Alumni honor nine with Brown Superior Teaching awards
May 4
Each year, the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching honors top Rice professors as determined by the votes of alumni who graduated two and five years ago. This year nine faculty received the award. Rice News asked the winners to pick their favorite class to teach. Below are their answers.  One of the awardees is James Tour.

GSA honors those who support graduate students at Rice
May 3
Gabriel Ceriotti is one of four graduate students who received the GSA Robert Lowery Patten Award.  This award is given in honor of Robert Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities and former GSA faculty adviser. It recognizes graduate students who might not otherwise have been honored for their service and achievement on behalf of graduate students.

Flat boron may take many forms
April 20
 Theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his team at Rice University have taken an unusual approach to analyzing the possible configurations of two-dimensional sheets of boron, as reported this week in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters. 

Brown Teaching Grants support innovative undergrad teaching
April 19
Innovative undergraduate teaching is once again getting a boost from the Brown Teaching Grants Program at Rice. Seven proposals submitted to Rice’s Committee on Teaching this year were selected to receive funding, which comes from a grant from Houston’s Brown Foundation Inc.