For most students at Rice, Beer Bike is nonnegotiable. For the women’s club ultimate frisbee team, this year was different. Torque traveled to Springfield, Missouri, competing in their regionals ...

Many Owls treat their undergraduate degree as a prelude, planning to attend medical, law or graduate school after. For students who want to become orchestral conductors, it’s similar. Just like you ...

In a legend dating to medieval Japan, the household objects people throw away rise up and march through the streets at night, demanding to be acknowledged by the world that discarded them. The ...

Michaela Coel appears in two of this week’s Houston screenings — bickering with Ian McKellen in a British art world caper and with Anne Hathaway in a pop star psychodrama. From a four-time Oscar ...

Freshie does not talk about rap as a hobby, a side pursuit or even a career choice. He talks about it as something closer to identity. “My mentality is people just don’t get on it as much as I do,” ...

David Cronenberg’s 1988 masterpiece has always been a tough sit, but watching it in 2026 has given the film a particularly skin-crawling discomfort. This April marks a heavy month for reproductive ...

Under Beth Leaver’s tenure as the interim assistant vice president for housing, dining and hospitality, she has implemented many changes — including the transition to the unpopular unlimited meal plan ...

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With an 18-7 win over Brown College, fifth-seeded Hanszen College claimed the intramural softball title Saturday, capping off a dominant playoff run. The victory marked Hanszen’s first IM softball ...

Rice baseball lost all three games of last week’s series to the University of Memphis, capped off by a 6-5 loss in extra innings. “They outplayed us all weekend,” said head coach David Pierce. Rice ...

The Rice men’s tennis team fell short of repeating as American Conference champions, as the top-seeded Owls fell 4-1 to No. 6 seed University of Tulsa in the conference championship Sunday. Rice, ...

Inside the athletics offices at Rice, decisions that once took hours of film review and guesswork have become instantaneous. Part of this process involves Anwesha Parida, a Wiess College junior ...