Rice has advanced 22 spots in the 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings, climbing to No. 119 globally and No. 29 among U.S. universities....
Rice yoga instructor and alumna Alicia Dugar Stephenson is bringing wellness to the forefront through a unique yoga initiative that connects the Rice ...
Rice undergraduates transformed Kraft Hall's corridors into a vibrant showcase of original research and creative exploration during the 2025 Social Sc...
Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts welcomed enthusiastic arts and music lovers for a Pride Month happy hour on the afternoon of June 26, which featured ...
As Houston’s pride parade made its way through the streets of downtown Houston, so did Rice’s students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters. The par...
Computational biochemist Linna An will join Rice’s Department of Biosciences with support from a $2 million award from the Cancer Prevention and Resea...
The Texas 89th Legislative Session marked a milestone for Rice's government relations efforts as the university played a vital role in advancing key l...
Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure...
OpenStax, a provider of affordable instructional technologies and the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources, has partnered with Micr...
Rice graduate student and adjunct assistant professor explores how music can help shape new memories....
The “Synergizing AI, Digital Health and the Built Environment" symposium addressed the ways AI and digital health tools can enhance the built environm...
A new study led by Rice's Christopher Tunnell and Dorian Amaral sees the first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated...
May 30, 2025
The Rice community gathered May 16 to honor a year of accomplishments in the School Literacy and Culture program, part of the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.
Top US physicists gather at Rice for national particle physics meeting
May 30, 2025
Rice hosted scientists from more than 40 institutions for the 2025 U.S. CMS collaboration meeting.
New media studies program at Rice blends critical thinking with creative practice
May 30, 2025
The program trains students to both analyze and produce media across formats, empowering them to become not just smarter consumers of content but purposeful creators.
6 natural sciences students awarded Moody Fellowship
May 30, 2025
Six undergraduates from Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences have been awarded research fellowships as part of the Russell Shearn Moody Pathway to Research in the Natural Sciences.
Rice students drive real-world change through research with Houston nonprofits
May 29, 2025
Community partners across Houston are seeing meaningful results from a unique research partnership with Rice University students.
Rice-led research team develop super material that could change electronics
May 29, 2025
A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan has developed a new material with unique electronic properties that could enable more powerful and energy-efficient electronic devices.
Rice anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
May 29, 2025
Rice University anthropologists examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published in Science.
Shepherd School’s Ana María Martínez earns top honor from state of Texas
May 29, 2025
Martínez joins a distinguished list of honorees that includes fellow and former appointees Norah Jones, Miranda Lambert, Alecia Lawyer, Kevin Prufer and Letitia Huckaby.
Ruth Simmons and David Satterfield discuss future of DEI in higher education
May 29, 2025
David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, sat down with Ruth Simmons, the President’s Distinguished Fellow and former president of Brown University, Smith College and Prairie View A&M University, for a reflective conversation on the mounting pressures reshaping American higher education.
Rice-led forum tackles critical water-energy nexus in Washington, D.C.
May 29, 2025
In a time of escalating climate risks, crumbling infrastructure and ballooning industrial demand, understanding how water and energy intertwine has never been more urgent. That was the resounding message from experts who convened May 19 in Washington, D.C., for “The Intersection of Water and Energy, 2025-2030,” a forum hosted by Rice and Arizona State University.