The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between Rice University and Houston Methodist — has appointed Pothik Chatterjee as...
Rice University students will build skills in science labs, take high-impact field trips, hear from guest speakers, curate art exhibits, enhance learn...
Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review....
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Rice faculty are available to help news media explore the deeper histories behind Juneteenth, its Texas roots and what freedom has meant in different ...
The Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative launched its inaugural seminar June 3 with an invited talk from Nobel laureate James P. Allison....
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research releases its 2025 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report....
Rice experts can unpack and contextualize Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's statement at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris today that quantum computing is...
Throughout the day, the Houston booth saw a constant stream of visitors with Rice-affiliated entrepreneurs introducing their ventures to global invest...
Volunteers from the Department of Psychological Sciences assemble gift bags for those supported by Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston....
A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables...
September 3, 2024
The highly prestigious and competitive award was established in 1968.
September 3, 2024
The Energy Tech Venture Forum (ETVF), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, will convene innovators and investors at a Sept. 12 conference to connect ventures with Houston’s energy ecosystem. The forum is an anchor event for the inaugural Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, happening Sept. 9-13. This week is a city-wide initiative to bring together and celebrate the momentum in Houston driving the energy transition. Many events are hosted at the Ion, Houston’s innovation hub powered by Rice.
Rice lab develops protein assembly road map for gas vesicles
September 3, 2024
Rice bioengineers developed a road map for the protein-protein interactions that give rise to gas vesicles, naturally occurring nanobubbles with potential use in biomedical applications.
Rice football team honors Andrea Rodriguez Avila in season opener
September 3, 2024
The Rice football team sported stickers on its helmets with the initials “ARA” in honor of Andrea Rodriguez Avila in the team’s season opener against Sam Houston State.
‘A natural bridge’: Science and technology studies connect scientists, humanists
September 3, 2024
As a freshman at Rice University, Anna Tutuianu ’23 knew she wanted to study how research in biomedicine and biomedical technologies intersected with society and history.
Rice cracks top 10 for first time on Forbes’ top colleges list
August 30, 2024
This achievement marks the first time the university has landed in a top 10 spot on the list.
New Rice research center takes on challenge to break down, replace ‘forever chemicals’
August 30, 2024
Rice inaugurated a new research center dedicated to ‘forever chemicals’ on Wednesday during a visit to campus by representatives of the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
August 30, 2024
At a time when some states and public universities are eliminating gender, sexuality and related studies, Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality stands strong as an example of interdisciplinary scholarship and advocacy.
‘Brilliant and brave’: Rice remembers, mourns student Andrea Rodriguez Avila
August 29, 2024
The Rice community is mourning the tragic, violent loss of Andrea Rodriguez Avila, a Jones College junior remembered as a bright and dedicated young scholar with a promising future.
Interdisciplinary Rice graduate program earns $3M NSF grant
August 29, 2024
A research traineeship program developed by a team of Rice faculty led by Junichiro Kono has received an award of $3 million over five years from the National Science Foundation to equip a new generation of scientists and engineers with the skills needed to serve as leaders in quantum technology innovation.