This Week's Front Page
Vice President for Finance Kathy Collins and Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman fielded questions at the Student Association meeting Monday night to a full house in an attempt to assuage students' concerns about the financial transformation planned for colleges and clubs. (0) comments
When it tore through campus in mid-September, Hurricane Ike left $3 million in campus damages in its wake. About two-thirds of the buildings and one-third of the trees on campus were affected, Facilities, Engineering and Planning Manager of Communications Susann Glenn said. (0) comments
The first residents of Duncan and McMurtry Colleges will not be a new generation of freshmen. Rather, they will be Baker College and Will Rice College students relocated from their own colleges during the south college renovations, Facilities, Engineering and Planning Project Manager Kathy Jones said. (1) comment
The world's problems never sit on the back-burner for too long before they hit home. Stephen Lewis, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and current UN secretary-general's envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, spoke to a packed audience at the James A. (0) comments
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. (1) comment
Students interested in assisting professors and researchers with biomedical research at the Collaborative Research Center will now have a greater opportunity to do so. Over the next ten years, the CRC will receive $3 million from the John S. Dunn Research Foundation. (0) comments
A routine Rice University Police traffic stop turned into a criminal chase when the car's driver turned out to be a wanted felon. A Rice University Police Department patrol stopped a car going the wrong direction down College Way on Sept. 28, Chief Bill Taylor said. (0) comments