Students

Relax, marathoners, we’ve got your back

Rice’s Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology student club helped provide more than 400 post-race medical massages to runners at the 2022 Chevron Houston Marathon.

Undergrads share research on Texas slave trade

Rice undergraduates presented alongside historians and experts on the intra-American slave trade at the “Bound Away” conference Dec. 3-4

O Christmas tree

The annual Baker College freshman camping trip to cut down a Christmas tree brought home a beauty this year

Team furry friends Wiess

The final “Team Family Wiess” get-together of the semester invited Wiess College associates to bring their pets to campus.

Dhamaka explodes with energy

“Through the Ages” was the theme of this year’s Dhamaka, the annual cultural showcase for the Rice South Asian Society.

Owls on ice: Wildly popular skating event draws hundreds of students to holiday blowout

Rice freshmen Anya Gu and Alice Zhou became friends over Instagram when the two new students discovered they shared a passion for ice skating. After echoing their dismay that their university did not have an ice skating club, they joined fellow freshman Imaan Patel and launched one themselves.

Let there be light

To herald the second night of Hanukkah, Rice students and community members gathered Nov. 29 in the Graduate Commons courtyard by Valhalla for an evening of fellowship, song and tasty treats at the 2021 menorah-lighting ceremony.

Birthday dunc

Duncan College celebrated its 12th birthday with a week of activities Nov. 15-19

‘Bound Away’ conference bringing new research on slave voyages

Art exhibitions at Moody, MFAH will contextualize research presented Dec. 3-4

Menorah ceremony brings Hanukkah lights to campus Nov. 29

President Leebron will once again light the menorah to celebrate the festival

VADA seniors exhibit new work on bodyhood

New work from the 2021-22 cohort of Visual and Dramatic Arts seniors on the Studio Art track debuted Nov. 12 in the Sleepy Cyborg Gallery

Line dancing at Leebron's

Double-welcome back barbecue bash held at President Leebron’s house to greet the classes of 2024 and 2025

Rice on rice

A group of Lovett College students gathered in the commons Nov. 4 to make onigiri for a good cause.

Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do?

The four species