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06/03/2026

Summer at Rice, with sprinkles on top. 🍦☀️
Rice Staff Council brought campus together for a Staff Appreciation Ice Cream Social — a sweet summer pause to celebrate the people who keep Rice moving all year long.
GPS staff joined the fun, campus leadership served the scoops, and Dean Matsuda made sure the raspberry sorbet was in good hands.
Thank you, Rice Staff Council, for making appreciation feel this sweet.

Quiet summer quad, native flowers doing their thing. 🌿Just inside the Sallyport, Rice’s Academic Quad is the heart of ca...
06/02/2026

Quiet summer quad, native flowers doing their thing. 🌿
Just inside the Sallyport, Rice’s Academic Quad is the heart of campus — designed with Texas-friendly plants, more shade and space to gather. It may be a little quieter this time of year, but it still looks like Rice.
The quad’s redesign includes native and climate-adapted plants that support pollinators and increase biodiversity on campus.
Learn more at rice.edu/quad

Is everything really bigger in Texas?For GPS Graduate Ambassador Manuel Carmona Pichardo, the answer is bigger than high...
05/29/2026

Is everything really bigger in Texas?
For GPS Graduate Ambassador Manuel Carmona Pichardo, the answer is bigger than highways, food portions or pickup trucks.
In his latest blog, Manuel reflects on what the famous phrase actually means for international students experiencing Texas for the first time — from Houston’s scale to its culture of pride, hospitality and “hearty” energy.
Read the full blog at the link in bio.

Graduate school is more than what happens on campus.Recently, our Graduate Ambassadors caught a Houston Dash game and to...
05/28/2026

Graduate school is more than what happens on campus.

Recently, our Graduate Ambassadors caught a Houston Dash game and took in one of the best parts of being a Rice graduate student: living in Houston.

From professional sports and world-class museums to food, music, parks and neighborhoods to explore, Houston offers our students a city full of ways to connect, recharge and build community.

Learn more about the Graduate Ambassador Program at graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors

05/27/2026

The academic year of 2025–2026 was one to celebrate.
From research breakthroughs and fellowship wins to GPS moments, campus traditions, commencement memories and everything in between, this year was full of Rice minds at work.
One year. Countless Rice moments.
Here’s to what’s next.

05/26/2026

Melissa Hurtado Nuez, a second-year Ph.D. student in sociology at Rice, was recently named a 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.
An immigrant from Cuba, Melissa studies migration, health and guns in society, with a focus on how immigrant communities navigate safety, belonging and structural inequality in the United States.
Selected from more than 3,000 applicants, Melissa is one of 30 outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants chosen for this year’s Soros Fellowship class.
At Rice, her work is helping expand how we understand immigrant well-being, public safety and the policies that shape both.

05/25/2026

Summer concert season is here — but what does sustainability look like behind the scenes at a major live music venue?

Through Rice’s Living Lab initiative, master’s students partnered with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion to help shape the venue’s long-term sustainability strategy — analyzing waste, energy, water and operations at one of the Houston area’s largest entertainment venues.

The project brought together students from Rice professional master’s programs across business, accounting and environmental analysis to deliver data-driven solutions with real community impact.

This is what experiential learning looks like at Rice: students solving real problems for real organizations in Houston and beyond.

Houston is not always the easiest city to understand at first glance.For many international students, it does not feel l...
05/22/2026

Houston is not always the easiest city to understand at first glance.
For many international students, it does not feel like the cities they may have visited or imagined — no single central monument, no obvious walking route, no quick checklist that explains it all.
But as GPS Graduate Ambassador Manuel Carmona Pichardo writes, Houston reveals itself through living: through routines, friendships, repeat visits and the places that slowly become part of your story.
Read Manuel’s blog via the link in our bio.

Deep in the heart of Texas.Rice Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Rice Admissions was proud to help welcome Educatio...
05/21/2026

Deep in the heart of Texas.

Rice Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Rice Admissions was proud to help welcome EducationUSA advisers and REACs to Houston alongside our friends at the University of Houston () and Lone Star College. ()

EducationUSA advisers play a key role in connecting international students with U.S. colleges and universities, helping them navigate the process of studying in the United States.

We kicked off the week with Texas BBQ at The Pit Room and a chance to connect with colleagues from around the world before showcasing what makes Houston such a vibrant place to study, work and build community.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us in Houston: Alyssa Iacono and Veronica Munoz from , Teklemichael Wodorfa from , Israa Abdelnaby from , Sandro Molina from .peru, Natalia Kozlowska from , Kornelia Litkei from , Isa Spoerry from .lk and Karen Bauer from MENA region!

Welcome to Houston. We’re glad you’re here.

Congratulations to the 2025–2026 Graduate Student Association Awards recipients.Each year, the GSA honors the graduate s...
05/20/2026

Congratulations to the 2025–2026 Graduate Student Association Awards recipients.
Each year, the GSA honors the graduate students, faculty and staff who help strengthen graduate life at Rice through leadership, service, teaching, mentoring and community building.
This year’s honorees include faculty mentors, staff partners, student leaders and friends of Rice graduate students whose work makes a lasting impact across campus.
Thank you for showing up for graduate students — and for helping make Rice a stronger, more connected community.

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