During her Golden Globes acceptance speech for “Hamnet,” director Chloé Zhao paused to single out a fellow nominee, “Sinners” director Ryan Coogler. “I’m looking at you, Ryan Coogler,” Zhao said. “[At ...

On Saturday, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, YouTube creator and self-proclaimed “nerdfighter” John Green gave a 10-minute crash course to the 2026 graduates on how to live the post-grad life ...

Years before Lovett Hall was built, buffalo herds roamed the coastal prairie ecosystems of the Houston area on land that Indigenous nations called their home. Now, Rice researchers and Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andy Warhol once remarked that “fashion is more art than art is,” a provocative idea from someone whose life was devoted to visual culture. At first glance, it feels counterintuitive — what could a ...

“In the velvet darkness / Of the blackest night / Burning bright / There’s a guiding star.” The opening lyrics of “Over at the Frankenstein Place” encapsulate the unique nature of “The Rocky Horror ...

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 ...

Although Rice women’s golf will not compete until this fall, the team’s inaugural roster is spending this academic year in a developmental redshirt season. The program is establishing training ...

Rice University is tied for registering the oldest .edu domain in history, with rice.edu going online on April 24, 1985. Exactly 10 years later, on April 24, 1995, The Rice Thresher published its ...

Rice football quarterback Chase Jenkins, who started all 12 regular-season games in 2025, plans to enter the transfer portal, according to Hayes Fawcett of On3 Sports. The Owls are scheduled to play ...