Shepherd School faculty join inaugural CAYO exchange in Mexico
Benjamin Kamins, Erin Hannigan, Elizabeth Freimuth and recently retired Janet Rarick offered master classes for student musicians in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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.
Summer at the Moody invites curiosity, connection, a few friendly spirits
The exhibition will be on view through Aug. 15.
Rice launches Space Humanities Initiative to bring cultural inquiry into conversation about space
The initiative brings scholars across disciplines together to examine how culture, language, ethics and imagination shape space exploration, and how space exploration shapes them in return.
Rice Global India: From launch to long-term partnership
Rice Global India has built strategic alignment with India's leading research institutions including the Indian Institute of Science and a growing group of Indian Institutes of Technology.
Swords drawn, students take stage for unconventional Rice final
Taught by lecturer Kyle Clark, Combat and Movement for the Stage is open to any Rice student regardless of major.
Shepherd School alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for music
Gabriela Lena Frank won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for her orchestral work “Picaflor: A Future Myth."
Rice students uncover Houston’s hidden histories through Fondren Fellows program
Fondren Fellows pairs Rice undergraduate and graduate students with faculty mentors and library staff to pursue original research projects grounded in Fondren Library’s collections and digital infrastructure.
For generations of Rice students, Nelson-Campbell was heart of French studies
Deborah Nelson-Campbell spent her scholarly life amplifying silenced medieval women while also being a formative, present voice for her own students.
Senior Spotlight 2026: AJ Shin charts intellectual path shaped by curiosity, connection at Rice
A philosophy major with minors in art history, Asian studies and French, AJ Shin’s academic path did not follow a predefined structure.
Should citizenship be for sale? Rice course tackles ethics of markets in real time
“I designed the syllabus very purposefully so as to feature a great diversity of viewpoints,” said Thimo Heisenberg, assistant professor of philosophy.
Rice students tackle racism, homelessness, horror — and win awards doing it
Nearly 100 students presented research and creative work across two days at the annual Humanities and Arts Festival held April 13-14.
Shepherd School’s ‘Falstaff’ captivates audiences across 3-night run
The production set the opera’s Shakespearean farce inside a modern country club, a staging choice that sharpened the comedy’s skewering of ego, class and social gamesmanship.
‘Skills they will need for life’: Rice dean connects humanities education to democratic engagement
The Rice University School of Humanities and Arts co-sponsored an April 16 Progressive Forum event featuring Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an international authority on fascism and the protection of democracy, in conversation with dean Kathleen Canning.
A Chappell Lab visit was one of dozens of open-ended cross-disciplinary engagements sparked this spring by “Imaging after Photography,” the Moody Center for the Arts’ exhibition examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping the medium.