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’s Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences hosted its inaugural workshop Nov. 14-16....
Researchers at Rice have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Rice ...
Jonathan Mak, a third-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, recently earned the top prize at the inaugural Sorel-Tra...
Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online
August 23, 2020
Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.
Rice Cinema film series screening outdoors, online this semester
August 21, 2020
VADA is hosting BYOChair movie nights during the fall 2020 semester.
'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse
August 21, 2020
Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.
Rice Architecture lecture series views race, social justice
August 21, 2020
Rice Architecture is charging ahead with a full slate of virtual lectures this fall with a theme of race, social justice and allyship.
Jackie McCauley, first Black woman admitted to Rice as undergrad, dies at 73
August 20, 2020
Jacqueline Elizabeth “Jackie” McCauley, the first Black woman admitted to Rice, died Aug. 9 in Canberra, Australia, at 73.
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker
August 20, 2020
In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.
Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow
August 20, 2020
Professor Oden is director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and co-director of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.
OpenStax Institutional Partner Network grows to reach diverse student populations
August 18, 2020
HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2020) – OpenStax, Rice University’s openly licensed textbook publisher, welcomed a dozen new colleges and universities to its Institutional Partner Network that together serve the most diverse student populations the program has ever seen.
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
August 18, 2020
Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have shown in rodents that a four-week shielded stem cell treatment can reduce damage caused by a heart attack.
Classical Mask: Art History’s punny posters encourage mask wearing, social distancing
August 17, 2020
New health protocol notices in Herring Hall promote safety, smiles.