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“I think Rice brings out the best in you,” sophomore Antara Varma said. “And it helps you realize that being your best self is something that can actually exist.”
5 Rice researchers elected AAAS fellows
Five Rice professors, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Volker Rudolf, Edward Knightly, Marcia O’Malley and Ed Billups, have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
New tool shines light on hidden protein mystery
Rice professor Zachary Ball recently published a paper describing a new way to target a common but understudied posttranslational modification called pyroglutamate.
NASA grant supports Rice research on next-generation lunar dating technology
Rice University professor Bidong Zhang has received a grant to develop next-generation lunar radiometric dating techniques that will acquire more accurate ages for lunar samples.
Physicists find electronic agents that govern flat band quantum materials
Qimiao Si’s group at Rice University collaborated with researchers from the Weizmann Institute to visualize the building blocks of flat band quantum materials.
Crown Princess of Sweden visits Rice
Swedish professors Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede and Anna-Karin Gustavsson, welcomed Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, Crown Princess of Sweden, to campus March 16.
Replicating bacteria DNA relies on accordionlike folds to separate
Rice researchers discover that bacteria rely on repulsive forces, strengthened by the SMC family of proteins, to separate their DNA during replication.
Rice energy, innovation experts presenting at CERAWeek 2026
Rice experts in innovation and energy will be presenting throughout the upcoming CERAWeek conference.
Researchers at Rice recently convened an international group of scientists to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform one of the world’s most ambitious physics experiments: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Rice and IIT Madras announce recipients of Strategic Partnership Collaboration Awards
The three selected projects bring together faculty expertise from both universities in areas ranging from sustainable materials and entrepreneurship research to nuclear physics and detector technology.
Rice scientists unveil new tool to watch quantum behavior in action
Rice University researchers Jianwei Huang and Ming Yi have developed a new capability, magnetoARPES, building on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) that allows researchers to study quantum behaviors they have been unable to resolve using ARPES alone.
Granular activated carbon-sorbed PFAS can be used to extract lithium from brine
James Tour and his research team developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools in a study recently published in Nature Water.
Rice selected to lead US Space Force Strategic Technology Institute 4
Rice University has signed an $8.1 million cooperative agreement to lead the United States Space Force University Consortium/Space Strategic Technology Institute 4 (SSTI), called the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies (CASST) at Rice.
Urban prairie gives birth to new ecological restoration site at Rice’s Harris Gully
Prairie grasses are transported to Harris Gully and other city prairies by volunteers from Rice and the Greater Houston Area.