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Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service

Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service.

Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.

Fall Big Questions courses to cover the nature of facts, what makes bodies normal or abnormal

Each semester’s slate of Big Questions courses offered by the School of Humanities starts students’ minds churning over thought-provoking topics. So this fall’s offerings are no surprise: one promises to spur Rice scholars to think critically about what makes bodies normal as opposed to abnormal, while the other course will push students to examine just what, exactly, is a fact.

Humanities hosts daylong visit for high schoolers hoping to study the environment

These students picked Rice for a reason

Anything but a paper

A Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t always have to be a paper, as demonstrated by ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti

Fondren updates collection of William Blake replica prints and plates

Michael Phillips’ recreated Blake sets offer a rare opportunity to interact with 19th-century printing technology and artistry

Grad students ask: Is this the end of English?

Alemán to give keynote at department’s annual graduate student conference

Inaugural cohort of Humanities Dean’s Fellows hails culture of collaboration

New program funds undergraduates passionate about humanities research

Rice mourns Mary Tobin '73, longtime English lecturer, volunteer

The longtime fixture and friend of the Rice community died Nov. 23.

Morín brings his ‘machete’

Rice assistant professor of creative writing Tomás Morín read from his new collection of poetry

Spring Big Questions courses consider what makes a terrorist and what makes a classic

New classes from Humanities professors explore essential issues of our time

Morín’s new book of poetry, “Machete,” roars onto the scene

Assistant professor’s latest book of poetry incredibly intimate, rebelliously joyful

Design competition announced for Little Free Libraries

Jury of Rice judges will consider feasibility, durability, creativity and public impact

Initiative for the Study of LatinX America expands Latin American scholarship at Rice

ISLA seeks to position Rice on the cutting edge of contemporary studies and research

Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do?