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.
Architecture students win first place for pandemic-proof dormitory design
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
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
The student group has big plans beyond its initial successful fundraiser.
Rice launches online Visiting Owls program
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
The installation — “perhaps, there is no sequel” — is the most recent commission in the Rice Public Art Platform series.
Healing power of music: Rice Philharmonics' album to benefit fight for justice
The Rice Philharmonics, also known to their fans as The Phils, are hoping their new album, "Phílos," will help spread the healing power of music.
60,000 Houstonians, including Rice students and alumni, join march for George Floyd
Tens of thousands of Houstonians joined rappers Bun B and Trae tha Truth as they led a “Justice 4 George Floyd” rally June 1.
'Sheer awe': Rice group raises almost $100,000 to fight anti-black violence
Newly formed student organization Rice for Black Life raised $93,362 in 24 hours.
‘Quaranteens’ across the world star in podcast launched by Rice students
A new podcast from Rice students features interviews with other undergraduates tackling college during the coronavirus.