After Week 5 of the 2024 NFL season, five former Rice Owls remain on rosters. Let’s check in on how these Rice products have performed so far this year.
Freshman golfer Daniel Zou tied for first place at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic Oct. 1 in only his third tournament as an Owl. Though Sam Houston State University took home the team trophy, Zou and Rice junior Lukas Boandl tied with Louisiana State University’s Noah McWilliams for the individual first place title with a three-day score of 12 under par.
A year out from the release of her Grammy-winning album “JAGUAR II,” R&B superstar Victoria Monét is back with a deluxe version that features 10 new tracks. “Jaguar II: Deluxe” explores themes of familial and romantic love, self-confidence and ambition, all presented with Monét’s trademark live instrumentation and vocal versatility.
“SOPHIE” is the second album and posthumous album of groundbreaking Scottish producer SOPHIE, who, throughout her releases as a solo artist and producer, predicted and mapped out where pop music could go. SOPHIE’s sound experimented with genre, voice modulation and the sounds of the digital and everyday.
“Peter Pan,” the musical about a flying boy who never grows up and his adventures in Neverland, came to the Houston’s Hobby Center Oct. 1-6. The show made its Broadway debut in 1954, and though the technology and fly-systems have changed since its opening, classic songs such as “Never Never Land” and “Pirate Song” certainly have not.
Your college’s interior design can make you feel like royalty or like you’re stuck in a cheap motel. From the grandeur of Baker’s chandeliers to the eerie skeleton in Hanszen commons, let’s explore the cozy and the uninviting, the aesthetic and the stale of each residential college’s design.
Have you asked yourself, “How many more buildings can Rice construct before losing its classification as an arboretum?” Have you thought that the campus squirrels are a little too bold around humans? If you’re sick of constant construction marring the on-campus flora and fauna, Houston has plenty of student-friendly destinations to get your fix of green.
Here’s an interesting challenge: create a full production, complete with percussion, multiple voice parts and a set list of several songs. The catch? Your voice is the only instrument allowed.
From a 20th century central kitchen to today’s serveries, you can count on Rice for one thing: running out of plates.
To foster a truly inclusive campus culture, we must consider a paradox of intolerance: a society must be intolerant of intolerance to uphold its foundational values. Rice SJP not only silences opposing voices, but promotes exclusionary rhetoric that undermines principles of inclusion and pluralism.
Monday, Oct. 7 was the last day to register to vote in Texas. Now that you’ve (hopefully) taken that step, we encourage you to research your candidates ahead of early voting, which kicks off Oct. 21.
The Hoot reopened for the fall semester Monday, Sept. 23. It will now be open from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 8:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Thursdays.
Over 100 new faculty began their first semester at Rice this fall in one of the largest hirings to date. Professors John Baugh, Michael King, Cynthia Reinhart-King, David Sarlah and Eve Dunbar joined as tenured faculty.
In Bibek Samal’s junior year of high school, he competed in the Houston Regional Brain Bee, a neuroscience competition at Rice. Five years later, Samal is now a senior at Rice presenting his research on subarachnoid hemorrhages to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
