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New study reveals climate change’s limited presence in popular films

March 3, 2025

A new study led by Rice’s Matthew Schneider-Mayerson reveals that climate change and other environmental issues are notably absent from most popular films despite their increasing urgency.

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Rice recycles football stadium turf after Hurricane Beryl effects

September 16, 2024

Rice and its community partners are spearheading efforts to create sustainable futures by tackling environmental challenges with innovative solutions. A prime example is their latest initiative: recycling the old turf material from Rice Stadium.

CES Summer Program

Free summer program at Rice focuses on environmental justice for Houston students

July 12, 2024

The weeklong experience hosted on Rice’s campus focuses on environmental justice through storytelling via arts and media practices.

More&More Center for Environmental Studies

From cards to classrooms: How Rice is helping students imagine More&More futures

June 24, 2024

The premise of the game is simple. Players draw six cards from different categories then select a role card, such as an artist, child, pet, religious leader or architect.

Mark Torres

Rice’s Mark Torres wins NSF CAREER Award to examine river water chemistry

April 1, 2024

Mark Torres, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to unlock new insights in river water chemistry, including its implications for addressing environmental concerns.

Hadley Medlock

Environments at home, Rice inspire award-winning Barthelme essay

March 19, 2024

Graduating Rice senior Hadley Medlock’s essay won the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing, which carries a $5,000 award.

Muhammad Rahman and lab

Rice researchers develop 3D-printed wood from its own natural components

March 19, 2024

Researchers at Rice University have unlocked the potential to use 3D printing to make sustainable wood structures, offering a greener alternative to traditional manufacturing methods.

HISD student at Rice environmental issues workshop

Houston high-schoolers get environmental boot camp

June 26, 2023

Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, in partnership with the Houston Climate Justice Museum, hosted students from the Houston Independent School District the week of June 12 as part of a summer program focused on Houston environmental justice.

Rice researcher Lauren Howe-Kerr scuba diving at a bleached coral reef in Moorea in March 2019

Ocean warming intensifies viral outbreaks within corals

April 3, 2023

A groundbreaking three-year study has found evidence that ocean warming can trigger outbreaks of viruses that attack the symbiotic algae inside corals.

Lauren Sadler has won an NSF CAREER Award

Lauren Stadler has won an NSF CAREER Award

February 21, 2023

Engineering’s Lauren Stadler has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to improve wastewater treatment by harnessing the power of microbiomes.

depiction of light-driven process for making solvated electrons

Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons

January 17, 2023

Chemists from Rice, UT Austin and Stanford have uncovered the long-sought mechanism of a light-driven process that creates solvated electrons, inherently clean chemical reactants that are attractive for green chemistry.

Rice University engineers compare wastewater ‘snapshots’ to daylong composite samples and find snapshots lead to bias in testing for the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes.

Daylong wastewater samples yield surprises

December 19, 2022

Rice engineers find snapshots lead to bias in testing wastewater for antibiotic-resistant genes.

Pedro Alvarez, Michael Wong, Shell’s Mike Reynolds share honor for project to remediate, reuse fracking water

ACS taps Rice, Shell for Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award

November 16, 2022

Collaborators at Rice and Shell receive the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award.

illustration of Rice's one-step catalytic conversion of hydrogen sulfide gas

New catalyst can turn smelly hydrogen sulfide into a cash cow

October 31, 2022

Rice engineers and scientists and collaborators have discovered an efficient, one-step process for converting hydrogen sulfide gas into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.

Halas, Nordlander at 2022 Eni Awards ceremony in Rome

Halas, Nordlander honored in Rome

October 10, 2022

Italian President Sergio Mattarella presented Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander the 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award in an Oct. 3 ceremony in Rome's Quirinal Palace.

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