Incoming Rice students stride toward the Sallyport for matriculation, which ran all day long to accommodate social distancing measures and allow plenty of room for each college to march through the quad. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
A new facility that will serve the needs of visual and dramatic arts students and faculty at Rice University is closer to being realized thanks to a generous lead gift from Houston businessman and philanthropist Fayez Sarofim.
Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online
Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.
Rice Cinema film series screening outdoors, online this semester
VADA is hosting BYOChair movie nights during the fall 2020 semester.
'Is This the End?' Big Questions courses tackle truth, ethics and the apocalypse
Two new Humanities classes will explore questions for which there is no 'right' answer.
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker
In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.
Classical Mask: Art History’s punny posters encourage mask wearing, social distancing
New health protocol notices in Herring Hall promote safety, smiles.
'Faces in the Pandemic' opens at Fondren
Rice remembers legendary Rabbi Samuel Karff, one of Houston’s 'Three Wise Men'
Rabbi Karff lectured at Rice for over 20 years and was influential in fundraising for its Jewish Studies program.
Facilities, Engineering & Planning staff have been hard at work creating and placing signs across the Rice campus in advance of the fall semester.
Rice administers over 4,000 COVID-19 tests in first half of August
Rice University has been ramping up COVID-19 testing in advance of students returning for O-Week and the start of in-person and online classes Aug. 24.
Unprecedented move-in process puts Rice to the test
Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.
Rice Rec Center reopens with strict safety measures in place
