Rice University is undergoing a retooling of its strategic plan in order to maximize its impact as an academic institution.

As a President’s Distinguished Fellow, Simmons will work with a variety of programs across campus and advise the president’s office on various matters, in addition to collaborating with faculty and staff to build out programs for students to develop future leaders at Rice.

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary and assistant to the president, will deliver the 2023 commencement address at Rice University during the undergraduate commencement ceremony the evening of May 6.

Rice historian Doug Brinkley and alumna Germaine Franco took home the gold at the 65th annual Grammy Awards Feb. 5 in Los Angeles.

A new, $1 million gift from Houston Endowment to the Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Houston Education Research Consortium will allow for expanded research capacity and more outreach to better educate practitioners and the public about pressing educational issues in the area.

For working professionals who want to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree with a flexible schedule, the new Hybrid MBA program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business opens this summer.

Rice University has promoted Naomi Halas to University Professor, the institution’s highest academic rank. She becomes only the 10th person and second woman to earn the title in Rice’s 111-year history.

The design process to enrich student experience by reimagining one of our university’s most iconic spaces, the Academic Quadrangle, is underway.

Joshua Winograde, one of the nation’s leading arts administrators, will join Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as professor of opera and director of Opera Studies in July.

The Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden has been replanted in a new location on the Rice University campus, just north of the Gibbs Recreation Center in between the basketball courts and O'Connor Field.