Rice’s 12th annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) addressed student trust and how teachers can ...
Rice invites the community to join in celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with events honoring his life and legacy as well as insights from univers...
In Houston’s Texas Medical Center Helix Park, RBL LLC is transforming the path from scientific discovery to lifesaving therapies. This new biotech ven...
Rice Real Estate Co. has entered into an agreement with Brinshore Development and Family Scholar House to support a new housing development in Houston...
Kicking off the spring semester, Rice President Reginald DesRoches took the wheel of a golf cart, giving students fun rides across campus and a memora...
The world’s largest and richest intercollegiate student startup competition, the RBPC is hosted and organized every spring by the Rice Alliance. Each ...
The Brain House at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) upcoming annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is a marquee platform designed to spotlight the cri...
Rice is a hub of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on the brain. In addition to a critical mass of researchers in the field, Rice is home to en...
The Rice Board of Trustees recently recognized Caitlin Lindsay for her unwavering service to the institution and its constituents. She currently serve...
An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid ...
Rice researchers have published a study describing how quasiparticles called polarons behave in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 th...
Maya Harpavat’s love of writing began when she was 6 years old, sitting at the kitchen table with her father. ...
Two Rice faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 25, 2024
Rice professors Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the nation.
Rice’s Alan Reid recognized by Scotland’s Royal Society of Edinburgh
April 25, 2024
Alan Reid, the Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics and mathematics department chair at Rice University, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters. The prestigious accolade bestowed annually celebrates individuals who have achieved exceptional international standing in fields within the society’s domain.
Rice doctoral alumnus Jacob Beckham earns Schmidt Science Fellowship
April 25, 2024
This marks the third consecutive year a Rice graduate has won one of the prestigious awards.
Underwater robot pioneers new energy-efficient buoyancy control
April 25, 2024
A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells.
Faculty, students honored for top-notch teaching at annual awards ceremony
April 24, 2024
Rice University recognized members of the university community who have served students through excellence in teaching, mentoring and service at an awards ceremony hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence April 22.
Lozano, Medina and Ramos win inaugural Rice Staff Excellence Awards
April 24, 2024
Three Rice staff members — Kandice Lozano, Christine Gocek Medina and Armandina Ramos — were named the inaugural recipients of the Rice Staff Excellence Award at an April 18 staff appreciation event hosted by the Office of the President at Tudor Fieldhouse.
Moody X-Fest ’24 punctuates weekslong celebration of the Moody Experience at Rice
April 24, 2024
The Rice University community gathered for the second year in celebration of the Moody Foundation’s historic $100 million gift to the campus. More than 1,500 students flocked to Founder’s Court April 19 for Moody X-Fest ’24.
Anne Santos wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
April 24, 2024
Anne Santos, assistant dean for finance and administration in the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, was named this year’s winner of the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service at President Reginald DesRoches’ event celebrating staff accomplishments April 18.
April 24, 2024
OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.
Rice students build low-cost cold spray metal 3D printer prototype
April 24, 2024
A team of Rice University students has developed a cold spray metal 3D printing device that relies on pressure and velocity rather than temperature to create a metal part.