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Joyce Yao

NEWS 10/30/08 7:00pm

Class opens recycling campaign

By Joyce Yao

Rice students' lukewarm views about environmentalism and recycling could heat up with initiatives of the Environmental Studies 302 projects, which have renewed campus efforts to increase recycling and raise awareness about environmental issues. ENST 302: Environmental Issues: Rice in the Future, is co-taught by Sustainability Director Richard Johnson and Professor Elizabeth Long. As part of the course, students must design a project that will help make Rice more sustainable. One of the groups is holding an Intercollegiate Recycling Competition, which began Monday and will last through next Friday to promote environmental awareness and recycling habits on campus.

NEWS 9/11/08 7:00pm

Permeable concrete gets a break

By Joyce Yao

After a series of trials and error, Facilities, Engineering and Planning staff may have stumbled upon the secret for its eco-friendly water-permeable concrete: Use the concrete in more lightly-traveled areas. After installing a test strip of concrete in the North Annex lot last year, FE&P workers have learned to mix the concrete off site and that the water-permeable concrete, which can be significantly more expensive than regular concrete, is not interchangeable with regular concrete. The first test patch of permeable concrete was installed in April 2007 on the future site of Duncan College. It has been used in the North Annex Parking Lot, on the walkway between Hanszen College and the Inner Loop, the Oshman Engineering Kitchen, and in front of the Ralph O'Connor House.

NEWS 3/27/08 7:00pm

Rice drops to fifth on Kiplinger's best values list

By Joyce Yao

Rice University was ranked fifth on the list of "Best Values in Private Colleges" in the April 2008 Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Rice is preceded by California Institute Technology, Yale University, Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order of the rankings, followed by Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Duke University and Emory University. Kiplinger's publishes a ranking of the best value colleges and universities every two years, in which academic quality and affordability are measured, with the latter counting for a third of the ranking total. Its 2006 report ranked Rice fourth on the list of best value colleges.

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