Scott Abell was introduced as Rice's 20th head football coach during a press conference on the eve of Thanksgiving. ...
The Swiss Chemical Society has awarded Rice’s Julian West the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize....
A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our unders...
The Center for Innovation and Translation of POC Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care hosted its inaugural convening at Rice, marking a significant ...
Rice Vice President and Director of Athletics Tommy McClelland announced that Scott Abell has been named the new Dunlevie Family Head Football Coach a...
Rice’s Native American Student Association hosted an Indigenous cultural celebration involving dancing, music, food, beading, crafts and storytelling ...
Newly developed halide perovskite nanocrystals show potential as antimicrobial agents that are stable, effective and easy to produce. ...
Elizabeth Freimuth ’98, Shepherd School of Music alumna and principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will join the Shepherd School faculty...
Black Americans are more interested in life-extending health technologies than their white peers and religion increases this desire....
A new study by a team of researchers at Rice University and Houston Methodist’s Center for Neural Systems Restoration and Weill Cornell Medical Colleg...
Remote working tools like Zoom and Slack have been around for more than a decade, but it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that remote work really to...
OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources and a provider of interactive learning technologies based at Rice, announces the...
FEMA disaster recovery funds favor white entrepreneurs, study finds
August 12, 2021
Federal recovery funding after a disaster may disproportionally benefit white entrepreneurs, according to new research from Rice University’s Department of Sociology.
10 winners at IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
August 12, 2021
Posters by 10 summer interns were the best at this year’s IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.
August 12, 2021
What can the relationships between the Prophet Muhammad and ancient Christians teach us about today's relations between the religions?
New website for managing retirement accounts coming soon
August 10, 2021
Effective Oct. 1, a new website will be available for enrolling in and changing contributions to Rice University Supplemental 403(b) Plan and Defined Contribution Retirement Plan accounts.
Incoming freshmen RISE to the occasion
August 10, 2021
New 10-day residential seminar acquaints humanities and social sciences students with Rice, Houston, race and urban life.
Rice Alliance to host startup pitch event at OTC
August 10, 2021
OpenStax to provide ed tech companies with training to develop equitable courseware
August 9, 2021
OpenStax, Rice’s educational technology initiative, announced today that 13 companies have been selected to participate in the organization’s new equity in courseware training program. The training will help the participating companies learn about and develop educational technology platforms that provide better outcomes for all students, especially those from historically marginalized and underserved communities.
Why middle-class residents want to stay put after floodwaters recede
August 9, 2021
Flood disasters like Hurricane Harvey lead some people to move far from the places they had called home.
'Cool' kids in the cosmos may not be so unique
August 9, 2021
Rice University scientists show that "cool" stars like the sun share dynamic surface behaviors that influence their energetic and magnetic environments. Stellar magnetic activity is key to whether a given star can host planets that support life.
Rice expert: Using carbon is key to decarbonizing economy
August 5, 2021
Rice University carbon materials expert Matteo Pasquali is available to discuss ways to slash carbon dioxide emissions and rapidly decarbonize the global economy.