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Rice earns nation-leading rankings from Niche, Forbes

August 26, 2025

Rice has been recognized among the nation’s best colleges this week — coinciding with the beginning of its fall semester — ranking No. 10 on Niche’s 2026 Best Colleges in America list and No. 12 on Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges list.

Rice in France

‘Bonjour’ to the boulevard: Rice in France expands to Paris

August 15, 2025

Rather than romanticize the city, French studies lecturer Nelly Noury-Ossia asked students to interrogate it.

2025 internships

Internships and impact: How Rice students are shaping the world

July 22, 2025

Across the country and globe, Rice students are seizing hands-on roles with real stakes by interning in fields as diverse as offshore energy, arts education, global sports marketing and refugee housing.

Shepherd School

Rice’s Shepherd School of Music announces 2025-26 season

July 16, 2025

With orchestral, chamber, opera and recital programs, the milestone season showcases the excellence of Shepherd’s students and faculty alongside appearances by distinguished guest artists.

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Rice moves up more than 20 spots in QS World University Rankings

July 2, 2025

Rice has advanced 22 spots in the 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings, climbing to No. 119 globally and No. 29 among U.S. universities.

Rice undergraduates at the 2025 Social Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Symposium

Crowded halls, creative minds: Social science student researchers aim to make ‘real impact’

July 1, 2025

Rice undergraduates transformed Kraft Hall's corridors into a vibrant showcase of original research and creative exploration during the 2025 Social Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Symposium.

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Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space

June 11, 2025

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.

Shepherd School in Tianjin

Bridging cultures through music in China

June 6, 2025

Five students joined peers from 30 institutions across Asia, Europe and North America to form the NextGen Symphony, a first-of-its-kind international orchestra.

Indigenous Oral History Project

Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories

June 3, 2025

The project titled “Living Memory: An Oral History Project to Strengthen Native Sovereignty in Texas” began in fall 2024 as part of the Center for Civic Leadership-funded Houston Action Research Teams program.

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New leash on life: Rice students design haptic vest for blind dogs

May 28, 2025

A team of engineering students at Rice designed an innovative wearable vest that helps blind dogs safely navigate their surroundings.

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From Rice to orbit: Student engineers build safer, low-cost satellite thruster

May 21, 2025

A team of Rice engineering students has designed and built a safer, low-cost propulsion module for small satellites.

Rice Historical Review

Celebrating student voices: Award-winning publications showcase the power of humanities at Rice

May 16, 2025

From celebrating campus creativity to elevating academic research, two student-led publications are giving undergraduates a platform to lead, edit and publish meaningful work.

Undergraduate Commencement 2025

A night to remember: Rice celebrates the undergraduate Class of 2025

May 11, 2025

Rice conferred more than 2,900 degrees to its newest graduates — the most in the university’s history — during its 112th commencement weekend held May 9-10.

Zeisha Bennett

Senior Spotlight: Zeisha Bennett ’25

May 9, 2025

Zeisha Bennett found a way to combine two lifelong loves — fashion and photography — and turn them into something bigger than herself.

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‘A new chapter’: Rice breaks ground on Moody Center Complex for Student Life

May 9, 2025

Rice marked a major milestone with the groundbreaking of the Moody Center Complex for Student Life, a bold step toward enhancing the student experience through connection, engagement and growth.

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