Rice Stadium, which has hosted everything from the 1974 Super Bowl to Rice Football's legendary 1994 victory over the University of Texas, made history once again this weekend when it hosted back-to-back commencement ceremonies for the Classes of 2020 and 2021.
Rice seniors cherished final semester spent with friends
Rice students at this year’s Class of 2021 senior gala took time to reflect on an undergraduate experience that was interrupted in a way no one could have imagined, yet filled with moments of both growth and joy.
Kristof implores grads to ‘bridge the empathy gap’
Empathy is needed more than ever, said Nicholas Kristof, who encouraged two years of Rice University graduates to use their skill and kindness to make a difference, even if their actions only seem to be a “drop in the bucket.”
Taylor Crain on creating the Rice she wanted to see
The storyteller and world-builder leaves a lasting legacy as she looks ahead.
Kassim wins prestigious dissertation completion fellowship
A series of setbacks didn’t deter this Rice grad student, who is soon to publish his second book.
Ostherr’s online database offers a ‘different framing of what an intervention can look like.’
Students in Naoko Ozaki’s first-year Japanese course met for the first time face to face May 4 after a semester spent learning together online.
‘Red Book’ story map reveals history of Houston wards’ thriving Black communities
The spatial data retrieved by Rice from the rare 1915 book is now available for free public use via Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center.
Award-winning writer Kiese Laymon joining English faculty
The critically acclaimed memoirist and essayist will be the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English, starting Jan. 1, 2022.
Duncan College senior L Diop, Wiess College senior Daniel Davis and Martell College senior Julia Huang snapped photos of their fellow graduates-to-be last week outside Lovett Hall. Find more of the trio’s senior portrait work on their Instagram at @2.8portraits.
Bruce Hainley joins Rice as new VADA chair
Noted writer Bruce Hainley is joining the faculty at Rice as the new chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA).
Annual student club awards recognize efforts in diversity, creativity and inclusion
The third annual Club Awards recognized those who helped keep the university community engaged during a difficult school year.
The art of politics: Sperandio convenes April 30 panel on protest art in comics
As the New York Times put it in a recent profile, artist Sue Coe “proudly labels her own work propaganda.” Coe’s “searing social-political art,” notes Times writer Hilarie Sheets, “can feel like a punch in the face or a call to action — or both.”
Anthony Pinn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rice Professor Anthony Pinn has been elected to the nation’s foremost society of scholars, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established by America’s founding fathers in 1780, the academy’s members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
