Workshop highlights ‘pivotal moment’ for future of AI in space exploration
The In-Space Physical AI Workshop convened top scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and government leaders to explore the role of AI in space exploration.
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 University announces strategic expansion into India with Rice Global India
Rice is expanding its international presence with the launch of Rice Global India. This strategic initiative underscores the university’s commitment to fostering global collaboration and advancing its contributions to India’s rapidly growing education and technology sectors.
‘Surprised and moved’: Rice student Jae Kim named Rhodes Scholar
Rice senior Jae Kim ’25 has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, one of just 32 American recipients – and the sole representative from a Texas university – chosen to study at the University of Oxford in England next fall.
Fondren Library increases access to Rice research
As the fall semester progresses toward the holiday season, Rice’s Fondren Library is making efforts to increase the visibility of Rice research and reduce barriers to open access publishing for Rice-affiliated scholars.
Houston premiere of newly discovered Chopin waltz performed at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music
A newly discovered waltz by Frédéric Chopin, recently unearthed from a vault at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, made its Houston debut Nov. 13 at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music.
New Pickle Lab in Ion District open to public
The Ion District, Houston’s hub for innovation, now has its very own pickleball experience with the newly-opened Pickle Lab.
Shepherd School presents ‘Spirit of the Season’ with special arrangement by Broadway’s Andy Einhorn
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music is set to bring holiday magic to Houston with its annual “Spirit of the Season” concert Dec. 7 in Morrison Theater at Brockman Hall for Opera.
Topping out ceremony marks progress on Rice’s Sarofim Hall
Rice celebrated the topping out of Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, a new visual arts building, Nov. 12.
Rice WaTER Institute and Yokogawa partner on autonomous water treatment
Rice’s WaTER Institute and Yokogawa Corporation of America announced a new partnership in support of modular autonomous water treatment and reuse processes.
Moody’s ‘In Process’ comes alive through Shepherd School student compositions
Students of Rice’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed original pieces in response to the themes of the Moody Center for the Arts’ fall 2024 exhibition “Do Ho Suh: In Process.”