College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, September 14-20
Mon-Wed – M Golf at M Golf at Jackson T. Stephens Cup, Frisco TX Golf Channel
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – Volleyball at #5 SMU
Thursday (7 pm CT) – Soccer at #23 Memphis ESPN+
Friday-Sunday – W Golf at Lady Paladin Invitational, Greenville SC
Friday (6:30 pm CT) – Volleyball at #13 TCU
Sat-Sun – W Tennis at ITA Women’s All-American Championships, Cary NC
Sat-Sun – M Tennis at ITA Women’s All-American Championships, Tulsa OK
Sat (6 pm CT) – Football vs. Western Michigan Radio l ESPN+ l GN: Rice l WM
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, September 14-20
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Monday (10 am) – Baker Event: Voting Issues Facing the 2026 Midterm Elections
Monday (12 pm) – Vanzant Lecture Series: Dr Sven Kranz
Monday (12:30 pm) – SRUW l Seminar with Vivian Ho
Monday (7 pm) – Learning to Code Using AI with Joe Warren
Tuesday-Thursday – AI in Health Conference
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: The State of US Financial Markets
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – Austin l A Reception wiht President Reginald DesRoches
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – FoFL Annual Membership Celebration and Dinner
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Robin Derby
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Using AI Effectively with Tawfik Jarjour ‘12
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Houston l Andy DiRaddo and Art Gottschalk
Thursday – Water Nexus Conference 2026
Thursday (1 pm CT) – History in the Dungeon: Andrew Apter
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Ann Johnson, “Soul II Sole”
Friday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: Synthetic Biology
Fri (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk: Frances Roberts-Gregory
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Sunday (5 pm CT) – LA l Portland Fire vs LA Sparks Pregame Social and Game
Shepherd School Events This Week, September 14-20
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Notre Dame 52, Rice 0:
Fans flock to South Bend for No. 3 Notre Dame matchup (The RIce Thresher)
Rice Football:
Lance Taylor Press Conference (Western Michigan Athletics)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.267) pinch-hit walked for the Reds. Trei Cruz (.267) went 2-for-3 with a run and a walk for AAA Toledo.
Garrett Stratton (0-0, 5.06) pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief for AAA Syracuse.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce Adds 11 to Roster (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Athletics:
New student-athletes adapt to life as Owls (The Rice Thresher)
Rice M Golf:
Day Two Recap (RIce Owls)
Other News
Skyscape:
Inside James Turrell's renovated Skyscape (Houston Chronicle)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Maxwell Plummer (2000-2026):
On September 12, Maxwell Plummer passed away. Raised in Utah, he earned a BS in Mathematics from the University of Utah in 2022 and was a PhD candidate in Mathematics at Rice (expected degree 2027). “He spent his childhood with a pencil and paper at the kitchen island drawing maps and solving math problems for fun”. “His dream was to become a tenure-track professor”. And, he ”loved children and always found a way into their good graces”. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Kathy Bates (SMU ‘69) was the first woman to win the Best Actress Oscar in a horror/thriller for her role in Misery (1990), per her IMDb biography. Tomorrow, the #5 Mustang volleyball team hosts the Owls in Dallas. (Thanks, Chris Kohlhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Ted Richard, Ty Buthod, Andy Williams, Art Gottschalk, John Montana, Martha Proctor Gano, Arthur Rogers, James Walker, Ann Bixby, Bob Toone, Anne Eldredge, Susan Zimmerman, Russell Henderson, Paul Reese, Clarke Anderson, Guy Rollins, Betty Bixby, Chris Kohnhorst, Boyd Harrison, Larry Nettles, Brian Lattimer, Melinda Clark, Ben Mayberry, Mike Ross and Steve Brown!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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