Summer 2021

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Sisters Maddie Forbes ’22, Grace Forbes ’23 and Maggie Forbes ’25

Sisters Maddie Forbes ’22, Grace Forbes ’23 and Maggie Forbes ’25, from Wallingford, Pennsylvania, all run for Rice’s cross-country and track teams. ...

William Edmond and Joe Karlgaard sitting in chairs talking

To better understand anti-Black racism in America, Joe Karlgaard set out to educate himself about the Black experience, recording and reflecting on what he read, listened to, watched and learned every...

O-Week Activities // Baker College Commons

A moment in time on campus...

Anila Quayyum Agha, “Intersections"

Rainey Knudson’s latest production is a gorgeous compendium and homage to Rice Gallery’s unconventional installation art....

Marykathryn Charles ’22

Marykathryn Charles ’22 is a mayor. Not of her hometown, but of an island called Waldton with the cutest residents you’ll ever see....

No Rules artwork

One of the effects of the pandemic has been to keep us closer to home, and even now most people have not resumed international travel....

Lovett Hall

One of the effects of the pandemic has been to keep us closer to home, and even now most people have not resumed international travel....

Louvar

Bioscientist Kory Evans is immersed in the fantastic, fascinating (and a little bit freaky) evolution of fish. His aim is to learn more about the relationship between behavior, environment and genetic...

Ahalya Lettenberger ’23

Silver medalist Ahalya Lettenberger shines at the Paralympics....

Female with hands covering face

Thanks to 2020, employees across every industry are all too familiar with unexpected situations — but can their capacity for workplace resiliency be enhanced? ...

Water Molecules

Like a highly reactive molecule, K.C. Nicolaou is strongly attracted to the discipline of chemistry. And people. And places. And pastry. The Rice scientist most famous for his total synthesis of the w...

Orange background with yellow diamond pattern

Why are so many people hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19?...

Fast food colored pink

This course will examine the way food and food rhetoric shape our perceptions of the self and our connections to larger civic issues. Core topics include food as an identity marker, the appropriation ...

Owls’ star point guard Erica Ogwumike ’20

Erica Ogwumike juggles basketball, medical school and the significance of an Olympic berth....

Pages from history

“Doc Talks,” a series of live webinars and companion podcasts, invites audiences to listen in on conversations about Rice’s history that are reshaping how we think about our past, connect to the prese...

Implantable device that delivers insulin to Type 1 diabetics

Engineering an implantable device that delivers insulin to Type 1 diabetics....

Rice students dancing

In late September, most Rice classes returned to an in-person format after beginning the semester online due to surging rates of the COVID-19 delta variant within the community and region....

Maxfield Hall roof

The renovated 1912 building is the new home of the Department of Statistics....

McNair Hall arches

New data visualization reveals undercounted deaths associated with the pandemic....

Ariana “Ari” Ince ’11

Having notched her first Olympic competition, javelin powerhouse Ariana Ince is stretching her Olympic dreams to include Paris in 2024. ...

Bees

Dan Weaver is the James Bond of chemical-free bee breeding....

COVID-19 graphs

New data visualization reveals undercounted deaths associated with the pandemic....

UFO background

This year, the U.S. government released a preliminary report on unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs. We sat down with Jeffrey Kripal, a historian of religions, to discuss the re...

Sallyport Matriculation fireworks

Rice welcomes its biggest class ever with hope, care and optimism....