The Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives at Rice welcomed four high school students June 9-13 as inaugural STJA Archival Fellows, o...
Rice hosted the 15th annual Texas Leadership Consortium Summer Youth Program June 9-13. This weeklong camp engaged 100 students from Houston area high...
Rice welcomed five distinguished alumni back to campus June 13 for the university’s fifth annual Juneteenth celebration. The event, featuring a panel ...
A powerful work of public art that captured global attention when it first appeared on the facade of the Jerusalem Tolerance Museum is now making hist...
Housed within the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, the archives have amassed more than a million documents, recordings and files related to...
Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarize...
The university joined the Greater Houston Partnership in hosting the first city booth at the global event, which drew more than 180,000 attendees from...
The newly released 2025 State of Housing report from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, shows rising home prices, surging insurance premiums ...
RBL LLC announced the appointment of James Watson to its board of directors....
In a milestone moment for science education and collaboration, Rice hosted its first DUNE-TECH (DUNE Training ExperienCe Hub) camp this June, drawing ...
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) at Rice has unveiled the eight high-potential ventures selected for the third annual Lili...
A research team led by Rice has introduced an innovative strategy that uses converted enzymes to streamline synthetic pathways....
Racial segregation magnifies effects of childhood lead exposure
August 15, 2022
Racial segregation magnifies the effects of childhood lead exposure according to new research from Rice, Duke and Notre Dame
Rice’s Black Student Association greets newest Owls
August 15, 2022
Rice University’s Black Student Association welcomed new students to campus Aug. 13 at Herring Hall.
Rice says ‘bienvenidos’ to Hispanic students
August 15, 2022
The Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice (HACER) hosted a new student reception at Herring Hall Aug. 13.
Science atop an active volcano
August 15, 2022
A Rice graduate student’s video and blog show what it’s like to conduct research atop an active volcano.
In first matriculation address, DesRoches encourages Class of 2026 to expand horizons
August 15, 2022
An eventful first day of O-Week for Rice’s Class of 2026 was capped off with yet another annual Rice tradition — the matriculation ceremony and accompanying slate of speeches that signal the official beginning of incoming students’ new lives as members of the Rice community.
RISE program hosts incoming freshmen to explore equity, inclusion and justice
August 15, 2022
In July, incoming students interested in delving into issues around racial justice, equity and urban life were invited to the Rice campus a month before O-Week to take part in the RISE program (Responsibility, Inclusion and Student Empowerment).
Country music superstar Garth Brooks visits Rice athletes
August 15, 2022
Before the final show on his latest tour, country music legend Garth Brooks spoke to a group of Rice student athletes, an event held in conjunction with the nonprofit Teammates for Kids Foundation.
Ion and Houston Methodist to open health care innovation tech hub
August 15, 2022
Houston Methodist has joined the Ion as the first health care-centric partner in the growing innovation hub.
Record 17 Rice University graduate students named GEM Fellows
August 15, 2022
A record 17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium.
Rice history professors offer timely course on Russia’s war with Ukraine
August 15, 2022
Russia shook the international order when President Vladimir Putin launched a massive military invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. This fall, nearly six months from the war’s beginning, a pair of Rice history scholars along with several guest experts will guide students through the causes and consequences of the conflict.