’s with great sadness that we find ourselves fighting the familiar enemies of injustice and racism.
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. ...
Rice team makes tiny, magnetically powered neural stimulator
Rice University neuroengineers have created a tiny surgical implant that can electrically stimulate the brain and nervous system without using a battery or wired power supply.
Rice's OpenStax Institutional Partner Program to offer expanded benefits
OpenStax, Rice University’s education technology initiative, today opened applications for its 2020-2021 Institutional Partner Program. The deadline to apply is June 25.
60,000 Houstonians, including Rice students and alumni, join march for George Floyd
Tens of thousands of Houstonians joined rappers Bun B and Trae tha Truth as they led a “Justice 4 George Floyd” rally June 1.
'Sheer awe': Rice group raises almost $100,000 to fight anti-black violence
Newly formed student organization Rice for Black Life raised $93,362 in 24 hours.
English lecturer Bryan Washington awarded two top literary prizes
Acclaimed young author of short story collection 'Lot' will release his first novel, 'Memorial,' in October.
Egg-based coating preserves fresh produce
Eggs that would otherwise be wasted can be used as the base of an inexpensive coating to protect fruits and vegetables, according to Rice University researchers.
Rice team’s cancer-treatment device scores major award
Rice engineering students won a grand prize at the Design of Medical Devices Conference for their invention to simplify treatment of late-stage cervical cancer
Meet the Rice alum in charge of NASA's prelaunch quarantine program
NASA flight surgeon Rob Mulcahy '08 was in charge of the prelaunch quarantine -- a precaution doubly important during the COVID-19 pandemic -- for the space agency's first manned mission to launch from the U.S. in almost a decade.
An accelerated COVID-19 vaccine? Not so fast
Health experts from Rice’s Baker Institute discuss development process