Headline-making Houstonians:
Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle published a list of the 34 most fascinating, controversial and notorious Houstonians of 2021. Making the list as fascinating Houstonians are Reggie DesRoches and Frank Liu '78.
Jim Holzem (1924-2021):
Baker Institute:
US energy infrastructure mapped by Baker Institute (Rice News)
Laurie Adams Frost (1958-2021):
Douglas Brinkley:
Yesterday, Politico Magainze published a tribute to the late Max Cleland by Douglas Brinkley. He passed away last month.
Marion Alpheus Boggs Jr (1925-2021):
Baker Institute:
International Artist Installs SocioPolitical Mural Series (Rice News)
Chester Rosson '65:
Ode to a Fact-checker (Texas Monthly)
Marty Belasco (1950-2021):
On December 5, Marty Belasco passed away "after a hard battle with cancer". A native Pennsylvanian, he earned a BA from Rice in 1972 and a master's degree in accounting from UH. At Rice, he was the Sports Editor of the Rice Thresher and one of his stories, in the April 13, 1972 edition, was entitled "Rice grabs three to clobber Horns".
Jo Nelson:
Joe Nelson wins NSF CAREER Award (Rice News)
Houston Business Journal Texas 100:
Carrie McNeil:
Quirky kveik's yeasty questions no match for freshman chemistry students (Rice News)
Germaine Franco '84/'87 (Thanks, Kathleen Boyd '80!):
Yuzhen Yan:
Air bubbles in Antarctic ice point to cause of oxygen decline (Rice News)
Germaine Franco '84'87:
Yesterday, the nominations for the 49th Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation were announced in Los Angeles. Encanto received 9 nominations including one for music (songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda and score by Germaine Franco '84/'87).
Tudor, Pickering & Holt:
Holt, Tudor to retire from banking firm they helped to create (Houston Chronicle)
Technology Development Fund:
Fund backs faculty projects (Rice News)
Jones School:
Dean Peter Rodriguez has been appointed to the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Houston branch for a three-year term begining January 1, 2022. Read more.