The 2026 Rice Business Plan Competition announced today the 42 startups invited to compete for more than $1 million in prizes April 9-11 at Rice Unive...
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice has been recognized among top graduate programs in the Financial Times global business school r...
“Let’s begin with a very simple premise — simple but extremely important: Sound policy depends on sound data,” said David Satterfield, director of Ric...
The Texas-France Space hub's first annual Houston Space Galette, held Feb. 12, fostered dialogue within the Houston space community. ...
Rice University’s Virani Undergraduate School of Business is expanding its undergraduate business major with the launch of a new marketing concentrati...
a spirit of conversation defined the two-day conference organized by Rice’s School of Humanities and Arts faculty Jacqueline Couti and Caroline Fache ...
When the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies launched the first design studios in partner universities across Africa during Phase 1 of th...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) is thrilled to introduce the latest Rice Innovation Fellows 2026 cohort, a dynamic group ...
Reginald DesRoches, Lydia Kavraki elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches and Professor Lydia Kavraki have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s foremost society of scholars.
President DesRoches honors Rice staff’s ‘excellence in action’
President Reginald DesRoches welcomed staff members to a morning breakfast and recognition ceremony April 21 at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall. Themed “Excellence in Action,” the gathering highlighted the university’s successes and growth during the previous year, and also marked DesRoches’ first in office.
Annual Rice competition renamed Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
The George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase and Poster Competition, coordinated by Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), kicked off April 13 with remarks from President Reginald DesRoches — in which he announced the event will now be known as the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
Rice alumnus donates personal collection to Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop
A generous donation of vintage comics from Rice University alumnus Dr. Gordon Green ‘62 was recently made to the Comic Art Teaching and Study (CATS) Workshop in the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library.
Moody X-Fest ’23 celebrates the launch of the Moody Experience at Rice
Rice University Owls gathered in celebration of the Moody Foundation’s historic $100 million gift to the campus. More than 1,000 students flooded Tudor Fieldhouse April 7 for Moody X-Fest ’23, the signature event of the inaugural Moody Experience celebrations.
Steven Murdock, founding director of Rice University’s Hobby Center for the Study of Texas who served as director of the U.S. Census Bureau and state demographer of Texas, died April 7. He was 75.
Rice Sport Management students take on Final Four
An innovative course, titled The Business of Major Sporting Events, allowed Rice University students to be heavily involved in the planning and production of the 2023 men’s Final Four in Houston.
Rice mourns loss of trailblazing history chair, former dean Katherine Fischer Drew
Katherine Fischer Drew ’44 ’45, the esteemed Rice history chair, former acting dean of humanities and social sciences and the first woman ever hired as a tenure-track faculty member by the university, died March 19 at the age of 99.
66th annual Beer Bike rolls through campus
Beer Bike, one of Rice University’s most beloved traditions, was held for the 66th time April 1.
Ocean warming intensifies viral outbreaks within corals
A groundbreaking three-year study has found evidence that ocean warming can trigger outbreaks of viruses that attack the symbiotic algae inside corals.
