Robert  “Bob” M. Stein, Rice professor emeritus and prominent political scientist, passed away July 18 of cancer at 75.

Rice’s student run boba tea shop will likely shutter its doors after managers were informed that they could no longer operate ...

In many ways, the current landscape of American higher education is unprecedented. Sweeping cuts to federal research funding, overt government efforts to control academic departments and censor campus ...

John Whitmire’s remarks on the city’s budget, transportation and infrastructure were interrupted twice by shouts from audience members at a Baker Institute event May 29.  At the event, which was ...

A crowd gathered at House of Blues Houston on June 18 to hear the upbeat bedroom pop that got many of them through high ...

In the early hours of the morning on July 4, flood waters rapidly rose the Guadalupe River to 30 feet above its normal height. One of the few gauges on the river failed. Young girls sleeping in the ...

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 ...

While the atmosphere prior to Night of Decadence is always animated, this year’s energy is different: It will be the 50th anniversary of Rice’s arguably best known public. While event-goers look into ...

Now, campus is grappling with last week’s decisive — and unexpected, some say — Republican victory. Amid town halls and discussion forums, students express both optimism and worry for the future ahead ...

A new wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been identified by a Rice research team in a ZooKeys research paper published Sept. 18, over two years since the discovery of the Valhalla wasp on ...

Bility’s name landed on South Main at the time of new Name, Image, and Likeness policies allowing college athletes to enter sponsorship deals. Last month, Bility announced on Instagram that he had ...