Shepherd School Chamber Music Festival to celebrate art of learning through performance
The seven-concert festival showcases the artistry of Shepherd School students as they bring to life chamber works that span centuries, styles and emotions.
Three experts from Rice will attend Brain Week at the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 21-25 to join an international conversation that reaches w...
Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, Rice’s Shepherd School of Music honored the anniversary the way it has every year since 2002: by pausing to ...
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice presents ”Radiant Geometries: Vectors of Knowledge from the Indigenous Americas” this fall, bringing together co...
Following a national search, Andrew Billing will become secretary to the Rice Corporation and Board of Trustees on Oct. 1. ...
‘Beyond the Hedges: Historias de Latinidad at Rice University’ runs through Dec. 31 at the Julia Ideson Building....
Rice's Natasha Kirienko developed a new screening method that identified drugs that target leukemia cells without unduly harming healthy cells....
Rice’s football team returns to Rice Stadium Sept. 19 to take on Western Michigan University at 6 p.m....
Rice’s Center for Community and Public Health (CCPH) at the Kinder Institute will premiere a new series of accessible grief educational resources for ...
Rice’s Defense Research Advancement initiative and the Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted the inaugural Quantum Frontiers Summit, a first-of-its-k...
Vanessa Sanchez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rice, has received the Toyota Programmable System Innovation Fellowship....
Rice senior from Tokyo, returns home for the World Baseball Classic this spring - a professional milestone and a homecoming. ...
A record number of first-year students have registered for the Doerr Institute for New Leaders’ flagship Activation One-on-One Coaching program for th...
Rice and Houston Methodist researchers to study brain-implant interface with Dunn Foundation award
A team of researchers from Rice and the Houston Methodist Research Institute has received a John S. Dunn Foundation Collaborative Research Award through the Gulf Coast Consortia to study how the brain responds over time to neural implants.
Rice University Gateway Project to connect campus with Rice Village, modernize Rice Stadium
Rice has unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the heart of the Village, while reimagining the west side of campus anchored by the renovation of Rice Stadium.
Rice brings together leading researchers to accelerate next-generation microelectronics
The Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) hosted a signature workshop centered on advanced microelectronics and photonics materials Nov. 3-4.
Expert on innovation, higher education: Rice’s Levander on reinventing the American university
As colleges, universities and policymakers grapple with how to remain relevant in an era of rapid technological change, reassess the value of a degree and reinvent what higher education means for today’s learners, Caroline Levander is uniquely positioned to offer authoritative insight.
Marjanović reappointed as dean of Rice School of Architecture
Igor Marjanović has been reappointed as the William Ward Watkin Dean of the Rice School of Architecture, effective July 1, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Amy Dittmar announced today.
Rice basketball teams open 2025-26 regular seasons this week
The Rice Owls men’s and women’s basketball teams are tipping off their 2025-26 campaigns this week, looking to build early momentum and set the tone for the season ahead.
Second Foundings Conference brings national dialogue on slavery’s legacies to Rice
Hundreds of scholars, students and community members from across the country gathered at Rice in mid-October for the fall research conference of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium.
Kono awarded American Physical Society’s Isakson Prize
Rice applied physicist Junichiro Kono has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2026 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.
Houston workers are redefining what matters most at work
The latest survey from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research shows flexibility — not salary — is now the top priority for Houston-area workers, many of whom are eyeing new career paths.