Xue Sherry Gao:
Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award (Rice News):

Blanton Alspaugh, MM '87:
Blanton Alspaugh Earns 25th Grammy Nomination (The Oracle)

The Rice Thresher:

Yousif Shamoo:
Yousif Shamoo honored for work as vice provost (Rice News)

Dr David Lalonde Knox '52:
Dr David Lalonde Knox, a retired ophthalmologist, dies (Baltimore Sun)

Rice History Corner:

Caroline Ajo-Franklin:
Bacterial 'bully' could improve food production (Rice News)

Sustainable Futures Fund:
Environmental champions win Rice grants (Rice News)

Rice Engineering Alumni:
Applications for the REA Board of Directors are now open here.  REA board members serve three-year terms directing Rice’s oldest and largest alumni interest group.  Graduates of any department of Rice’s School of Engineering (regardless of class year, location, or current profession) are eligible to apply.  The deadline is March 1, 2022.

Gang Bao:

Jaswmine Manansala '23:
Rice students gather to cheer for classmate on 'Jeopardy'! (YouTube)

Walter Baker, Jr (1933-2022):

Candace Bushnell (Class of 1980):
Candace Bushnell Is Back In The City (New Yorker)

Baker Institute:
The 'Texas Freeze' one year later (Rice News)

Kate Shepherd:

Germaine Franco '84/'87:
Germaine Franco made 'Encanto' groove (NPR)

Lars Eighner:
Lars Eighner, Who Wrote Eloquently of Being Homeless, Dies at 73 (New York Times)

The Rice Thresher:

Doerr Institute:
Kolditz, director of Doerr Institute, announces departure (Rice News)

Annise Parker '78:
On January 1, Annise Parker’s daughter Marquitta married Elisabeth Pabst.  Read more.

Rice Physicists:
Physicists find evidence of new quantum phase (Rice News)

James Tour:
Rare earth elements await in waste (Rice News)

Helen Demaris (Hudspeth) Flores (1949-2022):

Carbon Neutral:
Rice announces plans to be carbon neutral by 2030 (Rice News)

Lauren Snouffer '09:
Texan singer delivers a Valentine - with a twist (Houston Chronicle)

What's in Woodson: