Rice tuition benefits help empower employees, boost careers and support families
Rice’s commitment to lifelong learning isn’t just for students. Recent updates to the university’s tuition benefits policies are making a significant difference in the lives of employees and their families, offering greater support for professional development and educational opportunities.
Rice opens the Rice Nexus, an innovation factory in the Ion focused on AI
Rice is celebrating the grand opening of the Rice Nexus, its flagship innovation hub in the Ion District designed to help faculty, students and alumni founders turn breakthrough research into high-impact startups.
Watch: Love springs eternal at Rice
Love is in the air at Rice. The campus provides not only rigorous academic programs and top-notch research; it also serves as the meeting ground for Owls to discover romance. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, fall in love with stories of Owls meeting, courting and eventually saying “I do.”
Owls open season with Puerto Rico Baseball Challenge
Rice opens its 110th college baseball season in a new venue as the Owls join seven other schools in the first Puerto Rico Baseball Challenge, Friday through Sunday.
Spring Fling returns to Moody Center for the Arts with Madison McFerrin and DJ DOUBLEDUTCH
The March 1 event runs from 7-9 p.m. with special access to the galleries from 5-7 p.m.
Cristian Măcelaru returns to the Shepherd School for 2 February concerts
Grammy-winning conductor and alumnus Cristian Măcelaru ’06 ’08 is returning to Rice’s Shepherd School of Music for two upcoming performances, marking his first visit since being named distinguished visiting artist.
OpenStax algebra curriculum receives unanimous approval in Texas
OpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources based at Rice, announced that its algebra curriculum has received unanimous approval from the Texas State Board of Education. With this approval, the curriculum has been added to the Texas Instructional Materials Allocation list, underscoring OpenStax’s commitment to providing secondary educators with affordable, high-quality resources that support student success.
The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic disorders in this vital organ as well as in other organs and tissues.
When medicine, technology and the humanities intersect, the result is a conversation that challenges the status quo and reimagines the future of health care.
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies launches teaching minor
Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is now offering a minor in teaching, marking the school’s first undergraduate credential.
Rice convenes experts to examine history, identity and global impact of Haiti
Exploring Haiti’s colonial past, its revolution and independence and its contemporary challenges, the symposium “Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future” addressed themes such as migration, political resilience, economic struggles and environmental concerns.
Rice Master of Global Affairs students take on international policy negotiation in Paris
In their final semester, a group of Master of Global Affairs students applied their academic knowledge in a real-world setting, spending a week in Paris.
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki elected to National Academy of Engineering
Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine.”
Mothers with incarcerated children shoulder emotional and financial burdens
The financial and emotional toll borne by mothers whose adult children have experienced incarceration is often overlooked but can exacerbate financial burdens, especially for Black mothers, according to new research from Rice sociologist Brielle Bryan.
True love: Rice chooses Houston as its valentine
Members of the Rice community gathered Feb. 10 at the Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall in an act of love by creating Valentine’s Day cards for the community in partnership with United Way of Greater Houston. Faculty, staff and students came together in droves to fold, decorate and write messages, showing that the people of Houston are the heart of the city this Valentine’s Day.
