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Richard Baraniuk

OpenStax founder Baraniuk wins ‘Nobel Prize of education’

Richard Baraniuk has been awarded the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.

Hugh "Hughy" Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library

Rice remembers Hugh Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library

Hugh “Hughy” Davis III, an access services assistant at Fondren Library, died Sept. 23. He was 30 years old.

Flash Joule heating

Corps of Engineers funds bid to ‘flash’ waste into useful materials

A $5.2 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers grant will expand Rice efforts to recycle waste into valuable products through flash Joule heating.

Rice Holistic Garden aerial view by Brandon Martin

Fall plant sale starts Oct. 4 at Rice Holistic Garden

Rice University engineers are developing a noninvasive skullcap to better understand how the brain disposes of metabolic waste while the wearer sleeps.

US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash

Rice engineers are developing a noninvasive device to understand how the brain disposes of metabolic waste during sleep.

Sylvia Dee

Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study

Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, wins an early-career fellowship to pursue Gulf of Mexico research.

Hamman Hall

Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do?

Surgeons operating on a patient

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows

"The Sand Recalls the Moon's Shadow" now on exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts.

Minimal gestures, grand scale: Kapwani Kiwanga fall exhibition now open at the Moody

‘The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow’ runs through Dec. 19.

It isn't September without a Baker College Christmas, a tradition dating back decades. This year's festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of "Feliz Navidad."

Feliz navidad

It isn't September without a Baker College Christmas, a tradition dating back decades. This year's festivities included gingerbread house-building in the commons and pizza al fresco to the strains of "Feliz Navidad." (Photos by Aidan Gerber)

Sept. 24, the party moved to the Ray Courtyard outside the Rice Memorial Center, where the GSA hosted a welcome-back party for returning grad students and their new peers, many of whom danced well into the night.

Party masters

Following a scavenger hunt across campus, a big batch of brand-new Rice grad students refueled with gigantic slices of pizza and ice pops at the Sept. 23 orientation picnic hosted by the Graduate Student Association (GSA)

It’s a mitzvah to wave the lulav on each of the first seven days of Sukkot, as demonstrated Sept. 24 by Rabbi Shmuli Slonim of Rice’s Chabad Center.

The four species

In 1984, Michael Heizer’s massive triptych of pink granite monoliths, “45°, 90°, 180°,” became the first major commission of public art on campus. These days, it’s common to find Rice students spreading out and enjoying the weather on nice days atop the flat surface of the 180-degree monolith, with its pleasant view of the Engineering Quad.

Playing the angles

Gustavo Scuseria

American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria

Rice University’s Gustavo Scuseria wins the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry.

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NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for master’s students

Four institutions will share an NSF grant of nearly $5 million to support scholarships for students seeking master’s degrees in engineering and related fields.