Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Rice University

RiceTXPrivate R1Rice ALERT~8,800 students

Cases: 8
Alerts: 23
Verbatim: 26%
Span: 1983–2025

Official alert policy

How Rice says it will alert — when and how Rice Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

8 cases · 6 of 23 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

water contamination: 2025-12-01E. Coli at Lovett Hall: Rice's First Campus-Wide Boil Water Notice Under TCEQ Rulesadvisory

2024

burglary: 2024-10-09Five Cars Hit at Once: An Unusual Burglary Cluster Shatters Rice's Safety Bubbletimely warning
dating violence: 2024-08-26A 'Potential Homicide at Jones College': How Rice Worded a Dating-Violence Killing in Real Timeemergency notification1 killedverbatim
hurricane: 2024-07-08A 'Culture Of Care' On The Hedges: How Rice Sheltered Houston During Beryl's Two Million-Person Outageemergency notificationverbatim

2022

gas leak: 2022-02-10Construction Crew Ruptures Gas Line at Rice University, Forcing Six-Building Evacuationemergency notificationverbatim

2021

winter storm: 2021-02-12Houston Goes Dark Around Rice's Hedges: Burst Pipes, Suspended Operations, and an Off-Campus Apartment Crisisemergency notification

2017

hurricane: 2017-08-2536 Inches of Rain, 2,000 Stranded Students: Rice Becomes an Island During Harveyemergency notificationverbatim

1983

hurricane: 1983-08-18Category 3 at the Doorstep: Rice University Rides Out Hurricane Alicia as Houston's Glass District Shattersemergency notification

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What Rice has alerted about

Weather · 4 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Infrastructure · 1 Property Crime · 1 Sex Offense · 1

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