Welcome to Rice
Take a virtual tour with us and experience our 300-acre campus
arboretum and its urban surroundings. From labs and classrooms, to
lounges and housing, these 360-degree photographs will put you in the
center of it
all. See the Killian Physics Lab, a Graduate Student Lounge, the Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Lab, the Stones and Bones Lab, the Stude Concert Hall, the Architecture Jury Room and more.
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Dean Sanders' Welcome
Welcome to the Rice University Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website. Rice offers advanced degrees in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, architecture, music, and business. With a graduate enrollment of just over 2300, graduate students comprise 40% of the total Rice student body. Our programs are small to medium-sized, offering the opportunity to work very closely with graduate advisors. Proximity to both the Houston Museum District and the renowned Texas Medical Center allows for exceptional access to the visual arts as well as cutting-edge biomedical research. Our many interdisciplinary centers and institutes enhance the experience of graduate students across all disciplines. For a look at graduate education across all of our schools, please take the Graduate Studies Virtual Tour and visit our admissions site for information about our graduate departments and programs. If you have questions that aren’t answered on our website, please e-mail graduate@rice.edu or call us at 713-348-4002.
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Perseverance carried chemist Noe Alvarez from Bolivian farm to Rice doctorate
Maybe Noe Alvarez was destined to grow crops no matter how far he strayed from home. Rice is not his father's farm, but here the newly minted doctor has
been raising nanotubes, planting the seeds of our future as well as his
own. Alvarez, a fifth-year graduate student in chemistry working in the labs
of Rice's Robert Hauge and James Tour, defended his dissertation, "Toward Large Scale Production and Separation of Carbon Nanotubes,"
this week. A day later he was still feeling the rush of emotions that
accompany the completion of a quest the Bolivian man began decades ago.
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A Grand Day for Graduate Student Association
This year, Rice's Graduate Student Association (GSA) celebrates its 40th anniversary. The GSA mission is to enrich the
graduate student experience and to represent, support, and promote
graduate student interests and values. An integral and essential part
of the Rice community, the GSA provides programs and services aiding in
recruitment and retention of graduate students, represents graduate
student interests to the University administration, and builds a strong
sense of community both on and off campus. For more information about the GSA, visit http://gsa.rice.edu.
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Obama recognizes Rice innovator
Romberg, who earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in
electrical engineering at Rice University, the last in 2004, has been
named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE), given to promising researchers at the outset of
their professional careers.
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