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.

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 ...

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 ...

With finals rounding the corner and students wrapping up Beer Bike, the Artemis II spacecraft has come and gone, and students ...

When Soviet troops invaded Prague in 1968, Sayuri Shimizu’s primary concern was for the stuffed animals she’d have to leave behind. Though she didn’t know it, this was the seed of a budding interest ...

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 ...

Jealousy, violence, worship, love — The Last Dinner Party tosses poetic elements into “From The Pyre,” then stokes the mixture until it’s unrecognizable. Their new songs are stories listeners can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Balancing athletics, academic and leadership responsibilities, junior swimmer Sami Johnson has been elected as Baker College’s new president. Johnson, a member of the Rice women’s swimming and diving ...

Rice’s student run boba tea shop will likely shutter its doors after managers were informed that they could no longer operate out of Sammy's Cafe in the Rice Student Center. Simona Kao, the general ...