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Filling the field with an 80-yard model of the International Space Station, the Marching Owl Band honored Rice's 50-year partnership with the Johnson Space Center and NASA during the halftime show at the Rice vs. Purdue game on Saturday.
The Student Association's Hedgehopper cards are back with more opportunities than before for Rice Students to head beyond the hedges.
With the city of Houston in drought with lack of rainfall and experiencing record-breaking heat, Rice Facilities Planning and Engineering has a wide variety of water conservation projects and tips students can use to help save water on campus.
Rice Student Volunteer Program's Outreach Day pulled in 478 new students fresh out of Orientation Week on Saturday, Aug. 20 to help the Houston community on 26 different projects. Director of the Community Involvement Center Mac Griswold said considering the combined efforts, those students completed 2,018 hours of community service.
The class of 2015 is starting to come together since the May 1 regular decisions were sent out. The quality of students coming in is equal to or better than previous years in terms of test scores, leadership, community out-reach and entrepreneurship Vice President for Enrollment Chris Munoz said.
Starting next fall, a group of high school students will work in Rice labs alongside current Rice undergraduate students. The Rice Mentorship Initiative will reach out to students from under-served communities to provide opportunities to research with an undergraduate mentor on campus.
Nine universities came together at Rice's Dell Butcher Hall for the National Conference on Student-Taught Courses on April 8 and 9, the first conference of its kind. Though all nine universities house a form of student-taught courses, they have formed independently and without much communication between the institutions. The NCSTC was the first chance the universities had to see how other schools developed — or are still developing — a student-taught course program.
The Queers and Allies annual Drag Show raised $511 for an non-profit organization called HATCH on April 1.
The Thresher sat down for short interviews with Bioengineering Lecturer Renata Ramos and her husband Lenin Terrazas, Wiess College's new Resident Associates.
Leadership Rice's Envision Grants are awarded to students with ideas that benefit a community and facilitate leadership among Rice students. According to Leadership Rice Director Judy Le, this year's Envision grants fund four projects create a long lasting framework for leadership among students at Rice.
Rice plans to continue supporting higher research and entrepreneurship in the engineering department with Ned Thomas as the new dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, President David Leebron said.
The Asset Liquidation Funds Appropriations committee released its proposal for spending the $6 million from the KTRU sale on Monday, Mar. 14. Committee Co-Chair Selim Sheikh and committee members Kevin Schell and Jennifer Dayrit presented the proposal to the Student Association before sending it to President David Leebron.
Rice students spent last Saturday's Beer Bike 2011 participating in early morning celebrations, a campus-wide water balloon fight and bike races as Willy Week came to an end. Will Rice College won both the Alumni and Women's races while Jones College won the Men's race.
With the opening of Waste Management's Municipal Recycling Facility, Rice's recycling system switched to single-stream recycling on Monday.Students will be able to place all recyclable materials into a single bin in their room or at designated recycling locations around campus rather than sorting recyclables into different bins themselves.
The Thresher interviewed Bioengineering Professor Jeffrey Jacot, who recently received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Note: All answers are paraphrased for clarity unless otherwise noted.How did you get involved with NSF?
Members of the Rice Endowment for Sustainable Energy Technology recently picked their first round of grant winners. Six projects are receiving a combined $15,000 of funding from RESET to begin green projects around campus, with two groups receiving funds from Housing and Dining and Facilities, Engineering and Planning - another combined $25,000. According to its website, RESET works to combat rising energy costs and climate change by funding student initiatives. The groups awarded grants from RESET's will work toward a greener, more environmentally friendly campus.
In late November, five student-led projects received funding from the Dr. Bill Wilson Student Initiative Grant. The fund backs student-initiated projects that work to improve the quality of student life as the grant's namesake, electrical and computer engineering professor Bill Wilson, suggested at the fund's creation.Wilson was a Wiess College resident associate for 28 years. The grant was established in 1999 by Wiess alumni to honor Wilson in his 20th year as an RA. The grant had its first recipients in 2000 and has continued supporting student- initiated projects ever since.
Coffeehouse will bring its business to the BioScience Research Collaborative early this semester. A cart featuring almost the entire Coffeehouse menu will be stationed in the BRC. Coffeehouse General Manager Christine Cooper said that the cart will tentatively be open the first week of February and will serve coffee and other treats from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Cooper, a Baker College junior, said that the BRC was built with a space for a cafe but was still looking for a vendor when Coffeehouse was approached last semester. Opening a second location for Coffeehouse is something that has not been done before but Cooper thinks it is a great idea.
The President and Dean's OWL-KART Study Break will take place this Sunday from 9 to 11 p.m. Featuring a Mario Kart theme, the biannual study break is organized by Rice Program Council, Rice Cyber Sports and Rice Annual Fund Student Initiative. Director of the Student Center and Campus-Wide Programs Boyd Beckwith said the turnout is expected to be around 1,000.The study break is a long-running tradition at Rice, with one at the end of each semester. Beckwith said it was running before he came to Rice in 1988. This year, the event's budget was cut by 50 percent because of cuts to the dean of undergraduate's budget. Last year's budget was $19,000 for both the fall and spring study breaks - $9,500 for the fall break alone, RPC Treasurer Mia Velasquez said. This year, the budget for both the fall and spring study breaks is $9,500; however, RPC gathered funds to keep the budget as close to last year's as possible.
Spontaneous Combustion, Rice's improvisational comedy troupe, returned victorious from the Nov. 6 College Improv Tournament's Southwest Regionals in Austin. Four of SpoCo's 12 members - Hanszen College junior Josh Herzstein, Martel College freshman Matt Vale, Jones College senior Becky Hofstein and Wiess College senior Danny Shanaberger - competed against 10 other teams in the region. With their recent win, the improv comedy troupe is guaranteed a spot for four to six members to compete in the College Improv Tournament Nationals on Feb. 26 in Chicago."It went excellent for us," Herzstein said.
