Rice University builds momentum with record demand, historic growth
Rice is entering a new era of growth, fueled by record student demand, an expanding faculty and research enterprise, major investments in campus infrastructure and a growing global presence — all while introducing new programs designed to ensure that a Rice education remains accessible and deeply personalized.
25 years later, a historian reflects on 9/11 and its lasting legacy
For Nathan Citino, the Barbara Kirkland Chiles Professor of History at Rice, the 25th anniversary offers an opportunity to look beyond the attacks themselves and consider how the past quarter-century has reshaped American politics, foreign policy and society.
Rice archive of the unexplained gets its own TV series
“Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena,” a six-part documentary series filmed at Rice, premieres Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. on SundanceTV, AMC+ and All Reality.
Rice MFA student reflects on Dolly Parton after years chronicling her life, legacy
Shima Oliaee created the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America,” which began as a four-hour interview with the superstar in her music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
A blade of grass in a beating heart: Rice students find design needs bedside
Bioengineering students address 5 unmet health care needs through clinical immersion in Houston hospitals
Who’s writing your medical record? AI in exam room more than notetaker
In a new article published in The Lancet, Rice’s Kirsten Ostherr and her co-authors argue that these tools known as ambient scribes do far more than take notes.
Literature meets medicine on the streets of Paris
A comparative lens runs through the syllabus of the Paris summer course, which paired French works in translation with foundational texts in the medical humanities.
Rice students encounter Gothic world where it still stands
“Nothing prepares you for a cathedral,” said Denva Gallant, associate professor of art history at Rice.
Even Disneyland can be a garden: Rice course reads power in landscapes of Paris
Imperial Gardens, taught at the Rice Global Paris Center, traced how political power writes itself into garden landscapes and public parks.
From recombinant DNA to AI: Who gets a say in powerful new science?
Professor Luis Campos studies the history of biology and biotechnology.
Rice senior AJ Shin named among inaugural class of Lafayette Fellows, will study at Sorbonne
The program launches on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence and celebrates the historic relationship between France and the United States.
Study finds climate change missing from stories shaping modern culture
The findings raise pointed questions about how elite fiction reflects what study authors call the defining crisis of the present moment.
AI crashed a Paris wine tasting and that was the point
The ‘Human Flourishing in the Age of AI’ conference tackles how AI is quietly reshaping what it means to live a fully human life.
Houston was first: Rice historian uncovers origins of Juneteenth celebrations
Caleb McDaniel traces the origins of Juneteenth to a June 19, 1866, procession through Houston led by two Black ministers.
Weissenberger, longtime professor of German studies, remembered for 50-year Rice legacy
Klaus Weissenberger’s scholarly range stretched from 18th-century lyric poetry to the evolution of the fairy tale and the distinctions between German and Austrian literary traditions.
