JFK’s 1962 moon speech still appeals 50 years later
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!”
Concerto competition winner Max Milian headlines the Nov. 7 program with student conductors, singers and a world premiere....
As financial literacy education gains momentum across the country, Rice is helping students build the skills to navigate financial decisions they’ll f...
Rice graduate students Lydia Cox, Aimi Kōchi and Hailey Smith, in collaboration with the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, are leading monthly walk...
Benjamin Kwait-Gonchar, a senior majoring in biophysics and Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, received the first annual Rice University Ast...
Back-to-back trips to Mexico and Paris gave the sophomore from rural Kentucky a new lens on cities, art and her own independence....
Rice’s Fondren Library honored web developer and graphic designer Jeff Koffler with the 2026 Shapiro Staff Innovation Award during a ceremony Oct. 22 ...
Alumni, faculty, and student researchers marked a decade of bringing the humanities into health care....
Rice study offers researchers a way to examine how racial inequality influences identity and everyday experiences....
This year’s edition of the Mexico Country Outlook from the Claudio X. González Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Pol...
Rice Researchers analyzed nearly 1 million residential buildings across Harris County and found that nearly two-thirds of the variation in flood vulne...
Composer Paola Prestini and librettist Mark Campbell will create the work, which set for a 2029-30 season premiere in Houston....
Based on doctoral research conducted at Rice, NIVERA is a startup developing a natural, edible coating designed to extend the shelf life of fresh prod...
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.