Video: Future Rice Owls’ emotional reactions to acceptance letters
In a heartwarming display of emotion, potential future students of Rice University captured video of themselves opening their acceptance letters for the Fall 2024 admissions cycle.
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...
New book authored by Rice’s Douglas Brinkley documents coal mining communities in postwar America
A new book co-authored by Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley paints a picture of the lives of individuals in coal mining communities and their vital contributions to the first wave of post-WWII growth in the U.S.
Rice’s Shepherd School mesmerizes families at Musical Stories Family Concert
Combining the enchantment of music with the allure of artful storytelling, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music celebrated another successful iteration of its annual family concert March 23, showcasing the musical talents of Shepherd School students while serving as an example of Rice’s commitment to fostering creativity and cultural enrichment within the community.
Rice’s open enrollment period for benefit plans is April 8-22
Rice University welcomes employees to review and change their benefits plans during the open enrollment period, running April 8-22 this year. Employees will have a chance to learn more about the updated plans and meet vendor representatives during the RiceFest benefits fair from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. April 2 at the Grand Hall in the Rice Student Center.
Rice solar eclipse expert offers tips to safely view the April 8 eclipse
Nationally recognized solar eclipse expert Patricia Reiff, Rice University professor of physics and astronomy and the associate director of outreach programs for the Rice Space Institute, offers tips on how to safely view the April 8 eclipse, which will be the last total solar eclipse in the U.S. for 20 years .
ConnectSmart app to enhance transportation options for Rice community
Houston ConnectSmart, a program deployed by the Texas Department of Transportation, is now available to the Rice community to aid transportation sustainability efforts. The app is available for download and will link Owls to create eco-friendly travel options to get to and from campus and around the city. It is available to anyone with a rice.edu email address.
Rice partners with Tuskegee to pursue research collaborations
Rice University hosted representatives from Tuskegee University March 27 and 28 to discuss opportunities regarding academic and research collaborations. The two universities signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue such efforts.
Rep. Luttrell discusses Houston’s brain health future at Baker Institute event
U.S. Representative for Texas’ 8th Congressional District Morgan Luttrell spoke at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy March 28 on brain health and its importance on economic and geopolitical outcomes.
Rice study identifies protein responsible for gas vesicle clustering in bacteria
Rice University bioengineers and colleagues at Washington University in Saint Louis and Duke University identified a protein nanostructure that plays a role in the cellular structure of certain microorganisms, paving the way to more efficient biotechnological and biomedical applications.
Rice’s bioengineering department celebrates 25-year anniversary
The Department of Bioengineering at Rice University celebrated its 25th anniversary March 22 with an event held at the Texas Medical Center Helix Park. Around 200 guests assembled to celebrate the department’s history and accomplishments.