Protein ‘chameleon’ colors long-term memory
Researchers model the binding structures of actin and associated proteins they believe are responsible for the formation of longterm memory.
The National Academy of Construction has elected Rice President Reginald DesRoches as one of 45 new members in its Class of 2026. ...
A recent study from Rice’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance titled “Religious Representation in Science: How Scie...
Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has selected nine student-led ventures for the 2026 Summer Venture Studio, its flagship ventur...
A week after Rice women's track and field saw a national champion in the javelin from senior Mckyla Van der Westhuizen, freshman Emily Harbach won the...
Rice researchers developed a new way to model how the cochlea processes incoming sound using graph signal processing, which could shed light on what h...
A team of engineers at Rice and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that can respond to touch, sense its own ...
As schools across the country increasingly embrace evidence-based approaches to reading instruction through the science of reading, two Rice researche...
Through a framing of North, Central and South America as interconnected regions, “Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous America...
Rice's Kaden Hazzard and his team recently developed a theory on how trions in quantum particles form and behave....
Rice researchers have developed a high-throughput method to measure the quality of diamond and other wide-bandgap semiconductor materials, providing r...
The Brain Health for Economic Resilience Commission, convened in collaboration with Nature Medicine, was announced at the Texas Brain Economy Summit J...
The university’s second appearance at Europe’s largest tech event paired seven startups with new research ties to France and Germany. ...
New semester brings unique O-Week experience
Rice reimagined O-Week to include remote students in the annual orientation week and its traditions.
Incoming Rice students stride toward the Sallyport for matriculation, which ran all day long to accommodate social distancing measures and allow plenty of room for each college to march through the quad. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.
Rice football game vs. Lamar canceled; volleyball and soccer move to spring
Rice and Lamar University have agreed to cancel their season-opening football game scheduled for Sept. 26 at Rice Stadium, and Conference USA has postponed the volleyball and soccer seasons to the spring.
Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI
A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Princeton Review: Rice has best quality of life in US
Rice rates among the top 20 in 16 different categories measured in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 386 Colleges,” a closely watched annual report on student reviews of the nation’s colleges and universities.
China’s economic slowdown may hurt global oil market, says Baker Institute expert
A slowdown in China’s demand for oil would profoundly affect the multitrillion-dollar global oil market along with many related industries, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.