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Rice’s School of Humanities has paused admissions to all five of its Ph.D. programs for one year. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)

Humanities pauses admissions for Ph.D. programs

September 29, 2020

In response to challenges caused by COVID-19, Rice’s School of Humanities has paused admissions to all five of its Ph.D. programs — art history, English, history, philosophy and religion — for one year.

Photo by Brandon Martin

Rice goes GRE-optional for grad programs, will grant fee waivers to graduates of Texas schools

September 8, 2020

Rice is eliminating the Graduate Record Examinations standardized test requirement for its 2021 graduate programs.

Sid Richardson College students welcome new freshmen with handmade signs. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)

Unprecedented move-in process puts Rice to the test

August 17, 2020

Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.

Ghasempour receives 2020 Marconi Society Young Scholar Award

August 4, 2020

A model by Rice University scientists shows how two positively charged spheres attached to springs are attracted to the electric field of light. Due to the motion of the spheres, the spring system scatters light at different energies when irradiated with clockwise and anticlockwise trochoidal waves. (Credit: Link Research Group/Rice University)

Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon

June 29, 2020

Researchers at Rice University have discovered details about a novel type of polarized light-matter interaction with light that literally turns end over end as it propagates from a source.

Anthony Pinn

Center for African and African American Studies offers new minor, course and grad certificate

June 19, 2020

The new minor includes 72 different classes across 10 departments and programs.

Baker Institute

42 student startups to compete for over $1 million in first virtual Rice Business Plan Competition

June 16, 2020

In its 20th year, the Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — is going virtual. Register to watch at rbpc.rice.edu/agenda.

New Rice PhD grads Gisele Calderon and Shannon Carter pop a bottle of sparkling wine outside Valhalla.

'RUnconventional Graduation': Newly minted Rice Ph.D.s celebrate with 31 miles in 24 hours

June 12, 2020

That’s five miles for each year, plus a final mile to reach Valhalla.

Rice University scientists have created an open-source algorithm, SEMseg, that simplifies nanoparticle analysis using scanning electron microscope images. Courtesy of the Landes Research Group

New tool helps nanorods stand out

June 8, 2020

Rice scientists introduce an open-source method to simplify nanoparticle analysis using scanning electron microscope images.

2020 Hertz Fellows

Three Rice students receive Hertz Fellowships

June 1, 2020

The Hertz Fellowship is as prestigious as it is selective: Only 16 fellows each year are admitted to the program, which funds five years of graduate research and offers lifelong professional support through the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Clancy Thomas and their beloved cat, Meatball

Rice community mourns loss of graduate student Clancy Taylor

May 21, 2020

Clancy Taylor, a Ph.D. student in the English department, died May 16. Taylor was 25 years old.

Photo credit: Shepherd School of Music

Quarantine Q&A: Rice opera students sing praises for industry leaders’ advice

May 4, 2020

The Shepherd School's Department of Opera Studies has been thinking outside the box during the pandemic.

Graduating Ph.D. students Tian Dong, Brandee Carlson and Andrew Moodie

Three Ph.D. grads win NSF postdoctoral fellowships

May 4, 2020

Three Ph.D. graduates from the same Rice University research group have won prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences.

Rice University's new professional science master's degree in applied chemical sciences combines advanced coursework in science and management with business training and hands-on experience. (Image by D. Mackey/Rice University)

Rice to offer new master's degree in applied chemical sciences

April 27, 2020

Rice is offering a new master's degree in applied chemical sciences that combines advanced coursework in science and management with business training and hands-on experience.

Students in Jayoung Song's first-year Korean class show notes of encouragement to their video pen pals in South Korea.

In this together: Rice students, Korean kids forge mutually beneficial bonds 

April 24, 2020

Before the pandemic hit, Jayoung Song was planning to take the students in her first-year Korean language class on a series of immersive trips to some of Houston’s Korean restaurants and grocery stores. And Will Rice freshman Diego Lopez-Bernal was eagerly awaiting the first outing, because trying Korean food last year was one of the things that got him interested in learning the language in the first place.

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