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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Boasting one of the most unique names in college football, Mohammed “Moh” Bility, a redshirt junior cornerback, has been featured on sports programs such as Sports Illustrated, ESPN College Gameday, ...

A picnic table loafer by day and a huntress by night, Lovett College’s Mama Cat is a cat of many meows and much mystery. Over the past three years, she has become a campus celebrity and cherished ...

Rice has renamed its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence, announced in a Feb. 28 campus-wide email from Provost Amy Dittmar. This change ...

In one of the most crowded races in the Rice Student Association’s history, Chelsea Asibbey has been elected RSA president for the 2026-27 school year. After five rounds of ranked choice voting, she ...