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 University alumna Sofia Adrogué was sworn in as judge of the 11th Division Texas Business Court Nov. 19 at the Harris County Courthouse....
A little soap simplifies making 2D nanoflakes
January 27, 2021
The right combination of surfactant, water and processing can maximize the quality of 2D hexagonal boron nitride for such products as antibacterial films.
HERC study spotlights struggles many HISD families face
January 26, 2021
HOUSTON – (Jan. 26, 2021) – A large number of students enrolled in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) need help with basic needs such as food, clothing, health care and school supplies, according to a new research brief from Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC).
Pandemic exacerbates stress for struggling Houston families
January 25, 2021
Staying put during the pandemic is hard enough without additional stressors. But for some in Houston, COVID-19 exacerbated situations that already presented challenges.
Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding
January 25, 2021
Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testing with $8 million for preclinical demonstrations.
Rice hosts first spring O-Week in 10 years
January 25, 2021
The online orientation welcomed 34 new students.
Eddie Glaude Jr. talks racial justice in America in special Campbell Lecture
January 25, 2021
Popular Princeton professor will speak March 4 during online lecture.
STEM students whose career path and interests align enjoy more academic, professional success
January 25, 2021
Results suggest measuring career interest in college is a highly effective predictor of future trajectories and success.
Rice Architecture spring lectures look beyond the pandemic
January 24, 2021
Rice Architecture’s spring lecture series will put forth “New Perspectives” as they relate to social, political and spatial conditions.
Rice ‘flashes’ new 2D materials.
January 14, 2021
Rice scientists extend their technique to produce graphene in a flash to tailor the properties of 2D dichalcogenides, quickly turning them into metastable metallics for electronic and optical applications.
Partisan politics prolong pandemic
January 13, 2021