Development and Alumni Relations

President DesRoches names Stephen Bayer VP for development and alumni relations

Rice President Reginald DesRoches has announced Stephen Bayer as Rice’s next vice president for development and alumni relations.

Stephen Bayer named VP for development and alumni relations at Rice

Stephen Bayer, a seasoned fundraiser with over 22 years of leadership experience in higher education, has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at Rice University, effective Sept. 26.

View from a terrace

President Reginald DesRoches joined family members and friends of the late Rice Trustee Emeritus Ralph O’Connor’s family for a dinner and early preview of the landmark new science and engineering building named in his honor.

Strategic planning process to be launched in January

President Reginald DesRoches shared the news with the Rice community in an email Nov. 21.

Rice alumna, astronaut Shannon Walker honored as namesake of new library

Houston city leaders broke ground Oct. 14 on the Dr. Shannon Walker Neighborhood Library, named after the three-time Rice graduate and NASA astronaut who has flown two missions aboard the International Space Station.

Owl Together 2022 — celebrating Rice’s past with an eye to the future

This year’s Owl Together festivities kicked off with the annual Rice Faculty Keynote Lecture Oct. 28. Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and author of “American Moonshot,” spoke to alumni in Tudor Fieldhouse about John F. Kennedy and the race to space of the 1960s, just a few weeks after the 60th anniversary of JFK’s famous speech at Rice Stadium in 1962.

Rice names James Hurley assistant vice president of alumni relations

James Hurley will join Rice’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) as its assistant vice president of alumni relations. He will assume his new role Aug. 1.

Casbarian, Doty, Leebron and Sun receive ARA’s Gold Medal at 2022 Laureates Awards

At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2022 Laureates Awards ceremony May 7, the group bestowed its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to Rice Architecture’s John Casbarian ’69 ’72 and Janice Doty ’60. Rice President David Leebron and wife Y. Ping Sun were also awarded the ARA’s Gold Medal for their 18 years of service to the university.

Moody Foundation funds 12 new student opportunity endowments

The Moody Fund for Student Opportunity will finance a dozen newly created Rice endowments, providing students with an extensive array of enhanced educational opportunities financed by a $50 million commitment from the Moody Foundation.

Two Owls among Houston’s 50 most influential women

Ana María Martínez, professor of voice, and Kathi Dantley Warren, vice president for development and alumni relations (DAR), have been named to Houston Woman Magazine’s annual list of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2020-21.

Young alum shares power of poetry to promote critical dialog

Tim Harrison ’20 brought a powerful spoken-word performance to campus for a FWIS class

Historian of science Luis Campos joining Rice as Baker College Chair

Appointment in the History of Science, Technology and Innovation begins in spring

Rice’s new arts building will be Sarofim Hall, designed by internationally acclaimed firm

Architecture team led by Rice alumnus will create new gateway to campus

Rice’s bold future subject of President’s Town Hall

Rice President David Leebron and Association of Rice Alumni President Monique Shankle ’86 examined the university’s bold future Oct. 29.

Rice launches $2 billion capital campaign

Rice University has launched a comprehensive capital campaign to raise $2 billion by the end of 2025, by far the largest fundraising effort in the university's history.