![Illustration by Thumy Phan](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/PrototypingGRID.jpg?itok=SKkc0iRU)
A COVID-19 saliva test invented by Rice bioengineers paves the way for testing in low-resource settings....
![The No. 25 ranked soccer team celebrates its C-USA Championship win April 17, 2021, earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Photo by Tommy LaVergne](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/sportsgrid.jpg?itok=DO3d_USi)
Female student athletes pivot to safely compete, win and set school records....
![Ice Caps](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/SyllabusGRID.jpg?itok=UiWhfJp6)
Through the study of Earth’s climate variations and how they affected human evolution and history, this course helps students judge the anomalous character of recent climate change...
![Screenshot from Hello Hamlet 2021](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/Hamlet2.jpg?itok=1Wo6SoPZ)
“Hello, Hamlet!” continues its quadrennial run with an entirely prerecorded rendition available to stream....
![Sid Richardson College. Photo by Brandon Martin](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/210326_spring-campus_martin45.jpg?itok=hb3km1Gv)
Under construction since 2019, the new residential college building welcomed Sidizens under continued pandemic protocols....
![Mars landscape illustration](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-09/mars-spring-2021-grid.jpg?itok=e2M_bvcJ)
Planetary geologist Kirsten Siebach is part of the team operating the Perseverance rover on Mars....
![Powerlines during winter 2021 freeze](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-09/freeze-spring-2021-grid.jpg?itok=mIz-3xnv)
We asked Daniel Cohan, who studies air, climate and energy at Rice, to explain what factors led to February’s cascading power failures in the wake of extreme winter cold....
![greenhouse gas](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-09/catalyzing-change-spring-2021-grid.jpg?itok=019LZSG3)
Researchers transform a greenhouse gas into valuable acetic acid....
![Photo by Tommy LaVergne](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-01/_Claudia_Vassar_Houston_Botanic_Garden%200072.jpg?itok=o6JlYZb_)
From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along Sims Bayou, turning an underutilized golf course into 132 acres of ecosystems, horticultur...
![Illustration by Israel Vargas](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-06/vargas-540px.jpg?itok=1a677CQe)
An author and bioengineer explores real-life biomedical advances first imagined in the realm of science fiction....
![Douglas Brinkley](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-09/brinkley-spring-2021-grid.jpg?itok=BcLz5Ho8)
Whether in a Rice classroom or via his work as a public scholar, U.S. presidential historian Douglas Brinkley draws from America’s past to illuminate the crises of the moment....
![Photo by Jeff Fitlow](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-01/Rothko_Fitlow_GRID.jpg?itok=97QashQJ)
The Moody Center for the Arts celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel....