Amanda Marciel:
Amanda Marciel wins NSF Career Award (Rice News)

Rice Architecture:
Cannady Hall shapes up for February completion (Rice News)

568 Presidents Group:
Rice sets aside $33M for lawsuit (Houston Chronicle)

Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entitled "Wintry Mix".

Rice Scientists:
Rice research open new arena to study quantum intereactions (Rice News)

Baker Institute:
Latest edition of Mexico Country Outlook report issued (Rice News0

Woodside-Rice Decarbonizatoin Accelerator:
Woodside provides $12.5M to support Rice-led project (Rice News)

Moody Center:
New exhibit examines 'The Foreign in Us' (The Rice Thresher)

MLK Jr Day:
Rice celebrates MLK Jr Day (Rice News)
Community members gather to honor MLK Jr (The Rice Thresher)

Rice Sport Management:

Donald Clayton:
On January 3, retired Rice astrophysicist Donald Clayton passed away.  In 1963, he was a founding faculty member of Rice’s Department of Space Science. His wife Nancy (whom he met at Sammy’s), her father William McBride and their son Donald Clayton all graduated from Rice – ’79, ’43 and ’83, respectively.  Click here for the obituary.

DeLange Conference:
Conference to explore future of biology, technology and climate change (Rice News)

Joseph Cozza:
From campaigns to classrooms (The Rice Thresher)

Shepherd School:
February tickets are now available.  Click here.

How to Survive Prohibition:
Owls' Saturday night flights (The Rice Thresher)

Brad Burke:
Rice Names AVP for Industry and New Ventures (Rice News)

Justin Cronin:

Rice Synthetic Biology Institute:
Rice launches Rice Synthetic Biology Institute to improve lives (Rice News)

Rice Innovation Fellows:
10 Houston scientists named to fellowship (InnovationMap)

Frank Liu '78:

Martin Luther King Jr Day, Next Tuesday:
Rice to mark MLK Jr Day with lecture by Ohio State's Treva Lindsey (Rice News)

Ashok Veeraraghavan:
Rice Professor wins Texas Academy's O'Donnell Award (Rice News)

Rebecca Richards-Kortum:
This Rice Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology (IEEE Spectrum) 

Pete Olson '85:
Former Fort Bend County-area US congressman and former naval aviator Pete Olson ’85 has been named the board chair of the Lone Star Flight Museum, effective January 1.

The Rice Thresher: