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Meet Matt Bragga
Photo by Tommy LaVergne It doesn’t take long before Rice baseball’s new head coach is up from his desk chair, legs bent, hands back, gripping an imaginary bat. He’s hunting fastballs. “In any count...
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On The Bookshelf: Fall 2018
God, Improv, and the Art of Living By MaryAnn McKibben Dana ’94 (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2018) MaryAnn McKibben Dana ’94, an ordained pastor and improv student, explores seven principles of...
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Author Q&A: Yesterday’s Special
Houston’s oldest restaurant: Christie’s Seafood and Steaks, which turned 100 last year. What’s the secret to its longevity? “One of the fundamental reasons is that there’s still a member of the...
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Nonstop From D.C.
One of the joys of being a professor is seeing students turn their academic focus into a career path after graduation. Faculty (and staff, too) provide those first letters of recommendation and...
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End of an Era
Graham when he played for the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers in the early 1960s. Wayne Graham is a product of baseball’s golden age. A time when the game stood, unquestioned, as the nation’s pastime, and...
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An Artful Season
Matthew Ritchie’s installation, “The Demon in the Diagram,” spans two galleries at the Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Brandon Martin An artist whose acclaimed works are the product of...
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Hurricane History
Photo by Brandon Martin The goal of the Harvey Memories Project is to build an open-access digital repository to collect, preserve and publish community-contributed memories of the storm in multiple...
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Readers Respond: Fall 2018
Illustration by Amy C. Evans SPRING 2018 As a ’76 graduate, I can say that I have observed the history of the Village through its ups and downs. We recently moved to the Hanover Southampton building...
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The Idea Engineer
Illustration by Adam Cruft Since 2008, Oden has served as director of the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) — Rice’s engineering prototyping powerhouse. More than 1,300 students per year and...
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A Murder, a Mystery and a Vision
The plan was simple enough: Slip mercury pills into the victim’s meals, forge a will and, after the poison did its work, split the cash. Once the body was discovered, it would appear as if the elderly...
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