The Wiess School of Natural Sciences

We see the universe as our laboratory. Our intense curiosity drives each of us to explore the unknown.




The Pathways to Discovery program in the School of Natural Sciences aims to give all Natural Sciences
undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to develop the skills they need
to become the scientific leaders and decision makers of tomorrow.


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Rice's Andriy Nevidomskyy is part of a team that has mapped and explained a puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic ...

Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences.

A study led by Xu Zhang, Marimikel Charrier and Caroline Ajo-Franklin demonstrates an innovative method for the real-time, on-site detection of ...

Deep in the heart of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, a trio of Rice researchers embarked on an ambitious summer field study to understand how human ...

Rice's Synthesis X Center and Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center have awarded the second offering of a two-year ...

A new study by applied physicists used a custom-designed microscope to examine supermoiré patterns in trilayer graphene.

The study by Rice scientists shows why genetic sequences are not equally prone to errors.

A Rice graduate student has launched a company aiming to make graphene production faster, cheaper and more scalable. Alex Lathem founded Pattern ...

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Top teaching award winner inspires students across disciplines

Ph.D. mathematician finds purpose in demystifying math for the masses

Professor fosters connection, confidence and community in mathematics

Researchers Linna An and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede join Natural Sciences

Natural Sciences Facts

1,192 
Undergraduate Majors

465 Grad Students

2021 Fall Enrollment

6:1

Student-to-Faculty Ratio

5

Nobel Laureates

with ties to Natural Sciences

80% of undergraduates 

engage in research 

6

Members of the National Academy of Sciences

53% of Natural Sciences undergrads are women