Rice’s largest engineering and student rocketry club, Rice Eclipse, soared to new heights this summer, taking top honors in the 30,000-foot Student Re...
Rather than romanticize the city, French studies lecturer Nelly Noury-Ossia asked students to interrogate it....
Researchers have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands in a kagome superconductor....
Rice demonstrated its commitment to campus and community safety with the recent relocation of a crosswalk signal. Rice worked with the surrounding nei...
Rice’s campus was buzzing this summer as students in the Rice Emerging Scholars Program wrapped up six weeks of challenging courses, hands-on projects...
The Rice School of Architecture is proud to announce the opening of Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, an exhibition by acclaimed Dutch photographer I...
Rice has once again earned national recognition in The Princeton Review’s annual Best Colleges rankings, placing in the top 10 in four categories for ...
Rice anthropologists featured in an international exhibition launched in connection with the United Nations’ International Year of Glacier Preservatio...
Incoming graduate students trickled in from across the country and around the world this week, rolling carts and hauling boxes into Rice’s graduate ho...
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice, has been named the 2025 recipie...
Rice alumnus Wesley Sinor ’97, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Jones School of Business, has been flagged as Houston Livestock Show and ...
Rice’s academic year is about to launch, but dozens of incoming Owls started early by engaging with the city and its social justice issues, addressing...
Partnership to develop free education resources for nursing students
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and Rice University's OpenStax are building on their existing partnership to address staffing shortages in the nursing profession and reduce financial barriers for nursing students. In collaboration with postsecondary institutions in Texas and stakeholders nationwide, OpenStax will launch a comprehensive free online curriculum for nursing education in spring 2024.
For working professionals who want to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree with a flexible schedule, the new Hybrid MBA program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business opens this summer.
President Reginald DesRoches gave a wave as he and his wife, University Associate Paula DesRoches, participated in the Chevron Houston Half-Marathon Jan. 15.
DesRoches takes part in Ten Across Summit
President Reginald DesRoches spoke about how Rice works with partners and institutions across the region to solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time Jan. 11 at the Ten Across Summit , which brought leaders from cities along the Interstate 10 corridor — from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Florida — to Houston to seek solutions to social, economic and climate challenges.
Rice’s annual United Way campaign concludes, raising over $260,000 in 18 weeks
After 18 weeks of fundraising, Rice’s annual United Way campaign ultimately brought in $260,397.
Rice’s Jamie Padgett wins Texas academy’s O’Donnell Award
Rice University structural engineer Jamie Padgett has received the 2023 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.
Rice salutes Martin Luther King Jr.
Rice University celebrated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with a vigil and panel discussion on social justice followed by participating in an annual parade.
Research on televised opera, slave voyages honored with National Endowment for the Humanities grants
A Rice University musicologist and history professor are among the recipients of 2023 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their research projects on televised opera and tracking historical slave trading voyages.
Owls take two in dramatic finishes
It was a thrilling holiday weekend for the Rice men’s basketball team, which won Conference USA contests over a pair of in-state rivals.
Inner ear has a need for speed
Rice bioengineers and applied physicists, together with and colleagues at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago, have unlocked the mechanism of the fastest synapses in the human body. A previously hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain, and researchers from Rice University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain.
