On Saturday, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, YouTube creator and self-proclaimed “nerdfighter” John Green gave a 10-minute crash course to the 2026 graduates on how to live the post-grad life ...

Rice football concluded its 2025 season with a 52-3 loss to the University of South Florida last Saturday. The Owls finished their first year under head coach Scott Abell with a 5-7 record (2-6 in the ...

Standing before a panel of Major League Baseball executives and seasoned data scientists, members of the Rice University sport analytics team were not just trying to win a trophy. They were trying to ...

Andy Warhol once remarked that “fashion is more art than art is,” a provocative idea from someone whose life was devoted to visual culture. At first glance, it feels counterintuitive — what could a ...

Balancing athletics, academic and leadership responsibilities, junior swimmer Sami Johnson has been elected as Baker College’s new president. Johnson, a member of the Rice women’s swimming and diving ...

Years before Lovett Hall was built, buffalo herds roamed the coastal prairie ecosystems of the Houston area on land that Indigenous nations called their home. Now, Rice researchers and Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, UnoTheActivist turned Pub into a mosh pit and reminded the Thresher that Rice has a louder musical history than many think. Dig through Thresher archives and one will find a surprisingly ...

Mac Miller’s “Balloonerism” is a delicate balancing act — a posthumous release that feels deeply personal yet walks the fine line between honoring an artist's legacy and commodifying it. Unlike other ...

In one of the most crowded races in the Rice Student Association’s history, Chelsea Asibbey has been elected RSA president for the 2026-27 school year. After five rounds of ranked choice voting, she ...

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 ...