Features
Through the Sallyport 4 Read all about running a servery, the 100th commencement speaker, Guam’s spider problem, campus drama and other research news.
Sports 41 Women’s soccer scores a record season.
22 16 Unsinkable City
Alumnus Eric Kuhne ’73 is at the helm of Belfast’s new Titanic museum that showcases the city’s shipbuilding heritage and anchors an ambitious urban redevelopment plan.
By Steven Thomson
42 The Rice Media Center hosted “Raid the Archive: The de Menil Years at Rice,” commemorating the centennial as well as the Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary. 43 And the Grammy for best opera recording goes to …
22 Highlights From the
Centennial Celebration
Our Centennial Celebration last October was filled with “the joy of high adventure.” Please enjoy these pictorial highlights and links to the remarkable events and programs that launched Rice into a second century. Read the full text of President David W. Leebron’s centennial speech.
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36 The Apostle of Stoke
Alumnus Ben Horne ’02 is remembered with deep affection by Rice friends and family. Among Horne’s favorite quotes is one by climber Anatoli Boukreev: “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve; they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”
Arts
Bookshelf 44 Douglas Brinkley’s biography of Walter Cronkite shares the shelf with an examination of religion and race co-written by sociologist Michael Emerson, Justin Cronin’s “The Twelve” and a roundup of books by Rice alumni and faculty.
Parting Words 36
By Corinne Whiting
Cover: (Top) President Edgar Odell Lovett gives the inaugural address to open the Rice Institute, Oct. 12, 1912. Behind Lovett is the newly dedicated administration building that would one day bear his name. (Bottom) David W. Leebron, Rice’s seventh president, marks the 100th anniversary of Rice University, Oct. 12, 2012, in front of Lovett Hall. Photo by Jeff Fitlow. President Leebron’s address begins on Page 25.
46 Can you complete this owlsome crossword puzzle? 48 Alumnus Glenn Fuller ’50 traveled from Minneapolis to Houston for Rice’s centennial. And then …