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Sandy Havens

Rice mourns beloved professor emeritus, former Rice Players director Sandy Havens

May 12, 2022

Neil “Sandy” Havens ’56, professor emeritus of art and art history whose passion for theater led him to become the first professional director of the Rice Players, died May 3. He was 88.

Historian of science Luis Campos laid out an overview of historic understandings and assumptions about “new worlds” during an engaging Humanities Now conversation Feb. 24 in Farnsworth Pavilion.

Campos considers habitability and the human

February 28, 2022

The historian of science challenged understandings of and assumptions about “new worlds” Feb. 24

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imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity

February 7, 2022

Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning

Rosana Paulino, A permanência das estructuras (The Permanence of Structures), 2017, digital print on textile, cutout, and sewing. Courtesy the artist and MASP São Paulo.

‘Bound Away’ conference bringing new research on slave voyages

November 22, 2021

Art exhibitions at Moody, MFAH will contextualize research presented Dec. 3-4

Still from 1927 silent film "The Chess Player"

Johannes von Moltke takes on the ‘geist in the machine’

October 18, 2021

Third talk in the ‘Cinema and the Post-Human’ lecture series takes place Nov. 5

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Woodson Research Center team honored with Shapiro award

July 27, 2021

Library staff worked throughout pandemic to deliver invaluable documents, digitization and much more.

Juneteenth Order

Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come

June 17, 2021

Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.

Making Sense

New sensation: Grad student symposium hosts international experts on five senses

March 2, 2021

‘Making Sense’ draws scholars from diverse array of disciplines March 12-13 for an international conference on humanistic research.

Errol Morris's documentary “The Thin Blue Line” concerns the muder of a Texas police officer.

It's lights, camera, gavel for Cinema and Media Studies minors

December 14, 2020

New course will explore the American courtroom drama.

Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund

Rice backs studies of race, anti-racism

September 16, 2020

The Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund at Rice University has awarded grants to eight professors to develop better understanding of how race, racism and racial injustice affect society.

Some works of art are so iconic they’re instantly eye-catching: Think René Magritte’s surreal “The Son of Man,” Michelangelo’s majestic “The Creation of Adam” or Johannes Vermeer’s masterful “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” And it turns out they’re even more head-turning when their subjects are sporting masks and sharing coronavirus-related safety slogans.

Classical Mask: Art History’s punny posters encourage mask wearing, social distancing

August 17, 2020

New health protocol notices in Herring Hall promote safety, smiles.

Shree Kale walks by Lovett Hall

Unconventional students at Rice: Shree Kale turns uncertainty into opportunity

May 13, 2020

The New Jersey native and his dad decided to stick around to check out the campus. That’s when he received an email from the Rice School of Architecture dean offering to show him and other students around the school. 

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Graduating Mellon Mays fellows grateful for opportunity — and the Rice mentors who helped

April 24, 2020

Increasing diversity in the faculties of colleges and universities across the U.S. is the mission of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program, which has helped fund the doctoral dreams of over 5,000 students at 48 member schools since 1986.

Chemistry of Art

Chemistry of Art class partners with MFAH to give Rice students firsthand experience

February 20, 2020

In this popular course, chemistry and art conservation go hand in hand.

US and Russian Flag

America Through Foreign Eyes: Popular online course updated with Russian perspective

February 18, 2020

The massively popular online course, launching Feb. 17, now includes a module on Russian relations and perspectives.

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