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...
Senior officials from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas visited Rice Nov.11 for a firsthand, comprehensive look at the university’...
Rice’s Center for Quantum Materials and Smalley-Curl Institute recently held two successive events aimed at advancing the field of quantum materials r...
Rice Emergency Medical Services recognized the 26th annual National Collegiate EMS Week Nov. 11-17 by hosting community education efforts and spirited...
Federal grant bolsters Rice eye research
May 4, 2020
A Rice University researcher has won a prestigious federal grant to study how a recently identified protein in the cornea aids development, homeostasis and wound healing in the eye.
Book edited by Rice political scientist examines voting and representation in U.S.
May 4, 2020
Mark Jones calls the new book "an encyclopedia on voting and representation in the U.S."
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
May 4, 2020
Rice University researchers have integrated high-efficiency solar cells and electrode catalysts into an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Rice to offer minor in entrepreneurship
May 4, 2020
Rice, which has the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S., will now offer an undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship.
Regulatory hurdles make HIV research less effective, Baker Institute experts say
May 4, 2020
Quianta Moore, a fellow in child health policy at the Baker Institute, and Zeinab Bakhiet, a research associate for the Baker Institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, outline their insights in a new paper, “Navigating the Regulatory Framework for HIV Prevention Research in Adolescents.”
‘Quaranteens’ across the world star in podcast launched by Rice students
May 1, 2020
A new podcast from Rice students features interviews with other undergraduates tackling college during the coronavirus.
Humanities courses for summer 2020 help make sense of changing world
May 1, 2020
Nearly 50 online courses are available at significant discount for Rice students and the general public.
Rice graduate student wins Department of Energy fellowship
April 30, 2020
Justin Porter, a Rice mechanical engineering graduate student, has won a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.