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(08/27/25 2:11am)
First of all, we want to thank y’all for picking up the paper, reading our stories and answering our questions all the time. We want to inform students, staff and the community about what is happening at Rice, and the only way to do that is by hearing from you. Talk to us, email us, submit tips on our website, write an opinion piece; however you want to communicate, we always want to know what matters to you.
(08/19/25 3:47pm)
Rice announced that the 12th residential college will be named Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao College Aug. 19. The college, set to open in fall 2026, will contain nearly 300 on-campus beds.
(02/05/25 4:42am)
Students received an alert Feb. 2 near midnight from the Rice University Police Department regarding an active investigation. According to the email, RUPD and the West University Place Police Department were pursuing a male suspect driving a stolen vehicle who then ran, barefoot, to evade police near the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen. The area is no longer being investigated.
(01/22/25 8:35am)
Classes and normal campus operations halted on Tuesday, Jan. 21, due to a winter storm watch, Rice Emergency Management announced Jan. 19. Areas of Houston received up to four inches of snow. Classes and work on Wednesday, Jan. 22, will go remote, Emergency Management announced on Tuesday.
(01/15/25 4:57am)
The first Student Association meeting of the semester, held Jan. 13, introduced several action items for the upcoming semester, including increasing meal swipe donations and planning for the new student center set to replace the Rice Memorial Center. A report on the results of December’s special election regarding divestment and university spending was also on the agenda, however was tabled as student elections director Natalie Wang was unable to attend.
(12/16/24 6:34am)
Harris speaks to the crowd at the end of a three-hour rally held in Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium. Sarah Knowlton / Thresher
(11/13/24 4:31am)
Brad Joiner has requested three mail-in ballots from his home state of Georgia — one for the 2022 midterm elections, another for a runoff that same year and one for the 2024 presidential election.
(10/02/24 3:38am)
Owls in Recovery, an addiction support group for Rice students, began holding meetings this semester. Erin Timmerberg, the group’s advisor, said that OIR was created due to changes in the university’s alcohol policy.
(09/18/24 5:37am)
The redesigned academic quad had its grand opening Sept. 12. The ceremony included speeches, a ribbon cutting and guided tours for attendees to learn about new quad features. Speakers included President Reggie DesRoches, board of trustees chairman Robert T. Ladd, landscape architect Thomas Woltz and several alumni.
(09/11/24 4:55am)
Rice policy now allows all faculty and staff to remove posters and restricts the permitted times and locations for public demonstrations. The changes went into effect Aug. 30, according to an announcement from Kelly Fox, executive vice president for operations, finance and support.
(09/04/24 3:54am)
For those who frequent Rice public parties, there is no sight more beloved at the end of the night than a tent and a whiteboard. Underneath this tent, the intoxicated can indulge in fresh pancakes from the Baptist Student Ministry and attempt to consider the faith-related question on the nearby whiteboard, often encouraging students to vote with a tally mark. Also available — a fleet of golf carts and sober drivers to chauffeur the more inebriated students safely home.
(09/04/24 4:22am)
With a 44% yield rate, 1,149 students joined the class of 2028 along with 74 transfer students. Incoming classes continue to increase in size ahead of the construction of two new residential colleges.
(05/06/24 9:28pm)
Rice held its 111th commencement ceremony Saturday, May 4 at Rice Stadium. The class of 2024 walked through the Sallyport, which is currently closed amid ongoing construction of the academic quad, but was temporarily reopened for commencement. For the second year in a row, all undergraduate commencement events were condensed into one day — prior to 2023, ceremonies were typically spread out over a two-day span.
(04/10/24 3:55am)
The Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment has voted to keep their current name after announcing that it would be changing in October. Club members voted on different name options throughout the semester, culminating in a final vote alongside HACER’s executive board elections, co-president Melissa Cantú said.
(04/03/24 4:09am)
When the Office of Access, Equity and Equal Opportunity instructed the Student Association to table a resolution adopting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement for Blanket Tax funds, the authors of the resolution called it “a direct violation of [their] freedom of expression” and an “overstep of [administration’s] power.” SA President Jae Kim called the action unprecedented.
(04/03/24 4:06am)
Jazmin Mendoza, one of the 7.5% of applicants admitted to the Rice class of 2028, fell in love with campus at first sight.
(03/27/24 4:39am)
A student resolution calling on the Rice Student Association to participate in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement was presented at the Senate meeting March 25. The resolution is titled “Student Association Boycott and Divestment from Corporations Complicit in the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza.”
(03/06/24 4:08am)
Most professors can’t say that they grew up with their research topics. But José Negroni Cicerchia isn’t like most professors.
(01/31/24 5:22am)
When the highlight of Solomon Ni’s week became leading the Student Association’s meetings, he knew he needed to quit.
(01/24/24 4:42am)
Carefully cataloged by the University of North Texas’s Portal to Texas History and the Rice University Woodson Research Center, the archives of the Rice Thresher contain issues of the paper since its creation in 1916. Any Internet user brave enough to venture into over a century of reporting can uncover hidden bits from Rice’s history. From scientific breakthroughs to programming victories, the Thresher is proud to bring you a selection of newsworthy events from Jan. 24.
