Fall Rankings:
The Serious, The Athletic, and The fun

Beauty and the “ Beastly Effect”
Physical attractiveness can make you an attractive job candidate as well—unless you’re a female applying for a job in which appearance is not important.

Rice Building Fastest Academic Supercomputer in Texas
Rice’s first supercomputer, the R1, was built in 1959. Billed in the press as “the world’s fastest brain,” the room-sized R1 was fast for its time, but by today’s standards, it only matches up to a programmable hand-held calculator. Now Rice is again building Texas’s fastest academic supercomputer, but it will take a warehouse full of calculators to match the power of the Rice Terascale Cluster.

One of the Best Places in Texas
During 2002, the Texas Society of Architects engaged in a year-long search to identify the best examples of the built environment in Texas.

Humanities Endowments Honor Retiring Professors
Teaching awards are one way that students and alumni can honor professors who have most influenced them, but what do you do for faculty who have won multiple teaching awards and who are retiring?

You Light Up My Nanolife
We like to brag about how sophisticated our computer systems have become, but we have a long way to go to match the amount of information nature has managed to pack into even simple living organisms.

They don’t look a day over 49
Happy birthday to the Department of Earth Science at Rice, which turned 50 this fall.

Center for Education Benefits from Brown Foundation Grant
Programs of Rice’s Center for Education do a lot to support primary and secondary education and reached more than 8,000 teachers and 320,000 children at the end of last year. Now the center has received some support of its own from the Brown Foundation in the form of a $500,000 grant that will further the center’s research on teaching, learning, school reform, and educational policy, as well as its numerous professional development programs for teachers of students in grades K–12.

UK/Lone Star Research Partnerships—Tallyho
The British government has tapped Rice University to lead a consortium of Texas universities in establishing a collaborative research program that will pair researchers in Britain with counterparts in the Lone Star State.

Brand New and Already a Classic
After decades of being part of the Hispanic studies department, classical studies is striking out on its own..

www.rice.edu
Rice’s New Audience-Driven Homepage

Brain Signal Function Might Hold Clue to Understanding Schizophrenia
It is often said that immersion is the only real way to learn another language. In 1999, Rice’s Language Resource Center (LRC) took that philosophy to heart, developing ExTemplate, Internet-based language-learning software that incorporates audio, video, and Web links as well as text to immerse students as fully as possible in the language they are studying.

Center for Sustainability Launched
The Shell Oil Company Foundation has announced a $3.5-million endowment to Rice University to establish the Shell Center for Sustainability.

Long-range Objectives Needed in War on Terrorism
The U.S. war against terrorism should include an integrated set of long-range geopolitical objectives that advance global peace and stability, according to a new task force report by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.