President DesRoches welcomes Rice community at open house
President DesRoches and his family welcomed the Rice community to an open house event on his lawn.
“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...
For Rice senior Leo Marek, engineering is about finding the small changes that make big systems run better....
On heels of national championship, Rice speech and debate keeps raking in wins
The past several months have been a whirlwind of success for Rice’s George R. Brown Forensics Society, the university’s award-winning student speech and debate team with a track record of racking up championships and awards by the dozens. After tremendous success amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, including two national championships in as many years, the team’s penchant for top-tier performances has continued this fall alongside a much welcomed return to in-person competition.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 5, 2022
Richard Gordon, the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, is to receive the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Stephan Mueller Medal for 2023. Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has been named president of the American Geophysical Union Near-Surface Geophysics focus group.
After beating Aggies and Frogs, Rice women 7-0 for first time
The Rice women’s basketball team scored a pair of victories over major conference foes
Comic Art Teaching & Study Workshop receives original comic art gift worth six figures
A rare art collection featuring some of the most famous cartoon characters in American history has been acquired by Rice University’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) within the School of Humanities’ Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
Rice volleyball team bows out in second round of NCAA Tournament
Rice’s volleyball team dominated the final two sets to claim a 3-1 victory (26-24, 24-26, 25-16, 25-14) over the University of Colorado Boulder in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Dec. 1 in Waco, Texas, before dropping a five-set battle with Baylor University (16-25, 25-22, 25-23, 14-25, 15-11) in the second round Dec. 2.
Fear of hate crime looms especially large in the minds of Jews and Muslims, even if they have never been personally targeted, according to a new study from Rice University and West Virginia University.
Rice organizes drive to house, assist international students over winter break
Hosted by the Office of International Students and Scholars — International Connections (OISS), the International Holiday Hospitality Help Program aims to provide amenities such as low-cost/no-cost housing accommodations, meals and gift cards/cash to international undergraduate students who cannot return to their home this holiday season.
Owls land in LendingTree Bowl, will face Southern Miss
Rice is headed to a bowl game for the first time since 2014. The LendingTree Bowl will pit the Owls (5-7) against the University of Southern Mississippi (6-6) Dec. 17 in Mobile, Alabama. The 4:45 p.m. game between the former Conference USA foes will be televised by ESPN.
Debt-ceiling decision could complicate foreign policy, Baker Institute diplomacy expert argues
Joe Barnes, the Bonner Means Baker Fellow, argues in a new issue brief that a Republican-led House could complicate President Biden’s ability to achieve his goals regarding China and the Russia-Ukraine war.