October 3, 2021
James Tour:
Rice researchers hope to turn trash into treasure in a 'flash' (Houston Chronicle)
James Tour:
Rice researchers hope to turn trash into treasure in a 'flash' (Houston Chronicle)
Baker Institute:
Director of Baker Institute Announces Retirement (Rice News)
RIchard Baraniuk:
OpenStax founder wins 'Nobel Prize of education' (Rice News)
Miah Im:
Rice remembers Miah Im, director of opera studies (Rice News)
Rice Engineers:
US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash (Rice News)
Frank Liu '78:
POST Houston sets opening date (Houston Chronicle)
Hugh Davis:
Rice remembers Hugh Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library (Rice News)
Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean’s latest blog entry entitled “Norman Hackerman Comes to Rice, 1970”.
Brandy Hays Morrison '05:
Click here to listen to a ‘Black Tech Unplugged’ podcast with Rice Trustee Brandy Hays Morrison.
RIce Engineers:
NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stake for master’s students (Rice News)
Sylvia Dee:
Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study (Rice News)
Rice Cinema:
Rice Cinema reopens with a taste of Danish (Houston Chronicle)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Department of Anthropology:
Old bones get new life in renovated Rice laboratory (RIce News)
Gustavo Scuseria:
American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria (Rice News)
William 'Bill" Chase (1936-2021):
On September 13, William “Bill” Chase passed away. A native Virginian, he earned a BA (1958) and a BS (1959) in Electrical Engineering from Rice and a MS in Industrial Management from UH in 1971. He enjoyed a thirty-year career as an engineer with NASA. In addition to golf, he “had a passion for coin collecting and baseball car memorabilia and loved to travel and read”. He is survived by, among others, his wife of sixty-four years, Jeanette. Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Rice Engineering:
Modern simulations could improve MRIs (Rice News)
Rice Engineers:
Modern simulations could improve MRIs (Rice News)
Jacqueline Couti:
New book examines ‘Sex, Sea and Self’ through French Caribbean literature (Rice News)
Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entitled "It is only a question of time, 1909".
Undergraduate Education Requirements:
Working group proposes changes (The Rice Thresher)
Mariachi Luna Llena:
Band seeks new talent (Rice News)
Rice Biologists:
Sex and the symbiont (RIce News)
What's in Woodson:
Book Shifting Treasures (Woodson Research Center)
Black Art at Rice:
A Conversation with Chavonte Wright ‘16 (The Rice Thresher)