- Rice Uni was opened after the founder of it was murdered
- Rice Uni has a statue of the founder (William Marsh Rice) and every year students prank the statue by moving and decorating it
- “Seventeen” magazine named Rice the “coolest college in the land” in its “Top 100 Coolest Colleges” issue in October of 2002.
- To mark the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Olympic torch passed through Houston and consequently Rice University. While it was on campus, two streakers ran in front of it.
- In 1962 Rice alum John Cox gave Yankee Stadium to his alma mater. In 1971, the city forced Rice to sell the stadium for $2.5 million dollars.
- President John F. Kennedy announced at Rice Stadium that American was going to send a man to the moon.