Vivek Rao '97:
Vivek Rao, MD has Passion for Medicine in His DNA (TMA)

Beatrice Eleazar '06/'08:
Building our National Parks (Rice News)

Paul Burka '63:
Paul Burka dies at 80 (Texas Tribune)
Remembering Paul Burka, the heart and soul of Texas Monthly (Texas Monthly)

GEM Fellows:

William Joplin (1936-2022):
On August 1, Bill Joplin passed away.  A native Houstonian, he attended his first Rice football game in 1946 when the Owls upset Bobby Layne and the Longhorns, 18-13.  After graduating from St Thomas High School in 1954, he started at Rice and then earned an engineering degree from UT.  After military service, he and his older brother Jack formed a business fabricating and leasing portable natural gas compressors which they sold in 1996.  Also, he was an avid low handicap golfer.

The Ion:
Houston Methodist to build a tech hub within the Ion (Houston Chronicle)

William Brown (1941-2022):

Rice Researchers:
Rice models moving 'washers' that help DNA replicate (Rice News)

OpenStax:
OpenStax to publish new edition of bestselling organic chemistry textbook (Rice News)

Lisa Lee:
Lee named Rice's director of internal audit (RIce News)

Omid Veiseh:
Rice, Baylor developing implants to heal heart attack injuries (Rice News)

Daniel Cohan:
Opinion: Surpise Senate deal is a clean energy game changer (Houston Chronicle)

Eni Energy Transition Award:
Halas, Nordladner win prestigious Award (Rice News)

Julia Saltz:
Team led by Saltz wins grant to examine environment's impact on fruit flies (Rice News)

The Welch Foundation:

Rice Engineering:
Nineteen new hires join Rice Engineering (Rice News)

Houston Wastewater Epidemiology:
CDC names Houston Health Dept, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence (Rice News)

Robert Brockman:

Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator:
Class 2 startups announced (Rice News)

Brian Armstrong '05/'06:
The Humbling of Coinbase (New York Times)

What's in Woodson: