Oz Ocampo, a former international scout with the Houston Astros, is shaping the next generation of sports industry professionals....
A team of Rice researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago known as a supe...
With its campus nestled in Houston’s Museum District, Rice has built a model for what a university-art museum partnership can look like....
Sophianne Loh, a bioengineering major from Chicago, found her home at Rice in the strong sense of community and top-tier research opportunities. ...
An international team of physicists, including Rice’s Paul Padley, Frank Geurts, Karl Ecklund, Wei Li, and Darin Acosta, was awarded the 2025 Breakthr...
For three days in April, scholars, experiencers and independent researchers gathered not to solve the mystery but to examine its place in our evolving...
At the busy intersection of academic life and everyday student traffic, a striking white and yellow structure has appeared on Rice’s campus....
A pair of Rice students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease...
Rice Athletics will host an action-packed weekend of competitions as part of its annual Blue Gray Weekend, Friday through Sunday....
Rice Reflects, an initiative from the Office of the Provost, brought bestselling author Sandy Tolan to McMurtry Auditorium March 10 to discuss free sp...
The 48th-ranked Rice Owls women's tennis team took down the 49th-ranked Wichita State Shockers April 8 at the George R. Brown Tennis Center to improve...
Rice’s Program in Writing and Communication hosted the fifth iteration of the Visual Communication Symposium at the Moody Center for the Arts last mon...
Puppetry workshop brings Owls, performers together for larger-than-life performance
December 12, 2022
Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Department Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures within the School of Humanities, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and Bread and Puppet Theater — one of the oldest nonprofit political theater companies in the country — Rice students got the chance to play roles in a larger-than-life puppet show Nov. 22.
Lights, latkes, fun and fellowship
December 12, 2022
Members of the Rice community gathered at Valhalla for an evening of celebration Dec. 5 for Chabad at Rice’s pre-Hanukkah bash.
December 12, 2022
Restarting a once annual tradition, the Rice Student Association along with Fondren Library sponsored three sessions of end-of-semester de-stressing with therapy dogs.
Battle of the birds: LendingTree Bowl at a glance
December 12, 2022
The game marks the Rice football program’s first postseason action since 2014
Campus holistic garden plants roots in new location
December 12, 2022
The Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden has been replanted in a new location on the Rice University campus, just north of the Gibbs Recreation Center in between the basketball courts and O'Connor Field.
Rice’s Take Flight program helping community college STEM students soar
December 12, 2022
Rice University welcomed more than 80 students and 10 faculty members from Lone Star College and San Jacinto College in early December to learn more about its Take Flight STEM Pathway program.
Ramesh, vice president for research, inducted as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
December 12, 2022
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, vice president for research, has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
Students immersed in STEM at daylong workshop
December 12, 2022
Rice hosts elementary, middle and high school students at the Fresh Start Engineering Workshop.
Rice flashes new life into lithium-ion anodes
December 12, 2022
Rice chemists use flash Joule heating to recover graphite anodes from spent lithium-ion batteries.
December 12, 2022
In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.