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For 100 years, Rice has been making positive contributions to the city of Houston, and the university has done it once again by raising a...
Rice raises record amount for United Way

For 100 years, Rice has been making positive contributions to the city of Houston, and the university has done it once again by raising a…

Owls head coach Wayne Graham will be one of seven to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.
Rice head coach Wayne Graham to be inducted into College Baseball Hall of Fame

Owls head coach Wayne Graham will be one of seven to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.

This week's De Lange Conference VIII drew dozens of leading experts to discuss the challenges and obstacles facing research universities. Rice President David Leebron urged the group to "lay out a path for how we want to achieve a new golden age for the research university and the contributions it can make to the betterment of our world.”
Can universities retool for the 21st century?

This week’s De Lange Conference VIII drew dozens of leading experts to discuss the challenges and obstacles facing research universities. Rice President David Leebron urged the group to “lay out a path for how we want to achieve a new golden age for the research university and the contributions it can make to the betterment of our world.”

Spring is in the air and bicycle safety signs will soon be in the ground. For the week of March 5-11, Rice’s Bicycle Safety Committee...
‘Slow your roll’ during Bike Safety Awareness Week March 5-11

Spring is in the air and bicycle safety signs will soon be in the ground. For the week of March 5-11, Rice’s Bicycle Safety Committee…

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  • Rice University is one of the country’s top 20 universities using social media, according to a new ranking by the communications company Social Media Delivered....0March 2, 2012

    Rice among top 20 universities using social media

  • BY FRANZ BROTZEN Rice News staff Jones College senior Hallie Jordan is following in the footsteps of a giant. She won a grant to study...0March 2, 2012

    Rice student’s Paris work to be featured at Fotofest exhibit

  • Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are dusting off their western wear to help Rice embrace the Lone Star spirit as the university celebrates Rice...0March 2, 2012

    Rice Night at the Rodeo is March 5

  • Two star staffers are good at their jobs and good to their colleagues To celebrate the Rice Centennial, this year the university will honor 100...0March 2, 2012

    This week’s Centennial Stars

  • Dramatic growth over the past 20 years has made Houston the most ethnically diverse large metropolitan area in the country and reduced its segregation, according...0March 2, 2012

    New Rice report finds Houston metropolitan area is more diverse, less segregated

  • “The Winter’s Tale,” Shakespeare’s fairy tale of love and laughter, blindness and betrayal, redemption and reconciliation — and a bear, will be this semester’s production...0March 2, 2012

    BakerShake to present ‘The Winter’s Tale’ March 8-10, 15-17

  • Rice junior Julian Castro is among 20 college students from across the country named as team leaders for the NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge. The...0March 1, 2012

    Rice student selected for NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge

  • Rice has long been known as a place where students can let their “geek” flag fly, and now the experts at InsideCollege.com have taken notice....0March 1, 2012

    Rice makes list of colleges where ‘geek is chic’

  • Defenders of current U.S. drug policy, advocates for reform and academic researchers will discuss the effects of and alternatives to the United States’ war on...0March 1, 2012

    Baker Institute conference to weigh alternatives to ‘war on drugs’

  • As Rice’s centennial approaches, Dorothy Zylicz Bowman ’38 looks back on her college years In her southwest Houston living room, Dorothy Bowman pages through a...0March 1, 2012

    Foundation at the Institute

  • FRANZ BROTZEN Rice News staff Since 2007, students in Diana Strassmann’s Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities (PJHC) classes have worked in an area that may...0March 1, 2012

    Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities class blazes online trail

  • Many European countries have adopted policies that treat illicit drug use as a health problem rather than as a criminal problem. Travel writer Rick Steves...0March 1, 2012

    Travel writer Rick Steves to discuss European versus US drug policies at Baker Institute lecture

  • Faculty and staff can hear the latest news affecting Rice and get a sneak preview of upcoming events planned for Rice’s centennial year at the...0March 1, 2012

    Town hall meeting set for March 7

  • Randy Hulet, the Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Matthew Baring, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, are on the list of...0March 1, 2012

    People, papers and presentations

  • What does a religiously and culturally tolerant society look like? A group of Houston-area high school students answered that question by painting a four-piece mural...0March 1, 2012

    Rice’s Boniuk Center to unveil mural March 3 at Museum of Cultural Arts Houston

  • The newly elected Student Association (SA) officers participated in a Q-and-A to help the Rice community get better acquainted with them. Their responses appear below....0March 1, 2012

    Meet the 2012-2013 Student Association officers

  • BY PATRICK KURP Special to Rice News Krishna Palem, the Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, has been named one...0March 1, 2012

    Rice professor is changing the world, Forbes says

  • Students and student clubs can improve their financial fitness with a noncommercial resource that Rice has made available to them online. CashCourse offers a wide...0February 24, 2012

    Online CashCourse geared toward students’ financial fitness

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    Who knew Rice University has underground tunnels?

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    Rice Expert Alert: Brace available to comment on Arizona and Michigan primaries

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    Rice’s Boniuk Center to unveil mural March 3 at Museum of Cultural Arts Houston

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    Scholar to discuss ‘brain science of attention’ at Rice’s Baker Institute Feb. 28

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    Rice University designated as a ‘Tree Campus USA’ by Arbor Day Foundation

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    It all adds up

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    First aerial photos of Rice courtesy of early student and faculty member

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    Baker Institute energy expert available to comment on oil prices

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  • February 21, 2012

    Plensa sculpture to be dedicated today at Rice University

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  • February 21, 2012

    Rice chemist to represent Americas at ACS Nano event

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  • February 17, 2012

    Engineer from Rice’s SSPEED Center available to comment on flooding in Houston

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