Rice Media Center:
The final curtain (RIce News)

WERC Environmental Design Contest:
Rice engineers WERC hard for the money (Rice News)

Rev William Larson:
Rev Lawson visits namesake grove at Rice for first time (Rice News)

Beer Bike:
Panademic-adjusted Beer Bike recap (The Rice Thresher)

Owl House Properties:
Owl House Properties excluded from campus housing website (The Rice Thresher)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Shannon Walker First Native Houstonian to Command International Space Station (NASA)

DOE Solar Desalination Prize:
Rice team vying for $1 million prize (Rice News)

Elizabeth Gillis Award:
Special collections archivist Focke wins Elizabeth Gillis Award (RIce News)

KTRU:
KTRU Outdoor Show brings music, art to campus scene and virtual screens (The Rice Thresher)

Rice Commencement:
Rice updates commencement plans (Rice News)
Rice announces commencement changes (The Rice Thresher)

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

Leigh Henderson Cox Jr (1925-2021):
On April 8, Leigh Henderson Cox Jr passed away.  A native Texan, he served in WWI and then earned a BS in 1948 and a MS in 1950 in Mechanical Engineering from Rice.  He enjoyed a career at Humble Pipeline (Exxon) and at Brown & Root (Halliburton).  After retirement, he and his late wife Lorene (she passed away in 2008) moved to their ranch in Walker County.  Also, he “loved to travel and explore various cultures”.  Click here for the obituary.

"The New Oil":
Our jobs are bound up with the future of four hydrogen atoms and one carbon (Chronicle Editorial)

Brian Armstrong '05/'06:
Coinbase’s Pre-IPO surprises (Quartz)
The mathematical improbability of Coinbase justifying a $100 billion valuation (Fortune)

Chandler Davidson (1936-2021):
Rice remembers founding member of Dept of Sociology (Rice News)
Chandler Davidson Texas Politics research collection, circa 1970s (RIce News)

Xue Sherry Gao:
Rice bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis (Rice News)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Walker beams down from space station (Rice News)

Shannon Walker '87/'92/'93:
Walker beams down from space station (Rice News)

Rice Media Center:
Final Lo-Fi films bid fiery farewell to the Rice Media Center (Rice News)

Rice Business Plan Competition:
Smartphone app for convenience store owners wins (RIce News)

George P Bush '98:
George P Bush considers primary challenge to AG Ken Paxton (Chronicle)

Baker Institute:
Let’s Mess With Texas’ Power Market – And Make It Stronger (Forbes)

Goldwater Scholars:
Biochem lab partners win Goldwater Scholarships (Rice News)

Mitchelle Gillespie '83:
Deacon Profile: Michelle Gillespie (Old Black & Gold)

Kathryn Dunlevie '74:
New work from her series Mistick Krewes is included in the PhotoAlliance exhibition Bay Area Current(ly) 2020 in the San Francisco Bay Area.