Rice Magazine

A seven-year collaboration between Scott McGill and Susannah Wright ’18 has culminated in a new blank-verse translation of the epic poem.

A transformational gift from the Chao family will shape Rice’s 12th residential college, blending modern design with a legacy of generosity.

When the Shepherd School of Music announces its opera productions, the costume room inside Brockman Hall leaps to life.

Rice sociologist Elizabeth Roberto is studying how dead-end streets, fences, railroad tracks and highways shape inequality across the U.S.

A note from Rice Magazine’s interim editor, Sarah Rufca Nielsen ’05

How junior Ankhi Banerjee helped NASA scientists monitor microbes on the International Space Station.

Now Reading: A landmark new history by Alexander X. Byrd and W. Caleb McDaniel reveals how the long fight for integration reshaped Rice.

Here are a few of the talented writers and photographers who contributed to the Winter 2026 issue.