A landmark $5 million gift from a former Rice women’s basketball player will enable Rice to add women’s golf to the Owls’ list of intercollegiate spor...
Rice University broke ground today on a new $54.5 million building for the Jones Graduate School of Business, unveiling the innovative design of a fac...
The Ken Kennedy Institute, in collaboration with the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, Smalley-Curl Institute and the Rice Advanced Materials Institut...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches participated in a TEDx Talk where he joined community leaders in a discussion on men’s health and the challenges of ...
Rice University economist Flávio Cunha will participate in the establishment of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027, the latest effort from...
Students will have hands-on opportunities to learn data collection, molecular visualization, language skills, CPR, digital engineering design, interdi...
It’s a wrap for Rice University’s 2023-24 academic year, which was filled with traditions — established and new — as well as other exciting events, ac...
David Tenney stood onstage at Rice Stadium Saturday, handing out diplomas to graduating students one by one. Rice’s undergraduate commencement ceremon...
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Rice’s online Master of Computer Science program was honored by Fortune Magazine with the No. 3 designation in its national rankings....
Rice University recently crossed a significant milestone with its sustainability efforts. The campus has diverted more than 1 million pounds of food w...
In the digital archives of Rice University’s Woodson Research Center at the Fondren Library lies a unique treasure: “The Red Book,” freely available t...
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Seizures happen like clockwork — but depend on the clock
Statisticians use electronic diary entries by more than 1,000 patients with epilepsy to gain a better understanding of how “attractors” are associated with the likelihood of seizures.
Thomas Avalos, a Lovett College senior majoring in sport management at Rice University, is all smiles while working during the World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Avalos is a ticket experience ambassador for the team. The Astros won the World Series in six games over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Student center transforms with Halloween cheer
This Halloween, the Rice Memorial Center (RMC) transformed into a smorgasbord of board game-themed displays.
TEDxRiceU Countdown to focus on ideas, solutions to climate change
Combating climate change will be the subject of featured speakers sharing their ideas from 5-8 p.m., Nov. 12 at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts.
Could state-sponsored retirement plans help workers save more? Maybe, says Baker Institute report
State-sponsored retirement plans could help workers save more and help retirees rely less on social services — as long as the cost-effectiveness of such plans aren’t bogged down by fees — according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The Rice volleyball and swimming teams celebrated the careerlong contributions of their seniors over the weekend while besting their opponents.
Rice, Baylor to study how screen use affects young children
Rice engineers and Baylor College of Medicine researchers are studying how screen use affects young children.
People, papers and presentations for Nov. 7, 2022
Phoebe Wang, a Rice Business alumna and clean tech venture capitalist who serves as an investment director at Shell Ventures, was selected as Clean Energy Education and Empowerment’s (C3E) 2022 Business Award winner and accepted the honor during the C3E symposium Nov. 2.
Early planetary migration can explain missing planets
Computer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators explain two puzzling observations of exoplanets orbiting distant stars.
Rice wins Moore Foundation grant for quantum vacuum research
Junichiro Kono’s lab will study how matter and quantum vacuums become entangled thanks to a new grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Tony Award-winning ‘Street Scene’ performed by Shepherd School opera program
“Street Scene ,” the fall opera production from the Rice University Shepherd School opera program, was performed Nov. 4 and 6 in Brockman Hall for Opera’s Morrison Theater, with stage direction by Pat Diamond.
Rice’s Luz Garcini named to American Psychological Association’s board of directors
Luz Garcini , an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has been named a member at large of the board of directors of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Why some Latino communities fear the COVID-19 vaccine, and what can be done to help
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some people in medically underserved Latino communities avoided getting vaccinated due to fears of side effects, mistrust of health officials and vaccine manufacturers and discrimination from health care workers, according to a new study from Rice University.
First annual Rice Business DEI report shows action toward fostering culture of respect, opportunity
Rice Business has released its first annual report on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Shepherd School concert honors Larry Rachleff
More than 500 students, faculty, staff and friends gathered at Stude Concert Hall to remember Rachleff, who died Aug. 8 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 67. The evening included a celebratory reception, a video tribute recorded by former students and colleagues, and, befittingly, an orchestral concert to pay tribute to the educator.