The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act....
The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to bring research to reality and...
The Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice has launched CoachRICE: Team Coaching, a new professional education program designed to help coaches, mana...
Graduate student Sayuri Jayawardena has started a Rice chapter of Lifelong Learning with Friends. ...
Scholars, curators and filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto gather at Rice to explore Black histories from Renaissance Italy to medieval Africa and Islamic world...
For the sixth fall in a row, Rice welcomed a new group of researchers to STaRT@Rice, giving emerging researchers both the skills and the support to gr...
Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding with LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Poli...
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance....
Rice’s Yonglong Xie is one of 20 early-career scientists, mathematicians and engineers to receive a 2026 Packard Fellowship. ...
Rice’s Caroline Ajo-Franklin is part of an international research team funded by the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), u...
The Rice United Way Campaign officially launched this week. Contributions not only support individuals and families in need, but they also help to bui...
The Rice football team returns to Houston this Saturday to take on the University of Tulsa at 3:30 p.m. at First Community Stadium, looking to turn it...
Rice launches One Giant Leap Ventures to back promising startups across university ecosystem
Rice has launched One Giant Leap Ventures Fund I, an early-stage fund built to invest in the university’s most promising spinouts and alumni-founded startups. Structured as an institutional venture fund, it enables participation from equity limited partners as well as philanthropic investors seeking to support Rice startups.
From global conversation to local action: Rice advances brain economy at UN
The transition of the brain economy from theory to actuality is increasingly becoming a focus for Rice and its partners in Houston. Provost Amy Dittmar brought the conversation to the United Nations General Assembly and moderated a panel titled “The New Wealth of Nations: Brain Economy Leadership in Action.”
Rice ReUse turns move-out waste into affordable dorm essentials
When students move out of Rice residence halls each spring, usable furniture, appliances and other dorm essentials can be left behind. For Anne Kozlevchar, seeing those items headed for the trash sparked an idea: create a system to give them a second life.
Rice researchers find evidence of true polar wander
Rice researchers find evidence of movement in the Earth's spin axis 56-48 million years ago.
Rice looks to snap skid in road test at East Carolina
The Rice football team will look to get back in the win column Saturday when the Owls travel to East Carolina for an American Conference matchup at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina.
Rice Athletics celebrates longtime supporters at An Evening for Rice’s Honour
Rice Athletics celebrated longtime supporters and champions of its student-athletes Sept. 30 at the 21st An Evening for Rice’s Honour gala at River Oaks Country Club.
Catalytic confessions and a quest for Matt Damon: PodCAT puts science on mic
PodCAT, hosted by researchers from Rice, the University of Rochester and Penn State University, is a podcast devoted to the science of catalysis, academic careers and the surprisingly personal stories of the researchers themselves.
REMS team recognized for timely response to life-threatening incident
A call for a possible seizure became a life-threatening cardiac emergency when Rice Emergency Medical Services responders identified signs of a heart attack in a campus visitor and quickly coordinated transport for specialized care.
‘Celebration of your students’: Families Weekend showcases campus life, community
Rice parents, siblings, grandparents and other family members joined their Owls for meals, performances, conversations, campus activities and athletics as part of the annual Families Weekend festivities. For families, it offered a glimpse into the communities, relationships and experiences their loved ones have built since arriving on campus.
“The Future of Faiths,” the theme of this fall’s Religious and Civic Leader Gatherings, hosted by Boniuk Institute's Religion and Public Life Center, is a series that connects Houston-area leaders with researchers and practitioners whose work can help them understand changes affecting the communities they serve.
