Rice’s 12th annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) addressed student trust and how teachers can ...
Rice invites the community to join in celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with events honoring his life and legacy as well as insights from univers...
In Houston’s Texas Medical Center Helix Park, RBL LLC is transforming the path from scientific discovery to lifesaving therapies. This new biotech ven...
Rice Real Estate Co. has entered into an agreement with Brinshore Development and Family Scholar House to support a new housing development in Houston...
Kicking off the spring semester, Rice President Reginald DesRoches took the wheel of a golf cart, giving students fun rides across campus and a memora...
The world’s largest and richest intercollegiate student startup competition, the RBPC is hosted and organized every spring by the Rice Alliance. Each ...
The Brain House at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) upcoming annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is a marquee platform designed to spotlight the cri...
Rice is a hub of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on the brain. In addition to a critical mass of researchers in the field, Rice is home to en...
The Rice Board of Trustees recently recognized Caitlin Lindsay for her unwavering service to the institution and its constituents. She currently serve...
An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid ...
Rice researchers have published a study describing how quasiparticles called polarons behave in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 th...
Maya Harpavat’s love of writing began when she was 6 years old, sitting at the kitchen table with her father. ...
Rice duo named to National Academy of Engineers
February 7, 2020
Dean and incoming provost Reginald DesRoches, electrical and computer engineer Gene Frantz earn prestigious honor.
Trade wars bad for US, global energy security, experts say
February 7, 2020
HOUSTON -- (Feb. 7, 2020) – Policy that raises barriers to international trade does not bode well for U.S. and global energy security, according to a new research paper by experts in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and at the Korea Energy Economics Institute.
Diversity on city councils increases noninfrastructure spending — for better or worse
February 4, 2020
When city councils are elected by district rather than at large, spending on noninfrastructure projects increases, and the impact is not necessarily good, according to new research from a Rice University economist.
Israeli West Bank settlements may have dangerous consequences, experts say
January 31, 2020
As President Donald Trump unveils his new Middle East peace plan, experts in the Center for the Middle East at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy say the administration's green light for the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank comes with the potential for dangerous consequences.
Ringing in the Year of the Rat
January 31, 2020
Rice President David Leebron and University Representative Y. Ping Sun opened their home Jan. 28 for a Lunar New Year party. Guests from across the Rice and Houston communities joined them in celebrating the Year of the Rat. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow)
Fed grant backs Rice earthquake research
January 31, 2020
Rice University Earth scientist Melodie French earns a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support her investigation of the tectonic roots of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Housing, ‘pliability’ topics of spring architecture events
January 31, 2020
Housing and discussions of “pliability” are among the topics of this semester’s Rice Architecture Lecture Series
Black History Month at Rice includes returning favorites and new Black Excellence Gala
January 31, 2020
Nearly every day in February boasts an event in celebration of Black History Month at Rice University.
Rice welcomes Costa Rica women's soccer team
January 30, 2020
The Rice soccer team's offseason training program featured a stiff test Jan. 24 at Holloway Field: an exhibition match against the Costa Rica women's national team.
Korean Culture Night fills Grand Hall with bass and beats
January 30, 2020
The rumbling sounds of bass from traditional Korean drumming groups and carefully choreographed K-pop dance routines filled the Grand Hall in the Rice Memorial Center Jan. 25 during the annual Korean Culture Night, sponsored by the Korean Student Association and Rice's Office of Multicultural Affairs.