Once-discounted binding mechanism may be key to targeting viruses
Researchers detail subtle stabilizing effects in cells’ ability to recognize coronaviruses that compromise the immune system. The discovery could lead to new targets to prevent disease.
Rice researchers top two categories in ‘Create the Future’ contest
Rice University was a double winner in the annual Create the Future Design Contest, an international competition in its 19th year.
Folding proteins feel the heat, and cold
A new study shows proteins that presumably evolved to avoid water as they fold may actually behave in ways scientists did not anticipate.
Shepherd School's Robert Yekovich to step down as dean, return to faculty
After 18 years of service helping build Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music into an internationally renowned program, Dean Robert Yekovich will step down from his position June 30, 2021, and return to the faculty.
One in four Black teens apathetic about racial justice
1 in 4 Black teens apathetic about racial justice
Researchers plan to conduct future studies to track racial apathy of Black teenagers and adults.
Rice wins Mayor's Early Vote College Challenge
Slave trade artifacts and records to be studied with aid of new grant
The institution of slavery caused centuries of harrowing misery, triggered wars and left a searing legacy of racial injustice, but many of the artifacts and records pertaining to slavery’s history have been understudied or altogether forgotten.
Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite
A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine.
Rice team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
Rice alums Graham, Gruber discuss COVID-19 vaccines
VIPs help open national security research accelerator labs
U.S. Army Futures Command Lt. Gen. Thomas Todd III and U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, joined Rice President David Leebron, Provost Reggie DesRoches and Army and Rice dignitaries for the Oct. 30 opening ceremony of the Rice University National Security Research Accelerator (RUNSRA) laboratories in Dell Butcher Hall.
New GONZO247 mural revealed outside temporary classrooms at Rice
Award-winning Houston muralist GONZO247 believes everyone has an inner artist — and the new 40-foot community mural he painted with Rice students and alumni is one way to bring out that artistic energy.
