Longtime Houston restaurateur Benjy Levit debuted Local Foods Market at Rice, situated in the newly renovated Brochstein Pavilion, during a soft openi...
Rice drew more than 400 of the nation’s brightest undergraduate researchers to its campus Nov. 8-10 for the 16th annual Gulf Coast Undergraduate Resea...
The In-Space Physical AI Workshop convened top scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and government leaders to explore the role of AI in space explorat...
Rice is expanding its international presence with the launch of Rice Global India. This strategic initiative underscores the university’s commitment t...
Rice senior Jae Kim ’25 has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, one of just 32 American recipients – and the sole representative from a Tex...
The Ion District, Houston’s hub for innovation, now has its very own pickleball experience with the newly-opened Pickle Lab....
Researchers at Rice have developed an innovative electrochemical reactor to extract lithium from natural brine solutions, offering a promising approac...
The inaugural exhibition at the Rice School of Architecture’s new William T. Cannady Hall explores how architecture and design can participate in a mo...
Religious calling to a job can motivate employees but might result in mistreatment going unaddressed
June 14, 2023
Feeling a religious or spiritual calling to a job can be a huge motivator, but it can also potentially result in employee mistreatment and exploitation going unaddressed, according to new research from Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance and the Religion and Public Life Program.
Cannady Hall architects also working to build Rice Architecture students’ skills
June 13, 2023
Jeannette Kuo and Ünal Karamuk are currently working on the construction of the Rice School of Architecture’s new William T. Cannady Hall, and recently taught a studio course as Cullinan Visiting Professors.
Rice to celebrate Juneteenth with two days of free programming
June 9, 2023
Rice’s annual Juneteenth recognition and celebration will bring together professors from across the university and the country to explore ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday. Spread across two days, programming includes a trio of speaking panels as well as a public lecture.
Order in chaos: Atmosphere’s Antarctic oscillation has natural cycle
June 6, 2023
Rice researchers have discovered a natural cycle that repeats every 150 days in the north-south oscillation of the Southern Hemisphere’s prevailing westerly winds.
June 6, 2023
Using the National Academy of State Health Policy Hospital Cost Tool, authors Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker Chair in Health Economics at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Derek Jenkins, postdoctoral scholar in health economics at the Baker Institute, compared changes in nonprofit hospitals’ proceeds with changes in their charity care and cash reserves between 2012 and 2019.
Antonios Mikos wins European Society for Biomaterials award
June 1, 2023
Rice University bioengineer Antonios Mikos has won the 2023 International Award of the European Society for Biomaterials.
Rice U.’s Beatrice Rivière wins NSF grant
May 31, 2023
Beatrice Rivière, Rice University’s Noah Harding Chair and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research, has received a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation in support of numerical mathematics and scientific computing training and research.
Ian Mellor-Crummey receives 22nd annual Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award
May 31, 2023
Digital Media Commons Supervisor Ian Mellor-Crummey ‘17 has won the 2023 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.
Flexible nanoelectrodes can provide fine-grained brain stimulation
May 30, 2023
Rice University engineers have developed ultraflexible implantable nanoelectrodes that can administer long-term, fine-grained brain stimulation.
Iron-rich rocks unlock new insights into Earth’s planetary history
May 25, 2023
A new study by Rice University scientists suggests iron-rich ancient sediments may have helped cause some of the largest volcanic events in the planet’s history.