Rice to honor MacArthur-winning professor Kiese Laymon April 10
March 27, 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, Provost Amy Dittmar and School of Humanities Dean Kathleen Canning invite all members of the Rice community to a special reception at Cohen House April 10 to formally honor English professor Kiese Laymon, recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship.
Rice hosts delegation of Brazilian higher education leaders
March 20, 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, along with a cadre of university administrators and the Office of International Students and Scholars, hosted a Fulbright Brazil delegation of Brazilian university presidents, provosts and other leaders in the country’s higher education world March 9.
Brasil@Rice program celebrates a decade of international connections
March 6, 2023
In the fall of 2022, Arlei Silva, assistant professor of computer science, was thrilled to have been named a recipient of one of the prestigious “100,000 Strong In The Americas” research grants , awarded to projects that involve collaboration between universities in the United States and those in Central and South America.
Rice graduate studies office throws ‘Night at the Museum’ bash
February 27, 2023
Rice’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies hosted its annual “A Night at the Museum” graduate student recruitment event Feb. 25 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Morian Hall of Paleontology, a fun-filled evening amid the museum’s spectacular collection of dinosaur skeletons and other paleontological wonders.
Learning Black history in Houston’s Fourth Ward
February 27, 2023
As part of Rice’s Black History Month programming sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, students and members of the Rice community visited
the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum in Freedmen’s Town Feb. 17.
Marathon of mitzvahs
February 27, 2023
Rice students and community members were invited to the Central Quad Feb. 22 by Chabad at Rice to participate in the group’s latest Mitzvah Marathon “good deed drive.”
Rice senior Joseph Asfouri awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship
February 22, 2023
Rice senior and electrical engineering and neuroscience student Joseph Asfouri is one of a select few American students to have been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Asfouri is Rice's second Churchill Scholar in nearly three decades.
Rice community rallies to aid Turkey, Syria after catastrophic earthquake
February 13, 2023
Following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake Feb. 6 that has caused over 30,000 deaths and widespread destruction in Turkey and neighboring Syria, Rice University’s Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) is embracing its mission to foster international connections by coordinating an effort with student groups including the Turkish Student Association to raise funds and gather crucial supplies for those affected by the natural disaster.
Rice grad students bring Latin America to special needs community
February 13, 2023
In the most recent class in the Global Rice Empowers Academics and Training (GREAT) Project Feb. 11, local young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities were treated to a fun-filled afternoon where international graduate students and Rice staff with the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) hosted a “Walk Through Latin America.”