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Moody celebrates Pride 2025

Moody Center recognizes Pride Month with live music, open gallery

June 30, 2025

Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts welcomed enthusiastic arts and music lovers for a Pride Month happy hour on the afternoon of June 26, which featured renditions of pop favorites by Pride Chorus Houston and tunes from DJ Krazzy Kris.

Pride Parade 2025

Owls shine bright at Houston’s Pride Parade

June 30, 2025

As Houston’s pride parade made its way through the streets of downtown Houston, so did Rice’s students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters. The parliament of owls gathered to celebrate the 47th annual event, which held special significance in many regards.

Kathryn Cavender

Rice salutes Cavender’s 30-plus year commitment, retirement

June 24, 2025

Kathryn Cavender, associate vice president of the campus safety department, was recently celebrated for her 34 years of service at Rice, shortly before she enters her retirement. More than 100 people joined a reception at the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science to salute her dedication to the university and the people who fill its spaces.

Texas Leadership Consortium

‘A transformational initiative’: Rice hosts college preparation camp for Houston youth

June 18, 2025

Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high schools and middle schools to provide life lessons and college readiness activities.

Juneteenth 2025

Owls return for Juneteenth: Alumni reflect on their experiences as student leaders during the era of Black Lives Matter

June 18, 2025

Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel discussion titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Leading in the Time of Black Lives Matter,” offered reflections and insights from former student leaders who navigated pivotal moments of leadership during the movement.

MCC Mosaic 2025

Internationally recognized ‘Woman Life Freedom’ mural makes US debut at Rice

June 18, 2025

A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making history on American soil. The “Woman Life Freedom” mural, created by Iranian-American filmmaker and activist Hooman Khalili, was recently unveiled at Rice, becoming the first temporary installation of its kind on a U.S. college campus.

Credit: Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Lilie Summer Venture Studio accelerator returns with 8 new student ventures 

June 16, 2025

The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) at Rice has unveiled the eight high-potential ventures selected for the third annual Lilie Summer Venture Studio accelerator program. Summer Venture Studio is Rice’s accelerator for high growth, high ambition founders, offering a deep dive into venture building and equipping student-led teams with the funding, mentorship and resources needed to bring their bold ideas to life.

Rice Pride Parade 2024

Rice celebrates Pride Month with host of events, participation in parade

June 9, 2025

June serves as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and to celebrate, Rice and many campus affiliates will host events to spread awareness about the LGBTQ+ community and educate on sexual and gender diversity.


Shepherd School in Tianjin

Bridging cultures through music in China

June 6, 2025

Five students joined peers from 30 institutions across Asia, Europe and North America to form the NextGen Symphony, a first-of-its-kind international orchestra.

HEXASpec

Rice student venture HEXAspec wins NSF grant to enhance computer chips for breakthrough thermal management technology

June 4, 2025

The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice is proud to announce that HEXAspec, a cutting-edge spinout from the lab of professor Jun Lou, has been awarded a $500,000 National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant. The funding will support HEXAspec’s work to enhance the future of computing by substantially improving the thermal conductivity of chips.

Kinder's Community Bridges poster presentation.

Rice students drive real-world change through research with Houston nonprofits

May 29, 2025

Community partners across Houston are seeing meaningful results from a unique research partnership with Rice University students.

EEPS (R-STEM) Open House

Rice helps youth explore Earth and space sciences at ‘first-of-its-kind’ event

May 19, 2025

Nearly 1,000 Earth and planetary explorers from the greater Houston area attended Rice’s K-12 Earth and planetary open house at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall May 3. The event was held by the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, the Rice Space Institute’s Center for Planetary Origins to Habitability and the Office of STEM Engagement in partnership with Houston Independent School District and NASA.

RISE stole ceremony 2025

First class of RISE participants graduates from Rice

May 14, 2025

The inaugural cohort of Rice’s RISE (Responsibility, Inclusion and Student Empowerment) program received a commemorative stole to wear at commencement, symbolizing their participation in the pre-matriculation initiative.

Rice Sustainability - Give a Hoot

‘Real change starts from an idea’: Rice’s sustainability project earns statewide honor

May 14, 2025

Rice’s Campus Services and Sustainability recently was recognized by Keep Texas Beautiful with its Beautify Texas Award in the Outstanding Program of the Year category. The department was honored for its “Give a Hoot! Donate Your Loot!” move-out collection campaign coordinated by the Office of Sustainability and Housing and Dining.

Night of Flight 2025

Rice Athletics celebrates Night of Flight: Denim and Diamonds

May 13, 2025

Rice Athletics hosted its annual Night of Flight celebration and fundraiser May 1, bringing together alumni, student-athletes, supporters, family and friends to reflect on a year of achievement and momentum.

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