The transformative impact of the Fulbright Scholar Program is on full display at Rice, where approximately 100 Fulbright students from around 30 count...
Catherine Clack, Rice’s associate vice provost in the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence and director of the Multicultural Center, is retir...
Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Acade...
The Rice Owls women's tennis earned an at-large bid in the NCAA field of 64, earning the third seed in the College Station Regional....
The Rice Owls men's tennis earned a spot in the NCAA field of 64 for the second-straight year, earning the fourth seed in the College Station Regional...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches offered a compelling and in-depth account of the university’s future during a one-on-one interview with The Chronicl...
Rice’s César A. Uribe has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the mathematical foundations of decentralized learning, a critical...
Houston hospitals show significant pricing differences in their procedures, according to a new brief from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Th...
Graduate Student 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....
August 19, 2024
The Moody Global Fellows program funded 20 Rice students and student leaders for a two-week study abroad program in San Jose, Costa Rica, in partnership with the University of Costa Rica and the Latin American University of Science and Technology. The trip was coordinated by Rice’s Center for Civic Leadership.
‘The start of a new chapter’: Rice Class of 2028 greeted with open arms at move-in day
August 18, 2024
Rice greeted the incoming Class of 2028 for the first time during an eventful, emotional and celebratory O-Week move-in day Aug. 18.
Glaciers in peril: World’s first glacier graveyard and global glacier casualty list unveiled
August 18, 2024
Iceland is a land made famous by its glaciers, but these ancient ice forms in the island country and around the world are in danger amid rising global temperatures.
‘Out of all the unknowns in science, we have so much to discover’
August 16, 2024
Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute held its 38th annual Summer Research Colloquium Aug. 2 at Rice’s Duncan Hall, where undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers gave presentations covering topics in nanoscience, quantum materials and quantum information science and technology to a multidisciplinary audience.
Researchers make breakthrough in fight against COVID-19
August 16, 2024
Jose Onuchic is part of a research team that has made a discovery in the fight against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
New twist on synthesis technique developed at Rice promises sustainable manufacturing
August 16, 2024
James Tour’s lab at Rice has developed a new method known as flash-within-flash Joule heating.
OpenStax Assignable expands, brings interactive learning to higher education
August 15, 2024
OpenStax, a nonprofit initiative of Rice, announces the expansion of OpenStax Assignable, a product allowing instructors to create custom assignments from high-quality, peer-reviewed OpenStax resources directly within their institution’s learning management system (LMS). The expansion of Assignable is aligned with the OpenStax commitment to expand access to high-quality educational materials and experiences to all.
August 15, 2024
Rice’s Ashutosh Sabharwal will lead a research project dedicated to the design and development of a modular platform for wireless networking, imaging and sensing that will significantly expand research capabilities and catalyze innovation in support of 6G wireless.
August 15, 2024
A new paper from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy argues that an annexation of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) would trigger economic shocks and diminish the quality of life for populations across Asia and beyond, as well as have devastating impacts on American interests and Americans’ well-being.
Rice hosts world’s largest Jewish youth sporting event with JCC Maccabi Games® and Access
August 14, 2024
About 1,500 Jewish teen athletes from around the globe gathered on Rice’s campus Aug. 4-9 for the JCC Maccabi Games® and Access.