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...
Rice Athletics will once again celebrate the start of a new year of competition by hosting its annual Fan Fest at Rice Stadium at 6 p.m. on Saturday, ...
Rice researchers developed a way to stabilize diamond during high-temperature and low-pressure processing....
Rice has once again earned national recognition in The Princeton Review’s annual Best Colleges rankings, taking the No. 1 spot in the nation for Lots ...
In a new article published in The Lancet, Rice’s Kirsten Ostherr and her co-authors argue that these tools known as ambient scribes do far more than t...
Rice’s biotechnology commercialization efforts and a Rice-affiliated startup are on the rise...
The evening built to the campuswide O-Week dance, the one piece of choreography every Owl learns before a single class syllabus. ...
The Baker Institute’s fall 2026 calendar will bring prominent policymakers, scientists, business leaders and scholars to Houston this fall for a serie...
Rice Motorsports, a newly established Rice University club sport, made its competitive debut at the inaugural Collegiate Racing Series race at Micheli...
O.J. Brigance, a former standout linebacker at Rice and at the professional level who responded to a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ...
Tickets for the one-night-only performance go on sale Oct. 16....
The story behind Rice traditions
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
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
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
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball, died from cancer in Houston. He was 62.
