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Students will soon be able to easily find out exactly what they need for their major. By early next semester, the Office of the Registrar plans to replace the current degree-auditing tool, ECAPP, with DegreeWorks, a web-based degree-auditing tool that will let students and their major advisors evaluate degree progress.
OwlSpark, Rice University’s startup summer accelerator program, will run from May 19 to August 15 in Willy’s Pub this summer, according to Internal Relations Lead Alisha Zou.
A group of students is raising concerns that 300-level courses for several languages will not be offered next fall.
Rice University’s Sous Chef Martin de Santiago cooked his way to victory at the National Association of College and Food Service’s Southern Regional Contest March 24-26 in Stillwater, Okla., winning first place and advancing to NACUFS’s national contest to be held in Baltimore, Md. this July.
The following were noted at the most recent meeting of the Student Association on March 26.
Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Rice University Tuesday, March 18 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
Rice University student James Ragan died Monday, Feb. 17 at his home in Corpus Christi after a difficult and public seven-year battle with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, according to an email sent to the Rice community by Dean of Undergraduates John Hutchinson. He was 20 years old.
The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy has risen in the Think Tanks and Civil Society's Program's 2013 survey rankings, moving to No. 11 from No. 13 among the world's top university-affiliated think tanks. It also rose to No. 5 from No. 6 among the world's energy and resource policy think tanks and to No. 20 from No. 21 among the United States' top think tanks, according to Janice and Robert McNair Director of Public Policy, Ambassador Edward Djerejian.
The Student Association Academics Committee is currently gauging student interest on implementing a system for undergraduates to petition to create language classes Rice does not currently offer, according to Academics Committee New Student Representative Brett Gutstein.
Two organizations, the Rice Catalyst and the Rice Environmental Society, have requested a blanket tax for the 2014-2015 academic year, according to Student Center Director Kate Abad.
A group of undergraduate students have brought Camp Kesem, a national program whose chapters at over 50 universities organize a free weeklong summer camp for children of cancer patients, to Rice University. The group hopes to host 30 campers at its inaugural camp, according to Baylor College of Medicine student Vidya Eswaran.
A team of six Rice University undergraduates won the first annual Texas Department of Transportation College Challenge, held Jan. 6-8 in San Antonio at the Ninth Annual Texas Transportation Forum in San Antonio, for developing an expandable bike rack that would attach to buses and allow for more bicyclists to ride public transport, according to the official Texas Department of Transportation website.
He's on a boat. In fact, he's the dean of the boat. Professor of kinesiology Nick Iammarino has been sailing the high seas as the executive dean of Semester at Sea, a nontraditional study abroad program.
The 10 Days program of the Living Water International Project splashed its way to Rice Nov. 10, when students pledged to drink only water for 10 days and donate the money they would have spent on other drinks to help build water wells in five villages in Rwanda's Ruhango district, according to Rice Navigators service event coordinator Becca Buthe.
Friends of late Rice University student Vivian Guan, who died in a METRORail accident this summer, gathered to celebrate her 21st birthday as the "Lively Gathering of Warriors" in the Academic Quad Nov. 1.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, David Forsythe, the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, gave a lecture on "Human Rights in International Relations: A Balance Sheet after Six Decades" in Herzstein Hall as part of the Visiting Scholars Program.
Esperanza, Rice University's traditional homecoming dance, will take place Nov. 16 at 10 p.m., according to Rice Program Council Socials Committee Co-Chair Abby Gordon. The event, themed "A Night of Fire and Ice," will again take place in a tent on campus.
On Oct. 12, TEDxHouston will host a full day of presenters and activities at Rice University, according to the official TEDxHouston 2013 website.
This week is Bike Safety Awareness Week at Rice University, according to Director of the Administrative Center for Sustainability and Energy Management Richard Johnson.
NASA astronaut and chemical engineer Donald R. Pettit spoke about his outer space experiences Thursday, Sept. 19 at Anne and Charles Duncan Hall as part of the Space Frontiers Lecture Series.
