Rock of Ages
California Ranges May Be Millions of Years Older than Once Thought.

Rice Remains Tops for Hispanics
For the fourth year in a row, Hispanic magazine has ranked Rice University among the top schools in the nation that are succeeding in recruiting and retaining Hispanic students.

Catching the ‘Atom Wave’
Rice University physicists have shown for the first time that ultracold atoms can form bright “solitons,” localized bundles of waves that maintain a constant shape as they propagate.

A World of Images
For a colorful look at the world through the lens of talented students who spent time abroad last year

Giving Fondren the Eyes
During its 30-year run, the television series The Eyes of Texas was a staple diet for viewers hungry for information about the Lone Star State. The show went off the air in 1999, but Fondren Library is ready to serve up another Texas-sized helping.

Two Paws Up
Rice University is used to ranking highly in just about every aspect, from academics to the college system to the beauty of its campus, so why not for squirrels?

A Liberal Education
A dirt-poor sharecropper from West Texas was determined that his children would not suffer from a lack of education as he had been forced to endure. He sent his daughter to Rice University. During her senior year, oil was struck on his land, making him an instant multimillionaire. He decided to send a million to Rice as a Christmas gift for educating his daughter.

Rice Group to Look at IT at Universities
A new group at Rice hopes to establish a baseline for how information technology is being used at universities throughout the United States.

New Parking System Coming to a Rice Lot Near You
Under severe pressures created by long being an attractive island of virtually free parking—free, that is, for everyone except its own faculty, staff, and students—in a sea of high-priced parking facilities, Rice University will introduce a new parking system in fall 2002.

Send Them Off Laughing
Before delivering this year’s commencement address, actor, author, and entertainer Bill Cosby donned a Rice baseball cap and immediately shed his academic regalia, exposing a Rice T-shirt—a gesture that garnered appreciative applause on the humid, 90-degree morning.

Dollars for Scholars: RICE-TMS Scholarships Boost Merit Minority Students’ Interest in Rice
Last year, on the very day she sat down to decide which university to attend—among them Rice, Amherst, Williams, and Washington University in St. Louis—Christel Miller received notice that she had won a minority scholarship to attend Rice University.

Tectonic Mystery Solved
Geologists at Rice University have located the oceanic portion of a boundary between two immense continental plates, solving a mystery that has plagued tectonic researchers for more than 35 years.

Troublesome Tallow
Known for its heart-shaped leaves and white fruit, the Chinese tallow tree originated in Asia. The United States government introduced it to the Gulf Coast area around 1900 in hope of using the wax-covered seeds as an agricultural crop. The project was unsuccessful, and the trees escaped from cultivation and began proliferating, turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests. Now, Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this species has been able to “break all the rules.”

Jones School of Management Ranks among Top Business Schools
The Economist magazine recently named the finance program at Rice’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management No. 1 in the United States, while the Financial Times named the Jones School the best business school in Texas and in the region.

Rice Welcomes the Bull and the Bear
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management opened the doors of its new building at the beginning of the fall semester.

Weeds in the Garden
Most gardeners despise the lowly weed as a pest and eyesore. But one of those weeds just might enable us to better understand the growth of plants that humans rely on for food and fiber.

Nanotechnology’s SPRING
Rice University became a major player in nanotechnology when buck-minsterfullerene was discovered here in 1985. In 1993, Rice was the first university anywhere to mount a broad, cohesive program in nanoscale science and technology, leading to the establishment of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Now Rice has teamed with three other Texas universities to help position the state as a center for education, research, and development in this cutting-edge science.