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Rice partners on Project Metis to advance global leadership in brain health, emerging brain economy

December 9, 2025

Rice is a key partner on Project Metis, a groundbreaking initiative led by Center for Houston’s Future to position the Houston-Galveston region as the global leader in brain health and the emerging brain economy.

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Rice Student Association president joins White House conversation on open inquiry

December 4, 2025

Senior Trevor Tobey was one of only a few student leaders invited to participate alongside university administrators and policy representatives.

Researchers studied how people with age-related macular degeneration estimate the arrival time of approaching vehicles

From field to lab: Rice study reveals how people with vision loss judge approaching vehicles

December 4, 2025

A new study uses a virtual reality system to examine how adults with and without AMD estimate when an approaching vehicle would reach them.

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Fondren Fellows document Fifth Ward’s toxic history through archive

December 4, 2025

Seniors Catherine Cook and Shay Olaifa are building a public archive that preserves decades of community stories, environmental records and lived experiences surrounding creosote contamination in Houston’s Fifth Ward.

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Losing sleep over money: Rice study reveals how financial stress follows workers to bed

December 1, 2025

New research from Rice shows “stress-before-bed behaviors” as a key mechanism linking financial worry and job insecurity to declining sleep quality.

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Toxic fear: New study suggests flood-driven contamination deepens climate anxiety in vulnerable communities

December 1, 2025

New research from Rice show major storms are spreading industrial contaminants across entire neighborhoods, raising concerns about future well-being.

Rice University sophomore Saami Baig (back row, second from left) joins fellow participants at the Allstate Foundation National Youth Service Summit in Chicago.

Driven by community impact, Rice sophomore joins national cohort tackling country’s toughest issues

November 21, 2025

Rice sophomore Saami Baig one of just 60 students selected nationwide to attend the Allstate Foundation National Youth Service Summit in Chicago.

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Rice students help feed Houston: Social policy analysis capstone connects research and community

November 19, 2025

Students volunteer and observe a Second Servings pop-up through the capstone project for Rice’s social policy analysis major.

New Global Affairs Major at Rice

Global affairs major prepares Rice students to lead across borders

November 12, 2025

Rice’s global affairs major will give students a chance to study global issues through different lenses — political, cultural and economic — while gaining hands-on experience at home and abroad.

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Rice leads way with new master’s degree in computational economics

November 4, 2025

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.

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Rice launches Brain Institute to accelerate discoveries in brain science and health

October 29, 2025

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.

Project REACH

Real-time caregiving data could reshape dementia support, Rice study suggests

October 28, 2025

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.

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A new chapter for Rice: First fall schedule of classes in Paris proving to be success

October 17, 2025

The inaugural semester of student programming at the Rice Global Paris Center is a collaboration between the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and Rice Global with support from the School of Social Sciences and School of Humanities and Arts.

A U.S. map from Rice University’s FEMA buyout mapping tool shows clusters of buyouts and market moves between 2007 and 2017, revealing relocation patterns nationwide.

Rice researcher develops interactive tool to track FEMA buyouts

October 16, 2025

A new interactive tool created at Rice shows that the vast majority of people aren’t relying on FEMA buyout program, which has major implications for resilience.

Graduate and prospective graduate students take part in a hands-on session during the STaRT@Rice program, which offered training in statistical methods, data visualization and other research tools.

Finding their STaRT: Students gain competence, confidence, community through hands-on research program

October 15, 2025

STaRT@Rice offers a “panoramic view of the research process,” combining workshops, mentoring and interdisciplinary exposure to help participants at all levels build confidence and capability.

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