October 2, 2021
Baker Institute:
Director of Baker Institute Announces Retirement (Rice News)
RIchard Baraniuk:
OpenStax founder wins 'Nobel Prize of education' (Rice News)
Miah Im:
Rice remembers Miah Im, director of opera studies (Rice News)
Baker Institute:
Director of Baker Institute Announces Retirement (Rice News)
RIchard Baraniuk:
OpenStax founder wins 'Nobel Prize of education' (Rice News)
Miah Im:
Rice remembers Miah Im, director of opera studies (Rice News)
Rice Engineers:
US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash (Rice News)
Frank Liu '78:
POST Houston sets opening date (Houston Chronicle)
Hugh Davis:
Rice remembers Hugh Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library (Rice News)
Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean’s latest blog entry entitled “Norman Hackerman Comes to Rice, 1970”.
Brandy Hays Morrison '05:
Click here to listen to a ‘Black Tech Unplugged’ podcast with Rice Trustee Brandy Hays Morrison.
RIce Engineers:
NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stake for master’s students (Rice News)
Sylvia Dee:
Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study (Rice News)
Rice Cinema:
Rice Cinema reopens with a taste of Danish (Houston Chronicle)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Department of Anthropology:
Old bones get new life in renovated Rice laboratory (RIce News)
Gustavo Scuseria:
American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria (Rice News)
William 'Bill" Chase (1936-2021):
On September 13, William “Bill” Chase passed away. A native Virginian, he earned a BA (1958) and a BS (1959) in Electrical Engineering from Rice and a MS in Industrial Management from UH in 1971. He enjoyed a thirty-year career as an engineer with NASA. In addition to golf, he “had a passion for coin collecting and baseball car memorabilia and loved to travel and read”. He is survived by, among others, his wife of sixty-four years, Jeanette. Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Rice Engineering:
Modern simulations could improve MRIs (Rice News)
Rice Engineers:
Modern simulations could improve MRIs (Rice News)
Jacqueline Couti:
New book examines ‘Sex, Sea and Self’ through French Caribbean literature (Rice News)
Rice History Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entitled "It is only a question of time, 1909".
Undergraduate Education Requirements:
Working group proposes changes (The Rice Thresher)
Mariachi Luna Llena:
Band seeks new talent (Rice News)
Rice Biologists:
Sex and the symbiont (RIce News)
What's in Woodson:
Book Shifting Treasures (Woodson Research Center)
Black Art at Rice:
A Conversation with Chavonte Wright ‘16 (The Rice Thresher)
Ted McHugh:
Rice lands grant to improve time-release drugs (Rice News)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Wes Anderson (Thanks, Nancy Shelby!):
Click here for the latest New York Times article about Wes Anderson entitled “When Wes Anderson comes to Town, Buildings Get Symmetrical”. Wes is the son of ARA Meritorious Service Award winner (2003) and avid Rice baseball fan Texas Anderson ‘81/’85.