Sleepy Cyborg, Rice’s student art gallery, goes virtually virtual
September 10, 2020
What was Matchbox Gallery has rebranded in a sign of the times.
Polling location at Rice Stadium to be staffed entirely by students
September 10, 2020
Hanszen junior Mason Reece confirmed as Rice precinct’s first student election judge in years.
Rice football players march to protest racial injustice
September 8, 2020
Rice football players marched from Rice Stadium to the Academic Quad Sept. 4 to protest racial injustice.
New semester brings unique O-Week experience
August 24, 2020
Rice reimagined O-Week to include remote students in the annual orientation week and its traditions.
August 24, 2020
Incoming Rice students stride toward the Sallyport for matriculation, which ran all day long to accommodate social distancing measures and allow plenty of room for each college to march through the quad. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
August 24, 2020
August 24, 2020
With way more than six feet between you and your opponent, table tennis in the college commons was the ideal indoor social distance sport during O-Week. (Photo by Tommy LaVergne)
Rice administers over 4,000 COVID-19 tests in first half of August
August 17, 2020
Rice University has been ramping up COVID-19 testing in advance of students returning for O-Week and the start of in-person and online classes Aug. 24.
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.
August 7, 2020
Architecture students win first place for pandemic-proof dormitory design
July 23, 2020
An elegantly imagined college dormitory designed for use during a pandemic has won top honors for a duo of Rice University students in the 2020 American Institute of Architects Houston (AIAH) Gulf Coast Green Student Competition.
Contact-tracing software takes top prize at Rice Design-A-Thon
July 21, 2020
Top honors went to a team of Rice engineering students who created software to approximate COVID-19 contact tracing in schools.
Rice For Black Life empowers Black students to create change on campuses across America
July 7, 2020
The student group has big plans beyond its initial successful fundraiser.
Rice launches online Visiting Owls program
July 6, 2020
HOUSTON – (July 6, 2020) – Rice University is welcoming visiting students into its classrooms this fall through a new online program. The pilot Rice Online Visiting Owls program allows high school juniors and seniors and visiting undergraduates to enroll in select online courses for credit.
Houston poet laureate creates community poem with Rice students
June 17, 2020
The installation — “perhaps, there is no sequel” — is the most recent commission in the Rice Public Art Platform series.