The Ross Rankin Moody Opportunity Fund distributed $9,500 among 13 students to support their travel opportunities. Most of the funds were allocated to...
For members of Rice’s international community, the recent visa cancellations by the U.S. government have created an air of uncertainty. But Rice is he...
Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders has appointed Rodi Guidero, executive director of Breakthrough Energy, to its external board....
Rice welcomed admitted students and their families to campus for Owl Days April 11 and for Owl Days Express April 13. The program is an opportunity fo...
Hosted by the School of Humanities, the annual Kazimi Lecture honors the memory of Syed Safdar and Samina Kazimi by inviting artists and scholars whos...
This go-round, student composers responded to “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice,” filling the galleries with sound and giving audiences a ...
A collaboration between Rice and Houston Independent School District is helping strengthen its Sunrise Centers....
RBL LLC announced the appointment of Devyn Smith to its board of directors. ...
Political science professor Bob Stein recognized with the 2025 Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement....
Nine Rice faculty members received the 2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors Rice’s top instructors based on votes from alumn...
Each year, Rice University honors members of its community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. ...
Kasey Leigh Yearty has been named the 2025 recipient of the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching....
Rice wins NEH grant to create digital database of Atlantic slave trade
January 12, 2022
Grant will further enhance Rice’s reputation as a center for Africa and African diaspora studies, digital humanities
Moody makes ‘Soundwaves’ for its spring show
January 11, 2022
Exhibition kicks off year of programming for art center’s fifth anniversary
New live video stream of Lovett Hall, Academic Quad available 24/7 online
January 10, 2022
A beautiful view of Lovett Hall, the Academic Quadrangle, the downtown Houston skyline and Hermann Park is now streaming online at all hours of the day and night, providing 24/7 video of one of the most iconic sights in Houston.
CAAAS lectures call for moral leadership in turbulent times
January 10, 2022
Robert Michael Franklin Jr., Marla Frederick, Lerone Martin and others to speak this semester at Rice
Josephine Abercrombie '46, Rice trustee emeritus and Abercrombie Lab namesake, dies at 95
January 10, 2022
Josephine Abercrombie, the Rice alumna, philanthropist, horse breeder and boxing promoter for whom Abercrombie Lab was named, died Jan. 5 at her home in Versailles, Kentucky. She was 95.
Men's basketball starts home conference slate with pair of victories
January 10, 2022
The Rice men's basketball team prevailed in its first two home Conference USA games of the season, defeating Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Migrating holes help catalysts be productive
January 10, 2022
A theoretical model suggests electron holes that propagate at active sites on a catalyst migrate, triggering other sites that continue the process.
New book explores why mothers stay after their Houston neighborhoods flood over and over
January 10, 2022
When floodwaters recede, what ultimately convinces mothers to move their families or stay put?
Earth isn’t ‘super’ because the sun had rings before planets
January 5, 2022
Before the solar system had planets, the sun had rings — bands of dust and gas similar to Saturn’s rings — that likely played a role in Earth’s formation, according to a new study.
Nanotube fibers stand strong -- but for how long?
December 22, 2021
A Rice University study calculates how cyclic strain and stress affects nanotubes and describes how fibers under cyclic loads can fail over time.