Photo by Drew Anthony Smith
After graduating with a degree in civil engineering, I moved to Detroit to work at General Motors. It was my first time being away from …
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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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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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Illustration by Paddy Mills
Much of this issue is dedicated to creativity. What may be striking to some readers, but not surprising to those of us inside the university, …
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Automated cars are becoming more common, but they still require drivers to react to dangers that aren’t detected by an automated system. New research from Rice and Texas Tech University …
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Photo by Michael Nagin
My first day of work in New York City could have been the opening scene of a romantic comedy — I got on the uptown train …
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