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 bioengineers develop lotus leaf-inspired system to advance study of cancer cell clusters
August 23, 2024
Rice bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties. The new zinc oxide-based culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf surface structure, providing a highly tunable platform for the high-throughput generation of three-dimensional nanoscale tumor models.
Rice Connections fosters unity among students from diverse backgrounds
August 23, 2024
Every O-Week, the university’s weeklong orientation program, Rice Connections offers the opportunity for students from different faith traditions, cultural backgrounds and more to come together and meet their freshman peers.
Former Rice swimmer looks to be role model for disabled athletes across the globe
August 23, 2024
Former Rice swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger is looking to represent her country on the global stage during the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
Turning groceries into credit: A new frontier in lending
August 23, 2024
A new paper published in Management Science by Jung Youn Lee, assistant professor of marketing at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and colleagues from University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University identifies a widespread data source that could broaden the pool of qualified loan applicants: grocery store receipts.
Incoming class fills Tudor Fieldhouse with ‘unbelievable energy’ to cheer on Rice Athletics
August 22, 2024
Tudor Fieldhouse was packed with frenetic energy Tuesday night as new Rice students represented their residential colleges while cheering on the Rice sports teams.
Rice’s Shepherd School of Music announces 2024-25 season
August 22, 2024
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University is preparing for a monumental milestone, beginning a multiyear celebration this fall in honor of the school’s 50th anniversary.
August 22, 2024
More than 75% of in-district respondents signaled their support for a bond that does not result in a tax increase.
Rice football kicks off 2024 season with Owl Fest
August 21, 2024
Rice football season is finally upon us, and with that comes unique events like Owl Fest, where Rice supporters are invited to meet the squad before the first game of the year.
‘All the little things’: Orientation weekend helps international undergrads settle in at Rice
August 21, 2024
By 9 a.m. on a humid Friday morning, Eduarda Favero was already racing around the halls of Rice’s Sid Richardson College, greeting anxious families, leading international students from 40 different countries to their rooms and answering a flurry of questions.
‘You all belong here’: Rice faculty offer words of inspiration to Class of 2028
August 21, 2024
On the second morning of O-Week, Rice University’s Class of 2028 assembled in Tudor Fieldhouse to hear advice from a three-person panel of professors who shared their secrets for success — both at Rice and beyond. The faculty delivered short, TED Talk-style lectures encouraging new students to stay open to the possibilities the university offers.