Rice News Archive - 2023

Dateline Rice for Oct. 12, 2023 Oct. 16, 2023

Dateline Rice for Oct. 12, 2023

Dateline Rice for Oct. 11, 2023 Oct. 16, 2023

Dateline Rice for Oct. 11, 2023

Tibetan Buddhists’ sand mandala on view this week at Rice’s Moody Center Oct. 16, 2023

Monks from the Gaden Shartse monastery in India started creating a sand mandala with accompanying rituals today at the Moody Center for the Arts. The mandala will be on view through Oct. 20, when a dissolution ritual will be performed.

Our Heritage Month wraps with day of festivities Oct. 16, 2023

Rice closed out Our Heritage Month with a fun-filled day of events at the Rice Memorial Center Oct. 15. The day began in the Grand Hall where nearly 200 people gathered for “Nuestra Herencia,” a program filled with music, dance, fellowship and food. 

Rice remembers psychology professor, groundbreaking administrator Robert L. Bell Jr. Oct. 16, 2023

Former professor Robert L. Bell Jr. passed away Sept. 18 at age 89.

Sherwin K. Bryant named director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies Oct. 16, 2023

Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora, will join Rice University Jan. 1 as director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and an associate professor in the Department of History.

Rice to host top Central American scholars from Gulf Coast Oct. 16, 2023

Rice University will host the first meeting of the Third Coast Central America Collaborative, a group of scholars and students from the Gulf Coast region that aims to create a network of committed students and scholars of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Central American immigrant communities in the United States, Oct. 20–21.

Rice Baker Institute’s David Satterfield appointed special envoy to Middle East by President Biden Oct. 16, 2023

David Satterfield, director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, was appointed Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues by President Joe Biden Oct. 15 to coordinate diplomatic efforts to address the critical humanitarian issues resulting from Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel.

Rice Swimming captures 10 titles on day two of Dualapalooza Oct. 16, 2023

The Owls captured 10 more titles on day two of the Dualapalooza, with five first-place finishes in each session.

Laure Prouvost’s immersive solo exhibition on display at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts Oct. 16, 2023

Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts is now showing the work of Laure Prouvost, an award-winning visual artist who has created an immersive experience as her first solo exhibition in Texas. The exhibition, “Above Front Tears Nest in South,” is on display through Dec. 14.

Rice Biotech Launch Pad expands external advisory board with Kevin Sheridan Oct. 16, 2023

Rice University today announced the addition of Kevin Sheridan to its external advisory board for the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures.

Rice University welcomes US Navy research official on campus visit Oct. 16, 2023

Rice University welcomed Brett Seidle, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, test and engineering, on a campus visit Oct.13.

People, papers and presentations for Oct. 16, 2023 Oct. 16, 2023

People, paper and presentations

Tunes on wheels: Rice Shepherd School bringing free music to community via The Concert Truck Oct. 12, 2023

Classical music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music is coming to several locations around Houston Oct. 24 and 26 thanks to a fully functioning mobile concert hall called The Concert Truck.

Rice community gathers for campus vigil supporting Israel and Jewish students, faculty and staff Oct. 12, 2023

Approximately 200 members of the Rice University community, including Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Provost Amy Dittmar, gathered Oct. 11 in solidarity with the campus’ Jewish students, faculty and staff at an evening vigil for Israel, held at Ray Courtyard outside the Rice Memorial Center.