James Tour:
Urban mining for metals flashes electronic trash into treasure (Rice News)

What's in Woodson:
Got My Eye on You (Woodson Research Center)

Yunmi Kong:
Rice economist honored with young scholar award (RIce News)

The Ion:
Baileson Brewing, co-owned by Adam Cryer ’01, plans to open a taproom at The Ion.  Read more.

Alex Porter, MBA '18:
Houston brewery Southern Yankee opens offshoot bar in Montrose (Houston Chronicle)

Baker Institute:
Baker Institute director Djerejian to retire (Houston Chronicle)

Ben Chou '03:
Harris County Elections officer hails increased civic engagement at Rice (Rice News)

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

The Ion:
Click here for a podcast with Ryan LeVasseur, managing director of direct real estate for Rice Management Company, who discusses the Ion.

Ben Breed (1936-2021):
On September 30, Ben Breed passed away.  A native Texan, he started at Rice and received a BA in Physics from UT in 1957.  After military service, he earned a MA (1964) and a PhD (1965) in Physics from Rice.  After working for several entities, he co-founded Breed and Harvel Associates, his own consulting practice in 1975.  He specialized in acoustics and magnetics.  He retired in 2005 and, with his wife Janie, “spent many happy years in Austin and at their beautiful house on the ranch on Barton Creek”.  He is survived by, among others, Janie (they were married for 57 years).  Click here for the Austin American-Statesman obituary..

Dale Friend (1941-2021):
On September 27, Dale Friend passed away.  A native Texan, he earned a BA from Rice in 1963 and a JD from UT Law in 1966.  He started in private practice in Houston and then became a plaintiff’s attorney at Abraham & Watkins where he became a name partner. When he retired in 2002, he moved to Lake Tahoe.  Also, “he enjoyed collecting rare coins, traveling, reading suspense novels, playing poker, and spending time with his wife, two sons, and their children”.  He is survived by, among others, his wife Stacey.  Click here for the Chronicle obituary.

James Tour:
Rice researchers hope to turn trash into treasure in a 'flash' (Houston Chronicle)

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.