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Rice University trustees to announce new president

Rice’s Board of Trustees has selected the institution’s next president, who will be introduced at an event on campus Thursday afternoon.

Rice’s bold future subject of President’s Town Hall

Rice President David Leebron and Association of Rice Alumni President Monique Shankle ’86 examined the university’s bold future Oct. 29.

Leebron outlines progress, challenges in State of the University

President Leebron committed Rice to “doing all we do at the highest level … regardless of the challenges we face” in his State of the University address to faculty.

Coffee klatch

Family Coffee with Campus Leaders brought together parents and alumni Oct. 29

Rice launches $2 billion capital campaign

Rice University has launched a comprehensive capital campaign to raise $2 billion by the end of 2025, by far the largest fundraising effort in the university's history.

Leebron talks future of education in fireside chat

Rice President David Leebron regaled a crowd of local business and education leaders at a luncheon hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership with a fireside chat on the future of higher education, the COVID-19 response and more.

Senators talk chips with Rice delegation at The Ion

Rep delivers resolutions recognizing Rice basketball, Leebron

Simmons: Confront legacies of slavery 'unflinchingly'

When she was president of an Ivy League university, Ruth Simmons learned the importance of confronting an institution’s complicated and controversial history head-on. Now, as a Rice trustee emerita and president of Prairie View A&M University, she has some thoughts and advice.

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 16, 2021

The Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Kelsey Norman, fellow for the Middle East and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize

Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come

Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.

Argentine officials visit Rice

A delegation of top Argentine officials visited Rice June 8 for a meeting with President David Leebron and others from the university community to explore opportunities for collaboration, such as student and faculty exchange, study abroad programs and research.

A letter from President Leebron

A letter from President Leebron

Letter from Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Ladd on President Leebron

Letter from Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Ladd on President Leebron

Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022

HOUSTON – (May 26, 2021) – Rice University President David Leebron has announced he plans to leave his position at the end of the next academic year after nearly two decades at the helm of one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.