OpenStax:
Institutional Partner Program expands for next academic year (Rice News)
Jet Lag:
Rice is working on an implantable device to help shake off jet lag (Houston Chronicle)
Art Gottschalk:
Shepherd School Professor of Music Composition Art Gottschalk is a member of the jury for the Piazzolla Music Competition which seeks to continue Astor Piazzolla’s legacy as the single most influential figure in the history of tango. Read more.
Carol Burns '83:
Carol J Burns Named Deputy Director for Research for Berkeley Labs (Berkeley News)
Baker Institute:
Report: Houston is ready for the green energy transition (RIce News)
Susie O'Gorman '76 (Thanks, Melinda Clark '77):
Susie O'Gorman '76 will be a contestant on Jeopardy this Friday, June 4th. She and her husband Ron O'Gorman '75 '79 live in Mobile, Alabama.
Dr Yvette Pearson:
UT Dallas Selects New VP for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (UT Dallas News)
Mary Day Milbank Bodenstein (1940-2021)::
On February 9, Mary Day Milbank Bodenstein passed away. Born in Illinois, she graduated from Rice in 1962 where she was a member of the Emily Bowen Literary Society. She enjoyed a teaching career in Dallas and Hawaii and then worked for Great American Insurance and IBM in New York. She and her former husband Bob raised two “amazing" daughters and she was active in the community. Click here for the obituary.
Nancy Morrison (1936-2021):
On May 22, Nancy Morrison passed away. A native Houstonian, she later in life graduated from the University of St Thomas magna cum laude. Together with her late husband Lucian, they were among seventy-five Rice donors named members of the Legacy Society in 2013. Also, the Brockman Hall for Opera houses the Lucian and Nancy Morrison Theatre, a 600-seat European-style theatre with an orchestra pit for 70 musicians. Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Qimiao Si:
Pristine quantum criticality found (Rice News)
Mike Gibson (1943-2021):
On May 24, Mike Gibson passed away. A native Texan, he earned three degrees in Chemical Engineering including a BS (1965) and a Master (1966) from Cornell and a PhD from Rice in 1973. As a First Lieutenant in the Army assigned to NASA, he was a pivotal member of the Apollo XIII Mission Operations Team. The entire team received a Presidential Medal of Freedom for their efforts in returning the astronauts to Earth. In 1973, he joined Exxon where he helped to develop new patented processes for the gasification of shale. In 1981, he cofounded Carbotek. Also, he was active in the community. Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Moshe Vardi:
Moshe Vardi earns top computer science honor (RIce News)
Jose Onuchic:
Biologists create a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei (Rice News)
Edward Clarac '50:
98-year-old WWII Veteran shares his story of survival and service (KPRC)
Julea Vlassakis:
Bioengineering department adds single-cell expert via CPRIT grant (Rice News)
RIce History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entiitled "Time Capsule, 1948".
Peggy Whitson '86:
NASA record holder returning to space with Axiom Space (Houston Chronicle)
What's in Woodson:
O-Week Damage Recap 1990 by J Disch (Woodson Research Center)
Flood Alert System:
Rice builds FIRST system for City of Houston (Rice News)
SlaveVoyages.Org:
World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice (Rice News)
Julie Sudduth, MBA '01:
Deposit Assurance (Houston Chronicle)
Glasscock School:
This year, for the first time, the Glasscock School is offering a Summer Session featuring a selection of pre-recorded, on-demand courses. Read more and/or register here.
Phil Holt (1939-2021):
On March 2, Phil Holt passed away. Born in Mississippi, he attended Rice through the Naval ROTC program and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1961. After his Navy career (during which he earned a MBA from GWU), he worked for Entergy in Baton Rouge and Jackson. Also, he was an ardent bird-watcher and he was active in his church. He is survived by, among others, his wife Dabney. Click here for the Clarion Ledger obituary.