Association of Rice Alumni

How well do you really know campus?

Class of 2030 has been meeting up with other incoming students at New Student Send-Offs this summer, and we are ready to welcome them. Alumni, share your memories from when you first got to campus!

In 1985, Rice scientists inside a lab in the Space Science and Technology Building made a discovery that changed the landscape of nanotechnology — a stable hollow carbon structure named C60. Their research culminated in a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 and opened a research ecosystem. Read "The Birth of the Buckyball" at https://magazine.rice.edu/spring-2026/birth-buckyball.

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Join Rice Football for a bucket list experience when they take on the Fighting Irish in South Bend. Book an all-inclusive experience or transportation to the game via the Owl Express. https://riceowlexperiences.com/

Your summer reading list isn't complete without books from Rice alumni! Check out these new reads on motherhood, the unseen Erie Canal and more at https://magazine.rice.edu/spring-2026/now-reading-alumni-bookshelf.

Now Reading: Alumni Bookshelf New books by Rice University alumni cover motherhood and nature through poetry, the Vietnam War through a family’s prodigious letters, the unseen Erie Canal through an artist’s lens and more.

Exclusive visits, private tours and getting to travel with Rice Owls — what more could you want? Find out for yourself what makes Traveling Owls trips so special! Explore upcoming trips at alumni.rice.edu/travelingowls/trips.

Shay Har-Noy '04 joins us for the newest episode of Beyond the Hedges to discuss deep tech, AI, and company building. Listen as he reflects on pursuing a Ph.D. and leading National Geographic–backed expeditions using satellites, drones, LiDAR and radar to search for Genghis Khan’s tomb. https://alumni.rice.edu/beyond-hedges-podcast

Next time you see the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, there might just be a Rice Owl inside. Taylor Schultz '26 is hitting the highway as a "Hotdogger," one of 12 brand ambassadors selected to represent the brand and travel the country in the iconic 27-foot-long fiberglass hot dog. Read her story at

Rice graduate lands coveted role driving Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Taylor Schultz, who graduated this spring with a degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering and served as president of Duncan College, was selected as one of just 12 recent graduates nationwide to become an official Oscar Mayer “Hotdogger.”

Six new squirrels have entered the Inner Loop. Who is here for love and who's just in it for the acorns?