

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...

Minimal gestures, grand scale: Kapwani Kiwanga fall exhibition now open at the Moody
‘The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow’ runs through Dec. 19.

It isn't September without a Baker College Christmas, a tradition dating back decades. This year's festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of "Feliz Navidad." (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

Following a scavenger hunt across campus, a big batch of brand-new Rice grad students refueled with gigantic slices of pizza and ice pops at the Sept. 23 orientation picnic hosted by the Graduate Student Association (GSA)



American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria
Rice University’s Gustavo Scuseria wins the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry.

NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for master’s students
Four institutions will share an NSF grant of nearly $5 million to support scholarships for students seeking master’s degrees in engineering and related fields.

Old bones get new life in renovated Rice laboratory
The skeletons of more than 800 Southeast Texas animals are getting a second life in a renovated archaeology lab space at Rice University.

Owls claim first victory of football season in first game vs. Texas Southern

People, papers and presentations for Sept. 27, 2021