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...
September 13, 2021
At the end of this semester, students in Afsaneh Aayani-Santos’ course on puppetry design — a brand-new offering in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts — will have created their own fully original and fully articulated puppets.
Graduate Student Loan Closet reopens, restocked and revamped
September 8, 2021
The ‘incredible resource’ for three decades of Owls had to shut down during the pandemic.
Deep in the heart of the 'Texas Triangle,' a global powerhouse emerges
September 8, 2021
Simmons: Confront legacies of slavery 'unflinchingly'
September 8, 2021
When she was president of an Ivy League university, Ruth Simmons learned the importance of confronting an institution’s complicated and controversial history head-on. Now, as a Rice trustee emerita and president of Prairie View A&M University, she has some thoughts and advice.
Tweezer grant pleases Rice researchers
September 8, 2021
Rice researchers have won an NSF grant to acquire a sophisticated optical tweezer microscope to manipulate, measure and monitor micron-scale particles.
Climate progress requires competition, not cooperation, with China
September 8, 2021
HOUSTON – (Sept. 8, 2021) – Global climate progress requires fundamentally altering the economic bottom line that’s the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party’s power– and it will come through competition, not cooperation, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Naval War College.
Rice among most acclaimed universities in Princeton Review history
September 7, 2021
Rice University ranks among the most lauded institutions in the history of the Princeton Review’s annual survey on the nation’s best colleges, according to a newly published report analyzing three decades of reviews on America’s institutions of higher education.
September 7, 2021
The Center for Career Development's annual fall picnic and Resumayhem returned Aug. 27
Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths
September 7, 2021
‘Slow-burning background crisis’ revealed in new work by Rice humanities researcher John Mulligan.