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Political experts to discuss 2024 campaign season at Baker Institute, Carter Center event
April 24, 2023
Former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy of promoting free and fair elections at home and abroad will be discussed at a May 1 event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and The Carter Center.
Reginald DesRoches, Lydia Kavraki elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2023
Rice University President Reginald DesRoches and Professor Lydia Kavraki have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s foremost society of scholars.
President DesRoches honors Rice staff’s ‘excellence in action’
April 22, 2023
President Reginald DesRoches welcomed staff members to a morning breakfast and recognition ceremony April 21 at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall. Themed “Excellence in Action,” the gathering highlighted the university’s successes and growth during the previous year, and also marked DesRoches’ first in office.
Annual Rice competition renamed Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
April 14, 2023
The George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase and Poster Competition, coordinated by Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), kicked off April 13 with remarks from President Reginald DesRoches — in which he announced the event will now be known as the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase
Rice alumnus donates personal collection to Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop
April 11, 2023
A generous donation of vintage comics from Rice University alumnus Dr. Gordon Green ‘62 was recently made to the Comic Art Teaching and Study (CATS) Workshop in the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library.
Moody X-Fest ’23 celebrates the launch of the Moody Experience at Rice
April 11, 2023
Rice University Owls gathered in celebration of the Moody Foundation’s historic $100 million gift to the campus. More than 1,000 students flooded Tudor Fieldhouse April 7 for Moody X-Fest ’23, the signature event of the inaugural Moody Experience celebrations.
April 11, 2023
Steven Murdock, founding director of Rice University’s Hobby Center for the Study of Texas who served as director of the U.S. Census Bureau and state demographer of Texas, died April 7. He was 75.
Rice Sport Management students take on Final Four
April 5, 2023
An innovative course, titled The Business of Major Sporting Events, allowed Rice University students to be heavily involved in the planning and production of the 2023 men’s Final Four in Houston.
Rice mourns loss of trailblazing history chair, former dean Katherine Fischer Drew
April 3, 2023
Katherine Fischer Drew ’44 ’45, the esteemed Rice history chair, former acting dean of humanities and social sciences and the first woman ever hired as a tenure-track faculty member by the university, died March 19 at the age of 99.
66th annual Beer Bike rolls through campus
April 3, 2023
Beer Bike, one of Rice University’s most beloved traditions, was held for the 66th time April 1.