This summer, Sid Richardson College junior Sophia Lannie woke up in the Phobjikha Valley of Bhutan in the homestay she was lodging in with other Rice Abroad students. They enjoyed a breakfast of milk ...

Live ice sculptures, ticket-covered bar tabs and university-wide Among Us games — Esperanza, Rice’s annual fall formal, is no stranger to reinvention. The first mention of Esperanza is found in an ...

In March, at the Young Texas Artists Music Competition in Conroe, Shepherd students showed out. Out of eight finalists, six were Rice students from the Shepherd School of Music — including the Grand ...

Rice revealed plans to construct a new research and development space called The Arc in the Ion District in a news release Sept. 16. The nearly 200,000-square-foot space is expected to be a “merger of ...

As a student, Erica Ogwumike ’20 would walk across Main Street from basketball practice at Tudor Fieldhouse to the Texas Medical Center to shadow physicians. She said the short walk was more than a ...

Abby Manuel and Jack Vu noticed in April 2025 that some of the kids in the weekly classes they volunteered with had stopped showing up. They realized an uptick in U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Standing before a panel of Major League Baseball executives and seasoned data scientists, members of the Rice University sport analytics team were not just trying to win a trophy. They were trying to ...

Rice is bringing generative artificial intelligence into the creative writing world with this fall’s new course, “ENGL 306: AI Fictions.” Ian Schimmel, an associate teaching professor in the English ...

Rice volleyball’s all-time winningest head coach, Genny Volpe, has agreed to a five-year contract extension that will run through the 2030 season, according to a press release from Rice Athletics.

Hip-hop has quietly lived at Rice for 20 years through professor Anthony Pinn’s religion courses. Now, with a new faculty member bringing his own approach to the genre, students can explore rap music ...

Looking through the crowd in front of the painting, “My Dress Hangs There” hangs on the wall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, echoing the surrealistic way Frida Kahlo’s iconic Indigenous dress ...

For many students, midterm season is a precarious balancing act of assignments, studying and other commitments. For students with testing accommodations, that balance becomes even more precarious.