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FEATURES 4/15/25 10:27pm

Core Teams talk raising kids at Rice

At most colleges, resident associates are students juggling their responsibilities alongside homework. At Rice, students aren’t the only ones who call the residential colleges home — RAs could be anything from a professor to a dean living down the hall along with their children.


FEATURES 4/15/25 10:26pm

Alumna Susannah Wright journeys from student to professor

When Susannah Wright graduated from Rice in 2018, the prospect of returning as faculty was nothing more than a pipe dream. Much like the tales she studies, Wright’s journey to professorship has taken her across the country and back again, landing her in a faculty role at Rice in fall 2024.   




FEATURES 4/8/25 11:07pm

New semester, novel courses

Tired of the same old lectures and pop quizzes? Next semester brings a new lineup of courses that may actually make you want to get up for an 8 a.m. Whether you want a class that dives deeper into your major, explores a passion or teaches you something new, this semester has something for you. 







FEATURES 3/25/25 10:13pm

Rice startups talk tech challenges, time concerns

It seems like everyone at Rice is creating an app these days. Some might remember Bonfire and Diagnos, or perhaps the more recent Nudge, but with many of these services now off the app store, one has to ask — Is Rice really an ideal environment for student-led startups? 



FEATURES 3/25/25 10:08pm

Lecturer Oz Ocampo talks sports scouting, leadership

Before he scouted future All-Star pitchers internationally, Oz Ocampo was a college student studying abroad, searching for his career path. While in Buenos Aires, he watched the Superclásico, a fierce rivalry match between Argentina’s top soccer clubs. After Boca Juniors, his newly adopted team, won, he realized he wanted to work in baseball.


FEATURES 3/25/25 10:06pm

Elisa Gabbert on writing through disaster

Memory deceives. Perception distorts. For Elisa Gabbert ’02, the ubiquitous condition of our times is ‘unreality’ — modern society’s tendency to process catastrophe as media spectacle and bury anxieties beneath routine. In her 2020 essay collection “The Unreality of Memory,” she dissects why tragedy leaves us scrolling, watching and forgetting.


FEATURES 3/12/25 12:00am

Rice Rally fights for school spirit

If Rice students show up for sports games, they’ll love them — the trick is to keep them coming back. This is something Hannah Wixom and Morgan Toran, two of the three co-presidents of Rice Rally, agree on.