Rice University
Private university in Houston
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| 2025 | Scott Abell becomes the latest head coach of Rice Owls football, taking over in 2025. |
| 2024 | Rice Owls baseball joins the American Athletic Conference, marking their most recent conference affiliation. |
| 2024 | Rob Lanier began his first season as head coach of the Rice Owls men's basketball team, leading the team in their second year as members of the American Athletic Conference. |
| 2024 | Forbes magazine ranked Rice University 9th nationally among 500 colleges and universities, 1st among universities in the south, and 9th among research universities. |
| 2024 | Rice University received 32,473 freshmen applications, with 2,597 students admitted at an 8.0% acceptance rate, slightly higher than the previous year's record-low rate. |
| March 14 2024 | Rice University fired head coach Scott Pera after the conclusion of the 2023-24 basketball season. |
| January 2024 | Rice announced the reinstatement of women's diving program, effective in 2024–25 season. |
| January 6 2024 | Due to water damage to Tudor Fieldhouse, the home game against UTSA was relocated and played at the Jerabeck Activity and Athletic Center on the University of St. Thomas campus. |
| 2023 | The team was upset by #6 seed UTSA in the C-USA tournament quarterfinals as the #3 seed. |
| 2023 | Received an at-large bid to the WNIT tournament, defeating BYU in the first round before losing to Oregon in the second round. |
| 2023 | Rice Owls women's basketball team completed their 2022-23 season with a 23-9 record and 13-7 performance in Conference USA (C-USA). |
| 2023 | Mike Bloomgren coached Rice in the First Responder Bowl, where they lost to Texas State 21-45. |
| 2023 | Rice Owls football team joins the American Athletic Conference. |
| 2023 | Rice Owls men's basketball team assembled their 2023 recruiting class, bringing in new talent to strengthen the team for the upcoming season. |
| 2023 | Scott Pera began his seventh year as head coach of the Rice Owls men's basketball team for the 2023-24 season. |
| 2023 | Finished the season with an overall record of 19-16 and a Conference USA record of 8-12, resulting in a three-way tie for sixth place. |
| 2023 | Participated in the College Basketball Invitational, defeating Duquesne before being eliminated by Southern Utah in the quarterfinals. |
| 2023 | Competed in the Conference USA tournament as the No. 6 seed, defeating UTSA before being eliminated by UAB. |
| 2023 | Campus parties were suspended after the Night of Decadence party resulted in multiple student hospitalizations, leading to the permanent banning of the event. |
| 2023 | Rice University had a record-low admission rate of 7.9%, receiving 31,059 freshmen applications and admitting 2,447 students. |
| November 2023 | Rice Owls women's basketball team begins their 2023-24 season, competing in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament and playing home games at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston, Texas. |
| November 2023 | The Founder's Memorial Statue and its plinth were taken down during a renovation of the Academic Quad. |
| August 2023 | Lindsay Edmonds begins her third season as head coach of the Rice Owls women's basketball team, leading the team in their first year as members of the American Athletic Conference. |
| July 1 2023 | Rice University officially joined the American Athletic Conference, completing its conference realignment process. |
| January 2023 | New replacement building for New Section was completed, featuring mass timber construction and designed by Barkow Leibinger, becoming the largest mass timber building in Texas. |
| 2022 | Under coach Mike Bloomgren, Rice played in the LendingTree Bowl, losing to Southern Miss 24-38. |
| 2022 | Travis Evee, a transfer guard from Seattle University, committed to the Rice Owls men's basketball team for the 2022-23 season. |
| 2022 | Max Fiedler, a transfer forward from St. Mary's College of California, joined the Rice Owls men's basketball team for the 2022-23 season. |
| 2022 | Luke Naccarato, a transfer guard from Jacksonville University, committed to the Rice Owls men's basketball team for the 2022-23 season. |
| 2022 | Rice University men's basketball team secured recruits for the 2022-23 season, bolstering their roster with new incoming players to strengthen the team's competitive lineup. |
| 2022 | The team lost to North Texas in the quarterfinals of the C-USA tournament. |
| 2022 | Rice was invited to the CBI post-season tournament and lost to Ohio in the first round. |
| 2022 | Rice Owls men's basketball team completed their previous season with a 16-17 overall record and 7-11 in Conference USA play, finishing fifth in the West Division. |
| 2022 | The team defeated Charlotte in the second round of the C-USA tournament. |
| 2022 | Rice Owls men's basketball team began their 2022-23 season under head coach Scott Pera, representing Rice University in NCAA Division I basketball. |
| 2022 | Dennis Sullivan receives the Abel Prize |
| 2022 | Glenn Youngkin, a 1990 Rice University graduate, began serving as Governor of Virginia |
| 2022 | The team competed as members of Conference USA, playing their home games at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston, Texas. |
| 2022 | The Rice women's swimming team moved to The American Athletic Conference after Conference USA dropped women's swimming & diving. |
| 2022 | U.S. News & World Report ranked Rice University tied at 17th among national universities, 108th among global universities, 6th for 'best undergraduate teaching', 5th for 'Best Value', and tied for 16th 'Most Innovative' among national universities. |
| 2022 | Fall semester demographics showed men comprising 51.1% of the undergraduate student body and 63.1% of professional and post-graduate students. 36.9% of students were from out of state, 35.9% from Texas, and 27.2% from outside the United States. |
| 2022 | International student population reached 2,344, with 69.24% (1,623 students) coming from Asian countries, including China (1,145 students), India (296 students), Taiwan (93 students), and Korea (89 students). |
| 2022 | Reginald DesRoches is appointed as president of Rice University, succeeding David W. Leebron. |
| February 15 2022 | The Rice Thresher announced the rebranding of Willy's Pub to 'The Pub at Rice'. |
| January 2022 | Seibel Servery, shared with Will Rice College, was completed and connected Lovett to both Will Rice and Sid Richardson Colleges following Sid Richardson College's new building construction. |
| January 2022 | The Board of Trustees announced plans to relocate the William Marsh Rice Founder's Memorial Statue within the academic quadrangle. |
| 2021 | Jack Dongarra wins the Turing Award, a prestigious recognition in computer science. |
| 2021 | Nichole Ayers selected as a NASA astronaut candidate for NASA Astronaut Group 23 |
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