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.
In Venice, a new platform for Rice faculty
With students from Italy, the United States, China, Japan, Israel and beyond, Venice International University's class sizes are capped at 25.
Shepherd School composition students respond to ‘Imaging after Photography’ with original works
The series serves as a flagship program of the Libbie Rice Shearn Moody Fund for the Arts, which is part of the Moody Experience, a universitywide initiative funded by the Moody Foundation.
Rice senior finds common ground between philosophy, medicine
“My journey has definitely been an exercise in broadening my academic interests every year,” said Annesha Dey.
Making history: Mekki becomes first Rice-ENS graduate student exchange participant
Amani Mekki, a second-year master's student in transdisciplinary arts from the École normale supérieure – PSL, is spending this semester at Rice.
Adams brings ‘Short Ride,’ decades of wisdom to Shepherd School students
Composer and conductor John Adams rehearsed his iconic “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” with the school’s symphony orchestra in Stude Concert Hall.
Rice’s Timothy Morton helps turn cosmic signals into sound in landmark installation
“The Logos” is a yearlong immersive installation that opened Easter Sunday and transforms more than 4,000 fast radio bursts into spatial audio.