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...
December 2, 2022
Evelyn Tang, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a member of Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
HIV ‘drug factory’ implant promises once-a-year therapy
December 2, 2022
A Rice University lab is developing encapsulated cellular “drug factories” to treat patients with HIV through a once-a-year implant.
Tropical wildlife follow the same daily patterns worldwide
November 29, 2022
A massive study of rainforest species across three regions of the world finds striking similarities in how animals spend their days.
Rice lab’s catalyst could be key for hydrogen economy
November 24, 2022
A light-activated catalyst efficiently converts ammonia into clean-burning hydrogen using only inexpensive raw materials.
Strategic planning process to be launched in January
November 22, 2022
President Reginald DesRoches shared the news with the Rice community in an email Nov. 21.
Douglas Brinkley nominated for two Grammys
November 21, 2022
Rice historian Douglas Brinkley is once again a Grammy nominee. Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor of Humanities, will be up for awards in two categories at the Feb. 5 ceremony in Los Angeles.
Masha Gessen visits to talk war in Ukraine, tools to fight totalitarianism
November 21, 2022
Renowned author and journalist Masha Gessen led two consecutive nights of thought-provoking, wide-ranging discussions Nov. 7-8 at Rice as the latest speaker in the School of Humanities Campbell Lecture Series.
Rice, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur commit to cooperate on research
November 14, 2022
Rice and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur sign a three-year cooperation agreement to collaborate on issues critical to the United States, India and the globe.
Cool respite with a conscience
November 11, 2022
Rice faculty members have installed “Building Ecologies” at Post Houston to demonstrate a “circular” strategy that incorporates environmental systems into architecture.
Growing pure nanotubes is a stretch, but possible
November 9, 2022
Rice engineers have a new strategy for making batches of carbon nanotubes with a single, desired chirality.