Indoor TunaFest a hit

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– July 9, 2010Posted in: Current News

Indoor TunaFest a hit

A youngster takes a whack at a giant tuna piñata full of
candy during the revival of TunaFest July 2. More than 1,200
nanotechnology fans packed into Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall for
the celebration of all things nano, hosted by the Richard E. Smalley
Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Faculty, staff, students and other friends of Rice ate more than
700 pounds of tuna and 900 hot dogs and hamburgers.

Rain
forced the event inside, where diners were treated to music by
Blaggards, a Texas band playing Irish rock that featured Chad Smalley,
son of the late Rice Nobel Prize laureate Rick Smalley.

The
party was part of Rice’s Year of Nano celebration in honor of the 25th
anniversary of the discovery of the buckyball, the carbon 60 molecule
that earned the Nobel for Smalley, Rice Professor Robert Curl and
then-University of Sussex Professor Harold Kroto. The celebration will
continue in October with a three-day symposium, a gala and a Bucky
“Ball” celebration. For details, visit
http://buckyball.smalley.rice.edu/year_of_nano/.

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