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Digital Media Commons Supervisor Ian Mellor-Crummey ‘17 has won the 2023 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.

Ian Mellor-Crummey receives 22nd annual Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award

May 31, 2023

Digital Media Commons Supervisor Ian Mellor-Crummey ‘17 has won the 2023 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.

The new interface for the Woodson Research Center's digital scholarship archive, which will go live May 22, 2023.

Woodson Research Center moves to new digital archive platform

May 18, 2023

Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center recently announced it will move to a new archiving platform that will provide enhanced functionality and accessibility for its extensive digital cultural heritage materials.

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Houston Asian American Archive works the catwalk with Ascend AAPI Spring Fashion Show

May 14, 2023

On May 20, the Ascend AAPI Spring Fashion Show will transform the Houston Public Library’s historic Julia Ideson Building into a beautiful and festive runway from 2-5 p.m. The fashion program is part of “Our Vibrant AAPI Community: Selections from the Houston Asian American Archive,” which tells personal stories that reflect the deep and varied contributions of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to the fabric of Houston. The exhibition is on display through June 3 at the Julia Ideson Building Gallery, 550 McKinney St.

End-of-semester dog therapy sessions at Fondren Library are being sponsored in partnership with the Rice Student Association for Rice students in need of a finals pick-me-up April 26-28.

Dogs a treat for Owls during finals

April 27, 2023

End-of-semester dog therapy sessions at Fondren Library are being sponsored in partnership with the Rice Student Association for those in need of a finals pick-me-up.

Alison Bashford will present a lecture about the Julian Huxley papers’ influence on her new book April 24 at Rice’s Fondren Library, where the papers are housed.

Alison Bashford to lecture on Julian Huxley papers at Rice

April 14, 2023

Alison Bashford , a scientia professor of history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and director of the Laureate Centre for History and Population, will present a lecture about the Julian Huxley papers’ influence on her new book April 24 at Rice’s Fondren Library, where the papers are housed.

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.

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.

Linda Welzenbach-Fries and Ipek Martinez pose for a photo in front of a new exhibit in Fondren Library that features photos from Fries' explorations to Antarctica.

Fondren exhibit features Rice faculty member’s experiences exploring Antarctica

April 10, 2023

A new exhibit in Fondren Library features photos from a Rice University science writer’s research expeditions to Antarctica and her interviews with students about the captivating experiences.

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US patents chief to discuss research and innovation at Rice U. event

March 29, 2023

The commissioner for patents of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Vaishali Udupa, will headline an event April 5 on how to transform research into innovation, and ways in which universities and her office — working separately and together — can pick up the pace.

Tomás Morín

Rice’s Tomás Morín next up in Fondren’s ‘The Books That Shaped My World’ series

March 24, 2023

The latest installment of “The Books That Shaped My World,” a lecture series presented by Rice University's Friends of Fondren Library, will be held at the library April 3.

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Rice, African American History Research Center to host inaugural ‘Black Houston(s)’ symposium March 23-24

March 20, 2023

A first-of-its-kind symposium March 23-24 will be centered on highlighting the shifting, dynamic contributions that Afro-Diasporic communities have made to Houston throughout its history and in the present day.

Melissa Kean, former Centennial Historian of Rice University, was honored March 10 at the 41st Friends of Fondren Gala.

Melissa Kean honored at Friends of Fondren Library Gala

March 13, 2023

Melissa Kean, former Centennial Historian of Rice University, was honored March 10 at the 41st Friends of Fondren Library Gala.

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Rice to host panel on singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt March 16

March 7, 2023

Fondren Library and the Woodson Research Center at Rice University will host a discussion panel about late singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, featuring a longtime accompanist of his and editors of a recent book of essays about him.

Renowned William Blake scholar and printmaker Michael Phillips demonstrates how to use the star-wheel copper-plate rolling press replica that is now in the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library as of March 1, 2023.

Here to stay: Rice showcases newly delivered William Blake printing press replica

March 2, 2023

Rice University showcased the newly acquired star-wheel copper-plate rolling press that famous Romantic poet and artist William Blake used to produce his masterworks this week at the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library.

Christopher Gonzalez speaks about the art of writing your first book at the Cherry Reading Series event in Fondren Library on Feb. 27, 2023.

Fondren hosts reading series event about writing first book

March 1, 2023

The Rice Department of English’s Cherry Reading Series presented “Breaking Out! The Untold Stories of Writing and Publishing a First Book,” featuring moderator Bryan Washington and panelist authors Allegra Hyde, Christopher Gonzalez and Jean Kyoung Frazier, on Monday, Feb. 27.

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MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman to give lecture at Rice March 7

February 24, 2023

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar P. Gabrielle Foreman will present a lecture focused on the history of 19th-century Black activism March 7 at Fondren Library.

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