RICE UPDATE
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, April 20-26
Thursday (5:30 pm CT) – Night of Flight
Saturday – W/M Track at J Fred Duckett Invite
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, April 20-26
Monday (4 pm CT) – Ken Kennedy Institute Lecture: Pietro Perona
Monday (5 pm CT) – 2026 Sports Analytics Research Showcase
Monday (5 pm CT) – Baker Event: John Yoo
Tuesday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: Safeguarding Health Care
Tuesday (4 pm CT) – University Awards Ceremony and Reception 2026
Wednesday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: Annual Sustainability Summit
Wednesday (9 am CT) – An Earth Day Eco Crawl
Wednesday (9 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Candace Doby
Thursday (12 pm CT) – Brown Bag with Webb Keane
Thursday (5:30 pm CT) – DFW l Arboretum Cool Thursday Concerts
Friday-Saturday – Conference in Honor of George Sher
Friday (9 am CT) – Rice360 Global Healthcare Technologies Design Competition
Saturday (1 pm CT) – Seattle l Alumni Wine Tasting
Saturday (1 pm CT) – Miami l Alumni Social
Saturday (3 pm CT) – Mariachi FREE annual concert
Saturday (5:30 pm CT) – Austin l Houston Dynamo vs Austin FC
Saturday (8 pm CT) – Albuquerque l Alumni Social
Sunday (3 pm CT) – Mariachi FREE annual concert
Sunday (4 pm CT) – Bay Area l Volun-CHEERS
Shepherd School Events This Week, April 20-26
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Spring Football Notebook (Yahoo Sports)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Tristan Gray (.281) singled for the Twins and pinch hitter Dane Myers (.269) singled home the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth for the Reds. In the bottom of the fifth, Trei Cruz (.209) “went down at the plate falling oddly on his leg and exited the game” for AAA Toledo.
Hayden Durke (0-0, 11.37) pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief for AA Amarillo.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce helping Rice engineer one of college baseball's great turnarounds (D1Baseball.com, Subscriber Content)
Other Sports News
Rice W Basketball:
Owls Add Pair of Power Conference Transfers (The Roost)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was +1 and missed the cut at the Tulum Championship in Tulum Mexico on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Timothy Morton:
Timothy Morton helps turn cosmic signals into sound (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
First, Melissa Kean added the following about Jackie Burke Jr: “Rice has Jackie Burke’s papers in the Woodson. It's a beautiful collection of interesting stuff mostly about the history of Champions Golf Club. Ira Gruber of the history department had been a great collegiate golfer at Duke and was a member of Champions. He helped us acquire the collection and I got to spend some time with Burke, who helped fix my tendency to hit hooks!”
Next trivia question on Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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