As Rice’s first community behavioral specialist, Nancy Vincent brings a wealth of experience in crisis management, social work and mental health advoc...
Rice's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies hosted its inaugural Early Childhood Leadership Summit Oct. 3, welcoming 87 education leaders...
Rice hosted the second Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health Biohybrid Devices Summit Sept. 25-26 in Houston to support research and translatio...
Rice materials scientist Geoffroy Hautier has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for his work in high-throughput computational mat...
The Future of AI and Behavioral Health Workshop, a joint effort of Rice and UTHealth Houston, explored the intersection of artificial intelligence and...
The Friends of Fondren Library at Rice hosted its annual membership celebration and dinner at Cohen House Sept. 17, bringing together alumni, donors a...
Gyu-Boong Jo has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative....
After winning the Bayou City Collegiate Classic last week, the Rice Men's Golf team made history, earning co-champion honors at the Trinity Forest Inv...
The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC), headquartered at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, brought leading prog...
Researchers led by James Tour have developed a new way to extract lithium from salty water....
Rice has named 10 graduate students as recipients of the 2025-26 Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships, a program created through a partnership between ...
One year after launching its ambitious 10-year strategic plan, Momentous: Personalized Scale for Global Impact, Rice is already seeing the transformat...
Rice to host International Workshop on AI-Powered Space
Rice’s AI Houston Institute, in collaboration with NASA, will host the two-day International Workshop on AI-Powered Space, covering the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) theory and practice in core space and extended space at the university’s tech hub, the Ion.
Owls men’s, women’s basketball teams open season in dominating fashion
The Rice Owls men’s and women’s basketball teams kicked off the 2023 season with convincing wins at Tudor Fieldhouse this week.
Rice EMS honors student volunteers for lifesaving rescue
Rice Emergency Medical Services gathered for its annual Fall Study Break Nov. 3 where student volunteers enjoyed games, food and swag items as a way to relax between midterms and finals. While the event is meant to thank students for their commitment to the service, this year’s gathering took on a special meaning. During the festivities, the organization recognized the recent lifesaving efforts of several of its members.
Rice Business ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship 5 years running by Princeton Review, Entrepreneur
For the fifth consecutive year, Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business has been ranked No. 1 for graduate entrepreneurship programs by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Inaugural Community Market connects Rice alumni business owners
Rice University hosted its inaugural Community Market during Alumni Weekend, the largest annual alumni event on campus. Between 8:30-11 a.m. Nov. 4, 24 vendors filled the Greenbriar lot as Rice alumni business owners sold products, generated awareness of their businesses and networked with each other.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby talks innovation, sustainability with President DesRoches
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches spoke with United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby Nov. 1 at The Ion as part of a new series called “Visionary Voices.” Jan Odegard, executive director at The Ion, and Managing Director of United Airlines Ventures Andrew Chang, a Rice alumnus, opened the conversation by introducing the goals of their respective companies and commending Rice for creating The Ion.
Annual SSPEED Center conference welcomes international flood-control experts
The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center at Rice hosted its 11th annual conference last month at the university’s Anderson-Clarke Center.
Ngozi Ukazu, graphic novel author and illustrator, recently visited David Messmer’s class African American Comics and Graphic Novels as a guest lecturer.
Grammy Award-winning conductor and former Houston Symphony music director Hans Graf rehearses with the Rice Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra prior to its Oct. 27 performance. He conducted the orchestra in an exhilarating musical program titled “Fire and Ice,” featuring the work of Scriabin, Sibelius and Stravinsky.
Owls take home singles, doubles titles at Rice Invitational
Sophomore Darya Schwartzman was named the singles champion, while Schwartzman and junior Saara Orav were named doubles champions on the final day of the Rice Invitational at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
