Scavenger hunt-centered student art show 'ON/OFF' showcases sculpture online and across campus
As campus residents visit the sites and upload their own photos, the more immersive the exhibit becomes for their remote fellow students.
When geopolitical conflicts disrupt fuel shipments, electricity demand outpaces infrastructure development or critical mineral shortages threaten indu...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading univ...
Adeline Thompson spent six weeks with her host family in Toulouse through Rice in France and came home seeing herself differently....
As early voting begins, new Rice research sheds light on why some members of one of Houston’s fastest-growing populations say they remain underreprese...
Nameless Sound musicians performed an original score on Nanibah Chacon’s interactive installation following Danza Azteca Macuilxochitl's activation of...
Rice’s James Tour recently published an improved method to recover antimony from this electronic waste stream. ...
Three Rice faculty members from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences have recently been honored with career awards, showcasin...
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
‘Just echo our voices’: Undergraduates share concerns about Black life at Rice
The online discussion was convened by university’s Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice.
'It takes more than science': Medical Humanities Program flourishes at Rice
Program’s popularity grows as more medical schools recognize need for humanity in health care.
SPOTlight supercharges cell studies
Researchers develop a new method to isolate specific cells, and in the process find a more robust fluorescent protein.
Mitchell Foundation, Baker Institute seek pathways to increase carbon capture
The new project will identify policies and actions to facilitate the capture and storage or use of carbon dioxide.
Baker Institute's Norman: Election a pivot point for US immigration policy
A Joe Biden presidency would “roll back many of the Trump administration’s attacks" on immigrants to the United States, but that may not be enough to pacify critics of the Obama administration's immigration policies who seek new protected pathways to citizenship, according to a new brief from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
School of Humanities talking new goals, why humanities matter in Owl Together series
What can you do with a humanities degree? And why are the humanities so important during times of pandemic, past and present?
Fossil fuel subsidies need global reform, say Baker Institute experts
HOUSTON – (Oct. 22, 2020) – Fossil fuels still receive most of the international government support provided to the energy sector despite their “well-known environmental and public health damage,” according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
At our cores, we’re all strengthened by ‘dumbbells’
Scientists at Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics detail the structure of dumbbell-like sequences in DNA during interphase that suggest several unseen aspects of chromosome configuration and function.
Undocumented immigrants need better access to health care, say Baker Institute experts
Health care is a top voter issue this year, and for undocumented immigrants, the barriers to access are many.