Senior Spotlight 2026: Boateng builds community and perspective
Nathaniel Boateng, a senior majoring in biochemistry, used his time at Rice to build community while pursuing a liberal arts education.
Senior Spotlight 2026: Frias brings resiliency to Rice, research and leadership
Rice senior Lupita Frias shares how struggles at Rice unmasked her greatest strength: resilience.
Crowded halls, creative minds: Social science student researchers aim to make ‘real impact’
Rice undergraduates transformed Kraft Hall's corridors into a vibrant showcase of original research and creative exploration during the 2025 Social Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Symposium.
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice is proud to announce that HEXAspec, a cutting-edge spinout from the lab of professor Jun Lou, has been awarded a $500,000 National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant. The funding will support HEXAspec’s work to enhance the future of computing by substantially improving the thermal conductivity of chips.
New leash on life: Rice students design haptic vest for blind dogs
A team of engineering students at Rice designed an innovative wearable vest that helps blind dogs safely navigate their surroundings.
From Rice to orbit: Student engineers build safer, low-cost satellite thruster
A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites.
Undergraduate research showcase returns to Rice in hybrid format April 21
Linda Liu and Anika Sonig wanted to make sure all bases were covered when they planned this year’s Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS), the annual showcase for student research projects that’s operating under pandemic conditions for the second year in a row.
Rice student mentors switch gears, go online
Rice University’s BIOC 129 class was always a model of “paying it forward,” but extraordinary circumstances have prompted it to go the extra mile.
Housing, ‘pliability’ topics of spring architecture events
Housing and discussions of “pliability” are among the topics of this semester’s Rice Architecture Lecture Series