News & Events
Celebrating its 25th year, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the celebrated Rice Business Plan Competition this month, doling out more than $2 million in investment and cash prizes to the top-performing teams.
-
School Updates
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “mini gut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and function of the human intestine — took home the grand prize at the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition.
14 Apr
-
In The Media
Five student-founded startups have been named finalists for Rice University's prestigious pitch competition, hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship later this month. The teams will compete for a share of $100,000 in equity-free funding at the H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC).
11 Apr
Filter
Celebrating its 25th year, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the celebrated Rice Business Plan Competition this month, doling out more than $2 million in investment and cash prizes to the top-performing teams.
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “mini gut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and function of the human intestine — took home the grand prize at the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition.
Five student-founded startups have been named finalists for Rice University's prestigious pitch competition, hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship later this month. The teams will compete for a share of $100,000 in equity-free funding at the H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC).
"When you see in big red letters that your stocks are losing money, it's hard to not react," says Rice Business professor Benedict Guttman-Kenney. “But a fantastic way to lose money is to sell in a panic.”
Rice University continues to stand out for its academic excellence with several graduate programs earning high marks in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” rankings.
Wagner Kamakura, the Jesse H. Jones Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Rice University, passed away peacefully March 11 surrounded by his family.
Congratulations to Caroline Mazur-Sarocka for being named one of Poets&Quants Best & Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors Of 2025.
Georgian legislation directly mirrors a contentious law Russia passed more than a decade ago to stifle dissent and quash the power of civil society groups.
Research co-authored by Rice Business professor Jung Youn Lee found that variables such as shopping frequency, consistency in spending, choice of products, and use of discount programs correlate strongly with credit risk profiles.
An endowment was recently created for the Gibborim Scholarship at the Jones Graduate School of Business, which aims to provide a scholarship to one non-U.S. veteran a year, preferably for those who “have advanced knowledge of the mission and fundamental values” of the Israeli Defense Forces.
