Rice took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of ...
A team of six Rice students developed a device that holds and stabilizes an intracardiac echocardiography catheter during heart procedures, allowing ...
Rice's Yonglong Xie has been recognized for his innovation in quantum phenomena....
The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civ...
The program is designed to deepen students’ fluency in a language essential to the operatic tradition. ...
Nearly 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the release of its 2025 Kinder Housto...
Rice Athletics announced that it will partner with Independent Sports and Entertainment to identify a potential naming rights partner for Rice Stadium...
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, in collaboration with a team of experts, has developed the Galves...
Kassim wins prestigious dissertation completion fellowship
May 10, 2021
A series of setbacks didn’t deter this Rice grad student, who is soon to publish his second book.
Unconventional Students at Rice 2021: Izzy Samperio gets ‘cute and gnarly’ in the arts
May 7, 2021
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
May 5, 2021
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
May 3, 2021
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
May 3, 2021
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
May 3, 2021
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
May 1, 2021
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
April 27, 2021
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
April 22, 2021
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
April 19, 2021
Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.