Arts incubator brings leading Gulf Coast environmental artists and activists to campus
Four-day workshop will coincide with Rice-hosted Society of Environmental Journalists conference
A new class of Community Bridges Fellows is stepping beyond the classroom and into the community through the program run by Rice’s Kinder Institute fo...
Two student teams from Rice have been named finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame....
Scientists from Rice and Houston Methodist have developed a new way to reduce inflammation in the brain, a discovery that could help fight diseases su...
Through temporary installations and an expanding permanent collection, the Moody Center for the Arts brings thought-provoking art into spaces where st...
Rice will serve as the official host institution for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional at the Toyota Center, the NCAA announced this week....
The Rice-Houston Methodist Digital Health Institute will host an inaugural summit Oct. 8 at Rice, launching what will become an annual gathering at th...
Rice climatologist Sylvia Dee has been awarded the 2025 Nanne Weber Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union’s Paleoceanography and Pale...
Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded...
Carrie Masiello, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry at Rice, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s l...
The 22nd annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum saw 50 ventures pitch their companies to a full crowd of investors and corporate leaders Sept....
The Rice football team is off to a historically great start following a 28-17 win last week against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte....
No. 25 Rice rallied from an early deficit to defeat Grambling State 3-1 on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Holloway Field in the Owls' non-conference fina...
Bringing Brazil to the Bayou City
Rice welcomed large delegation from the Fulbright Commission in Brazil for week of workshops, tours
Battling cancer, 10 year-old Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel sworn in as honorary Rice police officer
As he battles terminal brain and spine cancer, 10-year-old Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel is on a quest to be sworn into as many law enforcement agencies as possible. On Feb. 17, Daniel added the Rice University Police Department to his lengthy resume when Chief Clemente Rodriguez swore him in as an honorary officer in a ceremony at the Rice Faculty Club.
Yousif Shamoo honored for work as vice provost
Members of the Rice community came together Feb. 15 to honor Yousif Shamoo for his work as vice provost for research over the last seven years.
Rice archaeologists’ new video series gives inside look at historic plantation site
A team of Rice University students, faculty and staff at the Varner-Hogg Plantation Historic Site are in the midst of project to study newly discovered and long forgotten artifacts of slavery.
Rice Athletics and the Office of Academic Advising hosted the 36th Annual Scholar-Athlete Celebration Feb. 13. Recipients were chosen based on character and accomplishment in academics and athletics. More information, and a full list of awardees, is available on RiceOwls.com.
Leading French intellectual to speak at Rice
Fassin’s March 21 talk will tackle authoritarian neoliberalism’s attacks on academic freedom
Celebrate Go Texan Day at Rice with western wear and breakfast tacos Feb. 25.
S'more than enough to go around
Students were treated to s’mores in the central quad during a camping demonstration
Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award
Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.