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Bucky Allshouse (left) with honorees Elle ’00 and Clarke Anderson ’01 at the for Rice's Honour event, 2026

Rice Athletics celebrates longtime supporters at An Evening for Rice’s Honour

Rice Athletics celebrated longtime supporters and champions of its student-athletes Sept. 30 at the 21st An Evening for Rice’s Honour gala at River Oa...

Families Weekend 2026

‘Celebration of your students’: Families Weekend showcases campus life, community

Rice parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members joined their Owls for meals, performances, conversations, campus activities and athletic...

Fertility rates have declined across the Houston area over the past two decades as childbearing has increasingly shifted to later ages, according to new research from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

Houston is booming, even as fertility rates fall

Houston’s population boom masks other trends that have been unfolding for more than two decades: Women here are having fewer children and having them ...

From left: Eric George, Rice interim athletic director; TJ Tijerina, president and CEO of First Community; and Rice President Reginald DesRoches. (Photos by Jared Jones)

Rice, First Community Credit Union announce 20-year stadium naming rights deal

Rice and First Community Credit Union have signed a 20-year football stadium naming rights and campus collaboration agreement as announced Thursday by...

Karen Lozano teaching in a lecture hall at Rice.

Rice Engineering and Computing names Lozano as director of Tapia Center

Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing has named Karen Lozano as the director of the Tapia Center for Empowerment through STEM Edu...

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Rice continues rise in global university rankings

Rice continues its upward momentum in global higher education, rising two spots to No. 101 worldwide in the 2027 Times Higher Education World Universi...

A person in blue gloves holds a tiny, patterned object, with a blurred background showing another individual in a lab setting.

Rice Biotech Launch Pad invents ‘living pharmacy’ designed to produce therapeutics inside the body

Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, have developed an implantable “living pharmacy” using engineered protein produce...

Vaccination in healthcare setting with injection.

Think you’re protected? New research shows how perceptions of immunity shape vaccine decisions

New research explores how perceptions of immunity can shape vaccine decisions and how personalized feedback may help people better understand their pr...