Rice leaders from across campus emphasized the importance of balancing artificial intelligence innovation with privacy, security, accessibility and institutional accountability during an AI Week panel discussion Oct. 22. It was one of more than 30 panels conducted during Rice’s inaugural AI Week that centered on the use of AI technology in academia and bolstered the university’s strategic plan Momentous, which calls for responsible AI.
Rice launched AI Week 2026 with a fireside chat focused on how artificial intelligence will shape the university’s future in research, teaching and operations.
Rice has launched a transformational universitywide AI initiative to recruit 75 faculty members working across disciplines, invest in a new, state-of-the-art facility that advances research and industry collaboration, and expand AI-related courses and degrees, accelerating the institution’s emergence as a global leader in advanced computing and responsible AI.
Lydia Kavraki and Rebecca Richards-Kortum are the first two faculty members in Rice history to be elected to all three U.S. national academies — the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.
Rice psychological scientist recognized with early career award for distinguished contributions to research methods research, practice, education and service.
Two Rice research teams have received Phase I awards through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative harnessing artificial intelligence and advanced computing to accelerate scientific discovery.
Published in the journal Information Systems Research and co-authored by Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management at Rice Business, the paper explores “augmented learning,” a process in which people and AI actively adjust to each other across creative tasks, gradually improving what they can produce together.
Over the course of seven days, Rice’s presidential delegation crossed two countries and held meetings with many prominent universities, research institutions and government leaders.
As part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Bio-attribution Challenge, a team of Rice University computer scientists is building a computational tool to screen environmental DNA samples for pathogens.
A student-founded health care startup is fixing the busiest and most overlooked part of a dental clinic: the front desk. For co-founder and Rice University junior Adhira Tippur, it all started at her mother’s clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
