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Former Peace Corps volunteer Eric Nelson ‘83 will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4.  Click here for more information and registration and here to meet the 2023 Laureates Honorees.

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Name the former Peace Corps volunteer who will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4.  Email your answer here.

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Name the only Rice student caught by campus police for turning around Willy’s Statue on April 12, 1988.  Email your answer here.

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Kathleen Matthews, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Texas, will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4.  Click here for more information and registration and here to meet the 2023 Laureates Honorees.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)

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Who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas and will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4?   Email your answer here.

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Baker College won the first Beer Bike race held in 1957.  Future Houston City Councilman Jim Greenwood ’58 was a member of the winning team.  Hanszen College was disqualified for taking “a ‘long’ short-cut”. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

Baker College is Bike Race Victor (The Rice Thresher, 5/10/1957, p. 1)

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Name the college that won the first Beer Bike race held in 1957.  For a bonus point, name the future Houston City Councilman who was a member of the winning team.  For another bonus point, name the college that was disqualified. Email your answer(s) here.

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On her second mission, Expedition 16 in 2007-2008, Peggy Whitson, PhD ‘86  became the first woman to command the International Space Station.  In 2019, she was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame at the Lone Star Flight Museum.  (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

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Name the first woman to command the International Space Station.  Email your answer here.