Why tablet computers took nearly 40 years to catch on
Historian Elizabeth Petrick follows the 1972 idea through decades of failed prototypes to the device in millions of hands today.
‘Stay for the answer’: Rice medical humanities turns 10
Alumni, faculty, and student researchers marked a decade of bringing the humanities into health care.
What prison food reveals about punishment in America
Rice historian Chin Jou traces how hunger, private contracts and unequal diets behind bars reach families, workers and taxpayers.
Meet the Rice Global ambassadors: Jasmine Cheng
A fiction writing course and daily bakery stop made Paris feel like home for the Rice sophomore.
Stitch by stitch, Rice sophomore found her way into French life
Adeline Thompson spent six weeks with her host family in Toulouse through Rice in France and came home seeing herself differently.
Across Two Seas widens map of premodern Black history
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world.
Alumnus Rhodes makes case for listening before you argue
The former Obama speechwriter brings lessons from 15 American speeches and a warning about AI to Rice’s fall Campbell Lectures Nov. 17-18.
Nation’s top student literary magazine takes center stage
The editors of R2: The Rice Review hosted an Open Mic Night months after the journal's second national title.
A summer in Seoul reshapes premed student’s view of care
Through Rice in Korea, junior Abbie Wang shadowed traditional Korean medicine faculty alongside language coursework.
Rice juniors uncover century of Latinx history; Houston puts it on display
‘Beyond the Hedges: Historias de Latinidad at Rice University’ runs through Dec. 31 at the Julia Ideson Building.
Rice alum brings Houston Cinema Arts Festival back to campus as its lead programmer
Screenings return to Rice Oct. 3, 10 and 11 in the Pitman Cinema Theatre inside Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall and admission is free for currently enrolled Rice students.
Canning built humanities at Rice by listening first
The dean of School of Humanities and Arts will step down at end of spring 2027 semester.
Courses are taught in English by faculty from 23 member institutions and built around themes that are global in reach and grounded in Venice itself.
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.