Commencement speaker chosen
(10/20/11 12:00am)
Educational entrepreneur Salman Khan will speak this year for Rice's 99th commencement.
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Educational entrepreneur Salman Khan will speak this year for Rice's 99th commencement.
Rice alumnus Jack "Cactus" Cagle became a Harris County Commissioner for Precinct Four on Monday.
Architecture students will be racing against the clock this weekend as they compete to design a campus community garden in roughly two days.
Coming from an immigrant family who was the first to go to college, computer and applied mathematics professor Richard Tapia never planned on winning any awards – especially one of the most prestigious in the country. Now, he is scheduled to receive he National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama in October.
Following President David Leebron's Vision for the Second Century, administrators around campus want to promote student leadership and initiative.
The Menil Collection — a world class museum located five minutes from campus — has offered Rice University architecture students an opportunity to go beyond just being students, with a commissioned piece to build a cafe.
Rice University ranked number 17 on the U.S. News & World Report's list of best colleges for the eighth consecutive year.
Following suite of KTRU, the University of Houston has a new online-only radio station, COOG Radio.
The author of this year's Common Reading author spoke to an audience of about 100 people in the RMC Grand Hall on Tuesday about honor and respect explaining how they apply to specifically to Rice along with the rest of the world.
Rice students and Fifth Ward Houston will soon work together under a new service program called Community Bridges.
Rice Program Council is bringing back H2007 Assassins, an annual campus –wide, week-long game starting this Sunday. This year, the event is being held during the second week of school instead of during finals when students are too busy to participate, RPC traditions co-coordinator Catherine Yuh said.
"I try to get to the message out, but there is definitely a disconnect and we need people who can really connect with others in their college," Chatfield said. "I really wanted one more IT representative out in the community to reach a different group of people.
"Today you get your degree, but if you are like most college grads, you will spend the next decade of your lives moving from city to city, school to school and from job to job, experimenting with different careers and lifestyles," Brooks said.
In accordance with the original plan designating how the $9.5 million from the sale of the KTRU tower will be allocated, the station is on track to receive $1 million.
The switch from webmail to Gmail encountered delays when Google reissued the contract they originally asked Rice to sign earlier this month.
Vice Provost for Research James Coleman will leave Rice to become Dean of the Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University, effective July 15.
Inspired by Duncan College's effort to raise money for Haiti last year, sophomore Tiffany Chen decided to create an event held Wednesday night to help raise awareness about the disaster in Japan. She raised $734.
The George R. Brown Forensics Society, better known as the speech and debate team, improved to ninth place this year from 19th last year at the Parliamentary Debate Nationals March 16-19 in Colorado Springs.
Starting with this year's graduating class, seniors who have not yet completed their degree requirements may walk with their class at graduation.