Holiday toy drive aims to bring good cheer to local families
The Rice Police Department is hosting its 13th annual Blue Santa Toy Drive in partnership with the Children’s Assessment Center to sponsor 14 families.
The global journeys of Rice University students were on display March 27 as the Office of Study Abroad hosted the 2026 Study Abroad Photo Contest Exhi...
“I feel really grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had now that I am here," said senior Michael Garcia....
The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies welcomed nonprofit leaders from acros...
The Olivier Award-nominated play traces the rise and fall of the Houston-based energy trading giant, translating complex financial systems into a fast...
New consumable hemp rules from the Texas Department of State Health Services are officially in effect, and the biggest change comes down to how THC is...
For more than a decade, Rice’s Frederi Viens has been studying Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, C...
The Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the University of Houston Energy Transition Institute are launching a st...
A delegation of researchers from Rice’s WaTER Institute traveled to Argentina’s Neuquén province this month to help address a pressing question facing...
Rice’s open enrollment period for employee benefit plans will run from April 3-17. To give employees a way to better explore their benefits options, t...
Rice's Office of Sustainability invites the campus community to join the third annual Earth Month Kick-Off Festival from 12:30-3:30 p.m. April 1 at th...
Rice continues to strengthen its position as a leader in innovation, rising to No. 66 in the 2025 Top 100 U.S. Universities List for utility patents, ...
Rice once again found itself at the center of the college basketball world, serving as the official host institution for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Sou...
Rice seniors gather at President DesRoches’ home for annual holiday celebration
Rice President Reginald DesRoches welcomed seniors to his home Dec. 6 for the university’s annual Senior Holiday Celebration, a festive tradition that brings the class together before they head into their final semester.
As Rice prepares to celebrate commencement Dec. 9, members of the graduating class are looking back on the moments, mentors and experiences that shaped their time on South Main.
Rice to face Texas State in Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Rice will make its 15th bowl appearance in school history and its third in the last four years when the Owls face Texas State in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl which will be played on Jan. 2 at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth.
Rice Student Association president joins White House conversation on open inquiry
Senior Trevor Tobey was one of only a few student leaders invited to participate alongside university administrators and policy representatives.
The Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP), a cornerstone of STEM outreach for nearly four decades, has formally joined the Rice Center for Education within the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.
From field to lab: Rice study reveals how people with vision loss judge approaching vehicles
A new study uses a virtual reality system to examine how adults with and without AMD estimate when an approaching vehicle would reach them.
Fondren Fellows document Fifth Ward’s toxic history through archive
Seniors Catherine Cook and Shay Olaifa are building a public archive that preserves decades of community stories, environmental records and lived experiences surrounding creosote contamination in Houston’s Fifth Ward.
Rice hosts US-Japan Space Forum to advance commercial orbit cooperation
Rice welcomed government, industry and academic leaders for the 2025 U.S.-Japan Space Forum.
Materials that match the brain: Rice engineer earns Sontag Foundation distinction
Rice materials scientist and neuroengineer Christina Tringides has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the Sontag Foundation, a national recognition for early career researchers advancing transformative projects in brain cancer research.