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WEBRice renovates Brown and Jones Colleges. By Richie Su. Rice started a renovation project this summer to modernize existing colleges ahead of the construction of two more.The renovation is a multi-year project set to finish in the …
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WEBAug 17, 2024 · Jeremy Zucker headlined Rice’s second annual Moody X-Fest in Founder’s Court on April 19. In advance of Zucker’s set, student groups like Basmati Beats, Rice Philharmonic and BASYK performed. The festival also offered complimentary merchandise and food from Dripped Birra, Cane’s and Oh my Gogi. NEWS 4/17/24 5:23pm.
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WEBNEWS 9/18/24 12:37am Rice Students for Justice in Palestine protest academic quad celebration By James Cancelarich. While many gathered to celebrate the reopening of the academic quad, Rice Students for Justice in Palestine staged a walkout just a few hundred feet from the festivities, protesting what they described as a shameless celebration, according to a Sept. 10 Instagram post.
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WEBOPINION 9/3/24 11:18pm Letter from the editor’s desk: Telling the stories closest to home By Riya Misra. Last week, I knew what I was going to write here. I spent the night before the semester began reading and re-reading what old editors-in-chief had to say in their welcome letters, picking up on common themes: building trust with readers, supporting student media, running a paper in ...
Shifting the status quo: Campus activism, protests change over time
WEB5 days ago · Last week, the academic quad reopened after nearly a year of reconstruction, kickstarted by the decision to relocate the Founder’s Memorial statue. Protests for the statue’s removal began Aug. 31, 2020, and continued for a year and a half before the Board of Trustees announced their decision to remove the statue on Jan. 25, 2022.
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WEB6 days ago · The Rice Thresher is the official campus newspaper of Rice University, published by undergraduate students. Since its first publication 105 years ago, in January 1916, the Thresher has continued to provide the student body with up-to-date campus news and information. The Thresher is published each Wednesday during the …
Rice professors tackle teaching, tenure - The Rice Thresher
WEBApr 9, 2024 · Catanese is one of 341 non-tenure track instructional faculty at Rice whose primary foci are educating undergraduates. In 2013, Rice instituted the teaching track, a promotable professional track which allows professors to build a career out of teaching and pedagogical research. Initially, non-tenure track positions only last up to three years ...
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WEBSep 15, 2024 · By Thresher Editorial Board. Rice reached a $33.75 million settlement on Feb. 23 in the financial aid “cartel” lawsuit that alleged Rice, as well as 16 other peer institutions, unfairly limited aid for students at need-blind universities. Nine other universities have also settled in the case. OPINION 2/20/24 9:40pm.
Well, well, well: how Rice stays hydrated - The Rice Thresher
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · Those who walk near the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science may hear the faint droning noise of machinery coming from the Central Plant, one of Rice’s two power plants that provide energy and water to the campus. Through the maze of pipes, wires and metal structures stands a fence door guarding one of the Rice’s lifelines — a water well.
7.5% acceptance rate marks lowest in Rice history
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Rice admitted 2,439 students from 32,459 applicants March 26, according to Vice President for Enrollment Yvonne Romero da Silva. With a 7.5% admit rate, this is the third consecutive year of record-low acceptance rates. The Thresher previously reported 7.7% and 8.56% acceptance rates for the Class …