2021 Good Brick Awards:
2021 Good Brick Award winners with Rice ties include Gerald Moorhead ‘69/’71, FAIA, for his books Buildings of Texas, volumes 1 and 2, Barrie Scardino Bradley for her book Improbable Metropolis: Houston’s Architectural and Urban History and Lennie Waite ’08 and Matt Hoffman for rehabilitating their historic home (c. 1935) in Mandell Place.  Click here for the complete list of winners.  (If you recognize another winner with Rice ties, please let me know.) 

Linda McNeil (1943-2021):
Rice remembers Center for Education co-founder Linda McNeil (Rice News)

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

Beer Bike:
Beer Bike Highlights (YouTube)
Updated results cause controversial ties (The Rice Thresher)

Town Hall:
Leebron lauds dedication among pandemic, eyes return to ‘relatively normal’ (Rice News)

George R Brown Prize:
Economics lecturer James DeNicco wins award for excellence in teaching (Rice News)

Baker Institute:
Q&A with Edward Djerejian (Houston Chronicle)

Beer Bike:
Results (Rice Program Council)

Rice Media Center:
The final curtain (RIce News)

WERC Environmental Design Contest:
Rice engineers WERC hard for the money (Rice News)

Rev William Larson:
Rev Lawson visits namesake grove at Rice for first time (Rice News)

Beer Bike:
Panademic-adjusted Beer Bike recap (The Rice Thresher)

Owl House Properties:
Owl House Properties excluded from campus housing website (The Rice Thresher)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Shannon Walker First Native Houstonian to Command International Space Station (NASA)

DOE Solar Desalination Prize:
Rice team vying for $1 million prize (Rice News)

Elizabeth Gillis Award:
Special collections archivist Focke wins Elizabeth Gillis Award (RIce News)

KTRU:
KTRU Outdoor Show brings music, art to campus scene and virtual screens (The Rice Thresher)

Rice Commencement:
Rice updates commencement plans (Rice News)
Rice announces commencement changes (The Rice Thresher)

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

Leigh Henderson Cox Jr (1925-2021):
On April 8, Leigh Henderson Cox Jr passed away.  A native Texan, he served in WWI and then earned a BS in 1948 and a MS in 1950 in Mechanical Engineering from Rice.  He enjoyed a career at Humble Pipeline (Exxon) and at Brown & Root (Halliburton).  After retirement, he and his late wife Lorene (she passed away in 2008) moved to their ranch in Walker County.  Also, he “loved to travel and explore various cultures”.  Click here for the obituary.

"The New Oil":
Our jobs are bound up with the future of four hydrogen atoms and one carbon (Chronicle Editorial)

Brian Armstrong '05/'06:
Coinbase’s Pre-IPO surprises (Quartz)
The mathematical improbability of Coinbase justifying a $100 billion valuation (Fortune)

Chandler Davidson (1936-2021):
Rice remembers founding member of Dept of Sociology (Rice News)
Chandler Davidson Texas Politics research collection, circa 1970s (RIce News)

Xue Sherry Gao:
Rice bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis (Rice News)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Walker beams down from space station (Rice News)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Walker beams down from space station (Rice News)