November 21, 2025

Gateway Project:
Rice Selects Nations Group to Remake Rice Stadium (Houston Chronicle)

A New Era in Brain Research:
Rice and Paris Brain Institute form transatlantic partnership (Rice News)

Leanne Burnett (1959-2025):
On November 4, Leanne Burnett MD peacefully passed away.  A native Houstonian, she earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rice in 1982 and a MD from Baylor College of Medicine.  She practiced as a neurologist for most of her career in the Clear Lake community and she was active in the Houston Area Parkinson Society.  Also, she was a lifelong practitioner of colored-pencil drawing and she enjoyed baking and reading fiction.  Finally, together with her late husband John Halter, PhD ’89, they raised two children.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary.

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