The transformative impact of the Fulbright Scholar Program is on full display at Rice, where approximately 100 Fulbright students from around 30 count...
Catherine Clack, Rice’s associate vice provost in the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence and director of the Multicultural Center, is retir...
Lydia Kavraki, a leading researcher in robotics, computational biomedicine and artificial intelligence at Rice, has been elected to the National Acade...
The Rice Owls women's tennis earned an at-large bid in the NCAA field of 64, earning the third seed in the College Station Regional....
The Rice Owls men's tennis earned a spot in the NCAA field of 64 for the second-straight year, earning the fourth seed in the College Station Regional...
Rice President Reginald DesRoches offered a compelling and in-depth account of the university’s future during a one-on-one interview with The Chronicl...
Rice’s César A. Uribe has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance the mathematical foundations of decentralized learning, a critical...
Houston hospitals show significant pricing differences in their procedures, according to a new brief from Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Th...
Graduate Student Spotlight: Esther Jimenez ’25...
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2025 Laureates Awards ceremony May 8, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to the late...
Rice’s Office of Access and Institutional Excellence welcomed author and free speech advocate Suzanne Nossel to campus April 28 for a conversation on ...
Rice’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, inducted 21 new members....
Sanjoy Paul appointed executive director of the Rice Nexus, aims to ‘shape the future of technology’
August 20, 2024
Rice has appointed Sanjoy Paul as executive director of the Rice Nexus, the university’s premier innovation factory in the Ion that will offer state-of-the-art facilities for prototyping, testing and launching new ventures by Rice faculty and students.
‘Make the lift lighter’: Rice football helps freshmen move into residential colleges
August 20, 2024
The morning after a grueling three-hour scrimmage, Rice Football players spread out over campus to help rookies tackle their first big college move.
ChatGPT could help people with creativity in everyday tasks, study says
August 20, 2024
ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence technology developed by OpenAI, could help humans with daily, creative tasks — even tasks typically thought to require the human ability to “read between the lines,” according to new research by the University of Houston and Rice University. Its capability has proven to be superior compared to traditional Google search or even human brainstorming without any technical assistance, the study authors argue.
‘Nothing is going to come easy’: A conversation between Olympians and astronauts
August 20, 2024
Rice helped bring together Olympic and Paralympic athletes with astronauts on board the International Space Station for a talk on the similarities between space exploration and elite sports.
‘Critical knowledge’: Weekly radio show deconstructs local, global environmental concerns
August 20, 2024
Gathered around the microphones in one of KPFT’s Houston studios, Weston Twardowski, Haley Schultz and Alondra Torres discussed the impact of the coal-powered W.A. Parish plant in Fort Bend County for episode 42 of “Gulf Streams.”
August 19, 2024
Najee Greenlee, a clarinetist from Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, is making waves in the classical music world with his recent national performance, now live on the YourClassical platform hosted by American Public Media.
Musical powerhouses strengthen offerings at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music
August 19, 2024
Rice's Shepherd School of Music is celebrating the return of alumni Cristian Măcelaru and the addition of opera luminary Patrick Summers to its faculty.
Rice Emerging Scholars Program wraps 13th summer of operation
August 19, 2024
The Rice Emerging Scholars Program, an innovative, residential academic program designed to help first-year students prepare for the challenging pace, depth and rigor of the STEM curricula at Rice, recently concluded its summer programming with 50 students participating in the prematriculation program.
Rice welcomes the newest Owls into the nest at O-Week matriculation
August 19, 2024
“Welcome to Rice!” President Reginald DesRoches exclaimed at the Aug. 18 matriculation ceremony for the Class of 2028. After spending the day helping the new class of freshmen move into its residential colleges, DesRoches and university leadership celebrated the new students’ official entry into Rice at Tudor Fieldhouse to share their advice and support for the upcoming years.
Rice Innovation awards second cycle of One Small Step Grants
August 19, 2024
Rice Innovation announced its two most recent awardees of the One Small Step Grant , marking a significant milestone in accelerating the transition from lab to market for these Rice-developed technologies. Launched in September 2023, the grant aims to support lab-stage projects across campus, providing crucial capital for projects to spin out of the university and successfully attract investment from angel investors and venture capital.