Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
Acute myeloid leukemia remains one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of blood cancer, even as treatments have advanced in recent years. ...
Through color, texture, memory and vision, the exhibition invites viewers into an aesthetic dialogue that interrogates the stories we inherit and the ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice is proud to announce that HEXAspec, a cutting-edge spinout from the lab of professor Jun ...
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena....
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civ...
Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Rice Baker Institute of Public Policy fellow Ed Emmett discussed Houston’s challenges and opportunities to a packed ho...
The mission, centered on Viva Technology 2025, will include a welcome reception at Rice's European hub for research, collaboration and innovation....
In a corner of Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), a group of students is tackling a big idea: revolutionizing maritime transport with sw...
The Business Collaborative for Brain Health, an alliance of private sector partners developing effective solutions to optimize cognitive health, hoste...
While national narratives have often painted the humanities as a risky investment, Rice’s English program offers a clear rebuttal....
November 26, 2024
A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale.
November 26, 2024
The Center for Innovation and Translation of POC Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care hosted its inaugural convening at Rice, marking a significant milestone in ongoing efforts to advance health equity in cancer care.
Abell named Owls’ new head football coach
November 26, 2024
Rice Vice President and Director of Athletics Tommy McClelland announced that Scott Abell has been named the new Dunlevie Family Head Football Coach at Rice.
Rice celebrates Indigenous cultures during National Native American Heritage Month
November 26, 2024
Rice’s Native American Student Association hosted an Indigenous cultural celebration involving dancing, music, food, beading, crafts and storytelling Nov. 22 at Farnsworth Pavilion as part of National Native American Heritage Month.
Newly designed nanomaterial shows promise as antimicrobial agent
November 25, 2024
Newly developed halide perovskite nanocrystals show potential as antimicrobial agents that are stable, effective and easy to produce.
Alumna Elizabeth Freimuth to join Shepherd School of Music faculty
November 25, 2024
Elizabeth Freimuth ’98, Shepherd School of Music alumna and principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will join the Shepherd School faculty as professor of horn in the fall of 2025.
Religion boosts interest in life extension for Black but not white Americans, suggests Rice research
November 25, 2024
Black Americans are more interested in life-extending health technologies than their white peers and religion increases this desire.
New insights into sleep uncover key mechanisms related to cognitive function
November 22, 2024
A new study by a team of researchers at Rice University and Houston Methodist’s Center for Neural Systems Restoration and Weill Cornell Medical College has uncovered a key mechanism by which sleep enhances neuronal and behavioral performance.
The hidden cost of working across time zones
November 22, 2024
Remote working tools like Zoom and Slack have been around for more than a decade, but it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that remote work really took off. Since then, work-from-anywhere arrangements have allowed more workers to perform their jobs from the places they want to live, whether that is nearer to friends and family or in a resort town in the Rocky Mountains.
‘Introduction to Computer Science’ is latest free digital learning textbook from OpenStax
November 22, 2024
OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources and a provider of interactive learning technologies based at Rice, announces the publication of “Introduction to Computer Science.” As a free digital learning textbook, this resource provides extensive coverage of core concepts such as algorithms, data structures, computer systems and software development with real-world applications highlighting how these concepts solve complex problems.