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A Murder, A Mystery and a Vision

An aging millionaire’s fortune was at stake, and an unlikely pair — a lawyer and a valet — had murder on their minds.

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Faculty Books
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Yesterday’s Special

“Lost Restaurants of Houston” profiles 24 restaurants that played a key role in Houston’s cultural evolution

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Alumni Books
Faculty Books: Fall 2018

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How Effective Will the Flu Vaccine Be?

Learn what ‘efficacy’ means to understand these researchers’ predictions.

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Daydream Believer

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Shopping Impulse? Reflect First.

A simple method may counteract a consumer’s desire to buy.

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Hurricane Harvey Recovery
Hurricane History

A digital archive is preserving memories of Hurricane Harvey.

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Marisa Topolski
Day in the Life: Marissa Topolski

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Matt Bragga
Meet Matt Braga

Rice’s 21st head baseball coach takes over.

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Ready, Set, GO-Week

Traditions

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Inch by Inch, Row by Row

The Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden allows people of all ages and physical abilities to discover the benefits of planting and picking their own produce.

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Paris, France
Syllabus: Tracing City Histories

Read about this summer student abroad seminar in environmental studies, urban sustainability and research methods.

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Zach Bielak. Photo by Theodore Kaye
Writing Home: Greetings from China

Greetings from China!

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Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer
We Don’t Know: Is There Life Beyond Earth?

Adrian Lenardic, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wonders, ‘Are we alone?’

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Lemurs
To Protect Trees, Protect Lemurs

Widespread logging and hunting have endangered virtually all of Madagascar’s 100-plus species of iconic lemurs.

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Illustration by Paddy Mills
President's Note: Back to the Future

The Rice Investment will ensure that promising young men and women will receive a Rice education.

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Photo by Duane Tinkey for the Des Moines Metro Opera
Night Owl: At Home on the World's Stages

The life of an opera singer has taken Anna Christy Stepp ’98 to the world’s most famous stages — in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Great Britain. But one of her favorite audiences was at the gate of LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

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Reginald Moore at the gravesite at the Imperial State Prison Farm in Sugar Land. Photo by Tommy LaVergne
Unearthing a Tragedy

The discovery of unmarked graves believed to contain the remains of African-American workers conscripted into the brutal convict-leasing system helps spotlight an activist’s archive.

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Illustration by Adam Cruft
Unconventional Wisdom: Maria Oden

Bioengineer Maria Oden brings an enthusiastic, scholarly and deeply collaborative perspective to the multifaceted issue of global health inequities and challenges.

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Coach Wayne Graham on the field - Photo by Tommy LaVergne
End of an Era

On the occasion of baseball coach Wayne Graham’s retirement, we take a look back at his long and eventful career.

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Josh EArneset
Nonstop from D.C.

Josh Earnest ’97 talks candidly with his former professor Robert Stein about the job of White House press secretary, the pernicious tribalism infecting civic discourse, leadership lessons from Beer Bike and his new base in Chicago.

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five of the twenty featured Rice alumni
20 Under 30

Meet a group of young alumni who are bringing uncommon enthusiasm, focus and passion to their unfolding lives.

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Illustration by Paddy Mills
Editor’s Note

An Issue for All Seasons

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Fall 2018

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