Rice featured on Hispanic Web site

Rice
featured on Hispanic Web site
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Univision online
has featured Rice University as one of the best schools
in the country that is committed to serving the Hispanic
community.

Univision.com
is one of the largest forums for Hispanics and people interested
in the Hispanic community to communicate and exchange information
online. Univision online’s objective is to encourage
academic excellence among Hispanic youth and offer them
the tools to achieve excellence, in line with the corporate
campaign of Univision Communications Inc., “Tu futuro
depende de ti … ¡Edúcate!” (“Your
future is in your hands … get an education!”)

In the upcoming
year, Uni-vision.com will showcase a number of other universities
with more than 10 percent Hispanic enrollment. The media
Spanish-language group picked Rice among the first schools
to profile because Rice has done very well in recent rankings
conducted by Hispanic publications.

In its March
issue, Hispanic Magazine ranked Rice third in the nation
among the top 25 schools for Hispanics, following Stanford
University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Hispanic Outlook magazine also listed Rice among the best
colleges for Hispanics.

Featured on
the Univision Web site is a photograph of the Rice campus
and a brief description of the university, a Rice fact sheet,
a list of Rice’s numerous outreach programs and interviews
with four Hispanic students: Jose De la Peña, a senior
from Baker College; Maricela Alarcon, a junior from Will
Rice College; Eddie Leza, a freshman from Sid Richardson
College; and Alma Maldonado, a senior from Baker College.

There also is
an interview with Rice alumna Sandy Rivera ’77 and
a video showing the Rice campus, and featuring professors
such as Richard Tapia, the Noah Harding Professor of Computational
and Applied Mathematics, and students from HACER (Hispanic
Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice).

The four students
who were interviewed and Alberto Roca with the chemistry
department were instrumental in putting the package together
for Univision online.

Also, Diana Cabrales,
a sophomore from Lovett College, and David Medina, director
of minority community affairs, appeared on the local Univision
TV station, channel 45, to promote the new Web page. The
Rice stories, which are available in Spanish and English,
will be online for a year on the Web site, <www.univision.com>.
Type educacion in the “uniclave” or the search
box to call up the stories.