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...
Amitav Ghosh on the dangerous delusions that created our climate crisis
September 20, 2021
The renowned novelist explored the global legacy of colonial attitudes and aggression during the two-night Campbell Lecture Series.
Rice courses returning to in-person instruction
September 16, 2021
Experts will educate public at Sept. 20 teach-in on Texas abortion law, reproductive rights
September 13, 2021
Rice hosts Leah Litman, Melaney Linton, Wendy Davis and more in response to Texas abortion ban via Zoom webinar.
Docking peptides, slow to lock, open possible path to treat Alzheimer’s
September 13, 2021
Researchers have identified a possible “Achilles’ heel” in the frustration of amyloid beta peptides as they dock to the fibrils that form plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Rice among nation’s top 20 universities in US News rankings
September 13, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 13, 2021) – Rice is named one of the nation’s top 20 universities in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
Graduate Student Loan Closet reopens, restocked and revamped
September 8, 2021
The ‘incredible resource’ for three decades of Owls had to shut down during the pandemic.
Simmons: Confront legacies of slavery 'unflinchingly'
September 8, 2021
When she was president of an Ivy League university, Ruth Simmons learned the importance of confronting an institution’s complicated and controversial history head-on. Now, as a Rice trustee emerita and president of Prairie View A&M University, she has some thoughts and advice.
Rice among most acclaimed universities in Princeton Review history
September 7, 2021
Rice University ranks among the most lauded institutions in the history of the Princeton Review’s annual survey on the nation’s best colleges, according to a newly published report analyzing three decades of reviews on America’s institutions of higher education.
Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths
September 7, 2021
‘Slow-burning background crisis’ revealed in new work by Rice humanities researcher John Mulligan.
Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities
September 7, 2021
Rice's Office of Research launches three Creative Ventures Funds to seed faculty initiatives and guide them towards commercialization.