Underneath Chadd Alexander’s Broadway costume, there’s ankle tape and wrist braces — same protective gear he wore as a walk-on basketball player at Rice, though now he’s performing eight shows a week ...

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 ...

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 ...

With an 18-7 win over Brown College, fifth-seeded Hanszen College claimed the intramural softball title Saturday, capping off a dominant playoff run. The victory marked Hanszen’s first IM softball ...

Is Houston a hockey town? It’s hard to tell. For two Rice students, however, the answer to the above question is still a resounding yes. David Nyari and Oliver Finlayson founded the Rice Hockey Club ...

Rice accepted 13.2% of Early Decision applicants in its first round of admissions for the class of 2029, said Yvonne Romero, vice president for enrollment. With 2,970 total applicants, this year saw ...

The Virani Undergraduate School of Business faculty voted Sept. 23 to repeal its longstanding grade cap, which required all business classes to have an average ending GPA of 3.50. The change will be ...

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, ...

The first woman to land on Mars is a Rice alumna. Her name is Adelaide Brooke. She earned her doctorate in physics here before becoming a NASA astronaut and, eventually, the commander of an ...

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 ...

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 ...

After serving as the dean of Rice Business for the past decade, Peter Rodriguez will leave Rice to become the 15th president of Wake Forest University. Rodriguez said he feels prepared and energized ...