JFK’s 1962 moon speech still appeals 50 years later
Few moments in Rice’s history are as well known or oft remarked upon as the 1962 speech in which President John F. Kennedy boldly declared, “We choose to go to the moon!”
Eight concerts Nov. 13-15 will feature five of his string quartets alongside works by 16 other composers. ...
An international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has created a three-component Hubbard system with tun...
Rice students are hand-coding three decades of songs for environmental themes, then training AI to scale up analysis....
Two performances of the opera within an opera ended in standing ovations....
Rice University and Advanced Material Development Inc. (AMD Nano) and have signed a three-year Strategic Master Agreement for Research Teaming, establ...
Rice Athletics and First Community Credit Union are teaming up to recognize 5,000 teachers across the greater Houston area by providing up to 10,000 t...
Rice University engineers developed a method called "active heat Q-switching"—inspired by laser physics—that stores thermal energy in circulating liqu...
Fang Xie, a postdoctoral fellow in Rice’s physics and astronomy department and Extreme Quantum Materials Alliance, has received the ACS-Moore Postdoct...
Rice broke ground on the Arc in the Ion District, a nearly 200,000-square-foot research, corporate innovation and office building designed to bring re...
Rice’s Welcome Center saw a significant increase in voter turnout on Election Day, Nov. 3, with 1,763 ballots cast — a 47% increase over 2025 and a 61...
Rice's Han Xiao has used his AI-supported Sequence Display technology to expand the targeting abilities of CRISPR/Cas9. ...
New research examines how harassment affects workers in the gig economy and why having someone in their corner can make a difference....
The story behind Rice traditions
Every university has its traditions, and Rice University is no exception. O-Week, Beer Bike and Willy Week top the list of Rice’s most well-known traditions, but in the university’s nearly 100-year history, it’s only natural for a few others to have developed along the way.
Revolution with a salad spinner
A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates.
Rice study suggests people are more trusting of attractive strangers
Beware of strangers. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We repeat these timeworn adages without even thinking, but new research suggests we live by neither of them.
Nanotech pioneer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball, died from cancer in Houston. He was 62.