Rice Bioengineers:
Rice Bioengineers are shining light on bacterial stress (Rice Owls)

Caroline Shaw '04:
Caroline Shaw Receives Honorary Degree from Yale (Nonesuch.com)

George P Bush '98:
The Bush Stops Here (Texas Monthly)

CPRIT:
CPRIT grants entice three cancer researchers to Rice (Rice News)

Harry Gee '60 (Thanks, Frank Jones '63!):
The Spring 2022 Issue of the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society,  celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, includes a feature on the past president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Harry Gee ’60 (who is also the father of one of Rice’s newest trustees!).  Click here (p. 43). 

Meg Brigman '18:
Meg Brigman empowers innovation by enabling entrepreneurs (Rice News)

George P Bush '98:
Bush Dynasty Pins Hopes on One Last Stand in Texas (New York Times)

Maria Contreras '26:
Maria Contreras overcomes obstacles at Akins (Austin ISD)

Prairie Plots:
Getting ourselves back to the garden (RIce News)

Baylor University:
Baylor plans to rename a campus area and to relocate the statue of a slave-owing former university president.  Read more.

Baker Institute:
Center for the Middle East renamed in honor of Edward P Djerejian (Rice News)

Rice Chemists:
Rice Chemists skew the odds to beat cancer (Rice News)

Rice Engineering:
Six Rice Engineering faculty members earn promotion in 2022 (Rice News)

Night For Guy Concert:
A Night for Guy (Woodson Research Center)

Albert Chao:
Westlake makes a material shift (Houston Chronicle)

Rice in Country:
Study abroad programs return after two years on hold (Rice News)

Night for Guy Concert:
Concert draws country fans to celebrate the late Guy Clark (Rice News)

Janet Vrancken (1936-2022):

Sally Phelps (1935-2022):
On April 27, Sally Phelps passed away.  Born in Atlanta, she earned a BA from Rice in 1957.  She wed her college sweetheart George Phelps Jr ’57 and they enjoyed fifty-eight years of marriage before he passed away in 2016.  After teaching school in Houston, she and George moved to St Louis and then Dallas with their growing family.  Later, she became a realtor, completed a Master of Library Science in 1983 and a PhD in Philosophy in 2000.