Rice Alliance:
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 3 ventures (Rice News)

Arun Natarajan:
Rice names AP for institutional research and effectiveness (Rice News) 

Steve Kean:

Annette Gordon-Reed Lecture, June 20:
You are invited to a “On Juneteenth” lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed at the Hudspeth Auditorium, Anderson-Clarke Center at 7 pm CT, June 20.  A book signing will follow.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  Read more and/or register here.

Rice Architecture:

Ilana Gershon:
New fiction book edited by Rice anthropologist explores living with monsters (Rice News)

The Ion:
Ion Welcomes Three New Corporate Partners (Rice News)

Kinder Institute:
Rising flood insurance costs may be another blow to Houston's affordability (Houston Chronicle)

Hannah Ballard:

Douglas Brinkley:
Rice historian Douglas Brinkley will be a featured author at the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Washington DC Convention Center on August 12.  Read more.

Karrie '92 and Tim League '92:

Bobby Tudor '82:
Houston’s role in energy transition relies on innovators, funders (Houston Chronicle)

Society of Africanist Archaeologists:
Rice hosts world’s largest conference for African archaeology (Rice News)

Brad Burke:
Brad Burke Receives a Despande Symposium Award (Rice News)

Juneteenth:
Rice celebrates Juneteenth with two days of free programming (Rice News)

Team Night Owls (Thanks, Michelle Smith '79!):
Rice team wins Accenture Innovation Challenge (InnovationMap)

Jing Chen:
Jing Chen Named to National Academies committee on nearsightedness (Rice News)

Brian Armstrong '05/'06:
Coinbase CEO hits back at SEC chair after lawsuit (Reuters)

Brockman Hall:
Rice builds an opera theatre (Common \ Edge)

Rice Engineering:
Twelve faculty members promoted (Rice News)

Kinder Institute:

Antonios Mikos:
Mikos Receives International Award of the European Society for Biomaterials (Rice News)

SPP10:
Plasmonics conference showcases Rice for international audience (Rice News)

What's In Woodson:

Winnie Shi:
Rice grad student wins DOE research award (Rice News)

James Tour:
James Tour and YouTuber 'Professor Dave' debate the origins of life (The Rice Thresher)

James Turrell Skyspace (Thanks, Susan Zimmerman!):