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. ...
Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene
October 29, 2020
Rice University researchers expand their theory on converting graphene into 2D diamond, or diamane.
Latin American lit professor publishing three books this fall
October 29, 2020
Coming up from Gisela Heffes: a new reader on ecocriticism, a fourth novel and her first volume of poetry.
Future of Supreme Court — both immediate and long-term — is focus of Rice webinar
October 29, 2020
Major challenges now facing the Supreme Court will be the topic of a Nov. 12 webinar.
As relationship with US deteriorates, experts to discuss China's 'soft power'
October 29, 2020
HOUSTON – (Oct. 29, 2020) – Experts from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy will examine the role of "soft power" in U.S.-China diplomacy in the final webinar of its 2020 Election Series Nov. 2.
US wealth, income inequality has declined, Baker Institute expert finds
October 28, 2020
HOUSTON – (Oct. 28, 2020) – Analysis of Federal Reserve survey data shows U.S. wealth inequality has declined for the first time in nearly 30 years, while income inequality has seen its largest decline in three decades, according to a new working paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
World's first memorial to a lost glacier up for Design Museum award
October 27, 2020
The first-of-its-kind plaque from Rice anthropologists is up for an award from the Design Museum in London.
Discovery adds new species to Rice lab's ghoulish insect menagerie
October 26, 2020
A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites plays out on oak trees every day.
President’s Lecture Series examines Rice alums' search for a vaccine
October 26, 2020
A special online President's Lecture Series homecoming event Oct. 27 will feature Barney Graham ’75 and Bill Gruber ’75, two alumni who are leading efforts to develop vaccine therapies for COVID-19.
Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars
October 26, 2020
Rice researchers continue to advance the science of single-molecule machines with a new lineup of nanocars, in anticipation of the next international Nanocar Race in 2022.
October 26, 2020
With COVID-19 guidelines in place, the DuncTank outside Duncan College isn’t getting any use this year as the fountain into which Duncaroos are traditionally and gently tossed on their birthdays, but it’s getting plenty of use as a peaceful study spot on sunny days