On-campus voting scheduled Tuesday at Rice Welcome Center
Rice will serve as a voting location on Election Day Tuesday in the Rice Welcome Center in Sewall Hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Rice professor Pernilla Wittung Stafshede recently served as a co-organizer of the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, where she co-represented the fi...
Hans Renata’s team recently developed a method that significantly reduces the cost of adding thiophosphate to chemical structures, opening up new path...
When Houston served as host city for the FIFA World Cup 2026, Rice University helped extend the tournament beyond the stadium by creating opportunitie...
Two Rice research teams have received Phase I awards through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative harnessing artific...
LumiStrain, a Rice spinout commercializing a Strain Sensing Smart Skin (S4) for structural testing and health monitoring, has received a $1.55 million...
Rice bioengineer Michael King and his team recently published a paper demonstrating that this ability to survive high-stress environments, or mechanor...
The Moody Civic Immersion program is a weeklong experience run by Rice’s Center for Civic Leadership that brings incoming students into the city befor...
Rice mechanical engineers and Baylor College of Medicine neurosurgeons have identified simple changes to surgical tools that could reduce strain on th...
The Sustainable Ecologies Installation was built by students and faculty. ...
Rice has joined the U.S. Department of Energy Quantum Science Center....
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its annual Honors Court with five Owl student-athletes earning the distinction, the or...
Rice women's track and field athlete Mckyla Van der Westhuizen added one more honor to her stellar career after being named a CSC Academic All-America...
‘Ambition, morality, greed’: Lovett Theater presents ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Nov. 6-8
Lovett Theater will present “Little Shop of Horrors” Nov. 6-8 at Lovett Commons. The out of this world love story with a carnivorous twist is a tale about ambition, morality and greed.
Owls sweep Charlotte for 11th straight win
The Rice volleyball team kicked off November with a sweep over Charlotte on Sunday at Halton Arena.
Rice mechanical engineers turning everyday fabrics into new channel of communication
When Rice doctoral candidate Barclay Jumet first launched a high school business designing, making and selling bow ties — learning to sew on his mother’s college sewing machine — he never imagined that same skill set would one day help him reinvent how people communicate.
Rice gets into the Owl-oween spirit
Various groups from Rice decided to get into the Halloween, aka Owl-oween, spirit this year with spooky costume contests and festivities.
‘Endangered Feces’ turns humor into habitat in Harris Gully
Installed near Rice's Harris Gully Natural Area, the work features two decomposable sculptures shaped like the droppings of the Houston toad and the Attwater’s prairie chicken, both endangered species native to the Gulf Coast.
Audacity and humility: Astro Teller and Andy Karsner share moonshot secrets
The latest edition of the President’s Lecture Series brought Astro Teller and Rice alumnus Andy Karsner ’89 to the Rice Business Shell Auditorium to speak about technology and innovation for today’s challenges.
AI-powered alerts may cut kidney complications after heart surgery
A new collaboration between Rice and Baylor College of Medicine is using artificial intelligence to alert clinicians to early signs of kidney trouble giving them critical time to intervene before lasting damage occurs.
Ion District unveils new art displays showcasing local artists
Ion District announced its next round of site-specific window art installations. Created by Houston-based artists Luisa Duarte and Joel Zika, the new installations were unveiled by the artists Oct. 29 during a public event hosted by the Ion and Piper Faust Public Art at Second Draught.
Owloween takes over Rice Stadium Friday night
Rice football will celebrate Halloween in style as the Owls take on Memphis Friday, Oct. 31, in a nationally televised matchup at Rice Stadium.