Incoming Rice students stride toward the Sallyport for matriculation, which ran all day long to accommodate social distancing measures and allow plenty of room for each college to march through the quad. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
Rebecca Schreib is the recipient of the 2026 George R. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award. ...
Rice professor Caroline Ajo-Franklin’s group, working in collaboration with researchers from Tufts University and Baylor College of Medicine, recently...
For Rice University junior D. Fitzgerald, what began as a personal journey of self-discovery has quickly grown into a powerful platform for advocacy —...
Composer and conductor John Adams rehearsed his iconic “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” with the school’s symphony orchestra in Stude Concert Hall....
One team rose to the top of this year’s Veterans Business Battle: IntuBlade. Their win capped a competitive two-day event at Rice Business that brough...
A team of Rice undergraduates set out to find a better solution for keeping Flamingos at the Houston Zoo warm during the winter months. ...
“The Logos” is a yearlong immersive installation that opened Easter Sunday and transforms more than 4,000 fast radio bursts into spatial audio....
Kenneth Tam, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, installation, performance and photography, is an assistant professor of ar...
Karma Elbadawy, a graduating senior at Rice, has been named a 2026 Thomas J. Watson Fellow....
Ten years after the 2016 Tax Day flood inundated parts of the Houston region with nearly two feet of rain in a matter of hours, new research from Rice...
Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technologist at Google, was the featured speaker in the Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series....
“This moment reflects the scale and direction of Rice’s global engagement,” said Caroline Levander, vice president for global strategy. ...
With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.
Rice football game vs. Lamar canceled; volleyball and soccer move to spring
Rice and Lamar University have agreed to cancel their season-opening football game scheduled for Sept. 26 at Rice Stadium, and Conference USA has postponed the volleyball and soccer seasons to the spring.
Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI
A deep learning algorithm developed at Rice University analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Princeton Review: Rice has best quality of life in US
Rice rates among the top 20 in 16 different categories measured in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 386 Colleges,” a closely watched annual report on student reviews of the nation’s colleges and universities.
China’s economic slowdown may hurt global oil market, says Baker Institute expert
A slowdown in China’s demand for oil would profoundly affect the multitrillion-dollar global oil market along with many related industries, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Remote control: CTE’s Adaptive Course Design Institute prepares professors for teaching online
Rice professors set it all aside this summer to learn all about the best new tools for teaching online.
Rice Cinema film series screening outdoors, online this semester
VADA is hosting BYOChair movie nights during the fall 2020 semester.