Events at Rice this week
Every upcoming public event at Rice University: free food, club meetings, game days and more, from the university's own calendars and updated every day.
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Monday, November 2, 2026
Thursday, November 5, 2026
- SWE Conference7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- HR Office Hours9:00 AM
- Convergence: A Workshop on Multifaith Collaboration for the Common Good9:30 AM – 2:00 PMRice UniversityFree
- Building the Future on the Moon12:00 PM – 1:00 PMZoom
- CTE Graduate Workshop: Globalizing the Classroom12:00 PM – 1:00 PMHerring Hall
- Bioengineering Colloquia Series: Engineering Strain-Based Anisotropy in PEG Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration12:10 PMBioScience Research CollaborativeFree
- Non-Profit & Community Impact Careers Panel12:15 PM – 2:00 PMSee 12twenty link in description for location details
- Synthesis, Photocatalysis, and Functionalization of Zirconium-Based Molecular and Porous Materials1:00 PMAnderson Biological Laboratories
- CEE Seminar | Dr. Sergio Pellegrino - In-Space Assembly of Large Structures3:00 PM – 4:00 PMRyon Engineering Building
- Semiconductor Nanolaser Particles for Highly Multiplexed Single-Cell Tracking and Sensing3:00 PM – 4:00 PMOconnorFree
- Quang Vuong-New York University3:30 PM – 5:00 PMKraft Hall
- P & A AMO Seminar- Frank Narducci4:00 PM – 5:00 PMBrockman Hall for Physics
- MHRI Research Colloquium: Chin Jou, PhD4:00 PMTMC3 Collaborative in Helix Park, 7255 Helix Park Ave
- Don’t Differentiate the Solution Map: Bilevel Optimization with Non-Smooth Lower Levels in Signal Processing and Machine Learning (ELEC 698/699 Eligible)4:00 PM – 5:00 PMDuncan Hall
- CMOR Colloquium Lecture Series: Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan4:00 PM – 5:00 PMHerzstein Hall
- Thompson Lecture Series - Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard4:00 PM – 5:00 PMDuncan Hall
- Sharing the Spotlight: Shepherd Wind Faculty5:00 PM – 7:00 PMDuncan Recital Hall, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
- FALL INTO THE FUTURE: New Discoveries in Synthetic Biology5:30 PMPadre’s Wine Bar: 3522 White Oak Dr, Houston, TX 77007
- BofA Houston Energy Investment Banking Information Session5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
- AWM Math Nights5:30 PM – 6:30 PMStudent Resource Center (RMC Basement)
- Survival by Design: Desert Architecture at the End of the World5:30 PMKyle Morrow Room, Fondren LibraryFree
- MEML@Rice Seminar Series: Stephanie Schmidt (Bioe ’14, MBA ’27)6:00 PM – 7:30 PMDuncan HallFree
- Music, Money, and Memories: The Economic and Community Life Beyond Houston’s Chitlin’ Circuit Stages, 1955–19756:00 PM – 7:30 PMBaker HallFree
- Julia Haft-Candell // 2026-27 Visiting Artist Lecture Series6:00 PMSarofim Hall
- RJP x RCLS Movie Night7:00 PM – 8:00 PMDuncan Hall 1064
- Rice Business Society x JPMorgan Panel7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Rice University Men’s Basketball vs East Texas A&M7:00 PM – 9:00 PMHouston, TX, Tudor Fieldhouse
Friday, November 6, 2026
- Free Fridays for Rice Graduate Students12:00 AM – 11:59 PMGibbs Recreation and Wellness CenterFree
- Rice University Women’s Basketball vs Murray State12:00 AM – 11:59 PMRichmond, Va.
- Engineering Superconductivity through Cavity Light–Matter Interactions9:00 AMBrockman Hall for Physics
- MCLLC Undergraduate Student Research Symposium11:30 AMRalph S. O’Connor BuildingFree
- Dialogues on Differences (DoD)12:00 PM – 1:00 PMMulticultural Center
- QPR: Suicide Prevention Training12:00 PM – 1:00 PMhttps://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meetings/92733997005/invitations?signature=tVFipDt9oiTpqKdQDzrnlbGuM8ujbR_8GlL1wKuKqf8
- Graduate Student Ambassador Campus Tour (In-person)12:00 PM – 1:00 PMLovett Hall
- Rice Women’s Pre-Law Association x Bracewell LLP Lunch & Learn12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
- Investigating Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma Cell Phenotypic Markers and Driving Mechanisms with Novel On-Chip Tissue Modeling and Single Cell Proteomics Technologies1:00 PMBioScience Research Collaborative
- Study Abroad Ambassadors Tabling2:00 PM – 4:00 PMChaus
- Polarized Light Emission from Carbon-Nanotube Microcavity Exciton-Polaritons2:00 PMBrockman Hall for Physics
- Moody Global Fellows Info Session!2:30 PM – 3:30 PMCenter for Civic Leadership
- Colloquium Lecture Series – “Did Kant Solve the Problem of Induction?” – with Janum Sethi (University of Michigan)4:00 PMHumanities BuildingFree
- RTG seminar4:00 PM – 5:00 PMHBH 427
- AMDC Seminar Series: Dr. Lorena Saelices, UT Southwestern, Medical Center4:00 PMDell Butcher Hall
- CSA Pop-Up Cafe 20264:00 PM – 6:00 PMMulticultural Center
- First Friday EEB4:00 PM – 5:00 PMVallhala Grad Commons
- Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander (SEAPI) Night5:00 PM – 10:00 PMRice Student Center
- RUM-ies Event: Chaus Mixing6:00 PM – 7:00 PMChaus
- Film Screening: Dario Robleto, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice”7:00 PM – 9:00 PMMoody CenterFree
- Dust in the Wind 戀戀風塵 （數位修復版）7:00 PMRice Cinema
Saturday, November 7, 2026
- DFW | Rice vs. UNT Football Pregame Tailgate12:00 AM – 11:59 PM1251 S. Bonnie Brae St. Denton, TX 76207
- November 7-8 Camp & Kayak - Martin Dies Jr. State Park6:30 AM – Sun, Nov 8 7:00 PMMartin Dies Jr. State Park
- EWB Soccer Shootout9:00 AM – 1:00 PMIntramural Field 6
- NSBE Region II9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
- Rice Gathering Place: Fall Friendsgiving!2:00 PM – 5:30 PMDuncan Game Theory Room
- Rice University Football at North Texas3:00 PM – 6:00 PMDenton, TX
- Hanszen College and Basmati Beats Diwali Event5:00 PM – 9:00 PMHanszen Commons
- Kesem Pickleball Social7:00 PM – 9:00 PMGibbs Recreation and Wellness Center Pickleball Courts
- Rebels of the Neon God (Restored) 青少年哪吒（數位修復版）7:00 PMRice Cinema
- Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra: Shepherd Spotlight: Bartók 37:30 PM – 9:30 PMStude Concert Hall, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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