Political science professor Bob Stein recognized with the 2025 Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement....
Nine Rice faculty members received the 2025 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors Rice’s top instructors based on votes from alumn...
Each year, Rice University honors members of its community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service. ...
Kasey Leigh Yearty has been named the 2025 recipient of the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching....
In a city defined by innovation and resilience, the Rice Water Technologies Entrepreneurship and Research (WaTER) Institute hosted its distinguished l...
The Owls men's tennis team won its first American Athletic Conference Championship after defeating the Memphis Tigers at the Leftwich Tennis Center Ap...
Rice will increase access by growing the university’s student body, marking an unprecedented growth trajectory that began earlier this decade. The exp...
Following Pope Francis’ death, Craig Considine, a senior lecturer in sociology at Rice, scholar of religion and interfaith dialogue is available to di...
As Earth Day approaches April 22, Rice University experts are available to provide insight into their research on a range of environmental topics....
The finding, reported by The New York Times April 16, builds on generations of inquiry into whether life exists beyond Earth....
Tam Dao has been appointed Rice University’s first associate vice president of campus safety and research security. His first day in this role will be...
Humanities disciplines, especially medical humanities, shouldn’t just be consulted at the end of the development pipeline when systems are being evalu...
Rice recycles football stadium turf after Hurricane Beryl effects
September 16, 2024
Rice and its community partners are spearheading efforts to create sustainable futures by tackling environmental challenges with innovative solutions. A prime example is their latest initiative: recycling the old turf material from Rice Stadium.
Fondren recognizes Anna Shparberg as 2024 Shapiro Award winner
September 16, 2024
Anna Shparberg was recognized as the 2024 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award winner Sept. 10.
Rice offers flu and COVID-19 vaccines over four days at RMC
September 16, 2024
Rice will provide on-site flu vaccinations to all faculty, staff and students. The vaccines will be offered in the Rice Memorial Center.
Shepherd School’s 50th anniversary season kicks off with weekend of orchestral performances
September 16, 2024
When Rice junior Kayleigh Kim performs William Walton’s Violin Concerto with the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra, she’ll do so on a 335-year-old Stradivarius that is on loan to the school from a generous collector.
Rice partners with Validity to streamline degree verification
September 14, 2024
Rice has taken a significant step forward in enhancing the efficiency and security of its degree verification process by partnering with Validity. Validity offers a novel approach to academic credential verification through a platform integrated directly with the Office of the Registrar's website.
Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past
September 13, 2024
Rice computer scientists have developed a way to improve the performance of artificial intelligence diffusion models.
VIDEO: Take a tour of the new quad with landscape architect Thomas Woltz
September 13, 2024
As visitors explore the newly redesigned Academic Quadrangle at Rice, they will encounter three distinct zones, each crafted to enhance its unique value and purpose: ceremony, commons and community.
‘A destination’: Rice students embrace redesigned quad as new campus hub
September 13, 2024
Hours after its ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, the redesigned Academic Quadrangle at Rice had already become a central hub for students.
Rice unveils redesigned Academic Quad
September 12, 2024
Rice unveiled its newly reimagined Academic Quadrangle during a historic reopening and ribbon-cutting celebration Sept. 12.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music honors 9/11 with somber tribute concert
September 12, 2024
In a moving tribute, the Shepherd School of Music hosted the annual “9/11 In Memoriam” concert, honoring the lives lost Sept. 11, 2001.