Research at Rice University
At Rice, our curiosity compels us to ask the big questions and tackle the toughest problems of our lifetime: climate, energy, health care, and information science. We aspire to persistent excellence, from the research led by the faculty across Rice's eight schools — which are the foundation of our research enterprise — to the centers and institutes that serve as engines for interdisciplinary research. The highest caliber of basic science research and discovery happens here, along with groundbreaking translational research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Research Institutes
- Baker Institute for Public Policy
- Boniuk Institute
- Institute for Health Disparities and Resilience
- Ken Kennedy Institute
- Kinder Institute for Urban Research
- Medical Humanities Research Institute
- Rice Advanced Materials Institute
- Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies
- Rice Space Institute (RSI)
- Rice Sustainability Institute
- Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI)
- Synthetic Biology Institute
- WaTER Institute
Research Centers
- Carbon Hub
- Center for African and African American Studies
- Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience
- Center for Computational Insights on Inequality and Society (CIIS)
- Center for Customer Based Execution and Strategy
- Center for Environmental Studies
- Center for Latin American Studies and LatinX Studies
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP)
- Joint Rice - MD Anderson Cancer Center Bioengineering
- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT)
- Neuroengineering Initiative
- Rice Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences
- Rice University National Security Research Accelerator (RUNSRA)
- Rice Energy and Natural Resources Initiative (Rice ENRI)
- Synthesis X Center
- Voting Operations, Technology, Equity and Security VOTES