Home begins at the Sallyport: Rice welcomes newest undergraduates at matriculation ceremony
An unforgettable welcome for Rice's newest Owls — the largest freshman class in Rice history.
One garment, 12 stories: O-Week T-shirt design rallies Owls
When new students arrived at Rice for O-Week, they quickly learned how residential college identity is a big part of life on campus. Each college has its own traditions, personality and theme. This year, though, a new T-shirt design offers a reminder that all of those communities are part of something bigger.
Rice welcomes largest-ever incoming class as Move-In Day kicks off O-Week
Rice welcomed more than 1,400 new undergraduate students to campus Sunday for the start of Orientation Week, where they were greeted by cheering students, faculty and staff across the university’s 12 residential colleges.
From Mahler’s flop to AI’s future: Shepherd School debuts musicology lecture series
The Music and Ideas Series will bring four leading scholars to campus between October and March for free talks open to the public.
Rice has received a $25 million gift from university trustee James “Jim” Whitehurst and his wife, Lauren Whitehurst, to establish the Sallyport Fellows Program, a comprehensive initiative supporting first-generation and limited-income undergraduate students throughout their Rice experience.
Welcome ‘Chaosens’: Chao College opens its doors as Rice’s 12th residential college
When Rice’s newest residential college opened its doors this week, its first students didn’t simply move into a new building. They’re helping create a community — and an identity — that will shape the college for generations.
Research explores how faith and work can coexist in increasingly diverse workplace
Rice sociologist's research on faith in the workplace is helping organizations navigate religious diversity and has earned national recognition for its public impact.
Graduate students begin a new chapter during housing move-in week
Students arrived from across the country and around the world as staff and graduate resident assistants welcomed more than 450 residents to three Rice graduate housing properties.
A new way to beat jet lag? Engineered cells speed circadian adjustment
Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and Northwestern University have developed an implantable cell therapy that may help the body adapt more quickly to jet lag.
RUPD youth academy offers behind-the-scenes look at law enforcement
The Rice University Police Department wrapped up another successful Law Enforcement Youth Academy July 27–31, welcoming 20 local students to campus for a week of hands-on learning and positive engagement with law enforcement.
Undergraduate researchers showcase a summer of discovery
Rice’s 2026 class of summer undergraduate researchers gathered at the BioScience Research Collaborative last week for the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry.
Scientists uncover new clue to how protons maintain their identity
New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the gluelike particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number, an essential part of a particle’s quantum identity.
Rice professor advises computational chemistry researchers to prepare for new AI tools
David Sholl, Rice’s executive vice president for research and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently published an opinion piece in ACS Central Science, where he and co-author Andrew Medford, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, share their perspective on machine learning tools expected to bring radical changes to the field of computational chemistry.
Rice alumnus earns international honor for decades of software innovation
Rice alumnus Cary Jensen receives an international honor recognizing his decades of contributions to software development, education and technical communication.
Rice researchers show graphene nanowrinkles can reshape electricity
Rice researchers have shown that tiny wrinkles in graphene can change the material’s electrical properties.