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....
Mark Jones and David R. Brockman discuss the ongoing Republican-led initiatives in the U.S. to introduce more religious content into classrooms. ...
Study: Early, late stages of degenerative diseases are distinct
November 23, 2020
Rice University biochemists have proposed that degenerative diseases as varied as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and muscle atrophy occur in two distinct phases marked by protein signaling changes that could result in patients responding differently to the same treatment.
What comes next? Rice political scientists talk 2020 election and look to the future
November 20, 2020
The 2020 election is behind us, but a group of Rice political scientists discussed the results, President Donald Trump’s reaction and the incoming Joe Biden administration’s likely domestic and foreign policy in a Nov. 18 webinar.
Voter research amid pandemic wins Rice students new national award
November 19, 2020
Undergrad team wowed judges by helping secure millions for polling place safety across Harris County.
Rice professor’s research wins 2020 Moskowitz Prize
November 19, 2020
A Rice University professor is among three researchers who have won the 2020 Moskowitz Prize awarded by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management for their work showing how shareholders can positively influence a company’s environmental impact.
Rice U. convenes expert group to help guide Greater Houston's long-term pandemic response
November 19, 2020
HOUSTON – (Nov. 19, 2020) – As governments and municipalities in Greater Houston prepare their long-term public health responses to the COVID-19 crisis, Rice University has convened a panel of internationally renowned biomedical experts to provide guidance to health departments, social service agencies, school districts and other policymakers.
Police oversight groups need more resources, better training, fewer legislative hurdles
November 19, 2020
HOUSTON – (Nov. 19, 2020) – With police departments around the country under heightened scrutiny, a new report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research finds that civilian police oversight groups need more resources, fewer legislative hurdles, and proper experience and training.
Christmas week: Worlds will align for spectacular heavenly sight
November 19, 2020
Early in the evening of Dec. 21, people the world over will get a chance to see Jupiter and Saturn line up closer together in Earth's night sky than they have been since just before daybreak on the morning of March 4, 1226.
Rice’s graduate entrepreneurship program again ranked No. 1 in US
November 18, 2020
Rice and its Jones Graduate School of Business have the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S., according to the 2021 rankings announced Nov. 17 by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. This marks the second consecutive year the Rice program has topped this category, its fifth time in a top 3 position nationally and the 12th year in a row ranked in the top 10.
Rice names new round of IDEA winners
November 18, 2020
Six teams of Rice researchers have won backing from the InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards.
First-ever virtual Fall Chamber Music Festival to be held Dec. 3-9
November 16, 2020
The festival will include a tribute to Beethoven's 250th birthday and contemporary pieces such as Lutosławski's "String Quartet."