Senior Spotlight: Esther Jimenez ’25...
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2025 Laureates Awards ceremony May 8, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to the late...
Rice’s Office of Access and Institutional Excellence welcomed author and free speech advocate Suzanne Nossel to campus April 28 for a conversation on ...
Rice’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, inducted 21 new members....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches was recognized for his visionary leadership and lifelong commitment to education at the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associ...
With federal research funding in the headlines in recent months, Rice's Office of Public Affairs is spotlighting what’s at stake — and what’s possible...
A new study led by researchers from the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice has introduced an innovative solution that could i...
Menachem Elimelech was honored with the Sidney Loeb Award at the European Desalination Society Conference held in Porto, Portugal, April 28. ...
As India’s influence grows in fields such as climate change, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, Rice is positioning itself to be a key collabo...
For senior Dasseny Arreola, pursuing two majors, one minor, three research fellowships and even a novel was never about checking boxes....
More than 80 scientists from around the globe gathered at Rice for the School on Electron Correlations and Topology....
Rice researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more pre...
Ocean water could melt precarious Antarctic glacier
September 28, 2020
Rice University researchers, alumni and staff are part of an international effort that has discovered a pathway for warm ocean water to melt the underside of Thwaites Glacier, a precarious body of west Antarctic ice that could add as much as 25 inches to global sea level if it were to suffer a runaway collapse.
Alumni Emmett, Parker and Gray to hold virtual discussion on upcoming elections
September 28, 2020
With Election Day just over a month away, Rice University's School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science are hosting a virtual discussion about the presidential, congressional, state and local contests.
Grant will help Rice researchers improve mobility for the visually impaired
September 28, 2020
The number of blind or visually impaired people in the U.S. is expected to double in the next 30 years as the country's population ages.
Virtual Energy Summit to explore industry’s resilience
September 28, 2020
HOUSTON – (Sept. 28, 2020) – The fourth annual -- and first virtual -- Energy Summit hosted by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Baker Botts LLP will feature an examination of the industry by more than 20 of its leading experts.
Rice U. Theatre Program livestreaming one-night-only production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
September 25, 2020
Actors will wear masks for Oct. 9 play broadcast from Hamman Hall.
Rice helps give Houston early COVID-19 warnings
September 24, 2020
Scientists and statisticians at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering have worked long hours for months to help the city of Houston monitor the spread of COVID-19 through traces of the coronavirus found in wastewater treatment plants.
State's top policy researchers to collaborate on Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy
September 22, 2020
A coalition of the state’s top public policy research institutions will work together to create the Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy, an outline for the future focused on a comprehensive suite of new plans for economic development, housing, land use and transportation.
Cooking demonstrations, bomba workshop among Hispanic Heritage Month virtual events
September 21, 2020
Annual celebration moves online with webinars, mixers, trivia nights and more.
How employers can soften the blow of furloughs and layoffs
September 21, 2020
HOUSTON – (Sept. 21, 2020) – Furloughs and layoffs are traumatic — especially during a pandemic —but new research from Rice University offers ways employers can ease the emotional impact when they deliver the bad news to their workers.
Freshman from China endures weeks long journey to reach campus
September 21, 2020
Anybody from Shanghai faces a long journey to Rice, but Apple Li’s globe-trotting adventure took weeks.