News Briefs

UBlue
magazine accepting submissions
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Submissions from
faculty, staff, students and alumni are being accepted for
the student-run magazine UBlue.

Poetry, prose,
personal essays and visual arts such as photographs can
be submitted to the once-yearly publication. There is no
limit on how many items an individual can submit. All art
work will be returned.

The submission
deadline is March 26. Items should be submitted by e-mail,
including photos and other artwork, if possible. Send e-mail
submissions to <ublue@rice.edu>.
Items also can be submitted by campus mail to Apu Agrawal
at MS-746.

For more information
or to request that items for submission be picked up by
a member of the UBlue staff, contact the magazine at <ublue@rice.edu>.

Volunteers
needed for Habitat house
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Volunteers are
needed to work on the Rice Habitat for Humanity house Saturday,
March 24, for morning and afternoon shifts. For more information
or to sign up, e-mail <habitat@rice.edu>
or visit <www.ruf.rice.edu/~habitat/>.

April
6 gala to honor Fondren family
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The Friends of
Fondren Library will honor the Fondren family and the Fondren
Foundation at an April 6 gala at the Houston Country Club.

The Fondrens
provided $1 million to establish the Fondren Library at
Rice in 1946. Over the years, as the library exceeded its
capacity for books, the Fondren family, through the Fondren
Foundation, supported renovations to the library, including
their recent contribution for the construction of the new
library at Rice.

Tickets to the
21st annual black-tie gala are $150 and include dinner and
live and silent auctions. Proceeds will benefit the library’s
Special Collections Endowment Fund. For tickets, call (713)
348-5157.

Rice President
Malcolm Gillis and his wife, Elizabeth, will host a cocktail
party for underwriters of the event prior to the 7 p.m.
gala.

The Friends
of Fondren Library is an association dedicated to stimulating
growth in library resources and facilities.

Continuing
Studies offers spring language session
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Rice University’s
School of Continuing Studies’ spring language session
begins April 2.
Faculty and staff interested in learning a new language
or improving their language skills can consider taking evening
classes offered in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic,
Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Russian through the School
of Continuing Studies’ Language Programs.

A 10-week session
begins April 2. The five-week summer session starts June
20. A special two-week daytime course for beginners in Spanish
and French will be offered June 4-15.

Rice faculty
and staff are eligible for course discounts. For more information
visit the Web site at <http://scs.rice.edu/fl>.
To register for a course call (713) 348-4019.