Lisa Basgall, Rice's Emergency Medical Services director, has earned the Chief EMS Officer designation, a professional credential held by fewer than 3...
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. ...
Georgia State U.'s Aurign wins 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition
HOUSTON – (June 22, 2020) – Aurign from Georgia State University in Atlanta rose to the top in the 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) hosted June 17-19 by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.
Leebron discusses COVID-19 response with Asia Society Texas Center
Rice President David Leebron participated in "How Universities are Preparing for the Age of Coronavirus and Beyond," a June 18 webinar that was part of a COVID-19 series hosted by the Asia Society Texas Center.
New project by Rice political scientist tracks Texas Legislature voting since 1836
Rice University's Mark Jones is renowned for his analysis of the evolution of partisan politics in Texas. His biennial rankings of Texas legislators from most liberal to most conservative receive widespread attention from the media, political figures and the general public.
Center for African and African American Studies offers new minor, course and grad certificate
The new minor includes 72 different classes across 10 departments and programs.
Rice to give $3.4 million in CARES Act funding directly to students
We write today to announce how Rice University will allocate funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Campus Kindness: Siler fulfills a dream while providing a musical escape
Tamara Siler ’87 has always wanted to play the role of Mama Morton, the sultry matron of a women's prison in the musical “Chicago,” and sing “When You’re Good to Mama,” a number she says is a natural for her alto and contralto voice.
Houston poet laureate creates community poem with Rice students
The installation — “perhaps, there is no sequel” — is the most recent commission in the Rice Public Art Platform series.
Rice expert available to discuss upcoming Supreme Court decision on DACA
HOUSTON – (June 17, 2020) – As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue a ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Rice University's Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is available for comment.
