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New semester brings unique O-Week experience

Rice reimagined O-Week to include remote students in the annual orientation week and its traditions.

Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original

First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.

Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI

A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse

Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.

Rice Architecture lecture series views race, social justice

Rice Architecture is charging ahead with a full slate of virtual lectures this fall with a theme of race, social justice and allyship.

Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow

Professor Oden is director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.

Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells

Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.

Where lions operate, grazers congregate … provided food is great

Meals are typically family affairs for zebras, gazelles, cape buffalo and other grazing species in the African Serengeti, but in one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists have found grazing species can be more willing to share meals in areas frequented by lions.

Unprecedented move-in process puts Rice to the test

Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.

Opening soon: Rice’s Provisional Campus Facilities

More than merely tents, these temporary spaces offer everything from A/C to A/V.

NSF renews Rice biological physics center

$12.9 million in funding backs Center for Theoretical Biological Physics research into mysteries at the intersection of biology and physics.

Engineers enlist fungi to advance against disease

Rice University engineers find the mechanism in fungus that produces a potential drug scaffold. The National Institutes of Health awards a multiyear grant to the lab to continue its work.

Owls return to the nest

Martí named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Rice researchers use InSight for deep Mars measurements