Remembering Charles Duncan Jr. ’47, former board chair, namesake of Duncan College
Charles Duncan Jr. ’47, whose graduation from Rice University foreshadowed a long career as an executive and director at major American corporations and a cabinet secretary serving the nation’s president, died Tuesday at age 96.
WalletHub ranks Rice among nation’s top 10 universities
Rice is named as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in newly released rankings from WalletHub.
Voting at stadiums wins fans across America
Sports teams across America scored a victory with voters in 2020 when their stadiums did double duty as polling places, according to a new study conducted by a Rice University political scientist and his fellow researchers.
Rice rises to No. 15 in US News rankings
Rice has risen to No. 15 among the nation’s top universities ranked in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook.
As new students settled into campus during O-Week, another annual tradition introduced new faculty to the campus.
Leebron accepts posts at Columbia, Harvard
Former President David Leebron will spend much of the coming year at the two institutions other than Rice that have played the most important roles in his education and career.
Landmark new engineering and science building on campus to bear Ralph S. O’Connor’s name
A self-made businessman who started out working in oilfields and ended up building an empire in energy and real estate investments will be memorialized at Rice University with a landmark new science and engineering building named in his honor.
Rice to open international campus in Paris
Rice University will expand global education and research opportunities for its students and faculty with the opening of the Rice University Paris Center, which holds its ceremonial launch this week.
Dittmar named new Rice University provost
Amy Dittmar, a distinguished scholar with an extensive background in economics, finance and university administration, has been named the new provost of Rice University.
Fayez Sarofim, Rice donor and longtime endowment leader, dies at 93
Fayez Sarofim, the prominent investment adviser who generously donated to Rice after quietly but cannily steering the university’s endowment through decades of dramatic growth, died Saturday. He was 93.
Rice bids fond farewell to finance wizard Kathy Collins
One of the top administrators at Rice University never taught a class here, but grateful colleagues who joined together last week for a celebration of her long and distinguished career hailed her as nothing less than one of the great teachers and leaders on campus.
Rice to welcome four new trustees
Rice University will begin the next academic year with four new Board of Trustee members. Asuka Nakahara, Jeremy Thigpen, Claudia Gee Vassar and Lori Whitten will serve four-year terms beginning July 1.
Rice University commencement media advisory
Rice University’s commencement ceremonies for conferral of degrees to undergraduate and graduate degree candidates will be held Saturday, May 7.
Town hall: Leebron looks back on 18 years
After a year in which the university community largely returned to campus in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, President David Leebron dedicated his annual town hall meeting to reviewing both recent developments and the accomplishments of the university he has led for the last 18 years.
US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs
A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
