Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs John Doerr ’73(Portfolio, 2018)
John Doerr, chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, reveals how strategic …
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Illustration by Paddy Mills
Notice anything different in our print magazine? Just over a year ago, we embarked on a project to reimagine the design and editorial structure of our …
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Stewart Morris Jr. ’71, founder of the Rice Rugby Football Club, pulls out a photo of himself and slides it across a conference room table in Herman Brown Hall. “I …
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Photo by Sara Stathas
Brandi Bridges ’07 doesn’t take the role models in her life lightly. “My dad was an engineer and my mom was a teacher — both were …
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What’s the universe made of? That’s the overarching question to everything I do. We know from astrophysical observations that it’s mostly made up of dark matter and dark energy, but …
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Paul Hester’s light blue 1992 Volvo has a license plate that says “LOOK.” It’s the philosophy Hester, now professor emeritus of photography, has been following since he fell in love …
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Anthony Brandt, photo by Tommy LaVergne
If you know where to listen, you can hear the creative process unfold right before your ears. That’s especially so if you have a …
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Illustration by Adam Cruft
As a professor of architecture, Carlos Jimenez has collected an impressive list of accolades, including Rice’s 2013 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, DesignIntelligence’s 2013 …
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The Flip:Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of KnowledgeJeffrey J. Kripal(Bellevue Literary press, 2019)
In 1858, Mark Twain had a vivid dream that his brother Henry was dead. A …
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Illustrations by Christopher Sperandio
Comics belong in college, artist Christopher Sperandio contends. They’re educational, artful and powerful vehicles of cultural criticism — not to mention entertaining.
An associate professor …
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