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....
In a city defined by innovation and resilience, the Rice Water Technologies Entrepreneurship and Research (WaTER) Institute hosted its distinguished l...
The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
OpenStax and collaborators receive $1.13 million to develop free textbooks
November 4, 2021
OpenStax and its 12 collaborators have received U.S. Department of Education funding to develop three new free, openly licensed textbooks for in-demand computer science courses. The books will be accompanied by comprehensive support, including educational technology and instructor training.
Rice student helps fans make World Series memories
November 2, 2021
How many part-time college jobs put you smack-dab in the middle of the World Series?
November 1, 2021
The 2021 Rice Ring ceremony took place outside the Huff House Oct. 29
November 1, 2021
The Owls took a nail-biting game against the University of North Texas into overtime Oct. 30
November 1, 2021
The Rice University Marching Owl Band (MOB) celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2021 Owl Together weekend
November 1, 2021
Alumni from across the years gathered under the shade of historic Rice Stadium for a homecoming tailgate Oct. 30
RUPD creates safe Halloween fun at the Rice Children’s Campus
November 1, 2021
The Rice University Police Department hosted their annual Child Safety Fair
Rice’s bold future subject of President’s Town Hall
November 1, 2021
Rice President David Leebron and Association of Rice Alumni President Monique Shankle ’86 examined the university’s bold future Oct. 29.
Leebron outlines progress, challenges in State of the University
November 1, 2021
President Leebron committed Rice to “doing all we do at the highest level … regardless of the challenges we face” in his State of the University address to faculty.
Immigration topic of Baker Institute webinar
November 1, 2021
Policy experts will discuss the future of immigration reform and how to handle the 10.5 million people already living in the United States illegally at an upcoming webinar from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.