RICE UPDATE
Friday, May 22, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Monday-Wednesday – M Golf at NCAA Athens Regional
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Wednesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Venezuela, Iran, and the Middle East
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Hong Kong l Reception with Rice VP Stephen Bayer
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar with Bianca Mabute-Louie
Thursday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: What FEMA’s new maps mean for Houston
Thursday (10 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Liz Tran
Shepherd School Events This Week, May 18-24
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Chris Boswell:
Boswell Signs Record Extension (ESPN)
Professional Baseball News
Owls in MLB:
Update: May 20 (The Roost)
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
No Owls in action.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Five Owls Earn American Conference Honors (Rice Owls)
5 Owls Named to All-Conference Teams (The Roost)
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 1 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T71 at -2 at the Visit Knoxville Open the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Charles Briscoe (1930-2026):
On May 4, Vic Briscoe passed away. Raised in Virginia, he attended King College and earned a PhD in Physics from Rice in 1958. Thereafter, he arrived in Chapel Hill NC “to do postdoctoral studies and never left, retiring from his professorship when he was 65 years old”. “He spent the rest of his life enjoying fishing, golf and helping his family and friends whenever he could.” He is survived by, among others, his wife of seventy-two years, Betsy. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Susan Zimmerman for the guest trivia question!
Austrian sculptor Oswald Lassig did almost all of the original limestone carvings on the Rice campus. He shares a first name with the cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit created by Walt Disney in 1927. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Ann Bixby, Ted Richard, Andy Williams, Mike Ross, Clarke Anderson, Bob Toone, John Montana, James Walker, Martha Proctor Gano, Arthur Rogers, Paul Reese, Anne Eldredge, Guy Rollins, Brian Lattimer, Chris Kohnhorst, Art Gottschalk, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Melinda Clark, Boyd Harrison, Greg Williams and Dan Hyde!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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