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🗓️ Thursday 7/10 & Friday 7/11
🕘 9 AM – 5 PM
📍 Brian Patterson Performance Center (horseshoe driveway)
📦 What to bring: New, unopened non-perishable food, hygiene products, cleaning supplies, baby essentials, and pet items
♥️How to give: QR codes will be available on-site for direct donations.

Big news! Rice jumped 22 spots in the 2026 QS World University Rankings — now #119 in the world and #29 in the U.S. 🌍 We’re rising fast, fueled by bold research, global impact and a truly unmatched student experience. Read more about what's driving Rice's global momentum here https://bit.ly/4ldBglb and be on the lookout for Rice Magazine’s highly anticipated global issue this fall.

Celebrating freedom and the incredible Rice minds using it to make a difference. Happy 4th of July, Owls!

Rice researchers made CO₂ conversion last 50x longer. http://bit.ly/4euuHbs

Want to show your Rice pride on screen? Now’s your chance. We’re casting Rice students and we want you to show your Owl pride. Submit your entry now through July 14 for a chance to be featured. https://bit.ly/4lr409R

🎶 Can music change what we remember? Grad student Kayla Clark found that emotional reactions to music, not the music itself, can shape memory recall. Read more on how her research could lead to personalized, music-based memory therapies.🧠 https://bit.ly/44pNpMH

Students have just wrapped up the second session of summer courses at Rice Global Paris!

Over the course of three weeks they studied the brain's role in emotion, motivation, and social cognition, enhanced with visits to Parisian neuroscience labs and historical sites. They explored Black American performance art in Paris, walking the same streets as Baldwin, Baker, and Hendrix. And they experienced the city as a living map of Romanticism, tracing its roots in literature, art, and historic sites—from the Bastille to Versailles.

Financial vulnerability runs deep in Houston, Rice's Kinder Institute report uncovers. http://bit.ly/3IfD2nc

"We are in a moment of rapid transformation driven by AI, and Rice is committed to preparing students not just to participate in that future but to shape it responsibly." — Provost Amy Dittmar

Rice University is advancing the next generation of innovators through cutting-edge computer science degree programs with AI specialization.

The universities already offering AI degrees, from Penn to Rice University The advent of the AI degree means the computer science major, long viewed as a pipeline into Big Tech, has some more competition.

Cancer cells don’t stand a chance against this vibrating molecule. https://bit.ly/3HKpCiZ

New bug on the block: Rice researchers identify Houston’s own tiger beetle. https://bit.ly/3FLOZAp

Incredible turnout at the Student Intern Reception! 👐🦉💙

Thank you to all the alumni, family, and friends who showed up to welcome the summer interns and offer them great advice and encouragement. Special thanks to Dr. Rachel Kimbro, Dean of Rice University School of Social Sciences, for her remarks and to our alumni panel for sharing their insights and experiences, moderated by Nathan Cook, Senior Director of Government Relations.

Bonjour from Paris! is in full swing, where startups, tech giants, public institutions and investors are uniting to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Innovation starts here!