Restarting a once annual tradition, the Rice Student Association along with Fondren Library sponsored three sessions of end-of-semester de-stressing with therapy dogs.
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...
Battle of the birds: LendingTree Bowl at a glance
The game marks the Rice football program’s first postseason action since 2014
Campus holistic garden plants roots in new location
The Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden has been replanted in a new location on the Rice University campus, just north of the Gibbs Recreation Center in between the basketball courts and O'Connor Field.
Rice’s Take Flight program helping community college STEM students soar
Rice University welcomed more than 80 students and 10 faculty members from Lone Star College and San Jacinto College in early December to learn more about its Take Flight STEM Pathway program.
Ramesh, vice president for research, inducted as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, vice president for research, has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
Students immersed in STEM at daylong workshop
Rice hosts elementary, middle and high school students at the Fresh Start Engineering Workshop.
Rice flashes new life into lithium-ion anodes
Rice chemists use flash Joule heating to recover graphite anodes from spent lithium-ion batteries.
In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.
Texas power grid debate should focus on reliability and economics, says Baker Institute expert
Building new ties between the Texas electrical grid and the major grids in North America should be explored with strict regard to economics and reliability — leaving politics aside — according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Pathogenic sensor’s surprising capabilities revealed
Rice synthetic biologists have uncovered new capabilities of a genetically encoded sensor that allows salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens to sicken millions of people each year.