As a continuation of Rice’s Office of Student Success Initiatives’ O-Week, the Student Center will host Weeks of Welcome Aug. 23-Sept. 6 at various lo...
Rice’s Office of Student Success Initiatives hosted a prematriculation program for incoming Rice freshman and their families Aug. 14-16 as a leadup to...
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’s annual United Way campaign reaches $250,000 goal — but there’s still time to give
At a Dec. 5 celebration and reception for committee members and top donors to this year’s Rice United Way campaign, the fundraising effort’s staff chair Susann Glenn and faculty chair Doug Natelson declared the annual effort had once again met its ambitious goal of raising $250,000.
US must disconnect strategic supply chains from China, say Baker Institute experts
China’s dominance over the supply of rare-earth minerals and materials — which are critical for energy transition and defense technologies — should spur U.S. policymakers to bolster raw materials supply chains, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Basketball teams, RUSMP host School House Mania for area students
Rice Athletics and the Rice University School Mathematics Project hosted Houston-area students at Tudor Fieldhouse last week for their annual School House Mania.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 19, 2022
Minjae Kim, assistant professor of management in organizational behavior at the Jones Graduate School of Business, was ranked one of 2022’s 50 best undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
Mikos wins Jensen Tissue Engineering Award
Bioengineer Antonios Mikos receives the 2023 Jensen Tissue Engineering Award.
Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
Astronomers dove deep into the first images from the Webb Space Telescope and made a surprising discovery.
Doerr’s spring Catalyst program designed to help students become better leaders
Looking to build leadership skills in the new year? The Doerr Institute for New Leaders’ Catalyst program is now open for applications from Rice students.
DesRoches outlines 2023 goals to faculty
President Reginald DesRoches delivers his inaugural State of the University
Puppetry workshop brings Owls, performers together for larger-than-life performance
Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Department Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures within the School of Humanities, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and Bread and Puppet Theater — one of the oldest nonprofit political theater companies in the country — Rice students got the chance to play roles in a larger-than-life puppet show Nov. 22.
Lights, latkes, fun and fellowship
Members of the Rice community gathered at Valhalla for an evening of celebration Dec. 5 for Chabad at Rice’s pre-Hanukkah bash.
