Rice University News

During the 2006 season, the Owls wore a sticker with No. 39 in honor of defensive back Dale Lloyd II, who collapsed during a conditioning workout and later died as a result of a condition associated with sickle cell trait.

CHESTER, SC, June 30, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Vivian Ayers-Allen, poet, cultural activist and Founding Director of the "Brainerd Institute Project," a subsidiary of The ADEPT Publications New American Folk Center, Inc., has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for dedication, leadership and excellence in all various aspects of her career.

Democratic leaders around the world are condemning the military ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday and are calling for his return.

St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital CEO Dr. David Pate is resigning to head an Idaho health-care system, the Texas Medical Center hospital's second popular leader to leave in the last four years.

GulfMark Offshore, Inc. announced today that after 10 years with the company, Edward A. Guthrie, GulfMark's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is retiring effective today.

The family of a former Rice University football player who died during a workout has settled its lawsuit with the school and the NCAA, which has agreed to recommend that its member universities test all student athletes for sickle cell trait.

University of Colorado student David Swanstrom, left, participates in a discussion during "Reading Comics: An Introduction to Comics as Literature," a class that is among CU's unique summer-school offerings.

Ryan Whisnant, a graduate student from the University of Michigan and an intern from the Environmental Defense Fund, examines a neon light at SunGard Data Systems Inc., June 12, 2009, in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Emmie Chang is the founding director of Wonder-Space Mobile, which provides free tutoring programs over cell phones to low-income students.

Rice University 's business school officially changed its name Friday to the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business.

English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author who greatly influenced the modern development of embryology, systematics, and studies of behaviour and evolution.

A new study by researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas warns that expanded production of crops to produce biofuels could damage water resources.

Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., 62, was the retired commanding general of the D.C. National Guard.

This spring, Palem unveiled plans for the I-slate, one of the first devices that will be based on PCMOS.

As an oratorical exercise, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies last Sunday was without doubt a tour de force.

Rice University scientists warned that the United States must be careful that the new emphasis on developing biofuels as an alternative to imported oil takes into account potential damage to the nation's water resources.

By February 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau will begin mailing out millions of surveys asking everyone over the age of 18 specific questions about their lives.

Dr. Krishna Palem of Rice University won the W. Wallace McDowell Award for his work on embedded computers, involving cars, phones and even toys.

A Houston nanny takes action. On Friday, an attorney for Guadalupe "Lupita" Acosta filed a lawsuit against METRO related to a May 5 incident where Acosta suffered a gunshot wound.

Guadalupe Acosta was wounded May 5 on Rice University's jogging path when a Metro officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man.