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Kate Shepherd’s first permanent wall painting on public view installed at Rice

The piece joins the university’s growing collection of public art

Bacterial ‘bully’ could improve food production

Lactic acid bacteria that thrive in many organisms, including humans, employ a hybrid metabolism that combines respiration and fermentation to give it an advantage over competitors. Researchers say the discovery could lead to enhanced techniques for food and chemical production.

Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030

Rice President David Leebron and Provost Reginald DesRoches outlined the efforts in a message to the university community Feb. 11.

Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6

“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library

Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination

Germaine Franco is going for gold — a gold-plated Oscar, that is.

Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering

Rice University engineer, OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk is named a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Clearly, this heart beats strong

In time for Valentine’s Day, engineers at Rice University and Waseda University provide a realistic view of what happens inside a beating heart.

Rare earth elements await in waste

Rice University scientists applied their flash Joule heating process to coal fly ash and other toxic waste to safely extract rare earth elements essential to modern electronics and green technologies.

Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.

Young alum shares power of poetry to promote critical dialog

Tim Harrison ’20 brought a powerful spoken-word performance to campus for a FWIS class

Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity

Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning

Rice Architecture alums Super satisfied with their new venue

Two Rice Architecture alums were part of the team that designed SoFi Stadium, the spectacular site of this year’s Super Bowl.

Matthew Jones wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice chemist Matthew Jones wins an NSF CAREER Award to study controlled growth of metallic nanoparticles for biomedicine, energy storage and computing.

Islamic studies scholar Doostdar contemplates God and Satan in modern Shi’i thought

University of Chicago professor to deliver Feb. 17 Kazimi Lecture