Perched on the trunk of a live oak at #RiceUniversity, a male brown anole (Anolis sagrei) signals other males by displaying his dewlap. This is an introduced species to Texas that is native to Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean.🦎
From trona frogs to the dome rocks of Mt. St. Helens, EEPS faculty brought fun facts and samples from their research area to the first #RiceEEPS Rock Tales and Mocktails social.
Add your fun facts in the comments 👇️
#Rocks #StudentLife #RiceUniversity #Geoscience
#RiceUniversity has developed a process that may actually destroy #Pfas; until then, they have developed a new filtration technique. It involves a layered double hydroxide LDH material made from copper & aluminum that absorbs long-chain Pfas up to 100x faster than commonly used filtration systems.
More than 500 Houston-area kids came to explore activities galore, from the Earth's Core to the outer limits of our Solar System.
Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2026/mo...
#Outreach #RiceUniversity #RSTEM #Ricespaceinstitute #Astronomy #EarthScience #MarsExporation #Climate #K-12 #Earthquakes
Fascinating - but terrifying - talk from @lhnicholas.bsky.social about how long before a diagnosis we can see dementia coming in how people spend their money and pay their bills. #DeLangeXIV #BrainandSociety #RiceUniversity
President DesRoches and Provost Dittmar have launched #DeLangeXIV - and the conversation about Brains in Society has begun. We are live streaming a session on aging and dementia at DeLange.rice.edu. #FutureOfBrainScience #BrainandSociety #RiceUniversity
Join us TODAY, Monday, March 9th, for our Cognitive, Health, and Affective Tea (CHAT) talks!
📆Monday, March 9th, 2026
⏱️12:00-1:30 PM
📍BRC 285 (in-person)
🔗Virtual Zoom session here: riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/9631809780...
#RiceUniversity #CHATseries #Psychoneuroimmunology
#NewSpeciesAlert! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at #UNAM, @ymilesz.bsky.social at #EdinburghUni, and my lab at #RiceUniversity. #biodiversity
Join us Monday, March 2nd, for our Cognitive, Health, and Affective Tea (CHAT) talks!
📆Monday, March 2nd, 2026
⏱️12:00-1:30 PM
📍BRC 285 (in-person)
🔗Virtual Zoom session here: riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/9631809780...
#RiceUniversity #CHATseries #Psychoneuroimmunology
Thanks to my colleagues Dr. CinTy Lee from
#RiceUniversity & Dr. Richard Gibbons from Texas @audubon.org for joining us and sharing their enthusiasm and knowledge! #birding #biodiversity
Super excited to read the new book #BecomingMartian by @scottsolomon.bsky.social! He is my colleague at #RiceUniversity here in #SpaceCity & a great science communicator! 🚀👽🧑🚀
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday Speaking of “Superb Owls”, how many of these famous #RiceUniversity alum can you name?
Olympic flag behind Dr. Sylvia Dee with text: "Rice expert, Dr. Sylvia Dee, now available to discuss 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games"
Interested in how weather conditions during Olympic events may be impacted by Earth's evolving climate? EEPS climate Scientist Dr. Sylvia Dee is available to answer all of your questions.
#WinterOlympics #RiceUniversity #RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #Climate #EnvironmentalScience
Data visualization tool by kids at my Alma mater #RiceUniversity
#Ice Map #IceMap
#Houston Chronicle wrote about it:
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/artic...
Tool here:
https://www.icemap.dev/
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” -Dobzhansky
I am so excited to begin teaching #Evolution at #RiceUniversity for my 10th year! Training the next generation of doctors, engineers, scientists & informed citizens is one of my greatest responsibilities!
Woodpeckers exert strong #NaturalSelection on gall size. Former #RiceUniversity undergrad, Mandy Weaver, documented this pattern with observations and experiments.
“Trade‐off between fecundity and survival generates stabilizing selection on gall size”
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EEPS students, faculty and staff in front of agu picture wall doing the rice owl sign
#RiceEEPS is at #AGU2025!
(And almost all of our eyes were open for this photo)
#RiceUniversity
Promotional Flyer for the EEPS Explore Program. The Heading reads "EEPS EXPLORE supports research projects for all majors" and the subheading reads "Meet two students who took their passion for Earth, Environmental, and Planetary science into real research labs through EEPS Explore.
Explanation of the EEPS Explore program. A question is presented on the slide which reads "What is EEPS Explore?" The body of the slide reads "EEPS Explore (Earth & PLanetary Opportunities in REsearch) is a hands-on program that gives Rice undergraduates, whether they’re EEPS majors or not, the chance to work with EEPS faculty on real Earth and planetary science projects. Each student in EEPS Explore is paired with a faculty mentor who guides them. Students can earn academic credit for their work, and in some cases, they are paid for their research.
![The heading of this slide reads "Meet an Explorer". The name of the Student Researcher is Evan Gebhart, whose faculty mentor is Sylvia Dee. There is a picture of Evan standing infront of his research poster. The body of the text reads "Evan is a rising senior from majoring in Physics. He presented his research at the Natural Sciences Fall Undergraduate Research Fair on Mississippi River Basin flooding events. His research contributes new insights into how changing rainfall patterns impact river dynamics. On the bottom of the slide is a quote by Evan which reads " One of the people I spoke with didn't know much about climate modeling...[this] helped me think about how to communicate my research to a wider audience with different levels of background knowledge"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qaztj6ltnvmpfurlhcfcue5i/bafkreicdp62po4rwi6gxxtf2bbl6bx4okan6sk2eztny7r25ytxb4icd4y)
The heading of this slide reads "Meet an Explorer". The name of the Student Researcher is Evan Gebhart, whose faculty mentor is Sylvia Dee. There is a picture of Evan standing infront of his research poster. The body of the text reads "Evan is a rising senior from majoring in Physics. He presented his research at the Natural Sciences Fall Undergraduate Research Fair on Mississippi River Basin flooding events. His research contributes new insights into how changing rainfall patterns impact river dynamics. On the bottom of the slide is a quote by Evan which reads " One of the people I spoke with didn't know much about climate modeling...[this] helped me think about how to communicate my research to a wider audience with different levels of background knowledge"
The heading of this slide reads "Meet an Explorer". The name of the Student Researcher is Lindsay White. There is a picture of Lindsay on the top right corner. The body of the text reads "Lindsay is a Computer Science major, with a minor in EEPS. They presented their research on water measurements for coastal Houston storms, helping us better understand flooding risk in urban environments." On the bottom of the slide is a quote by Lindsay which reads "It was nice to get some practice presenting the full project to people without an EEPS background."
EEPS EXPLORE supports undergraduate research for all majors. Learn about the program and two EEPS Explorers (Evan Gebhart & Lindsay White) by swiping. ➡️
#RiceUniversity #RiceEEPS #EEPSExplore #UndergraduateResearch
2025 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate program at #RiceUniversity! 🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🦟🪰🪲🪳🕷️🦇🌻🌿🌱🌵🧫🔬🐟🐠🐀🐬🐘🦌🦔🦒🐗🦘🦓🦏🦨🐋🧬
Exciting #E4initiative meeting last week! David Abraham and Kristianna Bowles presented on opportunities to feature #RiceUniversity environmental and sustainability scholarship next year, when Houston hosts games for the World Cup! ⚽️🌱
Dr. Ostherr shared ongoing efforts at Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute that explore how human-centered perspectives can strengthen Health AI. These include the planned 2026 launch of the "Center for Humanities-Based Health AI Innovation". #UTHealth #MSBMI #AI #Riceuniversity
Last week we hosted our first bi-annual luncheon with members of the Institute for Health Resilience and Innovation! We shared ideas, strengthened community ties, and set goals for IHRI’s future, advancing health resilience and innovation across Rice and beyond. #IHRI #RiceUniversity
I saw James Watson speak at #riceuniversity and Baylor Med School when I was an undergrad at Rice in 1986. He came to an upper level class in biology that all of us bio majors were allowed to attend. His lectures were entertaining and wild. 🧪🧵1/5
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
Studying at #RiceUniversity means sharing the city with hundreds of thousands of urban bats — perfect for my research on the physiology of #bat migration. In honor of #InternationalBatWeek 🦇, check out the local bat #research occurring throughout #Houston below 👇
graduate.rice.edu/news/current...
As a Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow, I cohosted a lunch discussion at #RiceUniversity on how to incorporate environment and sustainability topics into our teaching, and how to handle AI in the classroom! Great discussions! I learned a lot!
Caterpillar crosswalk at #RiceUniversity 🐛
Today's featured university icon is the Brochstein Pavillion at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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#RiceUniversity
📢 Road to #BESBari2026 It is time to announce the second Plenary Speaker of the XXIX International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 🚨 Prof. Caroline Ajo-Franklin! #RiceUniversity
Join us in Bari! 🗓️ Abstract submission will open in just a few days!! ⏳
