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The Quad’s New Chapter
FALL 2024
Rice University unveils a transformed and inviting Academic Quad....
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A Yearlong Quest
FALL 2024
On a Watson Fellowship, Rice University graduate Kirsty Leech ’23 deepened her understandi...
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Total Eclipse of the Sun
SPRING 2024
During the total solar eclipse this spring, space physicist and alumna Pat Reiff is leadin...
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Meet the Institutes
SPRING 2024
Rice's new and established institutes seek solutions to research challenges in scienc...
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The Next Great Tech Revolution
SPRING 2024
AI research at Rice is fueling significant breakthroughs, plus debate about the public goo...
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Scholarship Across Campus
SPRING 2024
Faculty members across Rice’s seven academic schools share their explorations and discover...
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Walkabout
WINTER 2024
In her lifelong journey of discovery, composer and Shepherd School alumna Gabriela Lena Fr...
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Kindred Spirits
WINTER 2024
When oncologist Mark Lewis developed a rare cancer, he discovered another connection to hi...
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The Doer
FALL 2023
Rice Provost Amy Dittmar reflects on her first year at Rice — and what’s on the horizon.<b...
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Welcome to the American
FALL 2023
July 1, 2023, marked the official beginning of Rice’s move into the American Athletic Conf...
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To Serve Is To Live
FALL 2023
Three decades after she first raised three fingers on her right hand and recited the Girl ...
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How Our Garden Grows
FALL 2023
Rice University's Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden provides on-site learning ...
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The Strategist
SUMMER 2023
We sat down with materials scientist and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice’s first VP for...
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Inventive Minds
SUMMER 2023
These inventions are a select few of the 69 projects that were shown in April’s annual eng...
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The Year in Research
SUMMER 2023
Considering its enrollment of only 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, Rice produce...
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Environmental Awakening
SUMMER 2023
In this excerpt of Douglas Brinkley’s new book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy...
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Record Enthusiasm
SPRING 2023
Five decades of KTRU DJs are linked by their love of the music and a unique archive of tho...
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Physician, Heal Thy World
SPRING 2023
A Q&A with Vuong “Von” Nguyen, M.D., who brings a wealth of experience to Google’s wor...
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Crew Phi Crew
SPRING 2023
In the mid-1990s, a group of talented young students arrived on campus determined to succe...
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Scene
SPRING 2023
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive re...
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The Journey Has Begun
WINTER 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches inaugurated in historic investiture on Oct. 22, 2022....
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Unconventional Wisdom: The Builder
WINTER 2023
Last summer, Paul Cherukuri ’07 — physicist, chemist and medtech entrepreneur — was named ...
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The Kids Are All Right
WINTER 2023
Rice University's undergraduate residential college life is rebuilding after the pand...
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The Chronicler
WINTER 2023
Longtime Rice University photographer puts down his camera and reflects on more than 30 ye...
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A Day to Remember
FALL 2022
Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice Stadium that launched the...
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Fresh Faces, New Spaces
FALL 2022
How do you say “welcome” to new students? On move-in day, Aug. 14, 2022, the answer was lo...
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Pleased to Meet You, President DesRoches
FALL 2022
Melissa Kean ’96, Rice’s former centennial historian, sat down with Reginald DesRoches, th...
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We Choose to Return to the Moon
FALL 2022
NASA has set a course for returning humans to the moon to live, work and explore, laying t...
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Searching the Universe for Answers
FALL 2022
The questions asked by these Rice University computer scientists, bioengineers, geologists...
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Energy in Transition
SUMMER 2022
Rice is leveraging its core research strengths in engineering and science — and its locati...
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In Pursuit of Big Questions
SUMMER 2022
The research enterprise at Rice University is far-reaching, complex, ambitious — and avail...
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Flood of Emotions
SUMMER 2022
Two Rice faculty — Rachel Kimbro, dean of social sciences and professor of sociology, and ...
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Living Voyages
SUMMER 2022
A massive digital resource on the Atlantic and inter-American slave trade finds a home-bas...
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End of an Era
SPRING 2022
After nearly two decades leading Rice, David Leebron leaves behind a school transformed. A...
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Belinda Chang’s livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured herself a new career
SPRING 2022
Rice alumna Belinda Chang's livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured hers...
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Think Like An Architect
SPRING 2022
Reading about the mindsets that fuel the work of these Rice arches may inspire you to thin...
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A Grand New Home for Performances
SPRING 2022
Rice's new Brockman Hall for Opera comes to life as a premier home for student and pr...
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Positively, Professor Parsons
SPRING 2022
This issue's Unconventional Wisdom interview features Sandra Parsons, associate teach...
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Unconventional Wisdom: Richard Baraniuk
WINTER 2022
Electrical and computer engineer Richard Baraniuk juggles several significant roles at Ric...
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In Case of Emergency
WINTER 2022
Rice EMS celebrates 25 years of lifesaving service inside the hedges and beyond....
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A Found History
WINTER 2022
Rice student-driven research into the rare and remarkable “The Red Book of Houston” reveal...
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Studies in Mass and Volume
WINTER 2022
Through the lens of Mabry Campbell, Rice’s campus transforms. ...
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The Truth is Right Here
FALL 2021
This year, the U.S. government released a preliminary report on unidentified aerial phenom...
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Paging Through History
FALL 2021
“Doc Talks,” a series of live webinars and companion podcasts, invites audiences to listen...
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A Fish Tale
FALL 2021
Bioscientist Kory Evans is immersed in the fantastic, fascinating (and a little bit freaky...
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Pandemic's Paradox
SUMMER 2021
We asked a dynamic group of faculty and staff, each with different perspectives on academi...
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Grads at Last
SUMMER 2021
Some things were the same; some were different. In May, a joyful community of students, pa...
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Imagined Worlds Made Real
SPRING 2021
An author and bioengineer explores real-life biomedical advances first imagined in the rea...
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Planted in Place
SPRING 2021
From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along ...
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Today's Lesson
SPRING 2021
Whether in a Rice classroom or via his work as a public scholar, U.S. presidential histori...
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Solving the Vaccine Puzzle
WINTER 2021
Former roommates and careerlong colleagues Barney Graham and Bill Gruber have been instrum...
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The Changemaker
WINTER 2021
In North Carolina, Mark Little leads a collaborative approach to rural economic developmen...
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One for The Books
WINTER 2021
The fall 2020 semester began in the midst of a relentless pandemic. But Rice was ready, an...
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High Scores
FALL 2020
As a composer for beloved films like “Coco,” Germaine Franco moves audiences while creatin...
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20 in their 20s
FALL 2020
Ranging in class years from 2010 to 2020, each is clearing a particular path — via music, ...
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We've Been Here Before
FALL 2020
Two centuries ago, an epidemic led to political and racial strife and exacerbated fears ...
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Home and Away
SUMMER 2020
As an international student from Rwanda, going home during the pandemic was not an option ...
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Taking Root
SUMMER 2020
When the pandemic put a pause on my professional life, I turned my energies toward home an...
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Meditation for this Moment
SUMMER 2020
To combat stress caused by COVID-19, I take refuge in an ancient practice of meditation — ...
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Stop the Presses
SUMMER 2020
Even as the Thresher staff reported on the pandemic, we kept wishing we wouldn’t become pa...
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Face Time
SUMMER 2020
The friendship we formed as Rice students sustains us from a distance as doctors in New Yo...
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Apocalyptic Times
SUMMER 2020
What I learned in my religious studies courses at Rice helps me understand what the COVID-...
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Distance Learning in the Delta
SUMMER 2020
As teachers in rural Mississippi, we watch the COVID-19 school closures with a nagging awa...
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From Rice EMS to Chicago Med
SUMMER 2020
As an emergency room doctor, my days are filled with crisis, trauma and very few breaks. A...
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Survival Pedagogy
SUMMER 2020
In these traumatic times, what’s required when teaching my brilliant students from afar an...
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Days Go By
SUMMER 2020
An anthem of my student days — the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” — has blasted back...
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Mission Critical
SUMMER 2020
As a critical pulmonary care physician with a graduate degree in public health, I’m used t...
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Notes from Inside
SUMMER 2020
Hunkered down and busier than ever covering the pandemic, I’m missing my annual West Texas...
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Pivoting in a Pandemic
SUMMER 2020
As a pathology resident and research scientist, I’m refocusing my work to help evaluate co...
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Wrestling's Big Night
SPRING 2020
Geoff Winningham’s documentary photography project, “Friday Night in the Coliseum,” gets a...
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President's Note: A Changed World
SPRING 2020
Amid the uncertainties brought about by COVID-19, Rice transforms its campus in every imag...
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The DNA Zoo
SPRING 2020
A pathbreaking genomic project supports worldwide research and conservation efforts..<br /...
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Where Students Become Family
WINTER 2020
RAs are key to Rice’s strong residential college system, helping to make each college feel...
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Love & Law
WINTER 2020
Charles Spain’s election to the 14th Court of Appeals caps a legal career centered on civi...
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Antarctic Journal
WINTER 2020
During an eventful and demanding research expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, sci...
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Beyond the Buzzword
FALL 2019
With help from Rice's Doerr Institute, students are increasing their capacity to lead...
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The DNA Detective
FALL 2019
Colleen Fitzpatrick ’76 grew up surrounded by living history. “I was very close to all of ...
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A Guide to Life After Rice
SUMMER 2019
Life after college is a strange algorithm of the familiar and the novel on a spectrum rang...
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13 Ways of Looking at Creativity
SPRING 2019
Every day, we see the spark of imagination and invention in Rice’s classrooms, labs, studi...
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Nature's Language
SPRING 2019
Artist Natasha Bowdoin was invited to create this site-specific work for the Moody by Alis...
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The Education of Ben Rhodes
WINTER 2019
Just seven years after graduating from Rice, Ben Rhodes ’00 became a speechwriter for Bara...
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The Thought Factory
WINTER 2019
In 1993, Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy was founded to build a bridge between “t...
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In Pursuit of Nothing
WINTER 2019
A unique Rice mindfulness program entices a busy mom to trade workday routines for a respi...
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A Bold Step
WINTER 2019
How do you lessen the burden of college debt? Last fall, President David Leebron announced...
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President Leebron
WINTER 2019
How do you lessen the burden of college debt? Last fall, President David Leebron announced...
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20 Under 30
FALL 2018
Whether as young professionals in law, medicine and government service, or budding artists...
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Nonstop from D.C.
FALL 2018
Josh Earnest ’97 talks candidly with his former professor Robert Stein about the job of Wh...
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End of an Era
FALL 2018
On the occasion of baseball coach Wayne Graham’s retirement, we take a look back at his lo...
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We Don’t Know: Is There Life Beyond Earth?
FALL 2018
Adrian Lenardic, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wonders, ‘Are w...
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World Café
SUMMER 2018
After graduation, Ana Builes spent a year visiting the biggest coffee-producing countries ...
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Taste of Success
SUMMER 2018
Kevin Harvey’s wildcatter spirit and obsessive attention to vineyard data is producing Cal...
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On the Nose
SUMMER 2018
Forget California — a Texas family found success in the mercurial wine business by growing...
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The New Agave
SUMMER 2018
Family reunions at the Orozco Ranch in rural Mexico gave rise to some of the happiest mome...
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Gifted and Black: Building Rice
FALL 2016
Many aspects of the founding of the William Marsh Rice Institute in 1912 inspired wonder, ...
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Gifted and Black: Ted Henderson
FALL 2016
Ted Henderson arrived on campus as one of only two African-American freshmen. (Linda Faye ...
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Gifted and Black: Linda Faye Williams
FALL 2016
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive re...
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Gifted and Black: Setting the Stage for Change
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: Setting the Stage for Change (1946 – 1959) ...
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Gifted and Black: The Push for Integration
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: The Push for Integration (1960–1966)...
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Gifted and Black: The Early Years
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: The Early Years (1968–1978)...
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Gifted and Black: Finding Our Way
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: Finding Our Way (1980–1992)...
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Gifted and Black: Charles Freeman III
FALL 2016
Charles Freeman’s legacy is “the story of a 17-year-old kid who comes to Rice and is swept...
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Gifted and Black: Jacqueline McCauley
FALL 2016
In the first two years after desegregation, four African-American students — the best and ...
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Lighter Than Air
SUMMER 2016
Engineer Yuan Kan g Lee '92 defends his world championship title in indoor free fligh...
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She Runs
SUMMER 2016
From England to Japan, Ethiopia to New Zealand, Becky Wade ’12 spent a golden year after g...
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Summer School
SUMMER 2016
Rice students hiked and snorkeled their way through the rain forests and coral reefs of Be...
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100 Years of the Thresher
SPRING 2016
The Rice Thresher did more than document a constantly growing campus, comment on student s...
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The Art of Science Fiction
SPRING 2016
Dave Seeley '82 walked away from an award-winning career in architecture to explore t...
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Exit, Stage Left
SPRING 2016
After years of teaching students — and colleagues — Dennis Huston is bowing out. Terrence ...
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No Grown-ups Allowed
SPRING 2016
Former editor Lisa Gray ’88 remembers what it was like to ask questions, break stories and...
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A Voice for Houston’s Refugees
WINTER 2016
Yehuda Sharim, the Aubrey ’42 and Sylvia Farb Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies and a ...
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Lost at Sea
WINTER 2016
How “boat people” fleeing the aftermath of the Vietnam War discovered safe haven in Housto...
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The Next Mission
WINTER 2016
Since 2011, a unique student club has worked to increase the number of veterans enrolled i...
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Positively, Professor Parsons
SPRING 2022
This issue's Unconventional Wisdom interview features Sandra Parsons, associate teach...
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Studies in Mass and Volume
WINTER 2022
Through the lens of Mabry Campbell, Rice’s campus transforms. ...
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Living Voyages
SUMMER 2022
A massive digital resource on the Atlantic and inter-American slave trade finds a home-bas...
Image
Environmental Awakening
SUMMER 2023
In this excerpt of Douglas Brinkley’s new book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy...
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Searching the Universe for Answers
FALL 2022
The questions asked by these Rice University computer scientists, bioengineers, geologists...
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Today's Lesson
SPRING 2021
Whether in a Rice classroom or via his work as a public scholar, U.S. presidential histori...
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Gifted and Black: Jacqueline McCauley
FALL 2016
In the first two years after desegregation, four African-American students — the best and ...
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Scholarship Across Campus
SPRING 2024
Faculty members across Rice’s seven academic schools share their explorations and discover...
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High Scores
FALL 2020
As a composer for beloved films like “Coco,” Germaine Franco moves audiences while creatin...
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100 Years of the Thresher
SPRING 2016
The Rice Thresher did more than document a constantly growing campus, comment on student s...
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The Journey Has Begun
WINTER 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches inaugurated in historic investiture on Oct. 22, 2022....
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Home and Away
SUMMER 2020
As an international student from Rwanda, going home during the pandemic was not an option ...
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Environmental Awakening
SUMMER 2023
In this excerpt of Douglas Brinkley’s new book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy...
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Taking Root
SUMMER 2020
When the pandemic put a pause on my professional life, I turned my energies toward home an...
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The Education of Ben Rhodes
WINTER 2019
Just seven years after graduating from Rice, Ben Rhodes ’00 became a speechwriter for Bara...
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The Doer
FALL 2023
Rice Provost Amy Dittmar reflects on her first year at Rice — and what’s on the horizon.<b...
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Wrestling's Big Night
SPRING 2020
Geoff Winningham’s documentary photography project, “Friday Night in the Coliseum,” gets a...
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World Café
SUMMER 2018
After graduation, Ana Builes spent a year visiting the biggest coffee-producing countries ...
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Total Eclipse of the Sun
SPRING 2024
During the total solar eclipse this spring, space physicist and alumna Pat Reiff is leadin...
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End of an Era
SPRING 2022
After nearly two decades leading Rice, David Leebron leaves behind a school transformed. A...
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The Journey Has Begun
WINTER 2023
Rice President Reginald DesRoches inaugurated in historic investiture on Oct. 22, 2022....
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Unconventional Wisdom: Richard Baraniuk
WINTER 2022
Electrical and computer engineer Richard Baraniuk juggles several significant roles at Ric...
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Energy in Transition
SUMMER 2022
Rice is leveraging its core research strengths in engineering and science — and its locati...
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Gifted and Black: Building Rice
FALL 2016
Many aspects of the founding of the William Marsh Rice Institute in 1912 inspired wonder, ...
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Imagined Worlds Made Real
SPRING 2021
An author and bioengineer explores real-life biomedical advances first imagined in the rea...
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Gifted and Black: Ted Henderson
FALL 2016
Ted Henderson arrived on campus as one of only two African-American freshmen. (Linda Faye ...
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Total Eclipse of the Sun
SPRING 2024
During the total solar eclipse this spring, space physicist and alumna Pat Reiff is leadin...
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Pandemic's Paradox
SUMMER 2021
We asked a dynamic group of faculty and staff, each with different perspectives on academi...
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Lighter Than Air
SUMMER 2016
Engineer Yuan Kan g Lee '92 defends his world championship title in indoor free fligh...
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End of an Era
SPRING 2022
After nearly two decades leading Rice, David Leebron leaves behind a school transformed. A...
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Meditation for this Moment
SUMMER 2020
To combat stress caused by COVID-19, I take refuge in an ancient practice of meditation — ...
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Unconventional Wisdom: Richard Baraniuk
WINTER 2022
Electrical and computer engineer Richard Baraniuk juggles several significant roles at Ric...
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The Strategist
SUMMER 2023
We sat down with materials scientist and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice’s first VP for...
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20 in their 20s
FALL 2020
Ranging in class years from 2010 to 2020, each is clearing a particular path — via music, ...
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The Thought Factory
WINTER 2019
In 1993, Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy was founded to build a bridge between “t...
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Walkabout
WINTER 2024
In her lifelong journey of discovery, composer and Shepherd School alumna Gabriela Lena Fr...
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Where Students Become Family
WINTER 2020
RAs are key to Rice’s strong residential college system, helping to make each college feel...
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13 Ways of Looking at Creativity
SPRING 2019
Every day, we see the spark of imagination and invention in Rice’s classrooms, labs, studi...
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Gifted and Black: Linda Faye Williams
FALL 2016
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive re...
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Record Enthusiasm
SPRING 2023
Five decades of KTRU DJs are linked by their love of the music and a unique archive of tho...
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A Day to Remember
FALL 2022
Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice Stadium that launched the...
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The Strategist
SUMMER 2023
We sat down with materials scientist and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice’s first VP for...
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Gifted and Black: Setting the Stage for Change
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: Setting the Stage for Change (1946 – 1959) ...
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Walkabout
WINTER 2024
In her lifelong journey of discovery, composer and Shepherd School alumna Gabriela Lena Fr...
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Planted in Place
SPRING 2021
From a seed of an idea, a major new addition to the Houston landscape has blossomed along ...
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Love & Law
WINTER 2020
Charles Spain’s election to the 14th Court of Appeals caps a legal career centered on civi...
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Nature's Language
SPRING 2019
Artist Natasha Bowdoin was invited to create this site-specific work for the Moody by Alis...
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The Quad’s New Chapter
FALL 2024
Rice University unveils a transformed and inviting Academic Quad....
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Grads at Last
SUMMER 2021
Some things were the same; some were different. In May, a joyful community of students, pa...
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She Runs
SUMMER 2016
From England to Japan, Ethiopia to New Zealand, Becky Wade ’12 spent a golden year after g...
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Belinda Chang’s livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured herself a new career
SPRING 2022
Rice alumna Belinda Chang's livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured hers...
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Record Enthusiasm
SPRING 2023
Five decades of KTRU DJs are linked by their love of the music and a unique archive of tho...
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Stop the Presses
SUMMER 2020
Even as the Thresher staff reported on the pandemic, we kept wishing we wouldn’t become pa...
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Beyond the Buzzword
FALL 2019
With help from Rice's Doerr Institute, students are increasing their capacity to lead...
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We've Been Here Before
FALL 2020
Two centuries ago, an epidemic led to political and racial strife and exacerbated fears ...
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In Pursuit of Nothing
WINTER 2019
A unique Rice mindfulness program entices a busy mom to trade workday routines for a respi...
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The Truth is Right Here
FALL 2021
This year, the U.S. government released a preliminary report on unidentified aerial phenom...
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A Bold Step
WINTER 2019
How do you lessen the burden of college debt? Last fall, President David Leebron announced...
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The Quad’s New Chapter
FALL 2024
Rice University unveils a transformed and inviting Academic Quad....
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Belinda Chang’s livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured herself a new career
SPRING 2022
Rice alumna Belinda Chang's livelihood was upended by the pandemic so she poured hers...
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Fresh Faces, New Spaces
FALL 2022
How do you say “welcome” to new students? On move-in day, Aug. 14, 2022, the answer was lo...
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Inventive Minds
SUMMER 2023
These inventions are a select few of the 69 projects that were shown in April’s annual eng...
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Gifted and Black: The Push for Integration
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: The Push for Integration (1960–1966)...
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Kindred Spirits
WINTER 2024
When oncologist Mark Lewis developed a rare cancer, he discovered another connection to hi...
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The Truth is Right Here
FALL 2021
This year, the U.S. government released a preliminary report on unidentified aerial phenom...
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Antarctic Journal
WINTER 2020
During an eventful and demanding research expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, sci...
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Taste of Success
SUMMER 2018
Kevin Harvey’s wildcatter spirit and obsessive attention to vineyard data is producing Cal...
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Face Time
SUMMER 2020
The friendship we formed as Rice students sustains us from a distance as doctors in New Yo...
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Summer School
SUMMER 2016
Rice students hiked and snorkeled their way through the rain forests and coral reefs of Be...
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Physician, Heal Thy World
SPRING 2023
A Q&A with Vuong “Von” Nguyen, M.D., who brings a wealth of experience to Google’s wor...
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Apocalyptic Times
SUMMER 2020
What I learned in my religious studies courses at Rice helps me understand what the COVID-...
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Fresh Faces, New Spaces
FALL 2022
How do you say “welcome” to new students? On move-in day, Aug. 14, 2022, the answer was lo...
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A Voice for Houston’s Refugees
WINTER 2016
Yehuda Sharim, the Aubrey ’42 and Sylvia Farb Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies and a ...
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President Leebron
WINTER 2019
How do you lessen the burden of college debt? Last fall, President David Leebron announced...
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Kindred Spirits
WINTER 2024
When oncologist Mark Lewis developed a rare cancer, he discovered another connection to hi...
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Unconventional Wisdom: The Builder
WINTER 2023
Last summer, Paul Cherukuri ’07 — physicist, chemist and medtech entrepreneur — was named ...
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A Yearlong Quest
FALL 2024
On a Watson Fellowship, Rice University graduate Kirsty Leech ’23 deepened her understandi...
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Think Like An Architect
SPRING 2022
Reading about the mindsets that fuel the work of these Rice arches may inspire you to thin...
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Physician, Heal Thy World
SPRING 2023
A Q&A with Vuong “Von” Nguyen, M.D., who brings a wealth of experience to Google’s wor...
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The Year in Research
SUMMER 2023
Considering its enrollment of only 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, Rice produce...
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Gifted and Black: The Early Years
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: The Early Years (1968–1978)...
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Paging Through History
FALL 2021
“Doc Talks,” a series of live webinars and companion podcasts, invites audiences to listen...
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Lost at Sea
WINTER 2016
How “boat people” fleeing the aftermath of the Vietnam War discovered safe haven in Housto...
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On the Nose
SUMMER 2018
Forget California — a Texas family found success in the mercurial wine business by growing...
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Unconventional Wisdom: The Builder
WINTER 2023
Last summer, Paul Cherukuri ’07 — physicist, chemist and medtech entrepreneur — was named ...
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A Yearlong Quest
FALL 2024
On a Watson Fellowship, Rice University graduate Kirsty Leech ’23 deepened her understandi...
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Distance Learning in the Delta
SUMMER 2020
As teachers in rural Mississippi, we watch the COVID-19 school closures with a nagging awa...
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In Case of Emergency
WINTER 2022
Rice EMS celebrates 25 years of lifesaving service inside the hedges and beyond....
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Think Like An Architect
SPRING 2022
Reading about the mindsets that fuel the work of these Rice arches may inspire you to thin...
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From Rice EMS to Chicago Med
SUMMER 2020
As an emergency room doctor, my days are filled with crisis, trauma and very few breaks. A...
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A Guide to Life After Rice
SUMMER 2019
Life after college is a strange algorithm of the familiar and the novel on a spectrum rang...
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Pleased to Meet You, President DesRoches
FALL 2022
Melissa Kean ’96, Rice’s former centennial historian, sat down with Reginald DesRoches, th...
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The Year in Research
SUMMER 2023
Considering its enrollment of only 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, Rice produce...
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The Next Mission
WINTER 2016
Since 2011, a unique student club has worked to increase the number of veterans enrolled i...
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20 Under 30
FALL 2018
Whether as young professionals in law, medicine and government service, or budding artists...
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Meet the Institutes
SPRING 2024
Rice's new and established institutes seek solutions to research challenges in scienc...
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Paging Through History
FALL 2021
“Doc Talks,” a series of live webinars and companion podcasts, invites audiences to listen...
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In Case of Emergency
WINTER 2022
Rice EMS celebrates 25 years of lifesaving service inside the hedges and beyond....
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Crew Phi Crew
SPRING 2023
In the mid-1990s, a group of talented young students arrived on campus determined to succe...
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Pleased to Meet You, President DesRoches
FALL 2022
Melissa Kean ’96, Rice’s former centennial historian, sat down with Reginald DesRoches, th...
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Gifted and Black: Finding Our Way
FALL 2016
Gifted and Black: Finding Our Way (1980–1992)...
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Meet the Institutes
SPRING 2024
Rice's new and established institutes seek solutions to research challenges in scienc...
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The Art of Science Fiction
SPRING 2016
Dave Seeley '82 walked away from an award-winning career in architecture to explore t...
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The New Agave
SUMMER 2018
Family reunions at the Orozco Ranch in rural Mexico gave rise to some of the happiest mome...
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The Kids Are All Right
WINTER 2023
Rice University's undergraduate residential college life is rebuilding after the pand...
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Survival Pedagogy
SUMMER 2020
In these traumatic times, what’s required when teaching my brilliant students from afar an...
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In Pursuit of Big Questions
SUMMER 2022
The research enterprise at Rice University is far-reaching, complex, ambitious — and avail...
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Crew Phi Crew
SPRING 2023
In the mid-1990s, a group of talented young students arrived on campus determined to succe...
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Days Go By
SUMMER 2020
An anthem of my student days — the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” — has blasted back...
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Solving the Vaccine Puzzle
WINTER 2021
Former roommates and careerlong colleagues Barney Graham and Bill Gruber have been instrum...
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Welcome to the American
FALL 2023
July 1, 2023, marked the official beginning of Rice’s move into the American Athletic Conf...
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Exit, Stage Left
SPRING 2016
After years of teaching students — and colleagues — Dennis Huston is bowing out. Terrence ...
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Nonstop from D.C.
FALL 2018
Josh Earnest ’97 talks candidly with his former professor Robert Stein about the job of Wh...
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A Fish Tale
FALL 2021
Bioscientist Kory Evans is immersed in the fantastic, fascinating (and a little bit freaky...
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The Kids Are All Right
WINTER 2023
Rice University's undergraduate residential college life is rebuilding after the pand...
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A Found History
WINTER 2022
Rice student-driven research into the rare and remarkable “The Red Book of Houston” reveal...
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We Choose to Return to the Moon
FALL 2022
NASA has set a course for returning humans to the moon to live, work and explore, laying t...
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The Next Great Tech Revolution
SPRING 2024
AI research at Rice is fueling significant breakthroughs, plus debate about the public goo...
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A Fish Tale
FALL 2021
Bioscientist Kory Evans is immersed in the fantastic, fascinating (and a little bit freaky...
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No Grown-ups Allowed
SPRING 2016
Former editor Lisa Gray ’88 remembers what it was like to ask questions, break stories and...
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A Grand New Home for Performances
SPRING 2022
Rice's new Brockman Hall for Opera comes to life as a premier home for student and pr...
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Mission Critical
SUMMER 2020
As a critical pulmonary care physician with a graduate degree in public health, I’m used t...
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A Found History
WINTER 2022
Rice student-driven research into the rare and remarkable “The Red Book of Houston” reveal...
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Flood of Emotions
SUMMER 2022
Two Rice faculty — Rachel Kimbro, dean of social sciences and professor of sociology, and ...
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Scene
SPRING 2023
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive re...
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Notes from Inside
SUMMER 2020
Hunkered down and busier than ever covering the pandemic, I’m missing my annual West Texas...
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The Changemaker
WINTER 2021
In North Carolina, Mark Little leads a collaborative approach to rural economic developmen...
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We Choose to Return to the Moon
FALL 2022
NASA has set a course for returning humans to the moon to live, work and explore, laying t...
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To Serve Is To Live
FALL 2023
Three decades after she first raised three fingers on her right hand and recited the Girl ...
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President's Note: A Changed World
SPRING 2020
Amid the uncertainties brought about by COVID-19, Rice transforms its campus in every imag...
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End of an Era
FALL 2018
On the occasion of baseball coach Wayne Graham’s retirement, we take a look back at his lo...
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The Next Great Tech Revolution
SPRING 2024
AI research at Rice is fueling significant breakthroughs, plus debate about the public goo...
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A Grand New Home for Performances
SPRING 2022
Rice's new Brockman Hall for Opera comes to life as a premier home for student and pr...
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The Chronicler
WINTER 2023
Longtime Rice University photographer puts down his camera and reflects on more than 30 ye...
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Scene
SPRING 2023
Fostering diversity and an intellectual environment, Rice University is a comprehensive re...
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Gifted and Black: Charles Freeman III
FALL 2016
Charles Freeman’s legacy is “the story of a 17-year-old kid who comes to Rice and is swept...
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One for The Books
WINTER 2021
The fall 2020 semester began in the midst of a relentless pandemic. But Rice was ready, an...
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The DNA Detective
FALL 2019
Colleen Fitzpatrick ’76 grew up surrounded by living history. “I was very close to all of ...
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The Chronicler
WINTER 2023
Longtime Rice University photographer puts down his camera and reflects on more than 30 ye...
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Pivoting in a Pandemic
SUMMER 2020
As a pathology resident and research scientist, I’m refocusing my work to help evaluate co...
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Studies in Mass and Volume
WINTER 2022
Through the lens of Mabry Campbell, Rice’s campus transforms. ...
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Living Voyages
SUMMER 2022
A massive digital resource on the Atlantic and inter-American slave trade finds a home-bas...
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Searching the Universe for Answers
FALL 2022
The questions asked by these Rice University computer scientists, bioengineers, geologists...
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How Our Garden Grows
FALL 2023
Rice University's Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden provides on-site learning ...
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The DNA Zoo
SPRING 2020
A pathbreaking genomic project supports worldwide research and conservation efforts..<br /...
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We Don’t Know: Is There Life Beyond Earth?
FALL 2018
Adrian Lenardic, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wonders, ‘Are w...
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Scholarship Across Campus
SPRING 2024
Faculty members across Rice’s seven academic schools share their explorations and discover...