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Rice University senior from Tokyo, the World Baseball Classic this spring was both a professional milestone and a homecoming.

From fan to storyteller: Rice senior returns to Japan to capture baseball on world stage

September 16, 2026

Rice senior from Tokyo, returns home for the World Baseball Classic this spring - a professional milestone and a homecoming.

Victoria Roman, Ava Carson, Sarah Abi Saab, Luis Campos

A semester in the lagoon: Rice’s first students enrolled in program at Venice International University arrive

September 8, 2026

Courses are taught in English by faculty from 23 member institutions and built around themes that are global in reach and grounded in Venice itself.

Ava Cheponis and fellow students in her summer research cohort explore Ireland during their eight-week program at the University of Limerick. (Photo courtesy of Ava Cheponis)

Beyond the scoreboard: Rice student explores what keeps girls in sports

September 3, 2026

Rice junior Ava Cheponis returns from a summer abroad with more than memories, bringing new research experience and a clearer vision for her future.

Medical professional consults with patient

New minor explores how biology, behavior and society shape health

August 21, 2026

Rice’s new undergraduate minor examines the biological, psychological and social factors that shape health.

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Smalley-Curl hosts 40th annual colloquium to ‘encapsulate Rice’s interdisciplinary drive’

August 20, 2026

Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted its 40th annual summer colloquium.

three students walking in front of azaleas

Student surveys rank Rice No. 1 for race and class interaction, among nation’s best for campus life, value and student experience

August 19, 2026

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 of Race/Class Interaction and placing among the country’s top colleges across measures of community, value and student experience.

Rice's newest Owls at Matriculation 2026

Home begins at the Sallyport: Rice welcomes newest undergraduates at matriculation ceremony 

August 17, 2026

An unforgettable welcome for Rice's newest Owls — the largest freshman class in Rice history.

Jim and Lauren Whitehurst

Whitehurst family’s $25M gift expands support for first-generation, limited-income Rice undergraduate students

August 17, 2026

Rice has received a $25 million gift from university trustee James “Jim” Whitehurst and his wife, Lauren Whitehurst, to establish the Sallyport Fellows Program, a comprehensive initiative supporting first-generation and limited-income undergraduate students throughout their Rice experience.

Student and Cameron Dezen Hammon on a Seine boat trip

Literature meets medicine on the streets of Paris

August 11, 2026

A comparative lens runs through the syllabus of the Paris summer course, which paired French works in translation with foundational texts in the medical humanities.

RESP students pose with Rice President Reginald DesRoches

Rice Emerging Scholars Program gives incoming STEM students a head start — and a community

August 5, 2026

Before their first semester at Rice begins, 38 incoming students are already getting a taste of what it means to be a Rice student: tackling demanding STEM courses, learning how to study collaboratively, meeting faculty and building a community they can rely on when classes begin in the fall.

Students from the SEED program show off their designs.

Students tackle real-world engineering challenges through SEED summer internship

August 3, 2026

Undergraduate students from Rice and Kenyatta University in Kenya gathered at Rice’s Bioscience Research Collaborative to showcase the results of seven weeks spent designing solutions to real-world engineering challenges.

A picture of a pressurized rover at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Team OWL SUITS was assigned to develop a pressurized rover interface for a simulated lunar mission scenario (Credit: Israel Cantu).

Rice students help NASA imagine future of lunar exploration through SUITS challenge

July 24, 2026

Rice’s OWL SUITS team, led by members of the Rice Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Club, was selected for NASA SUITS, a national software design challenge that invites college students to develop interface solutions for future human spaceflight.

Student working in bioswale along Columbia Tap trail

Before Day 1, Rice’s newest students got their hands dirty in Houston

July 21, 2026

The Moody Civic Immersion program is a weeklong experience run by Rice’s Center for Civic Leadership that brings incoming students into the city before their first semester begins.

Denva Gallant teaching HART 213 in Paris

Rice students encounter Gothic world where it still stands

July 20, 2026

“Nothing prepares you for a cathedral,” said Denva Gallant, associate professor of art history at Rice.

Professor Laura Kabiri with students at a medical history museum in Paris

In Paris, Rice physiology students trace science to its source

July 14, 2026

For professor Laura Kabiri, who teaches the same physiology course in Houston, Paris changed what the material meant to her students.

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