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...
Humanities pauses admissions for Ph.D. programs
In response to challenges caused by COVID-19, Rice’s School of Humanities has paused admissions to all five of its Ph.D. programs — art history, English, history, philosophy and religion — for one year.
Karl Ecklund named American Physical Society Fellow
Karl Ecklund, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society.
'States of Mind: Art and American Democracy' exhibit at the Moody demands attention, contemplation
A highly political art show isn’t easy, but that’s the point.
'Religion and Black Lives Matter' to be tackled in Rockwell Lecture Series
Next talk Oct. 1 features leading Africana philosopher Lewis R. Gordon.
Ocean water could melt precarious Antarctic glacier
Rice University researchers, alumni and staff are part of an international effort that has discovered a pathway for warm ocean water to melt the underside of Thwaites Glacier, a precarious body of west Antarctic ice that could add as much as 25 inches to global sea level if it were to suffer a runaway collapse.
Alumni Emmett, Parker and Gray to hold virtual discussion on upcoming elections
With Election Day just over a month away, Rice University's School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science are hosting a virtual discussion about the presidential, congressional, state and local contests.
Grant will help Rice researchers improve mobility for the visually impaired
The number of blind or visually impaired people in the U.S. is expected to double in the next 30 years as the country's population ages.
Virtual Energy Summit to explore industry’s resilience
HOUSTON – (Sept. 28, 2020) – The fourth annual -- and first virtual -- Energy Summit hosted by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Baker Botts LLP will feature an examination of the industry by more than 20 of its leading experts.
Rice U. Theatre Program livestreaming one-night-only production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Actors will wear masks for Oct. 9 play broadcast from Hamman Hall.
