Rice panel focuses on how universities should confront and rectify histories of racism
How should universities confront and redress histories of racism on campus? When and where should monuments go, and what lessons can history offer now and in the future?
Rice historian Melissa Kean retires
Her popular Rice History Corner blog will continue to live on.
Little Free Libraries on campus encourage ‘fun’ reading, lifetime learning habits
Just weeks after their installation, the boxes are bursting with popular titles.
The history professor — and Rice alum — is among the 10 best teachers in Texas.
The Fund for Racial Justice Teaching and Programming will offer grants to students and faculty to counter anti-Black racism.
Inaugural Juneteenth lecture series convenes wide web audience
The entire lecture series is now available for viewing on Rice's YouTube channel.
Center for African and African American Studies offers new minor, course and grad certificate
The new minor includes 72 different classes across 10 departments and programs.
Inaugural lecture series at Rice will commemorate, contemplate Juneteenth
A new annual lecture series from Rice will remember June 19 through discussions on the legacy of slavery and race in America.
Former Rice religion professor, legendary TSU debate coach Thomas Freeman dies at 100
Thomas Freeman, the legendary Texas Southern University debate coach who was the first African American professor to teach in the School of Humanities at Rice, has died at the age of 100.
English lecturer Bryan Washington awarded two top literary prizes
Acclaimed young author of short story collection 'Lot' will release his first novel, 'Memorial,' in October.
Rice community mourns loss of graduate student Clancy Taylor
Clancy Taylor, a Ph.D. student in the English department, died May 16. Taylor was 25 years old.
Posters, oral presentations pivot online for Undergraduate Research Symposium
Rice’s Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) is the big yearly event for students across disciplines to showcase their research projects and receive recognition for their work.
America’s 'Forever Empire' in Middle East chronicled by Citino
Award from Truman Library Institute will fund history professor’s ongoing research for upcoming book
Unconventional students at Rice: Shree Kale turns uncertainty into opportunity
The New Jersey native and his dad decided to stick around to check out the campus. That’s when he received an email from the Rice School of Architecture dean offering to show him and other students around the school.
Rice grads win 10 Fulbright grants
The university celebrates one of its largest-ever cohorts of Fulbright Scholars this year.
