Scott Solomon, a biologist, science communicator and teaching professor in the Department of Biosciences, has been named a 2025 Piper Professor by the...
Following a year full of increased activity for Moody Experience programs, Andy Osborn, program manager of educational initiatives, welcomed campus pa...
Matthew Tyler, an assistant professor of political science at Rice, receives NSF CAREER award....
A team led by Rice's Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity....
At Rice, senior Riya Misra found that studying the humanities wasn’t only about literature; it was about sharpening the essential tools for any storyt...
The 2025 Customer Value Report, authored by marketing researchers at Rice and the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, evaluat...
For fall 2025, professor Kiese Laymon is breaking new ground with a course that centers on the beef between Lamar and Drake, a cultural moment that’s ...
The transformative impact of the Fulbright Scholar Program is on full display at Rice, where approximately 100 Fulbright students from around 30 count...
Catherine Clack, Rice’s associate vice provost in the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence and director of the Multicultural Center, is retir...
Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Acade...
The Rice Owls women's tennis earned an at-large bid in the NCAA field of 64, earning the third seed in the College Station Regional....
The Rice Owls men's tennis earned a spot in the NCAA field of 64 for the second-straight year, earning the fourth seed in the College Station Regional...
JFK’s 1962 moon speech still appeals 50 years later
August 30, 2012
Few moments in Rice’s history are as well known or oft remarked upon as the 1962 speech in which President John F. Kennedy boldly declared, “We choose to go to the moon!”
The story behind Rice traditions
November 4, 2011
Every university has its traditions, and Rice University is no exception. O-Week, Beer Bike and Willy Week top the list of Rice’s most well-known traditions, but in the university’s nearly 100-year history, it’s only natural for a few others to have developed along the way.
Revolution with a salad spinner
May 3, 2010
A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates.
Rice study suggests people are more trusting of attractive strangers
September 21, 2006
Beware of strangers. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We repeat these timeworn adages without even thinking, but new research suggests we live by neither of them.
Nanotech pioneer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62
October 28, 2005
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball, died from cancer in Houston. He was 62.