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SUMMARY:RUCAA Meetup during Alumni Weekend\, Sarofim Hall
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow members of the Rice University Community of Alumni Association\, RUCAA\, for a casual and welcoming gathering during Alumni Weekend 2025 at Sarofim Hall on Saturday\, Nov 8 at 9am. This event is a great opportunity to reconnect with classmates\, meet alumni from different years\, and strengthen ties within the Asian alumni community. \nThere is an exclusive tour at 9:00am of the newly opened Sarofim Hall\, designed by Rice alumnus Charles Renfro and DS+R\, available for the first 15 attendees who are interested. \nLight refreshments\, coffee and drinks will be served and RUCAA leaders will share updates on recent activities and future initiatives. Whether you’re returning to campus for the first time in years or you never miss an alumni weekend\, this is a chance to celebrate shared experiences and build new connections in a relaxed setting. If you are having issues registering using the form below\, please use the “Contacts” page and reach out there\, including a message about RVSP-ing for this event. \nREGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON NOVEMBER 6\, 2025
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/tour-of-sarofim-hall-and-rucaa-meetup-alumni-weekend/
LOCATION:Sarofim Hall\, 2050 University Blvd\, Houston\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni Weekend,RUCAA
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Rice University Community of Asian Alumni":MAILTO:alumni@rice.edu
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SUMMARY:Rice Alumni Weekend\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to come back to campus! Check out all the new buildings\, see the students in action\, cheer on our Owls and eat some BBQ! We will have a RUCAA happy hour/meet up\, so stay tuned for details. \nRegistration is here.
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/rice-alumni-weekend-2025/
LOCATION:Rice University\, Houston TX\, 6100 Main St\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni Weekend
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Rice University Community of Asian Alumni":MAILTO:alumni@rice.edu
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SUMMARY:TASS Talk: Andrew Schonebaum on Oct 16\, 2025 at 4pm CT
DESCRIPTION:Water\, Connoisseurship\, and Curiosity in Early Modern China\n\n\nThis talk will be held both in-person and online via Zoom on Oct 16\, 2025 at 4pm CT. No registration is required to attend in person. To attend via Zoom\, please register. \nAbstract: \nThis talk explores the diverse ways in which water was understood\, valued\, and employed in early modern China\, highlighting its cultural\, medical\, and symbolic significance. While large-scale water-control projects defined China as a “hydraulic society\,” literary\, medical\, and popular texts from the 16th to the 19th centuries reveal equally profound personal and intellectual engagements with water. Water was not only crucial for everyday life at all levels of Chinese society\, it also functioned as an object of connoisseurship\, a pervasive healing agent that crossed religious and medical boundaries\, and an antidote to the pollution caused by ghosts and demons. Beneficent dragons inhabited watery realms but so did evil spirits\, often in the form of snakes\, turtles and insects. This lecture reveals how different waters—from melted plum-blossom snow to dragon spit—were distinguished not by modern chemical understandings but by their embodiment of different environments. Water was liquid time and space. This lecture focuses on the intersection of natural philosophy\, medical practice\, popular culture\, and literature in an effort to identify and explain the complex relationship between environment\, body\, cosmos and unseen realms in late imperial China. \nAndrew Schonebaum is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. He specializes in vernacular entertainments\, encyclopedia\, natural science and daily life in China\, with particular expertise in traditional Chinese culture\, literature\, and the history of daily life in China. \nFaculty Host: Richard Smith \nThe Transnational Asia Speaker Series is made possible through the generosity of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation. \n\nFree
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/tass-andrew-schonebaum/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person & Virtual)
CATEGORIES:TASS Talk
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SUMMARY:RUCAA Student Welcome Event
DESCRIPTION:RUCAA\, Rice University Community of Asian Alumni\, is proud to host our 2025 Student Welcome event on October 8th\, from 6-8pm. Come meet other Rice Asian students\, RUCAA members and alumni leaders and enjoy some delicious treats! It’s a great opportunity to build connections\, community and network. \nWe can’t wait to meet you! \n  \nIf the RSVP button isn’t working\, please email your name and\, if possible\, a non Rice email to rucaa000@gmail.com to register
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/student-welcome-2025/
LOCATION:Huff House\, 6100 Main St\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:RUCAA,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Rice University Community of Asian Alumni":MAILTO:alumni@rice.edu
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SUMMARY:Rice Families Weekend\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a student at Rice right now? Families Weekend will be this October 3-4 on campus. Join in the fun\, meet other parents and get to know Rice all over again! \n  \nRegistration is here.
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/rice-families-weekend-2025/
LOCATION:Rice University\, Houston TX\, 6100 Main St\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Families Weekend
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SUMMARY:Rice VSA + Alumni: 50 Years of Vietnamese America
DESCRIPTION:Join Rice VSA and Rice VSA Alumni for networking\, banh mi\, and a discussion on the impact of the Vietnam War on generations of Vietnamese Americans. Cindy Dinh (McMurtry ’11)\, Rick Ngo (Lovett ’94)\, and Florence Tang (Rice M. Arch ’09) will be in conversation moderated by Thu Nguyen (Wiess ’17). \n\nApril 16\, 2025\n7:30-9:00 PM\nRice University\nRice Memorial Center (RMC) B30
URL:https://rucaa.org/event/rice-vsa-alumni-50-years-of-vietnamese-america/
LOCATION:Rice University\, Houston TX\, 6100 Main St\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:VSA event
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