![The oboe’s double reed is crafted from a piece of cane that is split and folded in half, carefully shaped, then tied together to a metal tube; a cork attached to the tube fits into the top of the instrument.](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/reed_fitlow_grid.jpg?itok=EXMjQfGm)
A compact workshop in Alice Pratt Brown Hall is where student oboists practice the skill of reed making....
![Illustration by Hanna Barczyk](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/housing_grid_1.jpg?itok=6ffGtXrS)
Felony convictions hinder efforts to access stable housing even if no prison time is served....
![Photo of Casey Michele](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/casey-michel-grid.jpg?itok=GNRAhrCH)
Analyst and investigative journalist Casey Michel is hanging money launderers out to dry....
![Photo of Iris Millan by Brandon Martin](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/pastry-chef-iris-millan_martin-grid_0.jpg?itok=cihTZQ1M)
A culinary collaboration with HISD students provides a full-circle career path for one former intern....
![In fall 2021, Lizzy Gaviria ’22 learned about Denmark’s sustainability culture and energy infrastructure.](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/elainegrid.jpg?itok=6-vfsfge)
Priceless experiences give study abroad students expanded worldviews....
![Illustration of students working, one is in a wheel chair](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/disability_grid.jpg?itok=uUbMX_jY)
A new O-Week Q&A panel focuses on accommodations for students with disabilities....
![Liliana Abramson ’24 got into Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) after watching the popular YouTube show “Critical Role.”](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/dd_grid.jpg?itok=TylBmidE)
A classic collaborative storytelling game is once again a campus favorite....
![Executive director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Lillie Besozzi ’16](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/tattoo_fitlow_grid_0.jpg?itok=GSUvxEdl)
Visible tattoos, increasingly common, draw scrutiny and invite conversation in the workplace....
![Huda Zoghbi](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/zoghbi-grid.jpg?itok=y1RC82UK)
Huda Zoghbi received the Kavli Prize for pioneering research into brain disorders....
![Flower petals scattered on a gravesite at the cemetery of the Convento de San Martín Caballeros, Huaquechula, Puebla](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/winningham_grid.jpg?itok=TPIjzYvu)
A new book by photography professor Geoff Winningham tracks his journeys through Mexico to document Day of the Dead celebrations....
![Maryana Iskander ’97](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/maryana_iskander_grid.jpg?itok=8xe8oIR3)
Maryana Iskander leads the global nonprofit Wikimedia and its volunteer-led platform with a mission to make knowledge free and factual....
![Jasmin Silva](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/jasmine_grid.jpg?itok=9a61LL-r)
Jasmin Silva brings a passion for public service to a career in technology....
![Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/spacebriefsgrid.jpg?itok=F66H7SuI)
The questions asked by these Rice computer scientists, bioengineers, geologists, mechanical engineers and astronomers will one day help humans explore space....
![An astronaut on the moon. Photo courtesy of NASA](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/apollomoonastronautgrid.jpg?itok=SMnhX8M9)
NASA has set a course for returning humans to the moon to live, work and explore, laying the groundwork for the heretofore impossible — human missions to Mars....
![photo by Jeff Fitlow](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/deroches_fitlow_grid.jpg?itok=7TJ8gtC8)
Melissa Kean ’96, Rice’s former centennial historian, sat down with Reginald DesRoches, the soon-to-be inaugurated eighth president of Rice University, for a wide-ranging interview...
![Photo by Jeff Fitlow](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/o-week-grid.jpg?itok=J2xB8QmU)
We gathered thoughts and impressions from new students as they experienced O-Week....
![JFK Walking into Rice Stadium in 1962. Photo by Bob Gomel](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2022-10/jfk-walking-at-rice-stadium-grid.jpg?itok=sNj2JqvA)
Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice Stadium that launched the nation into an era of human space exploration. Rice alumni and friends share their memori...