Please enjoy these video podcasts. Each archives important moments in Rice's history.
More video podcasts will be added soon, so bookmark this page and check back often!
This is a brief speech given by President Leebron speaking to Rice’s past, present and future at the Rice University Centennial Commission's 11/09/2010 meeting.
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Centennial Historian Dr. Melissa Kean shares the history of the Rice Stadium and Rice Owls football program.
Dr. John Boles discusses Edgar Odell Lovett and Rice's Formal Opening, Semicentennial, and Centennial celebrations.
Unconventional Wisdom isn't easy, but Rice does things because they are hard.
On March 18, 2010, the Rice community celebrated the 80th birthday of Willy's Statue with a lunchtime party on the Academic Quad, complete with a miniature chocolate model of the statue, which turned around on command.
At a function hosted by the Rice Historical Society, students in Dr. John Boles’s history class present five short reports about Rice’s history.
This is an edited version of an interview with Dr. Bill in April of 2007. It was run as part of a memorial gathering at Wiess College on January 31, 2009. Dr. Bill talks about coming to Rice, the Tabletop Theater, turning the statue, and his retirement home in Vermont.
This podcast features short interviews with a few Rice research professors describing the work their work. Professors include Kyriacos Athanasiou (Bioengineering), Doug Natelson (Nanolab), Marcia O'Malley (Robotics), Eugene Zubarev (Nano Gold), and Janet Braam (Plant Research).