Rice Administration:
Rice aiming to fill admin vacancies by July 1 (The Rice Thresher)

Ken Kennedy Institute:
January Member of the Month: Dr Maria Oden (Rice News)

Jaylin Vinson '25:

Rice Engineering:
New models assess bridge support repairs after earthquakes (Rice News)

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

Don Stilson (1923-2022):

Baker Institute:
Q&A: AMLO’s game and the future of energy in Mexico (Rice News)

Rice Architecture:
Rice Architecture Welcomes New Faculty (Rice News)

Guido Pagano:
NSF funds Rice effort to measure, preserve quantum entanglement (Rice News)

Glenn Youngkin '90:
Glenn Youngkin, first Republican to win statewide in VA since 2009, sworn into office (WAPO)

Pengcheng Dai:
Rice physicist wins superconductivity award (Rice News)

Rachel Tolbert Kimbro:

Glenn Youngkin '90:
Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) is set to be sworn in today.

Germaine Franco '84/'87:
We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes (New York Times)

Rice History Corner:

Evan Fricke:
Lost birds and mammals spell doom for some plants (Rice News)

Daniel Cohan:

Daniel Domingues:
Rice wins NEH grant to create digital database of Atlantic slave trade (Rice News)

Financial Aid:
Rice and 15 other universities accused of conspiring to limit financial aid (The Texas Tribune)
Rice named as one of 16 schools in financial aid lawsuit (The Rice Thresher)

Germaine Franco '84/'87:

Germaine Franco '84/'87:
On Sunday night, Disney's animated movie Encanto won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.  Encanto's songs were written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and accompanied by musical scoring by Germaine Franco '84/'87.

2022 Good Brick Awards:

Suzanne Deal Booth '77 (Thanks, Kathleen Boyd '80!):
Suzanne Deal Booth '77 helped fund the recent Rothko Chapel renovation and her name is on its welcome house and chapel shop.  Read more.

Harry Hanszen Lynch (1939-2021):

Scott Solomon:
Wondrium, the online subscription video service, offer two videos by Scott Solomon: "What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution" and "Why Insects Matter: Earth's Most Essential Species".  You can check them out here.

Lesa Tran Lu '07/'09/'12: