Rice Swimming:
Nicole Limberg thrives in pool despite pandemic (The Everett WA Herald)

Rice Football:
2020 Offensive Player of the Year: Mike Collins (The Roost)

College Baseball:
Fall Reports Central (D1Baseball.com, Subscriber content)

Bryan Washington:
“Memorial” by Bryan Washington is one of Texas Monthly’s “Ten Texas Books We Loved in 2020”.  Read more.

Dan Rather:
Earlier this month, the UT School of Journalism and Media established the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts “to recognize collegiate and professional journalists who overcome obstacles like stonewalling and harassment to speak truth to power”.  Dan is the brother of two-year Rice football letterman Don ‘61 (1958-59) and the grandfather of Martin ‘18.  Read more.

Rice Football:
2020 Rising Star: Jake Bailey (The Roost)

College Baseball:
The Christmas Gift Guide (Eric Sorenson, Subscriber content)

Kirsten Ostherr:
Ostherr awarded DeBakey Fellowship for computational health research (Rice News)

Dr George Collins (1950-2020):
On December 10, Dr  George Collins passed away “following a courageous fight with progressive supranuclear palsy".  A native Texan, he earned a BA (’72), a MS (’73) and a PhD (’77) in Electrical Engineering from Rice.  As an undergraduate, he met his wife of fifty years, Donna Misner Collins ’70, in the Marching Owl Band.  He was among the first faculty members at UH Clear Lake where he enjoyed a forty year career.  Also, he was active in the community and in his church.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary.

Robert Brockman:
Mogul claims dementia in $2B fraud case (Bloomberg)

Mike Geis (12938-2020):
On December 18, Mike Geis passed away.  Born in Oklahoma, he earned a BA from Rice in 1961 and a PhD from MIT.  He enjoyed a career as a Professor teaching Linguistics at both The University of Illinois and The Ohio State University.  He is survived, by among others, his wife Jonnie.  Click here for the Columbus Dispatch obituary. 

Rice Football:
2020 Special Teams Player of the Year: Charlie Mendes (The Roost)

Kyle Trask:
Yesterday, Florida QB Kyle Trask was named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy.  He is the grandson of the late Orville Trask ’56 who was a three year track & field letterman (1954-55-56) and a two-year football letterman (1954-55).  Read more.

Apoorv Bhargava '12:
Weave Grid has been named to the 2021 Global Cleanteach 100 List.  The list recognizes the 100 private cleantech companies most likely to create an impact in the next 5-10 years.  The co-founder and CEO of Weave Grid is Apoorv Bhargava ’12.

Dick Massey (1931-2020):
On December 4, Dick Massey passed away.  A native Texan, he graduated from Rice in 1953 with a BA and BS in Electrical Engineering.  He worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey for 35 years during which time he earned a MSEE from Columbia.  For the next 18 years, he was a lecturer in the ECE Department at Rice.  He is survived by, among others, his wife of 65 years, Barbara.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary.