Kassim wins prestigious dissertation completion fellowship
A series of setbacks didn’t deter this Rice grad student, who is soon to publish his second book.
Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...
Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....
When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean April 10, a critical piece of the spacecraft’s safe return traced back to research at Ric...
BRCĒ is a material-tech startup replacing failure-prone textiles with polymer composites engineered for strength, fire resistance and intrinsic stabil...
Four months after its launch, Project Metis is building momentum — with a new website and video offering a deeper look at the initiative’s vision to p...
Rice will contribute its expertise to the newly established Coastal Texas Research Council, a scientific and technical hub supporting the historic Coa...
As NASA’s Artemis II mission marks a historic return to crewed lunar flight, a Rice alumna is helping monitor the spacecraft in real time from the gro...
A new report from the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) at Rice offers a clearer answer to a question many district leaders and families a...
Unconventional Students at Rice 2021: Izzy Samperio gets ‘cute and gnarly’ in the arts
During the summer of 2017, Izzy Samperio got a head start on her college education before she was even enrolled at Rice. She attended a weeklong Black Humanities Seminar taught by Alexander Byrd.
Award-winning writer Kiese Laymon joining English faculty
The critically acclaimed memoirist and essayist will be the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English, starting Jan. 1, 2022.
Bruce Hainley joins Rice as new VADA chair
Noted writer Bruce Hainley is joining the faculty at Rice as the new chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA).
Flatfish got weird fast due to evolutionary cascade
Flatfishes rapidly evolved into the most asymmetric vertebrates by changing multiple traits at once, according to a Rice University study.
Courtney Hall, Owl football star recently named as trustee, dies at 52
Courtney Hall, a renowned Rice athlete whose career in football took him to the Super Bowl and career in finance took him to Wall Street, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52.
Annual student club awards recognize efforts in diversity, creativity and inclusion
The third annual Club Awards recognized those who helped keep the university community engaged during a difficult school year.
Rice names architect for new engineering and science building
With the imminent demolition of Rice University’s Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory, the space will soon be cleared for a new engineering and science building, according to Rice administrators. International architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been selected as lead architect for the new building. Houston’s Scientia Architects will consult on laboratory design.
Anthony Pinn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rice Professor Anthony Pinn has been elected to the nation’s foremost society of scholars, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established by America’s founding fathers in 1780, the academy’s members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
‘An unprecedented year’: Record number of Rice grad students awarded NSF fellowships
Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.