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.
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)
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
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
Hundreds of Owls come home to roost, kicking off an O-Week like no other.