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Over the past week, Rice began testing out a potential green addition to its current fleet of shuttles: a 100% fully ele...
10/11/2025

Over the past week, Rice began testing out a potential green addition to its current fleet of shuttles: a 100% fully electric bus. 

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📝: Caleb Song
📸: Lucy Li

Fondren Library recently renovated the Brown Fine Arts Library on the third floor and the Rice-only reading room on the ...
10/11/2025

Fondren Library recently renovated the Brown Fine Arts Library on the third floor and the Rice-only reading room on the sixth floor.

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📝: Abigail Chiu
📸: Musub Ahmad

10/06/2025

We asked participants and spectators in Rice’s own “Performative Male Competition” to share their opinions and anecdotes as we seek to answer the question: What is the performative male phenomenon?

🎥: Rachel Jeong, Andrew Gingerich
🎬: Taylor Schultz, Steven Burgess

Today’s questioner asks, “What is addiction? Is it always a problem, or only when it’s harmful things like drugs or alco...
10/05/2025

Today’s questioner asks, “What is addiction? Is it always a problem, or only when it’s harmful things like drugs or alcohol?”

Editor’s Note: This is a guest opinion that has been submitted by a member of the Rice community. The views expressed in this opinion are those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the Thresher or its editorial board. All guest opinions are fact-checked to the best of our ability and edited for clarity and conciseness by Thresher editors.

At Rice’s Bioscience Research Collaborative, conference attendees discussed AI in healthcare Sept. 22 to 25. Lydia Kavra...
10/05/2025

At Rice’s Bioscience Research Collaborative, conference attendees discussed AI in healthcare Sept. 22 to 25. Lydia Kavraki, director of the Ken Kennedy Institute and event host, said the conference aims to foster collaboration in the AI community.

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📝: Rishi Anarkat
📸: Fiona Sik

This week in arts: Meeting of Minds, Kimberly Akimbo, One Battle After Another, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream captivated...
10/05/2025

This week in arts: Meeting of Minds, Kimberly Akimbo, One Battle After Another, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream captivated audiences across music, theatre, and film.

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Her interest in history and international power dynamics took a while to come to fruition. Her original goal was to beco...
10/05/2025

Her interest in history and international power dynamics took a while to come to fruition. Her original goal was to become a chef. Due to her father’s job, she grew up in three different countries, and did not live in Japan – her parents’ homeland – until she was 16. 

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📝: Amelia Davis
📸: Lucy Li

Performances will be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 3-4 and 2 p.m. Oct. 5 outside of Hamman Hall, and admission is free for all.Rea...
10/03/2025

Performances will be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 3-4 and 2 p.m. Oct. 5 outside of Hamman Hall, and admission is free for all.

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📝: Shyla Jogi
📸: Patiance Wiley

Anthropology professor Molly Morgan brought a group of students, including Mary Margaret Speed, to the plantation as par...
10/03/2025

Anthropology professor Molly Morgan brought a group of students, including Mary Margaret Speed, to the plantation as part of the advanced archaeological field techniques course.

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📝: Aleena Gilani
📸: James Cancelarich

When Shakty Juarez asks her friends who live off campus how they’re getting home after a late night, sometimes they repl...
10/03/2025

When Shakty Juarez asks her friends who live off campus how they’re getting home after a late night, sometimes they reply that they’ll take an Uber. Juarez, a Brown College junior, introduces them to the Night Owl Shuttle, a service she said she uses three to four times a week.

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📝: Jonah Tontiplaphol
📸: Lucy Li

The Owls return to Rice Stadium Oct. 4 to host Florida Atlantic University, with kickoff set for 6 p.m.Read the full sto...
10/02/2025

The Owls return to Rice Stadium Oct. 4 to host Florida Atlantic University, with kickoff set for 6 p.m.

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📝: Prasanna Bendalam
📸: Rice Athletics

BREAKING: The Senate has yet to make an amendment to the constitution since 2023.On the Spring 2024 ballot, a set of con...
10/02/2025

BREAKING: The Senate has yet to make an amendment to the constitution since 2023.

On the Spring 2024 ballot, a set of constitutional amendments was overturned by University Court due to improper representation on the general ballot, which did not disclose that the amendments would remove the 20% voter turnout to pass constitutional amendments.

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✍️: James Cancelarich

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