November 4, 2022

Trivia Answer:
Dr. Frank Vandiver did not graduate from high school but earned a masters from UT and a PhD from Tulane and served as acting Rice president from 1969 to 1970 as well as University of North Texas president from 1979 to 1981 and Texas A&M president from 1981 to 1988.  Click here for the Rice News obituary dated January 13, 2005.

Today, Rice Swimming is hosting Tulane.

October 28, 2022

Trivia Answer:
Former Owl baseball player Jimmy Comerota (aka Jimmy Baseball) is a member of the Houston Astros front office. He is a Director, Corporate Partnerships.  Today, the Astros and the Phillies begin the World Series at Minute Maid Park.

October 21, 2022

Trivia Answer:
After earning a BA degree with honors in Physics from Rice in May, 1957 and before starting graduate school at Caltech, Bob Wilson obtained his first patent doing a summer job with Exxon.  He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Arno Penzias “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”.  Read more.