2D oxide flakes pick up surprise electrical properties
Rice University researchers find evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes of molybdenum dioxide.
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. ...
Mech major Cofer named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
The Jones College senior will joining 75 other scholars from 26 countries pursuing Ph.D.s at Stanford University.
Rice faculty part of Baylor Superfund program
A $10 million federal grant establishes a center to study how toxic chemicals from Superfund sites impact preterm births.
Most Houstonians with symptoms are not being tested, according to Rice COVID-19 Registry
HOUSTON – (May 5, 2020) – The vast majority of Houston-area residents who are experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are not getting tested for it, according to initial results of a survey from the COVID-19 Registry at Rice University.
Houston must address housing and transportation affordability jointly
Only 44% of rental housing units in Houston are affordable for families with average income, and only 1 out of every 3 of those dwellings is near reliable and affordable transportation, according to a new joint report by researchers from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research and LINK Houston.
Senior is first Rice student to earn prestigious coaching accreditation
Noor Elsonbaty, a graduate of the CoachRICE program at Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, has made university history in earning his International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.
Rice Management Co.'s Alan Arnold dies at 46
Alan Arnold, the investment director for real estate for the Rice Management Co. (RMC) who was best known for significantly increasing Rice University's funds for scholarships and scientific research, died April 28 after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 46.
Quarantine Q&A: Rice opera students sing praises for industry leaders’ advice
The Shepherd School's Department of Opera Studies has been thinking outside the box during the pandemic.
Baker Institute experts: Hydrogen and nanomaterials may transform energy industry
Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to fundamentally transform the global energy landscape
Three Ph.D. grads win NSF postdoctoral fellowships
Three Ph.D. graduates from the same Rice University research group have won prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences.