Back to throwing ringers
June 6, 2022
Rice’s Facilities Engineering and Planning Department hosted its annual horseshoes tournament for university employees May 26.
A new view for science and engineering
April 6, 2022
Luay Nakhleh, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, toured the construction site of the new Engineering and Science Building on April 5.
Rice names architect for new engineering and science building
April 27, 2021
With the imminent demolition of Rice University’s Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory, the space will soon be cleared for a new engineering and science building, according to Rice administrators.
International architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been selected as lead architect for the new building. Houston’s Scientia Architects will consult on laboratory design.
Trotting among the trees
October 19, 2020
On a pleasant fall day, not even the Houston Police Department Mounted Patrol can resist a stroll through Rice’s leafy campus — which, as it happens, is also an officially designated arboretum.
Signs of the times
August 17, 2020
Facilities, Engineering & Planning staff have been hard at work creating and placing signs across the Rice campus in advance of the fall semester.