Design Your Dorm

10 Fab Decor Items Your Favorite Undergrad Needs For Their Dorm

Everything you need to take your dorm from plain to personal

08/09/2022 By Alexia Partouche

Dorm Life

Gear Up for College With These Dorm Room Essentials

Shower caddy? Check!

07/20/2022 By Jessica Lodge With Danielle Wright

Fiscally Responsible

Rice University Named the Best College Investment in Texas

Wondering where to spend your tuition dollars? This Houston university ranks No. 1 in the state.

07/06/2022 By Brianna Benitez, Jessica Lodge, and Alexia Partouche

HELLO BREW-TIFUL

14 Coffee Shops Made for Getting Your Work Done

Tired of working from home? Need a good study spot? We got you.

06/24/2022 By Courtney Klashman and Daniel Renfrow

They Grow Up So Fast

Fun Graduation Gifts for Every Grade Level

Hats off to pandemic grads.

05/04/2022 By Danielle Wright

Owls are wise

Rice University Ranks in the Top 10 Best Colleges

According to a study, Rice University ranks No. 7 in best colleges in the nation.

08/23/2021 By Kelsy Armstrong Edited by Shelby Stewart

Campus Confidential

25 Must-Haves For Your Dorm, Sweet Dorm

Don't go back to school without a mini waffle maker or a sloth pillow.

08/21/2018 By Abby Ledoux

Editor's Note

How to Accidentally Grow a Tree in Your College Apartment

On coming of age in Houston.

05/29/2018 By Catherine Matusow

Home & Design

12 Dorm Design Ideas That Even Adults Can Love

Because saving space and money never goes out of style.

07/27/2017 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Ice House

At UH, Creating the Country's First Spanish-Language Creative Writing PhD Program

The program begins this month, and hopes to engage the local Hispanic community in telling their own stories.

07/18/2017 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Higher Ed

On the Cusp of Its 70th Anniversary, the University of St. Thomas Welcomes a New President

...and its largest incoming freshman class in the university's history.

06/09/2017 By Julia Gsell

Ice House

College Station Is Reinventing Itself

Not every Aggie who bleeds maroon is a college student.

12/30/2016 By Roxanna Asgarian

Bayougraphy

Shannon LaBove: Rice University’s Great Debater

Everyone talks, but few know how to turn a speech into a work of art.

11/21/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Ice House

Coach Mike Davis Is Playing It Forward at TSU

What is the man who replaced Bobby Knight doing in Houston? Winning.

11/21/2016 By Adam Doster

Go Coogs

With Two Weeks to Kickoff, What Can We Expect from UH Football This Season?

Things to watch for: a Heisman Trophy, a Herman farewell, a Husky payback.

08/17/2016 By Adam Doster

Home & Design

How to Give Your Little Dorm Room Big Style

Because four years is too long to spend in a room that looks like a prison cell.

08/17/2016 By Miranda Proctor

Cheap Eats

Meal Plan: Dining on a College Kid Budget

For the students among us, the best cheap eats near St. Thomas, UH and Rice.

05/31/2016 By Katharine Shilcutt

Final Act

At Rice University, a Legend Retires

Famously energetic English professor J. Dennis Huston exits the stage after 50 years of teaching.

04/28/2016 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Mental Health

Anxiety Goes to College

Houston-area campuses are scrambling to meet the mental health needs of a generation of students beset by an increasingly diagnosed condition.

11/03/2015 By Marianella Orlando Photography by Brian Goldman

Back to School

Houstonian Olivia White Wants to Disrupt Dorm Bedding with 41 Winks

Say goodnight to the generic bed-in-a-bag.

08/10/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen