RICE UPDATE
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, April 21-27
Monday-Wednesday – AAC Golf Championship, Sarasota
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Dallas Coaches Caravan Register
Saturday – J Fred Duckett Twilight Meet
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, April 21-27
Until May 10 – Moody Center: Breath(e)
Monday (12 pm CT) – BioSciences Vanzant Lecture Series: Ana Bento
Monday (12 pm CT) – Brazilian Culture in Focus
Monday (3:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Tuesday (12 pm CT) – Baker Event: Sustainability Summit
Tuesday (3:30 pm CT) – Rice Engineering and Computing Faculty and Staff Awards
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Napier Rice Launch Challenge
Wednesday (9 am CT) – 2025 Staff Appreciation
Wednesday (5 pm CT) – D2K Spring Showcase Event
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – RSI Spaceport Lecture Series: Astronaut Jack Fischer
Thursday-Friday – Health Innovations in the Rice-TMC Ecosystem
Thursday (12 pm CT) – Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Gebby Keny
Thursday (4 pm CT) – University Awards Ceremony and Reception 2025
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Department of Art Awards Ceremony
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Houston l April Social
Thursday (7 pm CT) – Senior Art Exhibition
Thursday (7:30 pm CT) – Denver l Rice Business: Embracing Paradox
Friday (12 pm CT) – Hudspeth Lecture: Jennifer Jerit
Saturday (12 pm CT) – NYC l TWA Hotel Tour
Sunday (2:10 pm) – Denver l Rockies vs. Reds
Shepherd School Events This Week, April 21-27
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Six Owls Named to 2025 Hampshire Honor Society (Rice Owls)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Roel Garcia (0-0, 4.91) allowed 1 run (earned) in 1.1 innings in relief for AA Montgomery and Hayden Durke (2-0, 2.33) pitched 1 scoreless inning in relief for Hi-A Hillsboro.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
West brothers value faith and families sharing the field (The Rice Thresher)
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
Today, Mitchell Meissner is set to begin play at the Veritex Bank Championship in Arlington TX on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Moody Center Complex for Student Life:
New student center to ‘complete’ central quad (The Rice Thresher)
Exxon Mobil:
Research partnership announced with Exxon Mobil (The Rice Thresher)
Huff Engineering Design Showcase:
Showcase honors student ingenuity and impact (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Guest Trivia Question:
Name the Fulbright Scholar who announced Rice athletic events for over 50 years. Email your answer here.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
A condensed version of the Update is available by email
Corrections, comments and updates welcome