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(12/03/10 12:00am)
Three seniors will head to the United Kingdom next year to pursue graduate studies on Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. Will Rice College senior Ye jin Kang is one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars this year. Will Rice senior Anthony Austin and Sid Richardson College senior Jingyuan Luo are two of the 31 students nationwide who have been selected as Marshall Scholars."This is really an exciting year," Caroline Quenemoen, director of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research, said. "I believe this is the first time that we've had two Marshall Scholars in one year, and I believe it might be the first time that we've had a Marshall Scholar and Rhodes Scholar in the same year."
(09/17/10 12:00am)
Unlike most college rankings out there, Washington Monthly's 2010 ranking of the best national universities rates each school on what it does for the country rather than what it does for each individual student. "We rate schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories," Washington Monthly's website states. Rice came in 25th in this ranking.
(01/29/10 12:00am)
Following a year marked by numerous budget cuts and nearly $1 billion lost from the endowment, The Princeton Review, in conjunction with USA Today, ranked Rice seventh in the nation for "best value private college" for 2010, a drop from previous years. In 2009, Rice ranked fourth and in 2008, Rice ranked first in the same survey. The university has been in the top 10 in the category for five of the past six years.
(10/23/09 12:00am)
Earlier this month, 25 students from Rice's Solar Decathlon team traveled to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to participate in the Solar Decathlon competition, where they finished eighth in the world. Hosted every two years by the U.S. Department of Energy, the competition challenges 20 teams of college students from across the globe to design and build energy-efficient, solar-powered houses.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
Putting aside problem sets and final projects, students in Rice's chapter of Engineers Without Borders will travel throughout Central America to serve communities in need this summer. According to its Web site, EWB-USA is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing service to fulfill the basic needs of communities in developing countries. Members of Rice-EWB are working on one of four student-led projects in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. These projects focus on various aspects of helping local communities, from installing water storage tanks to launching educational campaigns about how to sanitize their water.
(03/20/09 12:00am)
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a non-profit organization that focuses on civil liberties in schools across the country, criticized Rice on March 9 for restricting freedom of expression in its Information Technology policy. FIRE gave Rice a "red light" rating, and on its Web site, the group stated that "[a] red light institution has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech." In an article on Rice's protocols, FIRE cited a Rice IT policy, among five other policies, as an example that threatened free speech on campus.
(03/13/09 12:00am)
In these times of economic crisis, the safest place to invest your money may be the newly-formed Owl Investment Group. Founded by Martel college sophomore Chris Kopczynski, the Owl Investment Group seeks to give Rice students hands-on experience in investing and provides financial news to students.
(02/27/09 12:00am)
During the fall semester, Fondren Library's Sarah Lane Lounge, previously an open study area, was renovated into a place where students could relax and snack. The library added colorful beanbag chairs, posters of book covers and snack and soda vending machines to the lounge, Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology Diane Butler said."Our idea was for something kind of fun and colorful, a room where students could come in and do whatever they wanted to do: hang out, or talk, or study," Butler said.
(02/06/09 12:00am)
Away from home and their mothers, some Rice students are not eating everything that's on their plate, and as food costs rise, Rice is looking to keep down costs by encouraging students to avoid taking more than they can eat. In October, the South Servery introduced Wasteless Wednesdays - a day when trays were prohibited - as part of a class project sponsored by Director of Sustainability Richard Johnson. The benefits of these Wasteless Wednesdays included a 30 percent reduction in food waste, and not washing the trays saved 11 percent in water and chemical usage at every meal.
(01/16/09 12:00am)
The world is always looking for a way to cure cancer or at least find a way to fight it. As it turns out, we may just have to look among our faculty.The Department of Defense named Naomi Halas, a professor of chemistry and electrical and computer engineering, a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow at the end of last year.
(12/05/08 12:00am)
The engineering department will soon expand the diversity of its program content to include social lessons in leadership. Rice alumni John (Lovett '73) and Ann (Jones '75) Doerr donated $15 million to establish the Rice Engineering Leadership Center, which is expected to open next fall, Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering Sallie Keller-McNulty said. The Doerrs' contribution will be designated to helping Rice students remain at the forefront of new developments in engineering. The gift, specifically for the engineering department, was a rarity, since donations of such magnitude often go to the university as a whole, said Keller-McNutly, who also mentioned the donation will fill a need in the department.
(10/31/08 12:00am)
East Wall is a small but busy restaurant tucked away in the Dunhuang Plaza of Chinatown. It is open from 11 a.m. to midnight every day, serving authentic Chinese food for lunch, dinner and late-night meals.The restaurant's primary focus is on meat and seafood dishes, but it also offers a variety of vegetarian platters, stews and desserts. In the beverage department, the restaurant offers soft drinks and juices as well as coffee, hot tea and milk tea.
(10/10/08 12:00am)
Arta Sadrzadeh, a mechanical engineering and material science graduate student, has won the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship Award for 2008. Sadrzadeh will receive $5,000 for personal use. Given to graduate students who have a history in high performance computing, the award is named after the late Ken Kennedy, a professor and founder of the computer science program at Rice. The global supercomputer corporation Cray Inc., of which Kennedy was a board member, gave $150,000 in his honor to establish the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship Fund in 2007.
(09/26/08 12:00am)
This Monday, 164 Rice sophomores and juniors will join the Rice chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars honor society. Every spring, the NSCS invites freshmen and sophomores in the top 20 percent of their class who have at least a 3.4 grade point average to join. The society has 233 chapters nationwide and includes 250 current Rice students. The NSCS induction ceremony will be held in the Farnsworth Pavilion of the Rice Memorial Center 6 p.m. Monday.
