Monthly Archives: March 2013

I’m afraid I’m under the weather today but I do want to at least get started talking about one of the longest serving and most important administrators in the history of Rice, John T. McCants. McCants arrived at the Institute … Continue reading →

This is just a mess. Late ’60s, Hanszen, I think.

There was a second contact sheet in the folder that holds yesterday’s pictures of the dedication of the Mudd Building. This one is full of images taken from the top of the building, either on or near that scaffolding that … Continue reading →

The name Seeley G. Mudd is known far and wide along the archipelago of American colleges and universities. Born in 1895, Mudd, a native of Colorado, was a Columbia undergraduate who went on to Harvard Medical School. He became a … Continue reading →

Today I will share a sparkling example of archival randomness. A while ago, maybe six or eight months, I stumbled across an interesting photo in a little used box from the Athletics collection that a researcher was using. As I … Continue reading →

At least once a week I see something amazing at Rice. This week got off to a fast start when I went to visit a colleague in his office after lunch today. The first thing I noticed was a Class … Continue reading →

And yet it never fails to make me laugh. I think it’s their googly eyes. In real life this is a teeny tiny little cartoon that’s buried in the first edition of the Campanile. Bonus: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of … Continue reading →

I’ve got a full plate today but I have a few minutes to myself right now, sitting in the worst run Starbucks I’ve ever come across and getting ready to go back out into the rain and snow. (Yes, both.) … Continue reading →

OK, this is going to be a little longer and twistier than usual but I promise it will all come together in the end. Stay with me and you will get a pretty good sense of what my job is … Continue reading →

There’s a building clean out project underway in Science and Engineering and right before I went on vacation I spent some time over in Ecology and Environmental Biology, digging around in their small basement storage space. (Much more about this … Continue reading →