The inaugural American Athletic Conference Fall Individual Championship will be hosted on South Main at the George R. Brown Tennis Center Oct. 24-27....
Retirement can make individuals more likely to recall positive events and forget more ordinary ones....
Newborn and maternal health experts, innovators and community leaders from around the world gathered at the inaugural “Innovation for Day One” confere...
Rice’s Office of Sustainability is celebrating Campus Sustainability Month. Student organizations, campus departments and community partners that adva...
A vast collection of over 900 political campaign buttons was recently donated to the Baker Institute at Rice....
As Hispanic Heritage Month closed, Rice welcomed guests for a roundtable discussion to further explore the experiences and complexities of the Hispani...
Rice Business’ annual conference, “Sparking Success: The Intersection of Business and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” will take place Oct. 25. The ...
Houston Press selected the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice the Best Free Museum in Houston in its Best of Houston® 2024....
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice is proud to announce the appointment of Erin Hannigan as its new professor of oboe, starting July 1, 2025....
OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources based at Rice, announces the publication of the latest title in its social scien...
Rice has launched RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio designed to rapidly build companies based on lifesaving medical technologies d...
Hospital service prices surged more than 220% between 2000 and 2022, according to a report from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. While hospit...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rice’s Cherry Reading Series
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Rice University’s Cherry Reading Series will host an April 2 reading and conversation event featuring two award-winning poets: Ishion Hutchinson and Valzhyna Mort.
The majority of Texans support vaccines, but a vocal minority are actively working on weakening or dismantling vaccine requirements, according to a journal article published in Vaccine: X from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and The Immunization Partnership.
‘Solarities’ examines the complex relationships humans have with the sun
The sun is making headlines as Americans prepare for the last total solar eclipse until 2045 . But eclipse or no eclipse, our solar system’s star is an essential part of life on Earth, and at the same time, the source of drought and demise to the very living things it fuels.
Rice hosts Diversity Matters series March 21 to April 17
Rice University will host its Diversity Matters series on various dates starting March 21 and running through April 17. The series, which will feature multiple panel speakers in each session, fits into Rice’s overarching commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
How the Houston Symphony stayed ‘jazzy’ during crisis
Rice Business’ podcast, Owl Have You Know, is hosting a special live recording event March 25 with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sonenshein and CEO of the Houston Symphony John Mangum.
Owls punch ticket to NCAA Tournament, will face LSU in first round
The Rice women’s basketball team is set to face the reigning national champions, No. 8 LSU, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
Rice research could advance soft robotics manufacturing, design
Rice engineers propose a new quantitative framework to account for and predict the impact of temperature on the curing speed of platinum-catalyzed silicone elastomers. The findings could maximize throughput and minimize waste in the manufacturing of components for soft robotics and wearables.
Rice fans welcome NCAA tourney-bound Owls back to campus with open arms
A day after capturing the American Athletic Conference Championship and clinching a spot in the women’s NCAA Tournament, the Rice women’s basketball team arrived back on campus to a horde of Owl fans waiting to cheer them on at Tudor Fieldhouse March 14.
Rice breakthrough could make automated dosing systems universal
Automated insulin dosing systems combine low-cost blood-glucose monitors with insulin pumps that use precision dosing to continuously regulate blood-sugar and hold it steady. Rice synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the technology and make it universally applicable for the precision dosing of virtually any drug.
Rice energy, geopolitics, innovation experts to speak at CERAWeek
A number of experts in energy, carbon, hydrogen, sustainability, geopolitics and innovation from Rice University will appear at CERAWeek, an annual energy conference organized by the information and insights company S&P Global, to present their research or expertise March 18-22.