Trivia Question:
Name the first woman to command the International Space Station.  Email your answer here.

Rice Baseball:
Rice loses back-and-forth series to first-place UTSA (The Rice Thresher)
Yo-yo accident leads Manny Garza to baseball stardom (The Rice Thresher)

Rice Athletics:
Blue Gray Weekend Set for April 14-16 (Rice Owls)

Rice W Track:
Van der Westhuizen Named C-USA Field Athlete of the Week (Rice Owls)

Class of 2027:
Rice hits record low 7.7% acceptance rate for class of '27 (The Rice Thresher)

Shepherd School:
Spring opera, ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’, set for April 14 and 16 (Rice News)

The Rice Thresher:

Trivia Answer:
Janis Joplin attended Lamar State College of Technology (nka Lamar University) in Beaumont and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, posthumously, in 2005.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!) 

Last night, Rice baseball defeated Lamar, 9-3.

Rice Golf:
Blake Benson Ties for Fourth-Place at Craft Farms Intercollegiate (Rice Owls)

James Chappell:
James Chappell Wins NSF CAREER Award (Rice News)

AIMBE Fellows:
Higgs, Ramos elected to AIMBE College of Fellows (Rice News)

Richard Thomson MD (1933-2023):

Trivia Question:
Who attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?  Email your answer here.

Barney Graham '75 (Thanks, Peter Fasullo '75/'76!):
Dr Barney Graham ’75 wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times yesterday entitled “We Have Cutting Edge Science to Make Vaccines.  But Will Everyone Benefit?”

Baker Institute:

Rice Tennis:
Men Down The Tribe, 4-3 (Rice Owls)
Fast Start Propels Women Past Bears (Rice Owls)

Rice Golf: