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

For the past four football seasons, there’s been one constant in Rice Stadium: Hong Lin Tsai.

Using bats as her guide, Alexandria Shockney is mapping the city’s nocturnal landscape.

Folding art into engineering, Larissa Novelino uses origami to shape smarter, safer structures.

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

In 1975, Main Street Theater founder Becky Greene Udden set the stage for a Houston playhouse that has grown and evolved over the past 50 years.

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

Rice engineers are turning the wasted heat of data centers into renewable energy.