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...
People, papers and presentations - April 19, 2021
April 19, 2021
Andrés Vela, a graduate student in double bass performance, is the Shepherd School of Music’s recipient of the Presser Graduate Music Award.
Mexico's economic slump here to stay, Baker Institute experts say
April 19, 2021
Mexico’s economy will continue to struggle unless there is a “radical shift” in the country's politics, according to experts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Economics lecturer James DeNicco wins George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching
April 19, 2021
If you ask James "Jimmy" DeNicco for his definition of great teaching, he can’t give you a simple answer.
Leebron lauds dedication amid pandemic, eyes return to 'relatively normal' at town hall
April 19, 2021
After a year of extraordinary challenges imposed by COVID-19, President David Leebron envisioned a campus returning to normal and outlined a post-pandemic future for Rice during the university’s annual town hall meeting.
Clements and Faubion convene conference of international Foucault ‘superstars’
April 19, 2021
Scholars’ twice-weekly talks this summer will consider newly published work by the French philosopher Micheal Foucault
Owls on to NCAA Tournament after winning Conference USA soccer title
April 19, 2021
The Rice soccer team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2-0 in the Conference USA Tournament championship match April 17 at Holloway Field.
April 16, 2021
The United States should compete with China on climate change initiatives rather than cooperate with its insincere regime, according to an analysis co-authored by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Rice engineers WERC hard for the money
April 16, 2021
Students calling themselves “PFAS and PFurious” took four prizes, including first place, in this year’s 31st WERC Environmental Design Contest.
Rev. William Lawson visits namesake grove at Rice for first time
April 16, 2021
"I hope that generations of students will look him up and see what he did to deserve such a hallowed spot on the campus here."