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
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.
Rice researchers discover new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material
Rice’s Pengcheng Dai recently published a paper in Physical Review X describing the first successful efforts to put a proposed altermagnet material into a single magnetic domain state, allowing the research team to characterize the material’s intrinsic magnetic structure.
A small squeeze reveals new clues about an unusual kind of magnet
Researchers at Rice have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual properties at the same time: its tiny magnetic signal and the way electricity moves through it.
Rice lab develops new technique for rapid production of advanced materials
Rice professor James Tour developed an ultrafast method for producing MXenes.
Rice senior ‘incredibly grateful’ to represent US at Miss World competition
Senior Mary Sickler grew up in Houston seeing Rice as home, she said, and transferring here marked a new beginning.
Rice and TMC partners secure climate health consortium grant to face climate change and human health
A team of climate and environmental scientists, educators, epidemiologists and infectious disease researchers from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas School of Public Health has been awarded the inaugural Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Climate + Health Excellence award, an initiative designed to strengthen research, education and public engagement related to climate change and human health.
Rice Emerging Scholars Program gives incoming STEM students a head start — and a community
Before their first semester at Rice begins, 38 incoming students are already getting a taste of what it means to be a Rice student: tackling demanding STEM courses, learning how to study collaboratively, meeting faculty and building a community they can rely on when classes begin in the fall.
New controls allow researchers to incorporate thermal effects in quantum simulation
Rice physicist Guido Pagano unveiled a new, two-knob control for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allows individual control of temperature and dissipation.
