Students

Voter registration drive at Fondren Library finishes strong ahead of 2020 elections

Cross-campus collaborations made volunteer-driven event a success.

Making hay while the sun shines

With physical distancing a requirement for classes and other campus activities, Rice students have been taking full advantage of the fall weather and moving their study sessions outdoors whenever possible. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow)

Seesaws offer playful social distancing on campus

Rice Architecture students built 'Twelve Feet Apart' to encourage safe outdoor activities.

New technology TA positions empower students to partner with professors

These student jobs are about more than just troubleshooting Zoom calls.

Rice U. Theatre Program livestreaming one-night-only production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'

Actors will wear masks for Oct. 9 play broadcast from Hamman Hall.

Cooking demonstrations, bomba workshop among Hispanic Heritage Month virtual events

Annual celebration moves online with webinars, mixers, trivia nights and more.

Freshman from China endures weeks long journey to reach campus

Anybody from Shanghai faces a long journey to Rice, but Apple Li’s globe-trotting adventure took weeks.

Conversation with Jehmu Greene kicks off campuswide 'Right to Vote' series Sept. 22

The Center for Civic Leadership wants to make sure you’re ready to rock the vote this semester.

Sleepy Cyborg, Rice’s student art gallery, goes virtually virtual

What was Matchbox Gallery has rebranded in a sign of the times.

Polling location at Rice Stadium to be staffed entirely by students

Hanszen junior Mason Reece confirmed as Rice precinct’s first student election judge in years.

Rice football players march to protest racial injustice

Rice football players marched from Rice Stadium to the Academic Quad Sept. 4 to protest racial injustice.

New semester brings unique O-Week experience

Rice reimagined O-Week to include remote students in the annual orientation week and its traditions.

Masked-up matriculation

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)

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Social distance sportsmanship

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)