| Douglas Brinkley nominated for two Grammys |
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Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor of Humanities, will be up for awards in two categories at the Feb. 5 ceremony in Los Angeles. He has been nominated for his work co-producing two projects: “Black Men Are Precious” by Ethelbert Miller and “Fandango At The Wall In New York” by Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, featuring the Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective.
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| Biden appoints Rice's Ruth López Turley to National Board for Education Sciences |
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President Biden has appointed Ruth López Turley, director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research and professor of sociology, to the National Board for Education Sciences. The nonpartisan, 15-member board advises and approves priorities for the Institute of Education Sciences, the research, statistics and evaluation arm of the Department of Education.
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| Rice funds new research collaborations with Houston Methodist |
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Rice University and the Houston Methodist Academic Institute have launched a seed grant program to foster innovative research between their faculty, collaborating researchers and clinician scientists. Each institution will share equally in the funding of 20 multiyear projects in robotics, imaging, nursing, cardiovascular engineering and psychological and behavioral health.
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| Shepherd School student Alex Moreno-Gonzalez creates original composition New Dawn for DesRoches investiture |
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When the organizers of the investiture ceremony for Rice University’s eighth president, Reginald DesRoches, wanted a special piece of music to follow his inaugural address, they looked no further than Rice’s own Shepherd School of Music. When Loden and the Shepherd School Department of Composition faculty met to discuss who should be selected for the honor, they chose Alex Moreno-Gonzalez, a junior who is a student of Richard Lavenda.
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| Owls claim C-USA regular-season soccer championship |
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The Rice women's soccer team claimed the Conference USA regular-season championship via a 1-0 victory on Senior Night over Western Kentucky University at Holloway Field combined with a Louisiana Tech University victory over the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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| World Series smile |
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Rice sport management major and Astros ticket experience ambassador, Thomas Avalos ’23, had another reason to celebrate the World Series win. Thomas sold the Batter’s Eye Box row two where Yordan Alvarez’s homerun landed, clinching the championship.
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| Owl Together 2022 — celebrating Rice’s past with an eye to the future |
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On Oct. 28-30, hundreds of parents and family members gathered on Rice's campus for Owl Together, which includes Families Weekend. The weekend’s festivities featured undergraduates welcoming their families to lunch within the residential colleges Oct. 28, a fun-filled Owl Together Tailgate & Family Fest and Rice football’s homecoming game against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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