Rice ranks No. 16 nationally in Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges list
Rice is once again among the nation’s top universities, earning the No. 16 spot in Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges rankings.
Rice has joined a new alliance as a founding academic partner to advance plans for a Gulf Coast National Laboratory dedicated to accelerating the comm...
Co-hosted by BioHouston and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, the forum, held at Rice University’s McNair Hall Nov. 10, focused o...
Rice mechanical engineer Raudel Avila is helping address a fundamental challenge in the development of advanced materials and electronic systems with ...
Soprano Tessa McQueen ’24 bet on Carlisle Floyd’s ‘Susannah’ and won over an international jury in Shanghai....
Mexico Country Outlook 2027, published annually by the Baker Institute’s Claudio X. González Center for the U.S. and Mexico, provides an in-depth asse...
Rice faculty, researchers and students will come together Nov. 17 for the second Rice GIS Showcase, highlighting innovative applications of geographic...
Rice showcased its research, academic programs and role in Houston’s innovation ecosystem during the AfroTech Conference this month, connecting with p...
Rice celebrated its LGBTQ+ Pride Week with a series of events highlighting inclusion, community, visibility and the importance of embracing LGBTQ+ ide...
Rice celebrated its third annual Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Night Nov. 6, bringing together students, families, alumni and visitors for an e...
Fourth-seeded Rice faces top-seeded Memphis Wednesday night in the American Conference Championships semifinal round. The winner will face either two-...
Rice researchers were among the scholars exploring the future of surgery at the 2026 Surgical Technology and Robotics Summit, held Oct. 26-30 at Houst...
Rice's Office of Sustainability partnered with Fondren Library’s Green Team Oct. 27 to host a campuswide book swap, encouraging the Rice community to ...
Can creating music strengthen the aging brain? Rice researchers aim to find out
New $3.9 million grant will examine whether actively creating music can improve cognition and mental health-related quality of life in adults 65 and older with mild cognitive impairment, a condition associated with an increased risk of developing dementia.
Rice extends Provost Amy Dittmar’s contract through 2031 fiscal year
Rice President Reginald DesRoches has extended Amy Dittmar’s contract as the Howard R. Hughes Provost and executive vice president for academic affairs through the 2031 fiscal year with the support of the Rice Board of Trustees.
New measure captures how scientists’ identities shift across academic disciplines
Rice and Michigan State researchers have developed and validated a new way to measure the extent to which scientists remain closely connected to the core of their discipline over the course of their careers.
25 years after 9/11, Rice research traces changing landscape of religious bias
A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, religious bias in America has not disappeared, but the forces shaping it have changed.
Social media buzzing with Bun B’s Trill Burgers on Rice campus
As Rice has moved into full swing with the 2026-27 academic year, activity on campus has regained its familiar liveliness. Students swarmed to the welcome back party, where they were greeted by a new-but-familiar face: Bun B.
Canning built humanities at Rice by listening first
The dean of School of Humanities and Arts will step down at end of spring 2027 semester.
Rice’s new Center for Space Technologies aims to accelerate Texas space innovation with $14.1M grant
Rice's new Center for Space Technologies, or CSTx, is strengthening Texas’ leadership in the space economy, supported by a $14.1 million Texas Space Commission grant.
The Carter Center, Rice’s Baker Institute to host webinar on election reform
Bipartisan solutions to strengthen electoral credibility in advance of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will be the topic of The Carter Center and the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice's Sept. 14 webinar
Rice football heads to Notre Dame for meeting of two storied universities
Rice ’s football team will take its 2026 season to one of the most iconic settings in college athletics Sept. 12, when the Owls travel to South Bend, Indiana, to face the University of Notre Dame.