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....
Financing the transition: Students raise $200k to launch Rice New Energy Fund
May 9, 2022
Shikhar Verma ’24 launched the student-managed Rice New Energy Fund (RNEF), the nation’s first student-managed investment fund focused on the energy transition. Its goal is to generate returns for the fund with sustainability initiatives while advancing decarbonization, student finance education and team diversity.
May 9, 2022
All degree candidates were invited to attend the May 7 plenary commencement ceremony
May 9, 2022
A group of Lovetteers gave their mortarboards a test toss ahead of their march into Rice Stadium
May 9, 2022
Rice seniors linked arms with their friends and O-Week groups as they marched through the Sallyport
May 9, 2022
Candidates for advanced degrees sported mortarboards with messages at their investiture
Djerejian and Boles to discuss role and future of think tanks
May 9, 2022
Ambassador Edward Djerejian, director of Rice University’s globally top-ranked Baker Institute for Public Policy, will reflect on his 28-year directorship and discuss the future of think tanks in a special Director’s Lecture Series event May 12 with Rice historian John Boles.
Graduate student gets call to Brookhaven
May 9, 2022
Graduate student Dale Lowder has been selected by the Department of Energy to work and study at Brookhaven National Laboratory this fall.
Resilient Class of 2022 celebrates degrees earned, lessons learned at Leebron’s final commencement
May 7, 2022
Over two days of festivities, Rice’s 109th commencement celebrated a resilient class of undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom spent the majority of their Rice careers under the specter of COVID-19. The final May 7 ceremony marked the first universitywide commencement in three years.
Casbarian, Doty, Leebron and Sun receive ARA’s Gold Medal at 2022 Laureates Awards
May 6, 2022
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2022 Laureates Awards ceremony May 7, the group bestowed its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to Rice Architecture’s John Casbarian ’69 ’72 and Janice Doty ’60. Rice President David Leebron and wife Y. Ping Sun were also awarded the ARA’s Gold Medal for their 18 years of service to the university.
Daniel Preston wins NSF CAREER Award
May 6, 2022
Daniel Preston wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop textile-based wearable robots.