Watch: Future Owls celebrate Rice acceptance with joyful reactions
Future Owls captured the joy and excitement of opening their Rice University acceptance letters, celebrating their place in the Class of 2029.
Caleb McDaniel traces the origins of Juneteenth to a June 19, 1866, procession through Houston led by two Black ministers....
Rice researchers from the Kavraki lab presented a keynote tutorial at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Vien...
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and Rice, along with campus partners and affiliates, will host a variety of events throughout the month to celebrate the L...
Rice researchers' analysis uncovers the history of the Houston meteorite....
Benjamin Kamins, Erin Hannigan, Elizabeth Freimuth and recently retired Janet Rarick offered master classes for student musicians in Guanajuato, Mexic...
Rice took a significant step toward expanding its documentation of Houston’s diverse communities June 1, hosting a ceremony to formally establish an I...
Deans, faculty, staff and board members gathered June 2 to celebrate Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez’s 10 years transforming the business school at...
“NASA Stories at the Ion” is a morning series that spotlights the human side of space exploration with each session featuring personal and powerful st...
Rice researchers recently published a paper in Science Advances showing that the nitrogen and phosphorus composition of iron meteorites are different ...
Seven alumni have been selected to serve on Rice's Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Board of Directors : Carlin Cherry, Kate Gunn Pagel, LaKeisha Batt...
Rice doctoral student Agustin Prinetti will spend the fall semester in Paris studying how people use AI chatbots to fact-check political content and n...
Klaus Weissenberger’s scholarly range stretched from 18th-century lyric poetry to the evolution of the fairy tale and the distinctions between German ...
Rice remembers community advocate and alumna Janis Scott, Houston’s ‘bus lady’
Janis Scott ’74, a Rice alumna and long-standing pillar of the Houston community, passed away Dec. 9 at the age of 73.
A new study sheds light on the critical role marital relationships play in the mental and physical health of caregivers for spouses living with dementia.
New Rice-TMC research projects drive advances in health and medicine
Seven research partnerships involving Rice, the Baker Institute for Public Policy and various institutions within the Texas Medical Center (TMC) received seed grants in 2024 through the Provost’s TMC Collaborator Fund. These grants were facilitated by Rice’s office for Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health (ENRICH).
Rice partners with Greentown Labs to accelerate innovation in Houston’s Ion District
Rice is joining a new partnership to support climate tech solutions through Greentown Labs, North America’s largest climate tech incubator.
Rice recognized as an ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
Rice has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting. The honor recognizes colleges and universities for outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation.
50 years of innovation: Shepherd School premieres first anniversary commission
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music marked the beginning of its 50th anniversary celebrations with the Oct. 16 world premiere of “Birds Are Real; Ambushed From Ten Directions.”
Getting in the holiday spirit: DesRoches family hosts staff for Christmas celebration
The holiday season is fully underway at Rice as President Reginald DesRoches and his wife Paula Gilmer DesRoches hosted the annual staff holiday celebration on campus Dec. 13.
Rice welcomes opening patent appeal roadshow, offering rare insights from patent judges
A panel of Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges recently visited Rice to take part in an ex parte appeal training session at Fondren Library where the judges shared best practices for how to succeed in an appeal.
Rice hosts assistant secretary of defense for science and technology
The United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology Honorable Aprille Ericsson visited Rice to explore areas of alignment between Rice’s research strengths and Department of Defense technological needs and priorities.