Students from Rice’s Naval ROTC program hosted an inaugural stair climb at Rice Stadium this morning at 6 a.m. to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, which happened on this day 23 years ago.
Ten years after a group of Rice students came together to work for change, four alumni returned to campus to reflect on what it took to transform thei...
Rice’s 2026 Religious Literacy Series, hosted by the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, welcomed 82 educators, non...
The Rice Center for Quantum Materials hosted a workshop on quantum materials synthesis at the Rice Global Paris Center, bringing together global resea...
Rice has elected five new members to its board of trustees. Dr. Barbara Jenkins Gibbs ‘73, John V. Jaggers ‘73, Robert “Rob” Kaplan, Akilah Mance ‘05 ...
As Houston prepares to welcome the world for the FIFA World Cup 2026, Rice students are helping make it happen....
Rice’s Qimiao Si collaborated with researchers from TU Wien in an experiment that showed quantum entanglement of a quantum critical metal....
Kinder Institute's 2026 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report finds many residents are spending more of their income on housing. ...
An interdisciplinary team of Rice researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts, offerin...
Christina Tringides is the recipient of the highly prestigious Pew Biomedical Scholar award....
STEM-Letics, a summer camp hosted by Rice’s Center for STEM Engagement and Rice Athletics, introduces students in grades three through five to science...
Amid the energy, music and sea of soccer fans at FIFA Fan Festival, Rice University is giving visitors from around the world a chance to experience a ...
The FIFA World Cup has arrived in Houston, and Rice is helping bring the excitement to fans across campus and the city....
World’s top organic chemists to assemble in Paris for inaugural symposium
Rice’s Global Paris Center to host Art and Science of Total Synthesis of Natural and Designed Molecules for Biology and Medicine symposium.
Complete nursing textbook series now available from OpenStax
OpenStax, an educational initiative of Rice and the largest publisher of open educational resources, in partnership with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, has completed the publication of its OER Nursing Essentials project to help address the ongoing shortage of nurses nationwide.
Dedicated alumna Thacker to step down as Rice’s chief investment officer, serve as special adviser
Allison Thacker, chief investment officer at Rice and president of the Rice Management Company, will step down from her position Sept. 30.
Artist’s visionary collaboration bridges art and civil engineering at Rice
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice launches its fall 2024 season with “Do Ho Suh: In Process,” an exhibition that takes visitors inside the artist’s studio, highlighting his unique collaborative practice that often blends art and engineering.
Owls recognize residential colleges during win over TSU, look forward to tilt with UH next
The Rice football team paid homage to the university’s storied residential college system during its matchup with Texas Southern Saturday.
Rice’s National Security Research Accelerator hosted Dev Shenoy, the principal director for microelectronics at the U.S. Department of Defense
Rice to begin Latine Heritage Month celebration Sept. 15
Rice University will honor Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, with its own inclusive mission and vision: Latine Heritage Month.
Hordge-Freeman honored with prestigious American Sociological Association awards for recent book
Hordge-Freeman received the American Sociological Association 2024 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award by the Section on Sociology of Human Rights and the 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award by the Section on the Sociology of Emotions.
Rice’s Boniuk Institute launches new Religion and Public Life Center
Rice’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance hosted a celebration at Cohen House Aug. 28 to launch the new Religion and Public Life Center (RPLC). The center’s goal is to use research on religion to build common ground for the common good.