Check out our graduate student Alejandra Osejo Varona's research on Rice Magazine 🦛
For decades after Pablo Escobar's death, the hippos he once kept at Hacienda Nápoles have thrived in Colombia's Magdalena River.
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Dept of Anthropology at Rice University
Undergraduate/PhD.
Observing the complexity of the living.
Transformative social theory and methodological innovation.
- This spring, our professor Nia Georges became the first Rice faculty member to teach at Venice International University— a consortium of 23 institutions sharing a single campus on the island of San Servolo.
- 🎉 Congratulations! Rising junior Lillian Alexander received the Charles Garside Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations Summer Travel Grant this year, allowing her to attend a field school just outside of Rome, Italy. As a student on the Gabii Project, Lillian spent five weeks
- Congratulations to our student, Simran Haribhai, for being named a Fulbright Scholar! 🎉 Read the full story here: news.rice.edu/news/2026/four…
- 📃 Dr. Mary Prendergast co-authored a new study in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)! Using stable isotope analysis on remains from more than 100 ancient individuals across Kenya and Tanzania, the research team found that eastern Africa's earliest herders
