Bioengineering’s Team Cobra Strikes Down Its Competition
Most graduating students focus on starting a career or attending graduate school, but a group of five seniors known as Team Cobra from Rice’s bioengineering program took on an additional challenge after graduating in May. They’re competing in several national events where they will present a yearlong research and design project that could revolutionize long-term spaceflight and may aid in the fight against osteoporosis here on Earth.

Shepherd School Students Perform at Kennedy Center
Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music made an encore performance in May in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. It was the second year the Shepherd School has been invited to participate in the Conservatory Project, a program that brings students from eight top music schools to one of the best-known venues in the country for a series of one-hour performances of classical music, opera, and jazz.

Awards Recognize Students’ Academic Might
Rice students are among the best and the brightest in the country, as shown once again by the number of prestigious scholarships and awards they won in 2005.