Karen George

🏓 Rice Table Tennis is on the rise! The women’s team is headed to the NCTTA National Championships for the third straight year and is one of just 16 teams nationwide to qualify. Plus, Yun-Ying Tsai earned a spot in the women’s singles competition. From startup to national contender in just five years! #RiceOwls #NCTTA

🗣️22 wins in a row…program record ✅29 wins in a season….program record✅…..17-1 in conference play AND regular season champions✅. They did all of that!! I CHOOSE to put my focus on the amazing life changing year we have had. Incredibly proud of this team and this staff💙

Stacking up boards 🧱 The American's rebound leaders are giving second chances like no other 🚫 #BuiltToRise x #AmericanHoops

💪 "CUT THAT STRING, GIRL!" Rice women’s basketball won the regular season conference on the road and celebrated by cutting down the nets!

😏 Psychological warfare? Rice women’s basketball won the regular season conference championship and still has 3 games left. These three stood in Owls costumes at their game against Tulsa…and never sat down.

20 in a row. 15-0 in conference play. Undefeated at home. Another banner going up at Tudor. Not done yet. #RFND

On another level 📰 » riceowls.co/WB25-2-23 #GoOwls👐

Swimming Coach of the Year🏊‍♀️ Seth Huston x @RiceSwimDive 🦉 #BuiltToRise x #AmericanSD

🏆 BACK-TO-BACK AMERICAN CHAMPIONS!! 🏆 #GoOwls 👐| @American_Conf

RFND!!!!!!! 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

Great article about @RiceBaseball by @LVann_Sports. #RiceGuys 🦉⚾️ chron.com/sports/college…

OWLS WIN!! Final call from @MauroOnTheMic and post game words with Coach Edmonds after that huge @RiceWBB comeback win.

Celebrating the girls and women who compete, lead, and inspire—today and every day. 🩵 #GoOwls👐 x #NGWSD

This is a brilliant, thoughtful piece by @brhodes charting the errant, post-9/11 path that led ICE toward the heedless, police state operation @POTUS commands today. That history & the reforms Rhodes proposes, are well worst reading. nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opi… via @NYTOpinion

This is ⁦@RiceAthletics⁩! Quality individuals making a quantifiable difference in the world. Johanna Bangala is just the lastest example of the incredible student-athletes we have and attract to ⁦@RiceUniversity⁩ youtu.be/jZ7dRtRA7rY

As Houston prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Rice will host “The World at Play: The Beautiful Game” Feb. 6-7. ⚽🌍 This free, public conference will convene scholars, industry professionals, athletes and community members who will explore soccer’s cultural, political and social impact. Click here for more information: worldatplay.blogs.rice.edu. #RiceUniversity #WorldCup

Jessica Hauser, Alex Pretti’s final nursing student, posted this on Facebook: “I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal. Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well. Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together. I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need. Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity. Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”

Good morning Houston!! The Owls are the talk of the town! Come see the Owls in action Saturday afternoon at Tudor Fieldhouse! #GoOwls👐

Built on Tradition 🦉⚾️

More than 50 years ago, a handful of Lovett College students gathered around a tiny Christmas tree in a dorm room. This holiday season, that simple gathering lives on as an annual tradition that brings Rice alumni together year after year. bit.ly/45baLqA