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7 selected for Rice alumni board; president-elect and alumni trustee announced

May 14, 2024

Seven alumni have been selected to serve on Rice University’s Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Board of Directors: Sacha Abinader, Paula Desel, Tawfik Jarjour, Wayne Hale, June Marshall, Wanda Pan and John Sneider. They begin their three-year terms July 1, when David Leal becomes president-elect of the ARA and Cathryn Rodd Selman becomes an alumni trustee.

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Celebrating excellence: Association of Rice Alumni honors Laureates Award recipients

May 8, 2024

More than 300 alumni and members of the Rice community honored a number of highly distinguished individuals who have gone above and beyond the call in their professional fields, volunteer efforts and support of the university at the Association of Rice Alumni Laureates Celebration.

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Several ‘influential women’ of Rice recognized by Houston Woman Magazine

April 12, 2024

Rice University’s first lady, a respected professor and several alumnae were included in Houston Woman Magazine’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2023 list. Each was nominated for inclusion by a Houston Woman Magazine reader then selected by the staff of the publication.

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Rice faculty and alumni travel to path of totality for ‘Great Owl Eclipse’

April 9, 2024

As the moon completely eclipsed the sun April 8, more than 300 Rice University alumni, faculty and staff gathered on the lawn of the Flying L Ranch Resort in Bandera, Texas, to view the last total solar eclipse in the contiguous United States for the next two decades.

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Rolling into spring fun with 67th annual Beer Bike race

April 8, 2024

Rice University’s annual intramural bicycle race, Beer Bike, took place April 6 and saw Rice’s 11 residential colleges and the Graduate Student Association compete for bragging rights.

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Former Rice football player and engineer Gabe Baker ’14 on his new life in Nashville, making music and more

March 4, 2024

Gabe Baker’s life looks very different than it did a decade ago as a recently graduated Rice football star and environmental engineer working in county government in Houston. Now the former standout Rice student and athlete has embraced a successful music career in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Numerous Rice Owls up for Grammy gold

November 17, 2023

A number of Rice University Shepherd School of Music alumni will be up for Grammy gold at the 66th annual Grammy Awards ceremony Feb. 4 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

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Inaugural Community Market connects Rice alumni business owners

November 6, 2023

Rice University hosted its inaugural Community Market during Alumni Weekend, the largest annual alumni event on campus. Between 8:30-11 a.m. Nov. 4, 24 vendors filled the Greenbriar lot as Rice alumni business owners sold products, generated awareness of their businesses and networked with each other.

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One-of-a-kind practice organ gifted to Rice music students

November 6, 2023

Imagine being able to replicate the sound of the finest organs from cathedrals and concert halls around the world without ever having to travel.

Rice University alum Angela Berry Roberson ’90 was sworn in to serve as the senior adviser in the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation Oct. 23, 2023.

Rice alum Angela Berry Roberson sworn in as Senior Advisor of Departmental Office of Civil Rights for U.S. DOT

November 3, 2023

Rice University alum Angela Berry Roberson ’90 was sworn in to serve as the senior adviser in the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation Oct. 23, 2023.

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Rice students ‘soar together’ thanks to donors’ generosity

November 3, 2023

Rice University recently welcomed donors and scholarship recipients to the Moody Center for the Arts for “Soaring Together,” a reception celebrating the generosity of the Rice community and the transformational impact of scholarship endowments. 

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Rice alum and board member named interim CEO, president of Unity

October 25, 2023

Rice University Board of Trustees member James Whitehurst ’89 was recently named interim CEO and president of Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D content, headquartered in San Francisco.

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Rice alum Louis Brus awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry

October 4, 2023

Rice alumnus Louis Brus (’65) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Moungi Bawendi and Alexei Ekimov for the “discovery and development of quantum dots.”

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Rice alum and board member takes flight

September 21, 2023

Josh Earnest ’97 is an example of alumni who are making an impact. A current member of the Rice Board of Trustees, Earnest was promoted this week to executive vice president of communications and advertising with United Airlines.

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Past participant Carolina Gonzalez returns to STaRT@Rice as a working professional

September 13, 2023

Back for its third year, the STaRT@Rice program (short for Statistical Training and Research Techniques at Rice) will be held on Oct. 6-9, 2023 at Rice University.

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