Juliana Lightsey

A&E 4/18/23 11:38pm

Senior Spotlight: Cindy Sheng explores new experiences by design

By Juliana Lightsey

Cindy Sheng’s biggest passion is for design, whether it’s creating a campus-wide organization, building ways to form connections with new people or her aspirations to develop products through user interface and user experience design avenues.

A&E 4/11/23 11:14pm

‘Dimensions Variable’ plays with the wearable

By Juliana Lightsey

At first glance, they appear to be two precariously-stacked conglomerations of children’s stuffed animals: a forlorn plush basset hound, a worn stuffed hippo and a deflated giraffe. Then, you spot a distinctly human calf protruding from one of the masses, and suddenly they spring to life, two aggregations of animals, seemingly connected by a hive mind, performing a narrative.

FEATURES 3/21/23 10:28pm

Agnes Ho talks wellbeing, social work and sushi

By Juliana Lightsey

Agnes Ho has two loves: sushi restaurants and genuine connections. The latter is one that she’s spent the past decade cultivating at Rice as director of the Wellbeing and Counseling Center. Her experiences as a first-generation, international student have enabled her to tackle mental health issues for a wide variety of adolescents at Rice and in the Houston community as a whole.