The Rice Owls rode a strong defensive performance to take down USF 5-2 on Sunday, securing a series win against the Bulls.
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...
Even for the nation’s highest achieving students, the transition from high school to college can be an intimidating experience. That’s where RISE (res...
Rice will kick off its annual orientation, lovingly dubbed O-Week, Aug. 17 in a series of programs that familiarize incoming students with their new s...
Fort Bend County has grown from around 50,000 residents in 1970 to nearly 1 million in 2024....
Rice researchers have demonstrated a form of quantum interference two orders of magnitude greater than any previously reported....
Rice has been selected to join the 2025 cohort of the FirstGen Forward Network, a national initiative that recognizes colleges committed to advancing ...
Rice and ExxonMobil collaborate to advance global sustainable energy research
Rice and ExxonMobil have entered into a master research agreement to collaborate on research initiatives focused on sustainable energy solutions.
From Major League Baseball to the classroom: Oz Ocampo brings global sports insight to Rice students
Oz Ocampo, a former international scout with the Houston Astros, is shaping the next generation of sports industry professionals.
Scientists observe exotic quantum phase once thought impossible
A team of Rice researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago known as a superradiant phase transition, which occurs when two groups of quantum particles begin to fluctuate in a coordinated, collective way without any external trigger, forming a new state of matter.
A city of museums, a campus of art
With its campus nestled in Houston’s Museum District, Rice has built a model for what a university-art museum partnership can look like.
Senior Spotlight: Sophianne Loh ’25
Sophianne Loh, a bioengineering major from Chicago, found her home at Rice in the strong sense of community and top-tier research opportunities.
‘Oscars of Science’ Breakthrough Prize honors Rice physicists
An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
For three days in April, scholars, experiencers and independent researchers gathered not to solve the mystery but to examine its place in our evolving cultural, political and philosophical landscape.
At Rice, art becomes a toolkit for repair
At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus.
Rice students develop low-cost vibrotactile glove to help treat Parkinson’s disease
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease around the world.