Owls hold off Blazers 24-17 on Homecoming and Alumni Weekend
Rice held off a last-gasp attempt by UAB, knocking down a throw into the end zone as time ran out, to give the Owls a 24-17 win over the Blazers on Rice's 105th Homecoming.
New recharge-to-recycle reactor turns battery waste into new lithium feedstock
A team of engineers at Rice has developed a cleaner approach to lithium recycling by recharging the waste cathode materials to coax out lithium ions into water.
2 in 5 Houston households struggle to eat well, raising concerns about their health
Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research warns that Houston’s hunger crisis — and its health consequences — could grow worse.
Rice to launch Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
The result of several years of collaboration among Rice’s creative writing faculty, the three-year graduate program will welcome its first cohort in fall 2026.
Rice University Gateway Project to connect campus with Rice Village, modernize Rice Stadium
Rice has unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the heart of the Village, while reimagining the west side of campus anchored by the renovation of Rice Stadium.
Marjanović reappointed as dean of Rice School of Architecture
Igor Marjanović has been reappointed as the William Ward Watkin Dean of the Rice School of Architecture, effective July 1, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Amy Dittmar announced today.
Houston workers are redefining what matters most at work
The latest survey from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research shows flexibility — not salary — is now the top priority for Houston-area workers, many of whom are eyeing new career paths.
Rice is partnering with researchers at the University of Washington, Columbia University and Louisiana State University on a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation to revolutionize how materials and microrobots can be designed, controlled and applied in real-world environments.
Rice leads way with new master’s degree in computational economics
New Master of Computational Economics (MCEcon) program that sits at the intersection of economics, data science and computation positions Rice among the leading institutions offering this kind of quantitative economics and computation degree.
Innovation for Healthcare Access Conference inspires new partnerships for sustainable change
At the 2025 Innovation for Healthcare Access Conference, held Oct. 27-28 at Rice, leaders from academia, medicine, public health and policy converged to tackle one of the most urgent challenges in health care: how to ensure that innovations not only reach the communities that need them most but also endure long after the pilot projects end.
Rice mechanical engineers turning everyday fabrics into new channel of communication
When Rice doctoral candidate Barclay Jumet first launched a high school business designing, making and selling bow ties — learning to sew on his mother’s college sewing machine — he never imagined that same skill set would one day help him reinvent how people communicate.
Audacity and humility: Astro Teller and Andy Karsner share moonshot secrets
The latest edition of the President’s Lecture Series brought Astro Teller and Rice alumnus Andy Karsner ’89 to the Rice Business Shell Auditorium to speak about technology and innovation for today’s challenges.
AI-powered alerts may cut kidney complications after heart surgery
A new collaboration between Rice and Baylor College of Medicine is using artificial intelligence to alert clinicians to early signs of kidney trouble giving them critical time to intervene before lasting damage occurs.
Rice launches Brain Institute to accelerate discoveries in brain science and health
Rice has announced the creation of the Rice Brain Institute, an ambitious, interdisciplinary hub that unites faculty members across campus, including engineering, natural sciences and social sciences, to tackle one of humanity’s most complex and promising frontiers: the brain.
Real-time caregiving data could reshape dementia support, Rice study suggests
A Rice study — known as Project REACH — is among the first in the nation to collect real-time data on how stress affects the health and well-being of dementia caregivers.