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For fall 2024, Rice received 32,459 freshmen applications of which 2,439 were admitted (7.5%) down from a record-low 7.7% acceptance rate in 2023. [101] The 25th and 75th SAT scores for the class of 2024 were 1500 and 1560 respectively; the same numbers for the ACT Composite score was 33–35. [102]
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, [1] and professor of history at Rice University.Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. [2]
Kiese Laymon (born August 15, 1974, in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American writer.He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University.He is the author of three full-length books: a novel, Long Division (2013), and two memoirs, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) and the award-winning Heavy: An American Memoir (2018). [1]
Timothy Bloxam Morton (born 19 June 1968) [2] is a professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. [3] A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. Morton's use of the term 'hyperobjects' was inspired by Björk 's 1996 single ...
August 27, 2024 at 12:32 PM. Rice University was on lockdown for nearly two hours on the first day of classes Monday after a student was found dead in her dorm room, likely the victim of a murder ...
Anthony B. Pinn. Anthony B. Pinn is an American professor working at the intersections of African-American religion, constructive theology, and humanist thought. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. [1] He is founder and executive director of the Center for Engaged ...
e. Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech " We choose to go to the Moon ", was a speech on September 12, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States. The aim was to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970 and bring ...
Jeffrey John Kripal (born 1962) is an American college professor. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. While chairman of the Religion Department at Rice, he helped found their "GEM" program, with a doctoral concentration in "Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism". [1][2]