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 University Police Department Corporal Barry Oliver said he prefers to let students off with a warning. Violating the Rice Bicycle, Scooter, Micro-Transportation Policy usually means a $75 fine ...

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, alongside 30 other universities, has reached agreements with the Trump administration to end partnerships with The PhD Project, an organization accused of discrimination by the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Every spring and fall, something extraordinary happens above Houston. Between one and two billion birds surge across the Gulf of Mexico on the ancient central migratory route, landing exhausted in the ...

While the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament Regionals were held at the Toyota Center in Downtown Houston, Rice University served as the host institution, coordinating logistics and ...

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 ...