A summer in Seoul reshapes premed student’s view of care
Through Rice in Korea, junior Abbie Wang shadowed traditional Korean medicine faculty alongside language coursework.
New catalogs map quantum possibilities of atomically thin materials
In two papers published in Science Sept. 24, an international collaboration provides both the building blocks and a guide to the search for families of twistronics.
Rice community mourns Maxwell Plummer, mathematics graduate student
Maxwell Plummer, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Rice’s mathematics department, passed away the week of Sept. 7. He was 26 years old.
Rice Global Paris Center hosts physicists probing the origins of collective behavior in QCD
The workshop co-organized by Rice, IIT Madras and École Polytechnique lays the groundwork for a three-way partnership.
Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition
Rice researchers have shown that an organic semiconductor can transform from a liquid crystal into a solid crystal through a rapid, highly coordinated process resembling a Martensitic transformation.
New method identifies leukemia drug candidates and target
Rice's Natasha Kirienko developed a new screening method that identified drugs that target leukemia cells without unduly harming healthy cells.
Researchers develop inexpensive, fast and environmentally friendly method for organic synthesis
Rice’s Julian West has been developing a less expensive, faster and more environmentally friendly way to catalyze carbon bonding to carbon-carbon double bonds with a breakthrough recently published in the journal Nature Catalysis.
New method turns harmful environmental waste into useful synthetic reagent
James Tour’s lab developed a method to capture the fluoride from these waste streams and recycle it into a useful reagent, silver fluoride, that could be used in other manufacturing processes.
Rice’s new Center for Space Technologies aims to accelerate Texas space innovation with $14.1M grant
Rice's new Center for Space Technologies, or CSTx, is strengthening Texas’ leadership in the space economy, supported by a $14.1 million Texas Space Commission grant.
Rice University builds momentum with record demand, historic growth
Rice is entering a new era of growth, fueled by record student demand, an expanding faculty and research enterprise, major investments in campus infrastructure and a growing global presence — all while introducing new programs designed to ensure that a Rice education remains accessible and deeply personalized.
Smalley-Curl hosts 40th annual colloquium to ‘encapsulate Rice’s interdisciplinary drive’
Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted its 40th annual summer colloquium.
Undergraduate researchers showcase a summer of discovery
Rice’s 2026 class of summer undergraduate researchers gathered at the BioScience Research Collaborative last week for the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry.
Scientists uncover new clue to how protons maintain their identity
New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the gluelike particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number, an essential part of a particle’s quantum identity.
Rice professor advises computational chemistry researchers to prepare for new AI tools
David Sholl, Rice’s executive vice president for research and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently published an opinion piece in ACS Central Science, where he and co-author Andrew Medford, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, share their perspective on machine learning tools expected to bring radical changes to the field of computational chemistry.
Rice launches SCOPE, a new science communication center
The Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement (SCOPE) is now open at Rice.