The first-of-its-kind initiative links two of the world’s leading research universities to create shared academic pathways and immersive undergraduate...
The evening, chaired by Anne and Albert Chao and Isabel and Danny David with underwriter chairs Shawn Stephens and Jim Jordan, brought together alumni...
Rice’s global affairs major will give students a chance to study global issues through different lenses — political, cultural and economic — while gai...
The Rice women's basketball team secured their first win of the season on the road against crosstown rival Houston 70-56 Tuesday night at the Fertitta...
The Rice Business School at has secured the No. 1 ranking in graduate entrepreneurship education for the seventh year in a row, as named by The Prince...
Three alumni of Rice's Shepherd School of Music have been recognized by the Recording Academy with nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards. ...
Rice defensive lineman Aquantis Clemmons has been named a 2025 Go Bowling Military Bowl STEM Scholar Athlete....
Rice President Reginald DesRoches joined hundreds of returning Owls during Alumni Weekend Nov. 6-9, visiting class reunion tents across campus to gree...
Rice bioengineers have demonstrated a nonsurgical way to quiet a seizure-relevant brain circuit using a method that merges ultrasound, gene therapy an...
Rice’s Pedro J.J. Alvarez, a world leader in environmental nanotechnology and water sustainability, has been awarded the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal ...
The Financial Management Association International (FMA) has selected Rice Business professor Kerry Back as the recipient of its Innovation in Teachin...
Under Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s direction, the Shepherd School of Music revived the Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting, a program that reflects his ...
Innovation for Healthcare Access Conference inspires new partnerships for sustainable change
At the 2025 Innovation for Healthcare Access Conference, held Oct. 27-28 at Rice, leaders from academia, medicine, public health and policy converged to tackle one of the most urgent challenges in health care: how to ensure that innovations not only reach the communities that need them most but also endure long after the pilot projects end.
Alumni Weekend expands to 4 days of celebrations
Rice will welcome alumni, students, faculty, staff and the community to campus for Rice Alumni Weekend Nov. 6-9. This four-day celebration is part homecoming and part class reunion, offering a vibrant array of activities. Owls from around the world will gather to reconnect with old friends, relive cherished moments and rediscover what makes Rice extraordinary.
On-campus voting scheduled Tuesday at Rice Welcome Center
Rice will serve as a voting location on Election Day Tuesday in the Rice Welcome Center in Sewall Hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
‘Ambition, morality, greed’: Lovett Theater presents ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Nov. 6-8
Lovett Theater will present “Little Shop of Horrors” Nov. 6-8 at Lovett Commons. The out of this world love story with a carnivorous twist is a tale about ambition, morality and greed.
Owls sweep Charlotte for 11th straight win
The Rice volleyball team kicked off November with a sweep over Charlotte on Sunday at Halton Arena.
Rice mechanical engineers turning everyday fabrics into new channel of communication
When Rice doctoral candidate Barclay Jumet first launched a high school business designing, making and selling bow ties — learning to sew on his mother’s college sewing machine — he never imagined that same skill set would one day help him reinvent how people communicate.
Rice gets into the Owl-oween spirit
Various groups from Rice decided to get into the Halloween, aka Owl-oween, spirit this year with spooky costume contests and festivities.
‘Endangered Feces’ turns humor into habitat in Harris Gully
Installed near Rice's Harris Gully Natural Area, the work features two decomposable sculptures shaped like the droppings of the Houston toad and the Attwater’s prairie chicken, both endangered species native to the Gulf Coast.
Audacity and humility: Astro Teller and Andy Karsner share moonshot secrets
The latest edition of the President’s Lecture Series brought Astro Teller and Rice alumnus Andy Karsner ’89 to the Rice Business Shell Auditorium to speak about technology and innovation for today’s challenges.
AI-powered alerts may cut kidney complications after heart surgery
A new collaboration between Rice and Baylor College of Medicine is using artificial intelligence to alert clinicians to early signs of kidney trouble giving them critical time to intervene before lasting damage occurs.
