Fondren Library Exhibits

Body
Location Exhibit

1st floor
Room 156

Rice Commencement images

1st floor Hobby Information Concourse

"Antarctica: Expeditions, Teamwork, Survival" - This exhibit highlights research done in Antarctica by Linda Welzenbach Fries, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University. It features photographs and maps of Antarctic Meteorite Search Expeditions and a Seafloor Sampling Expedition. It includes QR codes for a podcast of interviews with scientists, conducted by Rice University students under the guidance of the exhibit creator, Ipek Martinez.  

1st floor exhibit cases at front left of Fondren Library East Entrance
 

"Celebrating Innovation at Rice: Patents Granted in 2022" - Visit an exhibit featuring a selection of inventions behind several of the 17 patents assigned to Rice during 2022. Owl inventors are brought to you by the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

1st floor exhibit cases at front right of Fondren Library East Entrance
 

"Celebrating Innovation at Rice: Patents Granted in 2022" - Visit an exhibit featuring a selection of inventions behind several of the 17 patents assigned to Rice during 2022. Owl inventors are brought to you by the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

Inside Woodson Research Center

"Replica of William Blake's Star Wheel Rolling Press created by Michael Phillips," presented by Woodson Research Center featuring this new item at Fondren Library and available for demonstrations in Spring 2023

1st floor flat cases outside Woodson Research Center

Case #1: Exhibit highlighting Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, featuring research materials in special collections

Case #2: Medieval facsimiles from the Woodson Research Center

1st floor single case
by elevators

Memorabilia from the private collection of Linda Welzenbach Fries, as well as a beautiful photography book entitled Antarctica, by Pat and Rosemary Keough, Explorer Series Volume I, 2002. The book is available via the Woodson Research Center at call # G 860 .K34 2002.

3rd floor
Lovett Lounge

Black Houston(s) Symposium: Research, Policy and Activism — Past and Future exhibit

6th floor
exhibit cases

"Jewish Youth Organizations" - The exhibit features materials from the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives housed at the Woodson Research Center, including items from JCC Maccabi Games and North American Federation for Temple Youth. 

Rice Memorial Center trophy case 

"T-Shirts from the Vault" - This exhibit features a selection of student organizations' t-shirts from our Historic Clothing Collection.