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...
Rice mourns death of Ilinca Stanciulescu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
March 3, 2021
Ilinca Stanciulescu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice, died Sunday after battling cancer. She was 49.
New sensation: Grad student symposium hosts international experts on five senses
March 2, 2021
‘Making Sense’ draws scholars from diverse array of disciplines March 12-13 for an international conference on humanistic research.
Rice University experts to be featured at CERAWeek
March 1, 2021
Rice is an academic partner of CERAWeek, with the university's Energy and Natural Resources Initiative spearheading its involvement. The annual conference, which usually takes place in Houston, will be held online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rice earns Tree Campus USA recognition for ninth straight year
March 1, 2021
Rice received the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for the ninth consecutive year in 2020.
Rice offering undergraduate major in business starting this fall
March 1, 2021
HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University will offer an undergraduate major in business beginning this fall.
Bottling the world's coldest plasma
February 28, 2021
Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and astrophysics.
Quantum quirk yields giant magnetic effect, where none should exist
February 26, 2021
In a twist befitting the strange nature of quantum mechanics, physicists have discovered the Hall effect — a characteristic change in the way electricity is conducted in the presence of a magnetic field — in a nonmagnetic quantum material to which no magnetic field was applied.
Rice team forges path toward geothermal future
February 26, 2021
Rice scientists have joined a federal project to accelerate breakthroughs in geothermal systems for unlimited, inexpensive energy.
Cerium sidelines silver to make drug precursor
February 26, 2021
Rice scientists have developed a simplified method to make fluoroketones, a drug precursor that typically requires an expensive silver catalyst.
Elhadji Diop does it all at Rice
February 26, 2021
Normally, a stage name is reserved for actors and musicians, but Elhadji Diop has created such a name for himself at Rice