Best Colleges:
Rice among nation’s top 20 universities in US News rankings (Rice News)

CTBP:
Docking peptides, slow to lock, offer possible path to treat Alzheimer’s (Rice News)

Glasscock School:
Community Learning and Engagement courses start this week.  Read more and/or register here.

Robert DellaValle (1931-2021):
On August 16, Robert DellaValle passed away.  A native New Yorker, he graduated from Rice in 1952.  After military service, he was an auditor at GE for 46 years.  He was predeceased by, among others, his wife Frances.  Click here for the Stamford Advocate obituary. 

Rice Scientists:
Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time (Rice News)

Graduate Student Loan Closet:
'Incredible resource’ reopens, restocked and revamped (Rice News):

The Texas Triangle:
New book focuses on global powerhouse (Rice News)

Rice Engineering:
Tweezer grant pleases Rice researchers (RIce News)

Sofia Gereta '20:
Alumni Perspective (Rice News)

Best Colleges:
Rice among most acclaimed universities in Princeton Review history (Rice News)

Office of Research:
Rice announces new faculty funding opportunities (RIce News)

The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday.  You can check it out here.

Elisabeth McGinty Laigle (1931-2021):
As reported, Elisabeth McGinty Laigle ’53 passed away on August 28.  She was the daughter of Milton McGinty, Sr. ’27 who was a principal architect of Rice Stadium as well as the Methodist Hospital in the Medical Center.  He was honored with an ARA Meritorious Service Award in 1996.  Also, she was the sister of Jack McGinty ’57 who was honored with an ARA  Distinguished Alumni Award in 1986.  (Thanks, Bill Cousins!)

Rice Public Art:
New public art installations open (The RIce Thresher)

Elisabeth McGinty Laigle (1931-2021):
On August 28, Elisabeth McGinty Laigle passed away.  A native Houstonian, she graduated from Rice in 1953 with a BA in French where she was a member of the Pallas Athena Literary Society. The year before, she married George Laigle ’51.  She was a charter member of St Martin’s Episcopal Church.  Her “gift to the world was her capacity to love” and “for fifty years she hosted a Christmas Eve Open House for everyone she knew”.  She is survived by, among others, George (they were married for almost sixty-nine years) and four children.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary. 

Rice Employees:
Ethnics survey shows a campus unafraid to speak up (Rice News)

SA Diversity and Inclusion Committee:
Several Initiatives Planned (The Rice Thresher)

Boris Yakobson:
Bilayer borophene is a first (Rice News)

Rice Physicists:
Rice physicists find ‘magnon’ in 2D magnet (Rice News)

Elaine Howard Ecklund:
The Way I See It (Rice News)

Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean’s latest blog entry entitled “How ‘bout a Fresca?”