Brandi Smith

Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in NYT’s ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’

“I found out with everyone else,” said Kiese Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English.

Free summer program at Rice focuses on environmental justice for Houston students

The weeklong experience hosted on Rice’s campus focuses on environmental justice through storytelling via arts and media practices.

Summer in the City of Light: Rice students explore Paris through Global classes

Under a Rice Blue sky 5,000 miles from the Houston campus, class was in session during the summer months.

Erika Thompson joins Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies as associate director

In a move to bolster its academic and community engagement, Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies has appointed Erika Thompson as its new associate director.

‘The surviving shards’: Donation preserves comic art at Rice

Rice’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop has received a significant donation of original comic art, enhancing its already sizable collection.

Rice student’s Juneteenth poem celebrates legacy of Freedmen’s Town

Though she grew up in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, Avalon Hogans didn’t start digging into the history of the area until she came to Rice.

International Timpani Intensive debuts at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music

For five days of musical immersion in early June, the inaugural International Timpani Intensive brought together timpanists from around the globe to Rice’s Shepherd School of Music.

Japanese migrants’ experiences in Texas celebrated in award-winning exhibit

Completed in time to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Month in May 2023, Fondren Fellows project “History of Japanese Farmers in Texas” recently won the 2024 Texas Digital Library’s Trailblazer Award.

Paris Center thrives as academic hub

In its first year of full programming, the Rice Global Paris Center has provided a hub for teaching, learning and research that has brought together participants from all over the globe.

From cards to classrooms: How Rice is helping students imagine More&More futures

The premise of the game is simple. Players draw six cards from different categories then select a role card, such as an artist, child, pet, religious leader or architect.

Moody Center’s ‘Resonant Earth’ explores humanity’s entangled relationship with the land through art

“Resonant Earth: Contemporary Perspectives on Land and Body” is a new exhibition at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts that challenges viewers to reevaluate their relationship with the land.

Panel discussion probes impact of Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

Researchers and higher education leaders participated in a June 18 panel discussion at Rice titled “In the Wake of Affirmative Action.”

Exploring climate change through wine

Among the courses recently offered at the Rice Global Paris Center was “Climate Change, Economics and the Wine Industry,” which brought students to Paris for three weeks in May.

Ahead of Juneteenth celebrations, Rice experts available to discuss history, significance, impact

Now a federal holiday for its third year, Juneteenth celebrates the June 19, 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas, who delivered the news that enslaved people in the state were finally free – two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Moody Fellowship helps Rice rising senior investigate Colombian hydroelectric project

Sarah Davidson, a rising senior at Rice, is making strides in the fields of history and anthropology through her research on Hidroituango, Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam.