Undergrads share research on Texas slave trade
Rice undergraduates presented alongside historians and experts on the intra-American slave trade at the “Bound Away” conference Dec. 3-4
Just over 550 new master’s students officially began their graduate journeys at Rice this fall, joining programs across architecture, creative writing...
Rice's Division of Operations, Finance and Support recently brought employees together at West Servery for a summer celebration marking the close of t...
Nearly 270 incoming doctoral students officially began their graduate journeys at Rice by signing the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies doct...
Rice’s new undergraduate minor examines the biological, psychological and social factors that shape health....
Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted its 40th annual summer colloquium. ...
On the second morning of O-Week, Rice’s incoming Class of 2030 gathered at Tudor Fieldhouse to hear three faculty members share lessons from their res...
Rice's new faculty were welcomed during the annual two-day faculty orientation, emphasizing that the university’s growth over the past several years h...
Professor Dame Angela McLean, the U.K. government’s chief science adviser, discussed the role of science advice in government during an armchair discu...
Sean Terada Yang was selected as a 2026 Young Artist in Residence for American Public Media program....
Rice’s newest Owls got an early introduction to one of the university’s loudest O-Week traditions Aug. 18 as Rice Rally brought together students, coa...
Rice's Office of Student Success Initiatives hosted a prematriculation program for incoming freshman and their families Aug. 13-14 as a leadup to O-We...
Rice's Lovett College has a new home. It has moved into a new 11-story building on campus, trading the familiar quirks of the Toaster for abundant nat...
The annual Baker College freshman camping trip to cut down a Christmas tree brought home a beauty this year
The final “Team Family Wiess” get-together of the semester invited Wiess College associates to bring their pets to campus.
Rice reaches second round of NCAA volleyball tourney before bowing out
The Rice volleyball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last week before bowing out against the Austin Regional host, the University of Texas.
“Through the Ages” was the theme of this year’s Dhamaka, the annual cultural showcase for the Rice South Asian Society.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 6, 2021
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has appointed Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, to its Houston Branch board of directors, and assistant professor of chemistry Julian West has won a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award for early career synthetic chemists.
Architecture studio wins honors in Seoul
With perseverance, a Rice Architecture studio landed a top prize in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021.
Patents as loan collateral can help businesses meet financial needs, study shows
Patents are becoming an innovative source of collateral for businesses borrowing money, and there’s a time-critical sweet spot for lenders trying to calculate how much those patents are worth, according to new research from Rice University experts and collaborators.
Audubon project wins D2K Showcase
Students whose computer vision system can classify birds by species and count them from the air won the Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
Owls on ice: Wildly popular skating event draws hundreds of students to holiday blowout
Rice freshmen Anya Gu and Alice Zhou became friends over Instagram when the two new students discovered they shared a passion for ice skating. After echoing their dismay that their university did not have an ice skating club, they joined fellow freshman Imaan Patel and launched one themselves.