Baker Institute:
US must take responsibility for Afghan refugees, expert says (RIce News)

Yang Gao:
Rice lab dives deep for DNA"s secrets (Rice News)

OEDK:
Team Brain Drain won second place at the NIH 2021 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge for CephaloPump, a negative pressure pump.  Read more.

Carbon Hub:
Rice scientists unveil secrets of carbon nanotubes (Houston Chronicle)

What's In Woodson:
Pottery and a Skull (Woddson Research Center)

Chetna Koshy:
Chetna Koshy named chief compliance officer (RIce News)

Rice HIstory Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean’s latest blog entry entitled “Jones College Instructions to Freshman Servers, no date”.

Class of 2025:
Rice welcomes largest class, with highest yield rate (The Rice Thresher)

Transnational Asian Studies:
Offerings expanded with three new faculty members (RIce News)

New Rice Survey:
Drive-through voting is a hit with Harris County voters (Rice News)

The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday.  You can check it out here.

Isaac Hilton:
Trailblazing Rice bioengineer is turning cells into disease fighters (Rice News)

Will Robin (Northwestern '10):
William Robin, a close family friend, is a regular contributor to the New York Times.  Yesterday, the Times published his obituary of R Murray Schafer (1933-2021), “the composer who heard nature’s music”.

Ada Dean Grundy (1924-2021):
On August 16, Ada Dean Grundy passed away.  A lifelong resident of Houston, she attended Rice (class of 1945) “where she was a member of the Pallas Athene Literary Society and the PALS Women’s Baseball Team and was an honoree at the Archi-Arts Ball”.  She was devoted to her husband of fifty-seven years, the late Thad Grundy, and their family.  Also, she was an avid sportswoman and competitor, she was passionate about art and she was active in the Texas Republican party as well as involved in her church and the community.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary. 

Rice Public Art:
New art  ‘Seif’ lights up campus (Rice News)

Branden Hookway (1971-2021):
On August 14, Branden Hookway passed away.  After growing up in Ohio, he earned a BA in Art from Valparaiso University in 1993, a Master of Architecture from Rice in 1998 and a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton in 2011.  He taught at Cornell and was author of two books.  He is survived by, among others, his wife of fourteen years Maria Park who also taught at Cornell.  Click here for the San Francisco Chronicle obituary.

Gang Bao:
CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center (Rice News)

'Red Book':
‘Red Book’ offers rare window into past of Houston’s Black middle class (Houston Chronicle)

Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean’s latest blog entry entitled “Committee on Freshman Guidance, 1957”.

DOD Grant:
Rice, Baylor win defense grant to advance metastatis study (Rice News)

Roland Smith:
Longtime professor and diversity, equity and inclusion advocate retires (Rice News)

Barry The Owl (Thanks, Charles Maynard!)
Barry The Owl Brought Us Together.  What Will We do Without Her? (New York Times):

What's In Woodson:
Economic Summit of Racoons (Woodson Research Center)