Students:

Practical Experience Makes for Memorable Architecture Class
After designing and building two houses in Houston’s Third Ward for Project Row Houses, students in the Rice Building Workshop (RBW) took on a more personal project last fall when they built their own work space.

—B. J. Almond

Undergrads Develop First Management Plan for Houston Arboretum
You would expect fieldwork to be part of the curriculum for students in ecology and evolutionary biology, but where can that kind of research take place in an urban environment?

—Jade Boyd

Leadership Program Unites Undergrads with Their Heritage
China’s Hong Kong and Shanghai exemplify the cultural and business rivalry between a city that was a British imperial possession and a city that was a treaty port. Two Rice students got to experience those differences firsthand as participants in the “Dragon 100” Young Chinese Leaders Forum 2005.

—B. J. Almond