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(04/05/17 2:10am)
A Rice undergraduate team created an educational toy for children to learn about computer processing and took home the $6,000 best undergraduate team prize from the inaugural Rice Launch Challenge.
(03/29/17 1:15am)
University of St. Thomas Police Chief James Tate will become Rice University Police Department Chief on May 1. Interim Chief Captain Clemente Rodriguez will remain at the head of RUPD until Tate takes over in May. Johnny Whitehead previously held the position of RUPD Chief before retiring on Jan. 31.
(03/08/17 3:38am)
University Court announced at the Student Association Senate meeting Monday night that the election for SA president would be extended five more days for those part-time students who did not originally receive a ballot.
(03/01/17 4:39am)
The Student Association Senate passed Resolution #4, expressing support of the federal BRIDGE Act, in a 22-1-2 vote Monday night, after more than 30 minutes of debate in addition to discussions at two prior SA meetings. Demonstrators from a student group attended the meeting and voiced their support by holding signs bearing slogans in favor of the BRIDGE Act as their representatives voted.
(02/01/17 4:39am)
Approximately 100 attendees gathered in Hanszen College commons on Thursday to hear Adam Lowitt, writer and executive producer of the Daily Show, talk about everything from Rice University’s residential college system to President Donald Trump.
(01/25/17 3:09am)
Across campus, students have been experiencing partially caving ceilings, potentially scalding water and other structural problems at various residential colleges.
(01/11/17 3:25am)
Schemes to steal usernames and passwords are another part of the Rice University experience. Students, faculty and staff alike are falling victim to attacks that direct Rice email users to sites that almost exactly resemble legitimate, Rice-sponsored sites. Phishing scams are now more frequent and more technologically advanced, prompting the Office of Information Technology recently to direct its IT representatives to warn their residential colleges about this increasing sophistication.
(11/30/16 7:28am)
Rice students are lonely and looking for love. A group researching sex and romantic relationships at Rice for Research Methods (SOCI 381) expected many students to have no hookup experience but didn’t realize the extent to which they were correct. They were also surprised to find that the hookup culture at Rice is largely mythical: An overwhelming majority of study participants thought they were hooking up less than their peers, and most want to be in a long-term, committed relationship.
(11/09/16 9:55pm)
Changes are coming to Rice Coffeehouse. A three-day architecture design competition, or “mini-charrette,” organized by Architecture Students at Rice and Coffeehouse culminated Friday with the announcement that one team would see their design, “Coffee, Break,” constructed and implemented.
(10/26/16 3:33am)
After a two-year-long process, all six Rice University serveries have been named Certified Green Restaurants by the Green Restaurant Association. The lengthy process, greenlighted by the internal vice president of Housing and Dining, was kept secret from upper administration per GRA policy.
(10/05/16 4:55am)
In 1956, the Rice University Office of the Registrar consisted of two people: the registrar and his assistant. There was a single staff member who wrote sports news, but no dedicated office for public relations.