Teaching in Paris: Rice faculty reflect on the Global experience
Set in the heart of the city, the Rice Global Paris Center offers more than a space to teach. It’s a framework for courses that draw directly from Paris itself.
Rice to celebrate grand opening of Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall Sept. 11
The 83,000-square-foot facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro will serve as a hub for visual arts, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration and research-driven creativity.
‘SPILL’ recognized at Houston Theater Awards; Shepherd School collaborators among winners
The honors reflect both the technical ambition of “SPILL” and the artistry of its creative team.
‘Bonjour’ to the boulevard: Rice in France expands to Paris
Rather than romanticize the city, French studies lecturer Nelly Noury-Ossia asked students to interrogate it.
CHHAIN, supported by a $500,000 NEH grant, will serve as a central hub for exploring how humanities-based insights, particularly those grounded in ethics, history and patient narratives, can shape the future of responsible AI in health care.
Rice men’s basketball team heads to Europe with culture, curiosity in tow
In preparation for its August trip through Belgium and France, the team participated in two cultural workshops designed and led by School of Humanities faculty members.
Internships and impact: How Rice students are shaping the world
Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts education, global sports marketing and refugee housing.
Romanticism in real time: Rice students take on ruins, race, revolution in Paris
Held over three weeks this summer, the class was grounded in literature, philosophy and art history but used Paris itself as the primary teaching tool.
Rice’s Archives of the Impossible offer insight and expertise for World UFO Day
Housed within the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, the archives have amassed more than a million documents, recordings and files related to unexplained phenomena.
Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civic Leadership-funded Houston Action Research Teams program.
More than words: The degree that does it all
While national narratives have often painted the humanities as a risky investment, Rice’s English program offers a clear rebuttal.
New media studies program at Rice blends critical thinking with creative practice
The program trains students to both analyze and produce media across formats, empowering them to become not just smarter consumers of content but purposeful creators.
Celebrating student voices: Award-winning publications showcase the power of humanities at Rice
From celebrating campus creativity to elevating academic research, two student-led publications are giving undergraduates a platform to lead, edit and publish meaningful work.
A night to remember: Rice celebrates the undergraduate Class of 2025
Rice conferred more than 2,900 degrees to its newest graduates — the most in the university’s history — during its 112th commencement weekend held May 9-10.
More than 750 freshly minted advanced degree graduates took their well-earned strolls across the stage at Rice's Tudor Fieldhouse May 10.