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5 days ago · New York, April 3.—Without the slightest quaver in his well modulated voice, and displaying no outward sign of regret or remorse, Charles F. Jones, secretary and valet to the late William Marsh Rice, yesterday confessed under oath that he had ended the life of his employer and benefactor with chloroform. The confession was the climax of a ...
3 days ago · Charlotte Jenkins is 81 years old, and she has spent seven of those decades (yes, she began cooking as a child) transforming simple pots of rice into dishes that tell a deep, ancient, and sacred ...
Jul 30, 2024 · The university was founded in 1891 and endowed by Houston businessman William Marsh Rice. The Rice Institute (as it was then named) opened its doors in 1912. It became a university in 1960. In 1963 the first space science department in the United States was established at Rice.
2 days ago · William Marsh Rice, the university’s founder and namesake, was a slave owner, and from the school’s establishment as a free institution for only white students to Ku Klux Klan meetings occurring on Rice property, the connections to segregation and racial injustice cannot be denied.
Aug 8, 2024 · The Nexus will be housed within the Ion, a Houston-based tech hub owned by the Rice Management Co. Community members' companies that will be part of the initial rollout include Solidec, founded by Haotian Wang, William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering; Coflux Purification, co-founded by ...
3 days ago · Hughes withdrew from Rice University shortly after his father's death. On June 1, 1925, he married Ella Botts Rice, daughter of David Rice and Martha Lawson Botts of Houston, and great-niece of William Marsh Rice, for whom Rice University was named. They moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped to make a name for himself as a filmmaker.
4 days ago · Co-authors quoted include Haotian Wang, William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering; Pedro Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, co-director of the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment and director of Rice ...