From Major League Baseball to the classroom: Oz Ocampo brings global sports insight to Rice students
Oz Ocampo, a former international scout with the Houston Astros, is shaping the next generation of sports industry professionals.
Rice’s newest Owls got an early introduction to one of the university’s loudest O-Week traditions Aug. 18 as Rice Rally brought together students, coa...
Rice's Lovett College has a new home. It has moved into a new 11-story building on campus, trading the familiar quirks of the Toaster for abundan...
Rice has once again earned national recognition in The Princeton Review’s annual Best Colleges rankings, taking the No. 1 spot in the nation for Lots ...
An unforgettable welcome for Rice's newest Owls — the largest freshman class in Rice history....
Rice welcomed more than 1,400 new undergraduate students to campus Sunday for the start of Orientation Week, where they were greeted by cheering stude...
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...
Researchers at Rice, with the support of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and Northwestern University have developed an implantable cell therapy that may h...
David Sholl, Rice’s executive vice president for research and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently published an opinion piece ...
‘Oscars of Science’ Breakthrough Prize honors Rice physicists
An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
At Rice, art becomes a toolkit for repair
At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus.
Rice students develop low-cost vibrotactile glove to help treat Parkinson’s disease
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease around the world.
Rice graduate programs excel in US News rankings
Rice continues to stand out for its academic excellence with several graduate programs earning high marks in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” rankings.
Cancer-fighting implant shows promise in treating melanoma, pancreatic and colorectal tumors
A team of researchers from the Rice Biotech Launch Pad has developed an implantable “cytokine factory” that safely triggers potent immune responses against hard-to-treat cancers, including metastatic melanoma, pancreatic and colorectal tumors.
As measles cases rise across Texas and the nation, a team of researchers at Rice and the Houston Health Department is leveraging wastewater surveillance to detect the virus in the community.
Rice Engineering and Computing marks 50 years of discovery, design and impact
Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing celebrated half a century since its official inception with two days of events that gathered together nearly 400 people, including staff, faculty, students, alumni and friends of the school. Held March 28-29, the celebration included panel discussions as well as lab tours, alumni gatherings and student showcases.
Blue carbon project will create a living shoreline to protect coastal ecosystems in Galveston Bay
Rice, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the design and creation of a living shoreline.
New Rice institute to study lifetime health impacts and develop targeted interventions
Rice University has launched the Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation.