Unconventional students at Rice: An engineer turned photographer

Soorya Avali turned an $800 outstanding freshman award into a lifetime passion. He bought his first camera with the windfall and three years later it has resulted in thousands of images of Rice University and his classmates. All this from a materials science and engineering major who didn’t take his first photography class until his junior year.

All this from a materials science engineering major that didn’t take his first photography class until his junior year.