Eleanor Tinsley Park, Glenwood Cemetery, Hogg Park, the Sabine Street Bridge, and every spot in Houston with the best views of the Downtown skyline.

Rice faculty and staff members Yael Hochberg and Patricia Stepp were recognized at the inaugural Texas Innovation Conference & Awards, held April 22-23 at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Rice continues to strengthen its position as a leader in innovation, rising to No. 66 in the 2025 Top 100 U.S. Universities List for utility patents, released by the National Academy of Inventors. The university moved up two spots from last year , with 29 patents issued during the 2025 calendar year.

Rice leaders highlighted the evolving demands on workers — and the role of higher education in preparing them — during multiple sessions at CERAWeek by S&P Global.

Rice is now ranked 68th on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2024, a list published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) — a leap of 26 spots from last year’s list. Rice ranked 94th in 2023 with 14 granted patents; this year, Rice brought in 30 new patents, leading to its sharp increase in ranking.

There’s a park off Highway 90, and I mean right off Highway 90, in an otherwise blighted and heavily industrial part of town that most people only scream past on their way from Missouri City to the Inner Loop, where Highway 90 abruptly turns into…

I have a set of mugs from 1979, the year my parents were married. My mother registered for them at Sears or wherever people were registering for wedding gifts back then. They’re tall and slender, with a speckled beige background and a…

A long time ago, I was very committed to posting some of my favorite food-related poetry on Wednesdays. What I never did was post any of my own poetry. All of my earliest writing was poetry. All of my first favorites were poems. I still think poetry…

Houston is a mirage. Sometimes you’ll be barreling down the tollroad toward your friend’s far-flung suburban home south of the city, a place you’ve been countless times, and suddenly on your right, three monstrous towers emerge into your view, rising…

For about 10 years, everything I wrote was almost immediately published. This sort of instant gratification really does a number on a young writer’s brain. During the onset of the digital age, newspaper editors became hungry for what would soon be…

Rent Kayaks from Bayou City Adventures at Discovery Green to North Lake Conroe Paddling Co. in Lake Conroe—our city has no shortage of paddle-worthy waterways. IF YOU LEFT THE LAST BUFFALO BAYOU REGATTA feeling inspired to do some paddling of your…

Rice undergraduates presented alongside historians and experts on the intra-American slave trade at the “Bound Away” conference held at the Moody Center for the Arts Dec. 3 and 4. Lovett College senior Victoria Zabarte, a history major with a minor…

Baker College associate and director of the Principles of Economics program James DeNicco grilled links upon links of venison sausage Oct. 2 for Baker’s annual Deers and Beers bash. (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

National Voter Registration Day block party signed up students across campus to vote A line of newly registered voters snaked across the Grand Hall Sept. 28 at the Rice Memorial Center as students who came out for the National Voter Registration Day…

The annual Discover Research Fair returned in person this year, held Sept. 29 in the Grand Hall at the Rice Memorial Center. A popular one-stop shop for undergraduates interested in learning about Rice’s many opportunities in research, service and…

Hugh “Hughy” Davis III, an access services assistant at Fondren Library, died Sept. 23. He was 30 years old. Davis was a well-known, friendly face to Fondren patrons, where he’d worked since 2017. From his perch at the front desk, Davis greeted…

The annual fall plant sale is back at the Rice Holistic Garden. If the recent cool snap inspired you to get outside again, the garden has the perfect plants to put in the ground right now for the cooler months ahead. Starting Oct. 4, all manner of…

Following a scavenger hunt across campus, a big batch of brand-new Rice grad students refueled with gigantic slices of pizza and ice pops at the Sept. 23 orientation picnic hosted by the The following night, Sept. 24, the party moved to the Ray…

It isn’t September without a Baker College Christmas, a . This year’s festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of “Feliz Navidad.” (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

‘The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow’ runs through Dec. 19 One gallery at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts has been converted into a desert landscape made from approximately 50 tons of fine silica sand, while another is centered around a giant…