fbpx
Wikipedia

Rice University

April 08, 2023

William Marsh Rice University, known simply as Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.

Rice University
William Marsh Rice University
Former names
William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art (1912–1960)[1]
Motto"Letters, Science, Art"
TypePrivate research university
EstablishedSeptember 23, 1912; 110 years ago (September 23, 1912)
AccreditationSACS
Academic affiliations
Endowment$8.10 billion (2021)[2]
PresidentReginald DesRoches
Academic staff
680 full time[3]
Administrative staff
2,152[4]
Students8,212 (Fall 2021)[5]
Undergraduates4,240 (Fall 2021)[5]
Postgraduates3,972 (Fall 2021)[5]
Location
Houston
,
Texas
,
United States

29°43′1″N 95°24′10″W / 29.71694°N 95.40278°W / 29.71694; -95.40278Coordinates: 29°43′1″N 95°24′10″W / 29.71694°N 95.40278°W / 29.71694; -95.40278
CampusLarge City,[6] 300 acres (120 ha)[7]
NewspaperThe Rice Thresher
Colors  Rice Blue
  Rice Gray[8]
NicknameOwls
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBS – C-USA
MascotSammy the Owl
Websitewww.rice.edu

Opened in 1912 as the Rice Institute after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is a research university with an undergraduate focus. Its emphasis on undergraduate education is demonstrated by its 6:1 student-faculty ratio.[3][9] The university has a very high level of research activity, with $156 million in sponsored research funding in 2019.[10] Rice is noted for its applied science programs in the fields of artificial heart research, structural chemical analysis, signal processing, space science, and nanotechnology. Rice has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1985 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[11][12]

The university is organized into eleven residential colleges and eight schools of academic study, including the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, the George R. Brown School of Engineering, the School of Social Sciences, School of Architecture, Shepherd School of Music and the School of Humanities. Rice's undergraduate program offers more than fifty majors and two dozen minors.[13] Additional graduate programs are offered through the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.[13][14][15] Rice students are bound by the Honor Code, which is enforced by a student-run Honor Council.[16]

The university's alumni include 26 Marshall Scholars, 12 Rhodes Scholars, and two Nobel laureates.[17][18][19] Given the university's close links to NASA, it has produced a significant number of astronauts and space scientists.[20] In business, Rice graduates include CEOs, founders of Fortune 500 companies and four billionaires;[21] in politics, alumni include congressmen, governors, cabinet secretaries, judges, and mayors.[quantify]

Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA. Its teams are the Rice Owls.

History

Background

 
William Marsh Rice's estate funded the establishment of the Rice Institute

Rice University's history began with the demise of Massachusetts businessman William Marsh Rice, who had made his fortune in real estate, railroad development and cotton trading in the state of Texas. In 1891, Rice decided to charter a free-tuition educational institute in Houston, bearing his name, to be created upon his death, earmarking most of his estate towards funding the project. Rice's will specified the institution was to be "a competitive institution of the highest grade" and that only white students would be permitted to attend.[22] On the morning of September 23, 1900, Rice, age 84, was found dead by his valet, Charles F. Jones, and was presumed to have died in his sleep. Shortly thereafter, a large check made out to Rice's New York City lawyer, signed by the late Rice, aroused the suspicion of a bank teller, due to the misspelling of the recipient's name. The lawyer, Albert T. Patrick, then announced that Rice had changed his will to leave the bulk of his fortune to Patrick, rather than to the creation of Rice's educational institute. A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept. Rice's friend and personal lawyer in Houston, Captain James A. Baker, aided in the discovery of what turned out to be a fake will with a forged signature. Jones was not prosecuted since he cooperated with the district attorney, and testified against Patrick. Patrick was found guilty of conspiring to steal Rice's fortune and he was convicted of murder in 1901 (he was pardoned in 1912 due to conflicting medical testimony).[23] Baker helped Rice's estate direct the fortune, worth $4.6 million in 1904 ($139 million today), towards the founding of what was to be called the Rice Institute, later to become Rice University. The board took control of the assets on April 29 of that year.

In 1907, the Board of Trustees selected the head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Princeton University, Edgar Odell Lovett, to head the institute, which was still in the planning stages. He came recommended by Princeton's president, Woodrow Wilson. In 1908, Lovett accepted the challenge, and was formally inaugurated as the institute's first president on October 12, 1912. Lovett undertook extensive research before formalizing plans for the new Institute, including visits to 78 institutions of higher learning across the world on a long tour between 1908 and 1909. Lovett was impressed by such things as the aesthetic beauty of the uniformity of the architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, a theme which was adopted by the institute, as well as the residential college system at Cambridge University in England, which was added to the Institute several decades later. Lovett called for the establishment of a university "of the highest grade," "an institution of liberal and technical learning" devoted "quite as much to investigation as to instruction." [We must] "keep the standards up and the numbers down," declared Lovett. "The most distinguished teachers must take their part in undergraduate teaching, and their spirit should dominate it all."

 
Rice University

Establishment and growth

 
An illustration of the Administration Building of Rice University in 1913

In 1911, the cornerstone was laid for the institute's first building, the Administration Building, now known as Lovett Hall in honor of the founding president. On September 23, 1912, the 12th anniversary of William Marsh Rice's murder, the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art began course work with 59 enrolled students, who were known as the "59 immortals," and about a dozen faculty. After 18 additional students joined later, Rice's initial class numbered 77,[24] 48 male and 29 female. Unusual for the time, Rice accepted coeducational admissions from its beginning, but on-campus housing would not become co-ed until 1957.[25]

 
Administration Building, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas (postcard, circa 1912–1924)

Three weeks after opening, a spectacular international academic festival was held, bringing Rice to the attention of the entire academic world.

Per William Marsh Rice's will and Rice Institute's initial charter, the students paid no tuition. Classes were difficult, however, and about half of Rice's students had failed after the first 1912 term.[26] At its first commencement ceremony, held on June 12, 1916, Rice awarded 35 bachelor's degrees and one master's degree.[27] That year, the student body also voted to adopt the Honor System, which still exists today.

The Founder's Memorial Statue, a bronze statue of a seated William Marsh Rice, holding the original plans for the campus, was dedicated in 1930, and installed in the central academic quad, facing Lovett Hall. The statue was crafted by John Angel.[28] In 2020, Rice students petitioned the university to take down the statue due to the founder's history as slave owner.[29] In January 2022, the Board of Trustees announced plans to relocate the statue within the academic quadrangle.[30]

During World War II, Rice Institute was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[31]

The residential college system proposed by President Lovett was adopted in 1958, with the East Hall residence becoming Baker College, South Hall residence becoming Will Rice College, West Hall becoming Hanszen College, and the temporary Wiess Hall becoming Wiess College.

 
John F. Kennedy speaking at Rice Stadium in 1962

In 1959, the Rice Institute Computer went online. 1960 saw Rice Institute formally renamed William Marsh Rice University.[32] Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA,[33] for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now called Johnson Space Center) in 1962. President John F. Kennedy then gave a speech[34] at Rice Stadium reiterating that the United States intended to reach the Moon before the end of the decade of the 1960s, and "to become the world's leading space-faring nation". The relationship of NASA with Rice University and the city of Houston has remained strong to the present day.

The original charter of Rice Institute dictated that the university admit and educate, tuition-free, "the white inhabitants of Houston, and the state of Texas". In 1963, the governing board of Rice University filed a lawsuit to allow the university to modify its charter to admit students of all races and to charge tuition. Ph.D. student Raymond Johnson became the first black Rice student when he was admitted that year.[35] In 1964, Rice officially amended the university charter to desegregate its graduate and undergraduate divisions.[36] The Trustees of Rice University prevailed in a lawsuit to void the racial language in the trust in 1966.[37] Rice began charging tuition for the first time in 1965. In the same year, Rice launched a $33 million ($284 million) development campaign. $43 million ($300 million) was raised by its conclusion in 1970. In 1974, two new schools were founded at Rice, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and the Shepherd School of Music. The Brown Foundation Challenge, a fund-raising program designed to encourage annual gifts, was launched in 1976 and ended in 1996 having raised $185 million ($320 million). The Rice School of Social Sciences was founded in 1979.

On-campus housing was exclusively for men for the first forty years, until 1957.[25] Jones College was the first women's residence on the Rice campus, followed by Brown College. According to legend, the women's colleges were purposefully situated at the opposite end of campus from the existing men's colleges as a way of preserving campus propriety, which was greatly valued by Edgar Odell Lovett, who did not even allow benches to be installed on campus, fearing that they "might lead to co-fraternization of the sexes".[33] The path linking the north colleges to the center of campus was given the tongue-in-cheek name of "Virgin's Walk". Individual colleges became coeducational between 1973 and 1987, with the single-sex floors of colleges that had them becoming co-ed by 2006. By then, several new residential colleges had been built on campus to handle the university's growth, including Lovett College, Sid Richardson College, and Martel College.

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century

 
George H. W. Bush meeting Vladimir Putin at Rice in 2001

The Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations was held at Rice in 1990. Three years later, in 1993, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy was created. In 1997, the Edythe Bates Old Grand Organ and Recital Hall and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, renamed in 2005 for the late Nobel Prize winner and Rice professor Richard E. Smalley, were dedicated at Rice. In 1999, the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology was created. The Rice Owls baseball team was ranked #1 in the nation for the first time in that year (1999), holding the top spot for eight weeks.

In 2003, the Owls won their first national championship in baseball, which was the first for the university in any team sport, beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then the University of Texas and Stanford University twice each en route to the title. In 2008, President David Leebron issued a ten-point plan titled "Vision for the Second Century" outlining plans to increase research funding, strengthen existing programs, and increase collaboration.[38] The plan has brought about another wave of campus constructions, including the newly renamed BioScience Research Collaborative[39] building (intended to foster collaboration with the adjacent Texas Medical Center), a new recreational center and the renovated Autry Court basketball stadium, and the addition of two new residential colleges, Duncan College and McMurtry College.

Beginning in late 2008, the university considered a merger with Baylor College of Medicine, though the merger was ultimately rejected in 2010.[40] Select Rice undergraduates are currently guaranteed admission to Baylor College of Medicine upon graduation as part of the Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars program. According to History Professor John Boles' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

In 2018, the university added an online MBA program, MBA@Rice.[41][42]

In June 2019, the university's president announced plans for a task force on Rice's "past in relation to slave history and racial injustice", stating that "Rice has some historical connections to that terrible part of American history and the segregation and racial disparities that resulted directly from it".[43]

In 2021, in response to requests from community members and Rice students for a Community Benefits Agreement for the Rice Innovation District, President Leebron chose instead to pursue a development agreement with the City of Houston.[44] The proposed agreement will not include a community coalition as a signatory, although that is typically how Community Benefits Agreements are structured.[45]

Campus

Main article: Campus of Rice University
 
The main entrance to Rice University
 
Rice University Mechanical Laboratory and Power House. The second building on campus.

Rice's campus is a heavily wooded 285-acre (115-hectare) tract of land in the museum district of Houston, located close to the city of West University Place.

Five streets demarcate the campus: Greenbriar Street, Rice Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Main Street, and University Boulevard. For most of its history, all of Rice's buildings have been contained within this "outer loop". In recent years[when?], new facilities have been built close to campus, but the bulk of administrative, academic, and residential buildings are located within the original pentagonal plot of land. The new Collaborative Research Center, all graduate student housing, the Greenbriar building, and the Wiess President's House are located off-campus.

 
A stone bench in the Academic Quad

There are only about 50 buildings spread between the main entrance at its easternmost corner, and the parking lots and Rice Stadium at the West end. The Lynn R. Lowrey Arboretum, consisting of more than 4000 trees and shrubs (giving birth to the legend that Rice has a tree for every student), is spread throughout the campus.

 
view of Rice campus outside Brochstein Pavilion

The university's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal. Nearly every building on campus is noticeably Byzantine in style, with sand and pink-colored bricks, large archways and columns being a common theme among many campus buildings. Noteworthy exceptions include the glass-walled Brochstein Pavilion, Lovett College with its Brutalist-style concrete gratings, Moody Center for the Arts with its contemporary design, and the eclectic-Mediterranean Duncan Hall. In September 2011, Travel+Leisure listed Rice's campus as one of the most beautiful in the United States.[46]

 
Duncan Hall is Rice's hub for engineering and computation

Lovett Hall, named for Rice's first president, is the university's landmark building. Through its Sallyport arch, new students symbolically enter the university during matriculation and depart as graduates at commencement. Duncan Hall, Rice's computational engineering building, was designed to encourage collaboration between the four different departments situated there. The building's foyer, drawn from many world cultures, was designed by the architect to symbolically express this collaborative purpose.

The campus is organized in a number of quadrangles. The Academic Quad, anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice, includes Ralph Adams Cram's masterpiece, the asymmetrical Lovett Hall, the original administrative building; Fondren Library; Herzstein Hall, the original physics building and home to the largest amphitheater on campus; Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts; Rayzor Hall for the languages; and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department. The Humanities Building, winner of several architectural awards, is immediately adjacent to the main quad. Further west lies a quad surrounded by McNair Hall of the Jones Business School, the Baker Institute, and Alice Pratt Brown Hall of the Shepherd School of Music. These two quads are surrounded by the university's main access road, a one-way loop referred to as the "inner loop". In the Engineering Quad, a trinity of sculptures by Michael Heizer, collectively entitled 45 Degrees, 90 Degrees, 180 Degrees, are flanked by Abercrombie Laboratory, the Cox Building, and the Mechanical Laboratory, housing the Electrical, Mechanical, and Earth Science/Civil Engineering departments, respectively. Duncan Hall is the latest addition to this quad, providing new offices for the Computer Science, Computational and Applied Math, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics departments.

 
McNair Hall, home to the Jones School of Business

Roughly three-quarters of Rice's undergraduate population lives on campus. Housing is divided among eleven residential colleges, which form an integral part of student life at the university (see Residential colleges of Rice University). The colleges are named for university historical figures and benefactor. Rice does not have or endorse a Greek system, with the residential college system taking its place. Five colleges, McMurtry, Duncan, Martel, Jones, and Brown are located on the north side of campus, across from the "South Colleges", Baker, Will Rice, Lovett, Hanszen, Sid Richardson, and Wiess, on the other side of the Academic Quadrangle. Of the eleven colleges, Baker is the oldest, originally built in 1912, and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest, and opened for the first time for the 2009–10 school year. Will Rice, Baker, and Lovett colleges are undergoing renovation to expand their dining facilities as well as the number of rooms available for students.

 
Rice University's Football Stadium

The on-campus football facility, Rice Stadium, opened in 1950 with a capacity of 70,000 seats.[47] After improvements in 2006, the stadium is currently configured to seat 47,000 for football but can readily be reconfigured to its original capacity of 70,000, more than the total number of Rice alumni, living and deceased.[48] The stadium was the site of Super Bowl VIII and a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962, in which he challenged the nation to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade.[49] The recently renovated Tudor Fieldhouse, formerly known as Autry Court, is home to the basketball and volleyball teams. Other stadia include the Rice Track/Soccer Stadium and the Jake Hess Tennis Stadium. A new Rec Center now houses the intramural sports offices and provide an outdoor pool, training and exercise facilities for all Rice students, while athletics training will solely be held at Tudor Fieldhouse and the Rice Football Stadium.

Innovation District

Main article: Rice Innovation District
 
The Ion building under construction in the Rice Innovation District

In early 2019, Rice announced the site where the abandoned Sears building in Midtown Houston stood, along with its surrounding area, would be transformed into "The Ion," the hub of the 16-acre South Main Innovation District.[50] President of Rice, David Leebron stated "We chose the name Ion because it's from the Greek ienai, which means 'go'. We see it as embodying the ever-forward motion of discovery, the spark at the center of a truly original idea. It also represents the last three letters in many of the words that define the building's mission, like inspiration, creation, acceleration and innovation."[51]

Students of Rice and other Houston-area colleges and universities making up the Student Coalition for a Just and Equitable Innovation Corridor are advocating for a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), a contractual agreement between a developer and a community coalition.[50] Residents of neighboring Third Ward and other members of the Houston Coalition for Equitable Development Without Displacement (HCEDD) have faced consistent opposition from the City of Houston and Rice Management Company to a CBA as traditionally defined, in favor of an agreement between the latter two entities without a community coalition signatory.[52]

Organization

Rice University is chartered as a non-profit organization and is governed by a privately appointed board of trustees. The board consists of a maximum of 25 voting members who serve four-year terms.[53] The trustees serve without compensation and a simple majority of trustees must reside in Texas, including at least four within the greater Houston area.[53] The board of trustees delegates its power by appointing a president to serve as the chief executive of the university. David W. Leebron was appointed president in 2004 and succeeded Malcolm Gillis who served since 1993. The provost, six vice presidents, and other university officials report to the president. The president is advised by a University Council composed of the provost, eight members of the Faculty Council, two staff members, one graduate student, and two undergraduate students. The president presides over a Faculty Council which has the authority to alter curricular requirements, establish new degree programs, and approve candidates for degrees.[53]

The university's academics are organized into several schools. Schools that have undergraduate and graduate programs include:

Two schools have only graduate programs:

Rice's undergraduate students are admitted from a centralized admissions process, which admits new students to the university as a whole, rather than a specific school (the schools of Music and Architecture are decentralized). Students are encouraged to select the major path that best suits their desires; a student can later decide that they would rather pursue study in another field, or continue their current coursework and add a second or third major. These transitions are designed to be simple, with students not required to decide on a specific major until their sophomore year of study. Rice offers 360 degrees in over 60 departments. There are 40 undergraduate degree programs, 51 masters programs, and 29 doctoral programs.[13][14]

Faculty members of each of the departments elect chairs to represent the department to each School's dean and the deans report to the Provost who serves as the chief officer for academic affairs.[53]

Rice Management Company

The Rice Management Company manages the $8.1 billion Rice University endowment (June 2021) and $1.1 billion debt.[54][52] The endowment provides 40% of Rice's operating revenues.

In August 2021, an economic development agreement that would provide Rice Management Company with up to $65 million in cost reimbursement from local taxes was given initial approval by the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.[55] The agreement does not require a Community Benefits Agreement in exchange for funding. Final approval requires a vote by the Houston City Council.[55]

Academics

 
Lovett Hall, formerly known as the Administration Building, was the first building on campus

Rice is a medium-sized, highly residential research university.[56] The majority of enrollments are in the full-time, four-year undergraduate program emphasizing arts & sciences and professions. There is a very high level of research activity.[56] It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as well as the professional accreditation agencies for engineering, management, and architecture.[57]

Each of Rice's departments is organized into one of three distribution groups, and students whose major lies within the scope of one group must take at least 3 courses of at least 3 credit hours each of approved distribution classes in each of the other two groups, as well as completing one physical education course as part of the LPAP (Lifetime Physical Activity Program) requirement. All new students must take a Freshman Writing Intensive Seminar (FWIS) class, and for students who do not pass the university's writing composition examination (administered during the summer before matriculation), FWIS 100, a writing class, becomes an additional requirement.[58]

The majority of Rice's undergraduate degree programs grant B.S. or B.A. degrees. Rice has recently begun to offer minors in areas such as business,[59] energy and water sustainability,[60] and global health.[61]

Student body

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[62] Total
White 31% 31
 
Asian 28% 28
 
Hispanic 16% 16
 
Foreign national 12% 12
 
Black 8% 8
 
Other[a] 6% 6
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 17% 17
 
Affluent[c] 83% 83
 

As of fall 2022, men make up 51.1% of the undergraduate body and 63.1% of the professional and post-graduate student body.[63] 36.9% of degree-seeking students are from Out-of-State, 35.9% are from Texas and 27.2% are from outside of the United States.[63]

Honor Code

The Rice Honor Code plays an integral role in academic affairs. Almost all Rice exams are unproctored and professors give timed, closed-book exams that students take home and complete at their own convenience. Potential infractions are reported to the student Honor Council, elected by popular vote. The penalty structure is established every year by Council consensus; typically, penalties have ranged from a letter of reprimand to an 'F' in the course and a two semester suspension.[64] During Orientation Week, students must take and pass a test demonstrating that they understand the Honor System's requirements and sign a Matriculation Pledge. On assignments, Rice students affirm their commitment to the Honor Code by writing On my honor, I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this (examination, quiz or paper).[16]

Research centers and resources

Rice is noted for its applied science programs in the fields of nanotechnology, artificial heart research, structural chemical analysis, signal processing and space science, being ranked 1st in the world in materials science research by the Times Higher Education (THE) in 2010.[65]

  • Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship – supports entrepreneurs and early-stage technology ventures in Houston and Texas through education, collaboration, and research, ranked No. 1 among university business incubators.[66]
  • Baker Institute for Public Policy – a leading nonpartisan public policy think-tank
  • BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) – interdisciplinary, cross-campus, and inter-institutional resource between Rice University and Texas Medical Center[67]
  • Boniuk Institute – dedicated to religious tolerance and advancing religious literacy, respect and mutual understanding[68]
  • Center for African and African American Studies – fosters conversations on topics such as critical approaches to race and racism, the nature of diasporic histories and identities, and the complexity of Africa's past, present and future[69]
  • Chao Center for Asian Studies – research hub for faculty, students and post-doctoral scholars working in Asian studies[70]
  • Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (CSWGS) – interdisciplinary academic programs and research opportunities, including the journal Feminist Economics[71]
  • Data to Knowledge Lab (D2K) – campus hub for experiential learning in data science[72]
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP) – center for education and research in the field of digital signal processing[73]
  • Humanities Research Center (HRC) – identifies, encourages, and funds innovative research projects by faculty, visiting scholars, graduate, and undergraduate students in the School of Humanities and beyond[74]
  • Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) – facilitates the translation of interdisciplinary research and education in biosciences and bioengineering[75]
  • Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology – advances applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computation and information technology[76]
  • Kinder Institute for Urban Research – conducts the Houston Area Survey, "the nation's longest running study of any metropolitan region's economy, population, life experiences, beliefs and attitudes"[77]
  • Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) – a resource for education and research breakthroughs and advances in the broad, multidisciplinary field of nanophotonics[78]
  • Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) - experiential learning and co-curricular activities in entrepreneurship[79]
  • Moody Center for the Arts – experimental arts space featuring studio classrooms, maker space, audiovisual editing booths, and a gallery and office space for visiting national and international artists[80]
  • OpenStax CNX (formerly Connexions) and OpenStax – an open source platform and open access publisher, respectively, of open educational resources
  • Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) – space for undergraduate students to design, prototype and deploy solutions to real-world engineering challenges[81]
  • Rice Cinema – an independent theater run by the Visual and Dramatic Arts department at Rice which screens documentaries, foreign films, and experimental cinema and hosts film festivals and lectures since 1970[82]
  • Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL)[83]
  • Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP) – a research, training and outreach program working to advance understandings of the role of religion in public life[84]
  • Rice Design Alliance (RDA) – outreach and public programs of the Rice School of Architecture[85]
  • Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM) – organization dedicated to research and higher education in areas relating to quantum phenomena[86]
  • Rice Engineering Initiative for Energy Transition and Sustainability (REINVENTS) – research initiative on energy generation, long-term energy storage and the development of processes and materials for sustainable energy systems[87]
  • Rice Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI) – fosters research collaborations in neural engineering topics[88]
  • Rice Space Institute (RSI) – fosters programs in all areas of space research[89]
  • Smalley-Curl Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (SCI) – the nation's first nanotechnology center[90]
  • Welch Institute for Advanced Materials – collaborative research institute to support the foundational research for discoveries in materials science, similar to the model of Salk Institute and Broad Institute[91]
  • Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives – publisher of print and web-based materials highlighting the department's primary source collections such as the Houston African American, Asian American, and Jewish History Archives, University Archives, rare books, and hip hop/rap music-related materials from the Swishahouse record label and Houston Folk Music Archive, etc.

Admissions

Fall Freshman Statistics
  2019[92] 2018 2017 2016[93] 2015[94] 2014[95] 2013[96]
Applicants 27,087 20,923 18,063 18,236 17,951 17,728 15,415
Admits 2,361 2,328 2,864 2,785 2,865 2,677 2,581
Admit rate 8.7% 11.1% 15.8% 15.3% 16.0% 15.1% 16.7%
Enrolled 964 960 1,048 981 969 949 978
SAT range 1470–1560 1460–1550 1490–1580 2090–2340 2070–2330 2060–2320 2040–2320
ACT range 33–35 33–35 33–35 32–35 32–35 31–34 31–34

Admission to Rice is rated as "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report.[97]

For fall 2020, Rice received 23,443 freshmen applications of which 2,346 were admitted (10.0%) up from a record-low 8.7% acceptance rate in 2019.[98] The middle 50% range of SAT scores for the class of 2023 were 1470–1560; the middle 50% range of the ACT Composite score was 33–35.[92]

Rankings

Rice was ranked tied at 17th among national universities and 108th among global universities, 6th for "best undergraduate teaching", 5th for "Best Value", and tied for 16th "Most Innovative" among national universities in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 edition.[110] Forbes magazine ranked Rice University 21st nationally among 650 liberal arts colleges, universities and service academies in 2019, 19th among research universities and 2nd in the South.[111]

In 2020, Rice was ranked 105th in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2020, Rice was ranked tied for 95th internationally (41st nationally) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Rice University was also ranked 85th globally in 2020 by QS World University Rankings. Rice is noted for its entrepreneurial activity, and has been recognized as the top ranked business incubator in the world by the Stockholm-based UBI Index for both 2013 and 2014.[112]

The Princeton Review ranked Rice 4th for "Best Quality of Life", 8th for "Happiest Students",[113] 20th among the most LGBT friendliest colleges (2014-2015),[114] and one of the top 50 best value private colleges in its 2020 edition.[115] Rice was ranked 41st among research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2007.[116]

In 2011 the Leiden Ranking, which measures the performance of 500 major research universities worldwide, using metrics designed to measure research impact ranked Rice 4th Globally, for effectiveness and contribution of research.[117][118][119] In 2013 the university was again ranked first globally for quality of research in natural sciences and engineering, and 6th globally for all sciences.[120]

Student life

 
A view along the inner loop, with three of the university service personnel's traditional golf carts in view

Situated on nearly 300 acres (120 ha) in the center of Houston's Museum District and across the street from the city's Hermann Park, Rice is a closed campus filled with greenery and close to amenities in the nation's fourth-largest city. Rice's campus adjoins Hermann Park, the Texas Medical Center, and a neighborhood commercial center called Rice Village. Hermann Park includes the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Houston Zoo, Miller Outdoor Theatre and an 18-hole municipal golf course. NRG Park, home of NRG Stadium and the Astrodome, is two miles (3.2 km) south of the campus. Among the dozen or so museums in the Museum District was (until May 14, 2017)[121] the Rice University Art Gallery,[121] open during the school year from 1995 until it closed in 2017. Easy access to downtown's theater and nightlife district and to Reliant Park is provided by the Houston METRORail system, with a station adjacent to the campus's main gate. The campus recently[when?] joined the Zipcar program with two vehicles to increase the transportation options for students and staff who need but do not otherwise have access to a vehicle.[122]

Residential colleges

Main article: Residential colleges of Rice University

In 1957, Rice University implemented a residential college system, which was proposed by the university's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett. The system was inspired by existing systems in place in England and at several other universities in the United States. The existing residences known as East, South, West, and Wiess Halls became Baker, Will Rice, Hanszen, and Wiess Colleges, respectively.

List of residential colleges

Below is a list of residential colleges in order of founding:[123]

Each residential college has its own cafeteria (serveries) and each residential college has study groups and its own social practices.

Although each college is composed of a full cross-section of students at Rice, they have over time developed their own traditions and "personalities". When students matriculate they are randomly assigned to one of the eleven colleges, although "legacy" exceptions are made for students whose siblings or parents have attended Rice.[124] Students generally remain members of the college that they are assigned to for the duration of their undergraduate careers, even if they move off-campus at any point. Students are guaranteed on-campus housing for freshman year and two of the next three years; each college has its own system for determining allocation of the remaining spaces, collectively known as "Room Jacking". Students develop strong loyalties to their college and maintain friendly rivalry with other colleges, especially during events such as Beer Bike and O-Week. Colleges keep their rivalries alive by performing "jacks," or pranks, on each other, especially during O-Week and Willy Week. During Matriculation, Commencement, and other formal academic ceremonies, the colleges process in the order in which they were established.

Baker 13

Baker 13 is a tradition in which students run around campus wearing nothing but shoes and shaving cream at 10 p.m. on the 13th and the 31st of every month, as well as the 26th on months with fewer than 31 days. The event, long sponsored by Baker College, usually attracts a small number of students, but Halloween night and the first and last relevant days of the school year both attract large numbers of revelers.[125]

 
Rice University students participating in the Beer Bike water balloon fight in front of the Sallyport.

Beer Bike Race

According to the official website, "Beer Bike is a combination intramural bicycle race and drinking competition dating back to 1957. Ten riders and ten chuggers make up a team. Elaborate rules include details such as a prohibition of "bulky or wet clothing articles designed to absorb beer/water or prevent spilled beer/water from being seen" and regulations for chug can design. Each residential college as well as the Graduate Student Association participates with a men's team, a women's team, and alumni (co-ed) team. Each leg of the race is a relay in which a team's "chugger" must chug 24 US fluid ounces (710 ml) of beer or water for the men's division and 12 US fluid ounces (350 ml) for women before the team's "rider" may begin to ride.[126] Participants who both ride and chug are referred to as "Ironmen". Willy Week is a term coined in the 1990s to refer to the week preceding Beer Bike, a time of general energy and excitement on campus. Jacks (pranks) are especially common during Willy Week; some examples in the past include removing showerheads and encasing the Hanszen guardian." The morning of the Beer Bike race itself begins with what is by some estimations the largest annual water balloon fight in the world. Beer Bike is Rice's most prominent student event, and for younger alumni it serves as an unofficial reunion weekend on par with Homecoming. The 2009 Beer Bike race was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bill Wilson, a popular professor and long-time resident associate of Wiess College who died earlier that year.

In the event of inclement weather, Beer Bike becomes a Beer Run. The rules are nearly identical, except that the Bikers must instead run the length of the track.

Campus institutions

Rice Coffeehouse

Rice Coffeehouse began in Hanszen College, where students would serve coffee in the Weenie Loft, a study room in the old section's fourth floor. Later, the coffee house moved to the Hanszen basement to accommodate more student patrons. That coffeehouse became known as Breadsticks and Pomegranates, and closed due to flooding. Demand for an on-campus Coffeehouse grew and in 1990, the Rice Coffeehouse was founded.

The Rice Coffeehouse is a not-for-profit student-run organization serving Rice University and the greater Houston community.[127] Over the past few years,[when?] it has introduced fair-trade and organic coffee and loose-leaf teas.[128]

Coffeehouse baristas are referred to as K.O.C.'s, or Keepers of the Coffee. Rice Coffeehouse has also adopted an unofficial mascot, the squirrel, which can be found on T-shirts, mugs, and bumper stickers stuck on laptops across campus. The logo pays tribute to Rice's squirrel population, claimed by students to be unusually plump and frighteningly tame.

The Pub at Rice

Formerly known as Willy's Pub, The Pub at Rice is Rice's student-run pub located in the basement of the Rice Memorial Center. It opened on April 11, 1975, with Rice President Norman Hackerman pouring the first beer. The original name was chosen by students in tribute to the university's founder, William Marsh Rice. After the drinking age in Texas was raised in 1986, the pub entered a period of financial difficulties and in April 1995, was destroyed in a fire. The space was gutted but renovated and remains open.[129][130] On February 15, 2022, the Rice Thresher announced the rebranding of Willy's Pub as The Pub at Rice.[131]

Rice Bikes

Rice Bikes is a full-service on-campus bicycle sale, rental, and repair shop.[132] It originated in the basement of Sid Richardson College in February 2011. In 2012, Rice Bikes officially became the university's third student-run business. Rice Bikes merged with a student-run bicycle rental business in 2013, and operations moved to the Rice Memorial Center in 2014.[133] In 2017, the business moved to the garage of the Rice Housing and Dining department's headquarters.[133]

Rice Bikes sells refurbished bicycles bought from students and functions as a full bicycle repair shop.

Student-run media

Rice has a weekly student newspaper (The Rice Thresher), a yearbook (The Campanile), college radio station (KTRU Rice Radio), and now defunct, campus-wide student television station (RTV5). They are based out of the RMC student center. In addition, Rice hosts several student magazines dedicated to a range of different topics; the spring semester of 2008 saw the founding of two magazines, a literary sex journal called Open and an undergraduate science research magazine entitled Catalyst.

The Rice Thresher[134] is published every Wednesday and is ranked by Princeton Review as one of the top campus newspapers nationally for student readership. It is distributed around campus, and at a few other local businesses and has a website. The Thresher has a small, dedicated staff and is known for its coverage of campus news, open submission opinion page, and the satirical Backpage, which has often been the center of controversy. The newspaper has won several awards from the College Media Association, Associated Collegiate Press and Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.

The Rice Campanile was first published in 1916 celebrating Rice's first graduating class. It has published continuously since then, publishing two volumes in 1944 since the university had two graduating classes due to World War II. The website was created sometime in the early to mid 2000s. The 2015 won the first place Pinnacle for best yearbook from College Media Association.

KTRU Rice Radio is the student-run radio station. Though most DJs are Rice students, anyone is allowed to apply. It is known for playing genres and artists of music and sound unavailable on other radio stations in Houston, and often, the US. The station takes requests over the phone or . In 2000 and 2006, KTRU won Houston Press' Best Radio Station in Houston.[135][136] In 2003, Rice alum and active KTRU DJ DL's hip-hip show won Houston Press' Best Hip-hop Radio Show.[137] On August 17, 2010, it was announced that Rice University had been in negotiations to sell the station's broadcast tower, FM frequency and license to the University of Houston System to become a full-time classical music and fine arts programming station. The new station, KUHA, would be operated as a not-for-profit outlet with listener supporters.[138] The FCC approved the sale and granted the transfer of license to the University of Houston System on April 15, 2011,[139] however, KUHA proved to be an even larger failure and so after four and a half years of operation, The University of Houston System announced that KUHA's broadcast tower, FM frequency and license were once again up for sale in August 2015. KTRU continued to operate much as it did previously, streaming live on the Internet, via apps, and on HD2 radio using the 90.1 signal. Under student leadership, KTRU explored the possibility of returning to FM radio for a number of years. In spring 2015, KTRU was granted permission by the FCC to begin development of a new broadcast signal via LPFM radio. On October 1, 2015, KTRU made its official return to FM radio on the 96.1 signal. While broadcasting on HD2 radio has been discontinued, KTRU continues to broadcast via internet in addition to its LPFM signal.

RTV5 is a student-run television network available as channel 5 on campus. RTV5 was created initially as Rice Broadcast Television in 1997; RBT began to broadcast the following year in 1998, and aired its first live show across campus in 1999. It experienced much growth and exposure over the years with successful programs like "Drinking with Phil”, “The Meg & Maggie Show”, which was a variety and call-in show, a weekly news show, and extensive live coverage in December 2000 of the shut down of KTRU by the administration. In spring 2001, the Rice undergraduate community voted in the general elections to support RBT as a blanket tax organization, effectively providing a yearly income of $10,000 to purchase new equipment and provide the campus with a variety of new programming. In the spring of 2005, RBT members decided the station needed a new image and a new name: Rice Television 5. One of RTV5's most popular shows was the 24-hour show, where a camera and couch placed in the RMC stayed on air for 24 hours. One such show is held in fall and another in spring, usually during a weekend allocated for visits by prospective students. RTV5 has a video on demand site at rtv5.rice.edu.[140] The station went off the air in 2014 and changed its name to Rice Video Productions. In 2015 the group's funding was threatened, but ultimately maintained. In 2016 the small student staff requested to no longer be a blanket-tax organization. In the fall of 2017, the club did not register as a club.

The Rice Review, also known as R2, is a yearly student-run literary journal at Rice University that publishes prose, poetry, and creative nonfiction written by undergraduate students, as well as interviews. The journal was founded in 2004 by creative writing professor and author Justin Cronin.[141]

The Rice Standard was an independent, student-run variety magazine modeled after such publications as The New Yorker and Harper's. Prior to fall 2009, it was regularly published three times a semester with a wide array of content, running from analyses of current events and philosophical pieces to personal essays, short fiction and poetry. In August 2009, the Standard transitioned to a completely online format with the launch of their redesigned website, ricestandard.org. The first website of its kind on Rice's campus, the Standard featured blog-style content written by and for Rice students. The Rice Standard had around 20 regular contributors, and the site features new content every day (including holidays). In 2017 no one registered The Rice Standard as a club within the university.

Open, a magazine dedicated to "literary sex content," predictably caused a stir on campus with its initial publication in spring 2008. A mixture of essays, editorials, stories and artistic photography brought Open attention both on campus and in the Houston Chronicle.[142] The third and last annual edition of Open was released in spring of 2010.

Athletics

Main article: Rice Owls
 
Rice Stadium

Rice plays in NCAA Division I athletics and is part of Conference USA. Rice was a member of the Western Athletic Conference before joining Conference USA in 2005.[143] Rice is the second-smallest school, measured by undergraduate enrollment, competing in NCAA Division I FBS football, only ahead of Tulsa.[143]

The Rice baseball team won the 2003 College World Series, defeating Stanford, giving Rice its only national championship in a team sport. The victory made Rice University the smallest school in 51 years to win a national championship at the highest collegiate level of the sport. The Rice baseball team has played on campus at Reckling Park since the 2000 season. As of 2010, the baseball team has won 14 consecutive conference championships in three different conferences: the final championship of the defunct Southwest Conference, all nine championships while a member of the Western Athletic Conference, and five more championships in its first five years as a member of Conference USA. Additionally, Rice's baseball team has finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments. Rice now has made six trips to Omaha for the CWS. In 2004, Rice became the first school ever to have three players selected in the first eight picks of the MLB draft when Philip Humber, Jeff Niemann, and Wade Townsend were selected third, fourth, and eighth, respectively. In 2007, Joe Savery was selected as the 19th overall pick.

 
The Owls in a game against the Texas Longhorns

In 2004–05, Rice sent its women's volleyball, soccer, and basketball teams to their respective NCAA tournaments. The women's swim team has consistently brought at least one member of their team to the NCAA championships since 2013. In 2005–06, the women's soccer, basketball, and tennis teams advanced, with five individuals competing in track and field. In 2006–07, the Rice women's basketball team made the NCAA tournament, while again five Rice track and field athletes received individual NCAA berths. In 2008, the women's volleyball team again made the NCAA tournament. In 2011 the Women's Swim team won their first conference championship in the history of the university. This was an impressive feat considering they won without having a diving team. The team repeated their C-USA success in 2013 and 2014. In 2017, the women's basketball team, led by second-year head coach Tina Langley, won the Women's Basketball Invitational, defeating UNC-Greensboro 74–62 in the championship game at Tudor Fieldhouse. Though not a varsity sport, Rice's ultimate frisbee women's team, named Torque, won consecutive Division III national championships in 2014 and 2015.[144]

In 2006, the football team qualified for its first bowl game since 1961, ending the second-longest bowl drought in the country at the time. On December 22, 2006, Rice played in the New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana against the Sun Belt Conference champion, Troy. The Owls lost 41–17. The bowl appearance came after Rice had a 14-game losing streak from 2004 to 2005 and went 1–10 in 2005. The streak followed an internally authorized 2003 McKinsey report that stated football alone was responsible for a $4 million deficit in 2002. Tensions remained high between the athletic department and faculty, as a few professors who chose to voice their opinion were in favor of abandoning the football program. The program success in 2006, the "Rice Renaissance," proved to be a revival of the Owl football program, quelling those tensions. David Bailiff took over the program in 2007 and has remained head coach. Jarett Dillard set an NCAA record in 2006 by catching a touchdown pass in 13 consecutive games and took a 15-game overall streak into the 2007 season.

In 2008, the football team posted a 9–3 regular season, capping off the year with a 38–14 victory over Western Michigan University in the Texas Bowl. The win over Western Michigan marked the Owls' first bowl win in 45 years.

Rice Stadium also serves as the performance venue for the university's Marching Owl Band, or "MOB." Despite its name, the MOB is a scatter band that focuses on performing humorous skits and routines rather than traditional formation marching.

Rice Owls men's basketball won 10 conference titles in the former Southwest Conference (1918, 1935*, 1940, 1942*, 1943*, 1944*, 1945, 1949*, 1954*, 1970; * denotes shared title). Most recently, guard Morris Almond was drafted in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz. Rice named former Cal Bears head coach Ben Braun as head basketball coach to succeed Willis Wilson, fired after Rice finished the 2007–2008 season with a winless (0–16) conference record and overall record of 3–27.

Rice's mascot is Sammy the Owl. In previous decades, the university kept several live owls on campus in front of Lovett College, but this practice has been discontinued, due to public concern regarding animal welfare.

Rice also has a 12-member coed cheerleading squad and a coed dance team, both of which perform at football and basketball games throughout the year.

Notable people

Main article: List of Rice University people

As of 2011, Rice has graduated 98 classes of students consisting of 51,961 living alumni. Over 100 students at Rice have been Fulbright Scholars, 25 Marshall Scholars, 25 Mellon Fellows, 12 Rhodes Scholars, 6 Udall Scholars, and 65 Watson Fellows, among several other honors and awards.

Rice's distinguished faculty and alumni consists of five Nobel laureates, a Turing Award winner, two Pulitzer Prize award winners, six Fulbright Scholars, 29 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Recipients, 14 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1 Abel Prize winner, 3 members of the American Philosophical Society, 35 Guggenheim Fellowships, 12 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the National Academy of Medicine, 10 members of the National Academy of Sciences, five fellows of the National Humanities Center, and 86 fellows of the National Science Foundation.[145]

In science and technology, Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts; Robert Curl,[146] Nobel laureate discoverer of fullerene; Robert Woodrow Wilson,[147] winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation; David Eagleman,[148] celebrity neuroscientist and NYT bestselling author; and NASA former Apollo 11 and 13 warning systems engineer and motivational speaker Jerry Woodfill.[149]

In business and entrepreneurship, Rice alumni include:

In government and politics, Rice alumni include:

In the arts, Rice alumni include:

In athletics, Rice alumni include: Lance Berkman,[176] Brock Holt,[177] Bubba Crosby,[178] Harold Solomon,[179] Frank Ryan,[180] Tommy Kramer,[181]Jose Cruz, Jr.,[182] O.J. Brigance,[183] Larry Izzo,[184] James Casey,[185] Courtney Hall,[186] Bert Emanuel,[187] Luke Willson,[188] Tony Cingrani,[189] Anthony Rendon,[190] and Leo Rucka,[191] as well as three Olympians[192] (Funmi Jimoh '06,[193] Allison Beckford '04,[194] and William Fred Hansen '63).[195]

Notes

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

References

  1. ^ "William Marsh Rice and the Founding of Rice Institute". Rice University – Fondren Library. from the original on August 19, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  2. ^ As of June 30, 2020 U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 (Report). National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. February 19, 2021. from the original on February 21, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Rice at a Glance". The Office of Institutional Research. Rice University. Fall 2018. from the original on December 15, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  4. ^ . Rice University. Archived from the original on February 25, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "Fall 2021 Enrollment". The Office of Institutional Research. Rice University. from the original on March 2, 2022. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  6. ^ "IPEDS-Rice University". from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  7. ^ "About Rice". Rice University. from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  8. ^ "Color palette". Rice University. from the original on March 2, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on March 8, 2017.
  10. ^ "Rice on pace to double research spending by 2027". from the original on July 13, 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  11. ^ "Rice's AAU membership important to mission". news.rice.edu. October 31, 2002. from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  12. ^ "Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup". carnegieclassifications.iu.edu. Center for Postsecondary Education. from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  13. ^ a b c "Majors, Minors, Programs". Rice University. from the original on January 5, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  14. ^ a b "Information for Graduate Students" (PDF). Rice University. (PDF) from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  15. ^ "Academic Schools". Rice University. June 16, 2009. from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  16. ^ a b "Honor Code". Office of Academic Advising. Rice University. from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  17. ^ "Marshall Scholarship Statistics". from the original on December 15, 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  18. ^ "Winning Institutions Search | The Rhodes Scholarships". www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  19. ^ (See page "10 of 38" and page "37 of 38", at:) Boyd, John (May 15, 2014). . Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 4, 2014.
  20. ^ "Welcome to RSI". from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  21. ^ "These 11 Colleges Have Minted A Ton Of Successful Tech Executives". Business Insider. July 26, 2021. from the original on January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
  22. ^ "The Short History of Race-Based Affirmative Action at Rice University". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The JBHE Foundation (13): 36–38. Autumn 1996. doi:10.2307/2963155. JSTOR 2963155.
  23. ^ Blum, Deborah (2010). The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicie in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books. pp. 14–6. ISBN 978-0-14-311882-4.
  24. ^ "Graduating Class Has 35 Members" (PDF). Rice Thresher. June 12, 1916. (PDF) from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  25. ^ a b "Jones College, Rice University". from the original on July 21, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  26. ^ McCants, J.T. (June 1953). "McCants Recalls Earliest Days" (PDF). Sallyport. (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  27. ^ "Splendid Celebration Marks First Commencement" (PDF). Rice Thresher. June 12, 1916. (PDF) from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  28. ^ Morris Little, Carol (1996). A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0292-76034-9. from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  29. ^ "Monumental changes require removing monuments to the Confederacy". The Kinder Institute for Urban Research. from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  30. ^ "Rice Founder's Memorial statue to be relocated in Academic Quad". Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University. from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  31. ^ "U.S. Naval Administration in World War II". HyperWar Foundation. 2011. from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  32. ^ "Announcement of Rice Institute's name change to William Marsh Rice University". Fondren Library / Woodson Research Center. Rice University Archives. July 1, 1960. hdl:1911/68439. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
  33. ^ a b Adcock, Catherine (Winter 2006). . Sallyport Online. Rice University. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012.
  34. ^ "John F. Kennedy, "Moon" Speech – Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962". Er.jsc.nasa.gov. September 12, 1962. from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  35. ^ "Black History at Rice". Rice Alumni. from the original on February 28, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  36. ^ Dow, Christopher (Summer 2007). . Sallyport Online. Rice University. Archived from the original on May 8, 2012.
  37. ^ "Coffee v. William Marsh Rice University, 408 S.W.2d 269". from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  38. ^ "A Vision For Rice University's Second Century – 10-Point Plan". Rice University. from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2008.
  39. ^ . Media.rice.edu. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  40. ^ Rice to consider merger with Baylor College of Medicine – The Rice Thresher March 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  41. ^ "Rice to Work with 2U on Launch of Online Business 'Short Courses' – Campus Technology". Campus Technology. from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  42. ^ "MBA@Rice: Hybrid Online Degree". Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. December 7, 2017. from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  43. ^ Britto, Brittany (June 14, 2019). "Rice's reckoning: University to launch task force to address its segregationist history". HoustonChronicle.com. from the original on June 26, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  44. ^ Britto, Brittany (January 29, 2020). "In victory for students, community groups, Mayor pledges city will strike deal ensuring innovation district provides far-reaching benefits". Houston Chronicle. from the original on September 8, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  45. ^ "It's time for Rice Management Company to get serious about a Community Benefits Agreement". The Rice Thresher. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  46. ^ ""America's most beautiful college campuses", Travel+Leisure (September 2011)". from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  47. ^ Barron, David (December 10, 2020). "After 70 years, Rice Stadium remains a Houston landmark". Houston Chronicle. from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  48. ^ "Rice Official Athletic Site – Facilities". Riceowls.cstv.com. from the original on April 2, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  49. ^ The speech, "Why the Moon" is available on the Rice Webcast Archive January 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  50. ^ a b "Rice University-led Ion innovation district breaks ground". HoustonChronicle.com. July 19, 2019. from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  51. ^ Harms, Natalie (August 19, 2020). "Rice University transforms iconic Sears building into innovation hub". Culture Map. from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  52. ^ a b "In Houston's Third Ward, Community Groups are Fighting for Equitable Development". The Texas Observer. November 18, 2020. from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  53. ^ a b c d . Rice University. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  54. ^ "About Us". Rice Management Company | Rice University. from the original on January 23, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  55. ^ a b Whalen, Emma (August 26, 2021). "Midtown TIRZ OKs infrastructure deal with Rice University around Ion campus". impact. from the original on September 2, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  56. ^ a b "Carnegie Classifications – Rice University". Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  57. ^ . Rice University. Archived from the original on January 11, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  58. ^ "Rice Composition Exam". Rice University. 2012. from the original on September 9, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  59. ^ "Undergraduate Business Minor". Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. February 9, 2016. from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  60. ^ "Degree Requirements". Department of Sociology. Rice University. from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  61. ^ . Beyondtraditionalborders.rice.edu. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  62. ^ "College Scorecard: Rice University". United States Department of Education. from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  63. ^ a b "Student Enrollment". Office of Institutional Effectiveness | Rice University. from the original on March 2, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  64. ^ "Rice Honor Council". Rice University. from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  65. ^ "The material fact: Rice leads the world". April 15, 2010. from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  66. ^ "Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship named No. 1 university business incubator in the world". www.yourkatynews.com. June 24, 2014. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  67. ^ "BioScience Research Collaborative Leading Research. Infinite Possibilities. Rice University". brc.rice.edu. from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  68. ^ "Boniuk Institute Rice University". boniuk.rice.edu. from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  69. ^ Britto, Brittany (October 25, 2019). "Rice launches new center for African, African-American studies". Houston Chronicle. from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  70. ^ "Chao Center for Asian Studies Rice University". chaocenter.rice.edu. from the original on November 2, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  71. ^ "Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality". cswgs.rice.edu. from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  72. ^ "Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge (D2K) Rice University". d2k.rice.edu. from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  73. ^ "Rice University Digital Signal Processing (DSP)". dsp.rice.edu. from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  74. ^ "Welcome – Humanities Research Center". hrc.rice.edu. from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  75. ^ "Rice University Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB)". ibb.rice.edu. from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  76. ^ "Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology". kenkennedy.rice.edu. from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  77. ^ "About : Kinder Institute for Urban Research". from the original on October 8, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  78. ^ "Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP)". lanp.blogs.rice.edu. from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  79. ^ "Lilie Lab Rice University". business.rice.edu/lilie-lab. from the original on June 23, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  80. ^ "Moody Center for the Arts". moody.rice.edu. from the original on June 24, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  81. ^ "Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen". oedk.rice.edu. from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  82. ^ "Rice Cinema". vada.rice.edu. from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  83. ^ "Rice Center for Engineering Leadership". rcel.rice.edu. from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  84. ^ "Religion and Public Life Program". from the original on October 3, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  85. ^ "Rice Design Alliance". ricedesignalliance.org. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  86. ^ "Rice Center for Quantum Materials". rcqm.rice.edu. from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  87. ^ "REINVENTS Rice University". reinvents.rice.edu. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  88. ^ "Neuroengineering". Neuroengineering | Rice University. from the original on May 2, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  89. ^ "Rice Space Institute". rsi.rice.edu. from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  90. ^ "Rice Smalley-Curl Institute". sci.rice.edu. from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  91. ^ "The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials". welchinstitute.org. from the original on March 27, 2022. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  92. ^ a b "Admission Statistics | Undergraduate Admission | Rice University". admission.rice.edu. from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  93. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2017.
  94. ^ "Rice University Office of Institutional Research". Rice University. from the original on July 23, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  95. ^ (PDF). Rice University. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  96. ^ (PDF). Rice University. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  97. ^ "Rice University". U.S. News & World Report. 2017. from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  98. ^ "Rice accepts 10 percent of applicants for the Class of 2024". The Rice Thresher. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  99. ^ "ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  100. ^ "Forbes America's Top Colleges List 2022". Forbes. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  101. ^ "Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2022". The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  102. ^ "2022-2023 Best National Universities". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  103. ^ "2022 National University Rankings". Washington Monthly. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  104. ^ "ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  105. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2023: Top global universities". Quacquarelli Symonds. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  106. ^ "World University Rankings 2023". Times Higher Education. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  107. ^ "2022-23 Best Global Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  108. ^ "Rice University – U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  109. ^ "Rice University – U.S. News Best Global University Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  110. ^ "Rice University Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. 2021. from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
  111. ^ "America's Best Colleges". Forbes. August 15, 2019. from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  112. ^ "On top of the world again: Rice Alliance named No. 1 university business incubator". Houston Business Journal. June 24, 2014. from the original on September 6, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  113. ^ "Rice University – Rankings & Lists". The Princeton Review. 2012. from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  114. ^ Staff Reports. "Princeton Review updates list of 20 most LGBT friendly, unfriendly colleges". LGBTQ Nation. from the original on January 2, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  115. ^ "Rice University – Rankings & Lists". The Princeton Review. 2011. from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  116. ^ (PDF). The Center for Measuring University Performance. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 5, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  117. ^ . Media.rice.edu. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  118. ^ . Leiden Ranking. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  119. ^ . Leiden Ranking. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  120. ^ Leiden ranks Rice No. 1 for natural sciences and engineering, No. 6 for all sciences April 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. News.rice.edu (2013-04-24). Retrieved on 2013-09-06.
  121. ^ . Media.rice.edu. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  122. ^ Rice University: "About the residential college system." August 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  123. ^ "College Assignments". Rice.edu. May 11, 2015. from the original on May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  124. ^ Garza, Cynthia Leonor (March 15, 2007). "Rice undergrads share a sense of community". Houston Chronicle.
  125. ^ Viren, Sarah (April 14, 2007). "Beer Bike's 50th bash lets good time roll at Rice: tradition that began in 1957 now integral part of school's social scene". Houston Chronicle.
  126. ^ "Coffeehouse: 16 Years of Providing Rice with Society's Most Acceptable Drug". The Rice Thresher. November 17, 2006.
  127. ^ "Rice University: Residential colleges". Rice University. June 10, 2016. from the original on October 21, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  128. ^ "Willy's Pub". Rice University. from the original on February 12, 2005. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  129. ^ . The Thresher Online. April 21, 1995. Archived from the original on July 10, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2006.
  130. ^ "Willy's Pub rebrands as the Pub at Rice". from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  131. ^ "Rice Bikes". rice.edu. from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  132. ^ a b "History". rice.edu. Rice Bikes. from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  133. ^ "The Rice Thresher". The Rice Thresher. from the original on September 10, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  134. ^ "Houston Best of Houston – Best Radio Station – page 1". Houston-press.com. September 21, 2000. from the original on April 26, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  135. ^ . Bestof.houstonpress.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  136. ^ "Houston Best of Houston – Best Hip-hop Radio Show – page 1". Houston-press.com. September 25, 2003. from the original on May 6, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  137. ^ Kever, Jeannie (August 16, 2010). "UH System board considers plan to buy Rice radio station". Houston Chronicle. from the original on August 17, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
  138. ^ "Correspondence for KTRU". Federal Communications Commission. from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  139. ^ RTV5 – Rice Student Television, rtv5.rice.edu
  140. ^ R2 The Rice Review May 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, r2mag.rice.edu
  141. ^ Rice sex magazine makes its virgin launch May 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, chron.com
  142. ^ a b Merrick, Amy (September 20, 2004). "Another Money-Losing Season". Wall Street Journal. from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  143. ^ "News". www.usaultimate.org. from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  144. ^ "Rice University Faculty Achievements". from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  145. ^ Ketterer, Samantha (July 5, 2022). "Rice chemist, Nobel laureate Robert Curl dies at 88". Houston Chronicle. from the original on July 16, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  146. ^ "Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-". history.aip.org. from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  147. ^ Dansby, Andrew (August 28, 2020). "David Eagleman wants you to think much more about the brain". Preview | Houston Arts & Entertainment Guide. from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  148. ^ "Jerry Woodfill – Biological Background". SpaceActs.com. 2012. from the original on May 17, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  149. ^ "Thomas H Cruikshank, Halliburton Co: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  150. ^ "John Doerr". Forbes Magazine. from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  151. ^ "Howard Hughes". www.famoustexans.com. from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  152. ^ "1992 Fred C. Koch". Kansas Business Hall of Fame. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  153. ^ Malik, Sumaiya. "Elizabeth Avellán plants seeds of change through Connecther film fest". Austin American-Statesman. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  154. ^ "Meet Tim League, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People". Fast Company. from the original on February 12, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  155. ^ "Meet Karrie League, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People". Fast Company. from the original on February 12, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  156. ^ "Coinbase's Brian Armstrong Remembered At Alma Mater Rice University – Alumni Spotlight". from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  157. ^ "McMurtry College". mcmurtry.rice.edu. from the original on November 2, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  158. ^ "Burton J. McMurtry". CHM. from the original on November 2, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  159. ^ "Alberto Gonzales, Former Attorney General". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  160. ^ "Charles W. Duncan | Houston.org". www.houston.org. from the original on August 1, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  161. ^ "William P. Hobby, Jr". The Texas Politics Project. July 29, 2019. from the original on December 27, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  162. ^ "John Kline | The Hill | Page 1". The Hill. from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  163. ^ Root, Jay (October 3, 2019). "George P. Bush was on the road to flunking out of Rice. His grandmother helped him turn things around". The Texas Tribune. from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  164. ^ Birenbaum, G (May 18, 2022). "George P. Bush and His Run for Texas Attorney General". Washington Monthly. from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  165. ^ "Josh Earnest". whitehouse.gov. January 4, 2012. from the original on November 19, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  166. ^ "Ben Rhodes". The Barack Obama Scholars Program. April 24, 2019. from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  167. ^ "Ben Rhodes, Former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. from the original on June 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  168. ^ "Glenn Youngkin College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. from the original on May 22, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  169. ^ Scherer, Jasper (May 11, 2019). "Annise Parker at Rice commencement: "Failure is an option"". Houston Chronicle. from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  170. ^ "An Ode to Larry McMurtry's Enduring Houston". Houstonia Magazine. from the original on July 29, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  171. ^ W., Audrey (June 1, 2019). "Author Spotlight: Joyce Carol Oates". Arcadia Publishing. from the original on June 16, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  172. ^ Adams, Patty (September 21, 2008). . Page Six Magazine. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  173. ^ "John Graves". Texas Monthly. from the original on May 19, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  174. ^ "Rice alumna Caroline Shaw wins Pulitzer in music". news2.rice.edu. from the original on November 2, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  175. ^ Chen, Howard (February 23, 2022). "Lance Berkman and Jose Cruz Jr.: A look back at 2 spectacular playing careers before their coaching days". KPRC. from the original on March 7, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  176. ^ Duncan, Henry (February 25, 2019). "How Brock Holt Became Boston's Glue Guy". Joker Mag. from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  177. ^ "Remember Bubba Crosby?". Pinstripe Alley. June 26, 2015. from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  178. ^ "HAROLD SOLOMON RETIRING AT GRAND OLD AGE OF 33". Chicago Tribune. from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  179. ^ Swartz, Jimmy (November 13, 2020). "The Life And Career Of QB Frank Ryan (Complete Story)". Browns Nation. from the original on June 15, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  180. ^ Thomas, Mike (December 21, 2020). "Why Does Tommy Kramer, Former Vikings QB, Have a Packers Urinal in His House?". Sportscasting | Pure Sports. from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  181. ^ Duarte, Joseph (May 18, 2022). "Jose Cruz Jr. discovers Rice baseball won't be rebuilt overnight". Houston Chronicle. from the original on May 18, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  182. ^ Hill, Glynn A. (September 4, 2019). "Owls great O.J. Brigance can always call Rice home". Houston Chronicle. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  183. ^ Martin, Sean. "Special Teams Ghost Leaves Lasting Impression in New England". Bleacher Report. from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  184. ^ Farmer, Chris. "Houston Texans' TE James Casey: Bookmark Him Now". Bleacher Report. from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  185. ^ "Catching Up with Former Reps: Courtney Hall". NFL Players Association. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  186. ^ "Rice Owls' highest NFL draft picks since 1970". CW39 Houston. April 27, 2022. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  187. ^ "Rice University's Luke Willson is a Stand up Guy - Pro Player Insiders". from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  188. ^ Ramsey, Joshua. "Down on the Farm: Is Tony Cingrani the Cincinnati Reds' Top Prospect?". Bleacher Report. from the original on August 22, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  189. ^ Doering, Joshua (October 28, 2021). "Angels' Anthony Rendon: 'God will use me' regardless of on-field success". Sports Spectrum. from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  190. ^ "Tribute for Leo Victor Rucka". Sterling-White Funeral Home and Cemetery. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  191. ^ "Future Owls". futureowls.rice.edu. from the original on May 19, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  192. ^ Khan Jr, Sam (March 30, 2008). "Angleton boys loom large at Rice track meet". Chron. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  193. ^ Staff reports (June 10, 2022). "NCAA track: Rice's Grace Forbes second in 10,000 meters". Houston Chronicle. from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  194. ^ Litsky, Frank (June 28, 1964). "Vault Is 4th Best". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rice University.
  • Official website  
  • Rice University Athletics website

April 08, 2023
rice, university, william, marsh, known, simply, private, research, university, houston, texas, acre, campus, near, houston, museum, district, adjacent, texas, medical, center, william, marsh, former, nameswilliam, rice, institute, advancement, literature, sci. William Marsh Rice University known simply as Rice University is a private research university in Houston Texas It is on a 300 acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center Rice UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityFormer namesWilliam M Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art 1912 1960 1 Motto Letters Science Art TypePrivate research universityEstablishedSeptember 23 1912 110 years ago September 23 1912 AccreditationSACSAcademic affiliationsAAUORAUNAICUURACONAHECSpace grantEndowment 8 10 billion 2021 2 PresidentReginald DesRochesAcademic staff680 full time 3 Administrative staff2 152 4 Students8 212 Fall 2021 5 Undergraduates4 240 Fall 2021 5 Postgraduates3 972 Fall 2021 5 LocationHouston Texas United States29 43 1 N 95 24 10 W 29 71694 N 95 40278 W 29 71694 95 40278 Coordinates 29 43 1 N 95 24 10 W 29 71694 N 95 40278 W 29 71694 95 40278CampusLarge City 6 300 acres 120 ha 7 NewspaperThe Rice ThresherColors Rice Blue Rice Gray 8 NicknameOwlsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS C USAMascotSammy the OwlWebsitewww wbr rice wbr eduOpened in 1912 as the Rice Institute after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice Rice is a research university with an undergraduate focus Its emphasis on undergraduate education is demonstrated by its 6 1 student faculty ratio 3 9 The university has a very high level of research activity with 156 million in sponsored research funding in 2019 10 Rice is noted for its applied science programs in the fields of artificial heart research structural chemical analysis signal processing space science and nanotechnology Rice has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1985 and is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 11 12 The university is organized into eleven residential colleges and eight schools of academic study including the Wiess School of Natural Sciences the George R Brown School of Engineering the School of Social Sciences School of Architecture Shepherd School of Music and the School of Humanities Rice s undergraduate program offers more than fifty majors and two dozen minors 13 Additional graduate programs are offered through the Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Business and the Susanne M Glasscock School of Continuing Studies 13 14 15 Rice students are bound by the Honor Code which is enforced by a student run Honor Council 16 The university s alumni include 26 Marshall Scholars 12 Rhodes Scholars and two Nobel laureates 17 18 19 Given the university s close links to NASA it has produced a significant number of astronauts and space scientists 20 In business Rice graduates include CEOs founders of Fortune 500 companies and four billionaires 21 in politics alumni include congressmen governors cabinet secretaries judges and mayors quantify Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA Its teams are the Rice Owls Contents 1 History 1 1 Background 1 2 Establishment and growth 1 3 Late twentieth and early twenty first century 2 Campus 2 1 Innovation District 3 Organization 3 1 Rice Management Company 4 Academics 4 1 Student body 4 2 Honor Code 4 3 Research centers and resources 4 4 Admissions 4 5 Rankings 5 Student life 5 1 Residential colleges 5 1 1 List of residential colleges 5 1 2 Baker 13 5 1 3 Beer Bike Race 5 2 Campus institutions 5 2 1 Rice Coffeehouse 5 2 2 The Pub at Rice 5 2 3 Rice Bikes 5 2 4 Student run media 6 Athletics 7 Notable people 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksHistory EditBackground Edit William Marsh Rice s estate funded the establishment of the Rice Institute Rice University s history began with the demise of Massachusetts businessman William Marsh Rice who had made his fortune in real estate railroad development and cotton trading in the state of Texas In 1891 Rice decided to charter a free tuition educational institute in Houston bearing his name to be created upon his death earmarking most of his estate towards funding the project Rice s will specified the institution was to be a competitive institution of the highest grade and that only white students would be permitted to attend 22 On the morning of September 23 1900 Rice age 84 was found dead by his valet Charles F Jones and was presumed to have died in his sleep Shortly thereafter a large check made out to Rice s New York City lawyer signed by the late Rice aroused the suspicion of a bank teller due to the misspelling of the recipient s name The lawyer Albert T Patrick then announced that Rice had changed his will to leave the bulk of his fortune to Patrick rather than to the creation of Rice s educational institute A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice s butler and valet Charles F Jones who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept Rice s friend and personal lawyer in Houston Captain James A Baker aided in the discovery of what turned out to be a fake will with a forged signature Jones was not prosecuted since he cooperated with the district attorney and testified against Patrick Patrick was found guilty of conspiring to steal Rice s fortune and he was convicted of murder in 1901 he was pardoned in 1912 due to conflicting medical testimony 23 Baker helped Rice s estate direct the fortune worth 4 6 million in 1904 139 million today towards the founding of what was to be called the Rice Institute later to become Rice University The board took control of the assets on April 29 of that year In 1907 the Board of Trustees selected the head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Princeton University Edgar Odell Lovett to head the institute which was still in the planning stages He came recommended by Princeton s president Woodrow Wilson In 1908 Lovett accepted the challenge and was formally inaugurated as the institute s first president on October 12 1912 Lovett undertook extensive research before formalizing plans for the new Institute including visits to 78 institutions of higher learning across the world on a long tour between 1908 and 1909 Lovett was impressed by such things as the aesthetic beauty of the uniformity of the architecture at the University of Pennsylvania a theme which was adopted by the institute as well as the residential college system at Cambridge University in England which was added to the Institute several decades later Lovett called for the establishment of a university of the highest grade an institution of liberal and technical learning devoted quite as much to investigation as to instruction We must keep the standards up and the numbers down declared Lovett The most distinguished teachers must take their part in undergraduate teaching and their spirit should dominate it all Rice University Establishment and growth Edit An illustration of the Administration Building of Rice University in 1913 In 1911 the cornerstone was laid for the institute s first building the Administration Building now known as Lovett Hall in honor of the founding president On September 23 1912 the 12th anniversary of William Marsh Rice s murder the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters Science and Art began course work with 59 enrolled students who were known as the 59 immortals and about a dozen faculty After 18 additional students joined later Rice s initial class numbered 77 24 48 male and 29 female Unusual for the time Rice accepted coeducational admissions from its beginning but on campus housing would not become co ed until 1957 25 Administration Building Rice Institute Houston Texas postcard circa 1912 1924 Three weeks after opening a spectacular international academic festival was held bringing Rice to the attention of the entire academic world Per William Marsh Rice s will and Rice Institute s initial charter the students paid no tuition Classes were difficult however and about half of Rice s students had failed after the first 1912 term 26 At its first commencement ceremony held on June 12 1916 Rice awarded 35 bachelor s degrees and one master s degree 27 That year the student body also voted to adopt the Honor System which still exists today The Founder s Memorial Statue a bronze statue of a seated William Marsh Rice holding the original plans for the campus was dedicated in 1930 and installed in the central academic quad facing Lovett Hall The statue was crafted by John Angel 28 In 2020 Rice students petitioned the university to take down the statue due to the founder s history as slave owner 29 In January 2022 the Board of Trustees announced plans to relocate the statue within the academic quadrangle 30 During World War II Rice Institute was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V 12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission 31 The residential college system proposed by President Lovett was adopted in 1958 with the East Hall residence becoming Baker College South Hall residence becoming Will Rice College West Hall becoming Hanszen College and the temporary Wiess Hall becoming Wiess College John F Kennedy speaking at Rice Stadium in 1962 In 1959 the Rice Institute Computer went online 1960 saw Rice Institute formally renamed William Marsh Rice University 32 Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA 33 for the creation of NASA s Manned Spacecraft Center now called Johnson Space Center in 1962 President John F Kennedy then gave a speech 34 at Rice Stadium reiterating that the United States intended to reach the Moon before the end of the decade of the 1960s and to become the world s leading space faring nation The relationship of NASA with Rice University and the city of Houston has remained strong to the present day update The original charter of Rice Institute dictated that the university admit and educate tuition free the white inhabitants of Houston and the state of Texas In 1963 the governing board of Rice University filed a lawsuit to allow the university to modify its charter to admit students of all races and to charge tuition Ph D student Raymond Johnson became the first black Rice student when he was admitted that year 35 In 1964 Rice officially amended the university charter to desegregate its graduate and undergraduate divisions 36 The Trustees of Rice University prevailed in a lawsuit to void the racial language in the trust in 1966 37 Rice began charging tuition for the first time in 1965 In the same year Rice launched a 33 million 284 million development campaign 43 million 300 million was raised by its conclusion in 1970 In 1974 two new schools were founded at Rice the Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management and the Shepherd School of Music The Brown Foundation Challenge a fund raising program designed to encourage annual gifts was launched in 1976 and ended in 1996 having raised 185 million 320 million The Rice School of Social Sciences was founded in 1979 On campus housing was exclusively for men for the first forty years until 1957 25 Jones College was the first women s residence on the Rice campus followed by Brown College According to legend the women s colleges were purposefully situated at the opposite end of campus from the existing men s colleges as a way of preserving campus propriety which was greatly valued by Edgar Odell Lovett who did not even allow benches to be installed on campus fearing that they might lead to co fraternization of the sexes 33 The path linking the north colleges to the center of campus was given the tongue in cheek name of Virgin s Walk Individual colleges became coeducational between 1973 and 1987 with the single sex floors of colleges that had them becoming co ed by 2006 By then several new residential colleges had been built on campus to handle the university s growth including Lovett College Sid Richardson College and Martel College Late twentieth and early twenty first century Edit George H W Bush meeting Vladimir Putin at Rice in 2001 The Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations was held at Rice in 1990 Three years later in 1993 the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy was created In 1997 the Edythe Bates Old Grand Organ and Recital Hall and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology renamed in 2005 for the late Nobel Prize winner and Rice professor Richard E Smalley were dedicated at Rice In 1999 the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology was created The Rice Owls baseball team was ranked 1 in the nation for the first time in that year 1999 holding the top spot for eight weeks In 2003 the Owls won their first national championship in baseball which was the first for the university in any team sport beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then the University of Texas and Stanford University twice each en route to the title In 2008 President David Leebron issued a ten point plan titled Vision for the Second Century outlining plans to increase research funding strengthen existing programs and increase collaboration 38 The plan has brought about another wave of campus constructions including the newly renamed BioScience Research Collaborative 39 building intended to foster collaboration with the adjacent Texas Medical Center a new recreational center and the renovated Autry Court basketball stadium and the addition of two new residential colleges Duncan College and McMurtry College Beginning in late 2008 the university considered a merger with Baylor College of Medicine though the merger was ultimately rejected in 2010 40 Select Rice undergraduates are currently guaranteed admission to Baylor College of Medicine upon graduation as part of the Rice Baylor Medical Scholars program According to History Professor John Boles recent book University Builder Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute the first president s original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools In 2018 the university added an online MBA program MBA Rice 41 42 In June 2019 the university s president announced plans for a task force on Rice s past in relation to slave history and racial injustice stating that Rice has some historical connections to that terrible part of American history and the segregation and racial disparities that resulted directly from it 43 In 2021 in response to requests from community members and Rice students for a Community Benefits Agreement for the Rice Innovation District President Leebron chose instead to pursue a development agreement with the City of Houston 44 The proposed agreement will not include a community coalition as a signatory although that is typically how Community Benefits Agreements are structured 45 Campus EditMain article Campus of Rice University The main entrance to Rice University Rice University Mechanical Laboratory and Power House The second building on campus Rice s campus is a heavily wooded 285 acre 115 hectare tract of land in the museum district of Houston located close to the city of West University Place Five streets demarcate the campus Greenbriar Street Rice Boulevard Sunset Boulevard Main Street and University Boulevard For most of its history all of Rice s buildings have been contained within this outer loop In recent years when new facilities have been built close to campus but the bulk of administrative academic and residential buildings are located within the original pentagonal plot of land The new Collaborative Research Center all graduate student housing the Greenbriar building and the Wiess President s House are located off campus A stone bench in the Academic Quad There are only about 50 buildings spread between the main entrance at its easternmost corner and the parking lots and Rice Stadium at the West end The Lynn R Lowrey Arboretum consisting of more than 4000 trees and shrubs giving birth to the legend that Rice has a tree for every student is spread throughout the campus view of Rice campus outside Brochstein Pavilion The university s first president Edgar Odell Lovett intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal Nearly every building on campus is noticeably Byzantine in style with sand and pink colored bricks large archways and columns being a common theme among many campus buildings Noteworthy exceptions include the glass walled Brochstein Pavilion Lovett College with its Brutalist style concrete gratings Moody Center for the Arts with its contemporary design and the eclectic Mediterranean Duncan Hall In September 2011 Travel Leisure listed Rice s campus as one of the most beautiful in the United States 46 Duncan Hall is Rice s hub for engineering and computation Lovett Hall named for Rice s first president is the university s landmark building Through its Sallyport arch new students symbolically enter the university during matriculation and depart as graduates at commencement Duncan Hall Rice s computational engineering building was designed to encourage collaboration between the four different departments situated there The building s foyer drawn from many world cultures was designed by the architect to symbolically express this collaborative purpose The campus is organized in a number of quadrangles The Academic Quad anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice includes Ralph Adams Cram s masterpiece the asymmetrical Lovett Hall the original administrative building Fondren Library Herzstein Hall the original physics building and home to the largest amphitheater on campus Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts Rayzor Hall for the languages and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department The Humanities Building winner of several architectural awards is immediately adjacent to the main quad Further west lies a quad surrounded by McNair Hall of the Jones Business School the Baker Institute and Alice Pratt Brown Hall of the Shepherd School of Music These two quads are surrounded by the university s main access road a one way loop referred to as the inner loop In the Engineering Quad a trinity of sculptures by Michael Heizer collectively entitled 45 Degrees 90 Degrees 180 Degrees are flanked by Abercrombie Laboratory the Cox Building and the Mechanical Laboratory housing the Electrical Mechanical and Earth Science Civil Engineering departments respectively Duncan Hall is the latest addition to this quad providing new offices for the Computer Science Computational and Applied Math Electrical and Computer Engineering and Statistics departments McNair Hall home to the Jones School of Business Roughly three quarters of Rice s undergraduate population lives on campus Housing is divided among eleven residential colleges which form an integral part of student life at the university see Residential colleges of Rice University The colleges are named for university historical figures and benefactor Rice does not have or endorse a Greek system with the residential college system taking its place Five colleges McMurtry Duncan Martel Jones and Brown are located on the north side of campus across from the South Colleges Baker Will Rice Lovett Hanszen Sid Richardson and Wiess on the other side of the Academic Quadrangle Of the eleven colleges Baker is the oldest originally built in 1912 and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest and opened for the first time for the 2009 10 school year Will Rice Baker and Lovett colleges are undergoing renovation to expand their dining facilities as well as the number of rooms available for students Rice University s Football Stadium The on campus football facility Rice Stadium opened in 1950 with a capacity of 70 000 seats 47 After improvements in 2006 the stadium is currently configured to seat 47 000 for football but can readily be reconfigured to its original capacity of 70 000 more than the total number of Rice alumni living and deceased 48 The stadium was the site of Super Bowl VIII and a speech by John F Kennedy on September 12 1962 in which he challenged the nation to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade 49 The recently renovated Tudor Fieldhouse formerly known as Autry Court is home to the basketball and volleyball teams Other stadia include the Rice Track Soccer Stadium and the Jake Hess Tennis Stadium A new Rec Center now houses the intramural sports offices and provide an outdoor pool training and exercise facilities for all Rice students while athletics training will solely be held at Tudor Fieldhouse and the Rice Football Stadium Innovation District Edit Main article Rice Innovation District The Ion building under construction in the Rice Innovation District In early 2019 Rice announced the site where the abandoned Sears building in Midtown Houston stood along with its surrounding area would be transformed into The Ion the hub of the 16 acre South Main Innovation District 50 President of Rice David Leebron stated We chose the name Ion because it s from the Greek ienai which means go We see it as embodying the ever forward motion of discovery the spark at the center of a truly original idea It also represents the last three letters in many of the words that define the building s mission like inspiration creation acceleration and innovation 51 Students of Rice and other Houston area colleges and universities making up the Student Coalition for a Just and Equitable Innovation Corridor are advocating for a Community Benefits Agreement CBA a contractual agreement between a developer and a community coalition 50 Residents of neighboring Third Ward and other members of the Houston Coalition for Equitable Development Without Displacement HCEDD have faced consistent opposition from the City of Houston and Rice Management Company to a CBA as traditionally defined in favor of an agreement between the latter two entities without a community coalition signatory 52 Organization EditRice University is chartered as a non profit organization and is governed by a privately appointed board of trustees The board consists of a maximum of 25 voting members who serve four year terms 53 The trustees serve without compensation and a simple majority of trustees must reside in Texas including at least four within the greater Houston area 53 The board of trustees delegates its power by appointing a president to serve as the chief executive of the university David W Leebron was appointed president in 2004 and succeeded Malcolm Gillis who served since 1993 The provost six vice presidents and other university officials report to the president The president is advised by a University Council composed of the provost eight members of the Faculty Council two staff members one graduate student and two undergraduate students The president presides over a Faculty Council which has the authority to alter curricular requirements establish new degree programs and approve candidates for degrees 53 The university s academics are organized into several schools Schools that have undergraduate and graduate programs include The Rice University School of Architecture The George R Brown School of Engineering The School of Humanities The Shepherd School of Music The Wiess School of Natural Sciences The Rice University School of Social SciencesTwo schools have only graduate programs The Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management The Susanne M Glasscock School of Continuing StudiesRice s undergraduate students are admitted from a centralized admissions process which admits new students to the university as a whole rather than a specific school the schools of Music and Architecture are decentralized Students are encouraged to select the major path that best suits their desires a student can later decide that they would rather pursue study in another field or continue their current coursework and add a second or third major These transitions are designed to be simple with students not required to decide on a specific major until their sophomore year of study Rice offers 360 degrees in over 60 departments There are 40 undergraduate degree programs 51 masters programs and 29 doctoral programs 13 14 Faculty members of each of the departments elect chairs to represent the department to each School s dean and the deans report to the Provost who serves as the chief officer for academic affairs 53 Rice Management Company Edit The Rice Management Company manages the 8 1 billion Rice University endowment June 2021 and 1 1 billion debt 54 52 The endowment provides 40 of Rice s operating revenues In August 2021 an economic development agreement that would provide Rice Management Company with up to 65 million in cost reimbursement from local taxes was given initial approval by the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 55 The agreement does not require a Community Benefits Agreement in exchange for funding Final approval requires a vote by the Houston City Council 55 Academics Edit Lovett Hall formerly known as the Administration Building was the first building on campus Rice is a medium sized highly residential research university 56 The majority of enrollments are in the full time four year undergraduate program emphasizing arts amp sciences and professions There is a very high level of research activity 56 It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as well as the professional accreditation agencies for engineering management and architecture 57 Each of Rice s departments is organized into one of three distribution groups and students whose major lies within the scope of one group must take at least 3 courses of at least 3 credit hours each of approved distribution classes in each of the other two groups as well as completing one physical education course as part of the LPAP Lifetime Physical Activity Program requirement All new students must take a Freshman Writing Intensive Seminar FWIS class and for students who do not pass the university s writing composition examination administered during the summer before matriculation FWIS 100 a writing class becomes an additional requirement 58 The majority of Rice s undergraduate degree programs grant B S or B A degrees Rice has recently begun to offer minors in areas such as business 59 energy and water sustainability 60 and global health 61 Student body Edit Student body composition as of May 2 2022 update Race and ethnicity 62 TotalWhite 31 31 Asian 28 28 Hispanic 16 16 Foreign national 12 12 Black 8 8 Other a 6 6 Economic diversityLow income b 17 17 Affluent c 83 83 As of fall 2022 men make up 51 1 of the undergraduate body and 63 1 of the professional and post graduate student body 63 36 9 of degree seeking students are from Out of State 35 9 are from Texas and 27 2 are from outside of the United States 63 Honor Code Edit The Rice Honor Code plays an integral role in academic affairs Almost all Rice exams are unproctored and professors give timed closed book exams that students take home and complete at their own convenience Potential infractions are reported to the student Honor Council elected by popular vote The penalty structure is established every year by Council consensus typically penalties have ranged from a letter of reprimand to an F in the course and a two semester suspension 64 During Orientation Week students must take and pass a test demonstrating that they understand the Honor System s requirements and sign a Matriculation Pledge On assignments Rice students affirm their commitment to the Honor Code by writing On my honor I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this examination quiz or paper 16 Research centers and resources Edit Rice is noted for its applied science programs in the fields of nanotechnology artificial heart research structural chemical analysis signal processing and space science being ranked 1st in the world in materials science research by the Times Higher Education THE in 2010 65 Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship supports entrepreneurs and early stage technology ventures in Houston and Texas through education collaboration and research ranked No 1 among university business incubators 66 Baker Institute for Public Policy a leading nonpartisan public policy think tank BioScience Research Collaborative BRC interdisciplinary cross campus and inter institutional resource between Rice University and Texas Medical Center 67 Boniuk Institute dedicated to religious tolerance and advancing religious literacy respect and mutual understanding 68 Center for African and African American Studies fosters conversations on topics such as critical approaches to race and racism the nature of diasporic histories and identities and the complexity of Africa s past present and future 69 Chao Center for Asian Studies research hub for faculty students and post doctoral scholars working in Asian studies 70 Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality CSWGS interdisciplinary academic programs and research opportunities including the journal Feminist Economics 71 Data to Knowledge Lab D2K campus hub for experiential learning in data science 72 Digital Signal Processing DSP center for education and research in the field of digital signal processing 73 Humanities Research Center HRC identifies encourages and funds innovative research projects by faculty visiting scholars graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Humanities and beyond 74 Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering IBB facilitates the translation of interdisciplinary research and education in biosciences and bioengineering 75 Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology advances applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computation and information technology 76 Kinder Institute for Urban Research conducts the Houston Area Survey the nation s longest running study of any metropolitan region s economy population life experiences beliefs and attitudes 77 Laboratory for Nanophotonics LANP a resource for education and research breakthroughs and advances in the broad multidisciplinary field of nanophotonics 78 Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lilie experiential learning and co curricular activities in entrepreneurship 79 Moody Center for the Arts experimental arts space featuring studio classrooms maker space audiovisual editing booths and a gallery and office space for visiting national and international artists 80 OpenStax CNX formerly Connexions and OpenStax an open source platform and open access publisher respectively of open educational resources Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen OEDK space for undergraduate students to design prototype and deploy solutions to real world engineering challenges 81 Rice Cinema an independent theater run by the Visual and Dramatic Arts department at Rice which screens documentaries foreign films and experimental cinema and hosts film festivals and lectures since 1970 82 Rice Center for Engineering Leadership RCEL 83 Religion and Public Life Program RPLP a research training and outreach program working to advance understandings of the role of religion in public life 84 Rice Design Alliance RDA outreach and public programs of the Rice School of Architecture 85 Rice Center for Quantum Materials RCQM organization dedicated to research and higher education in areas relating to quantum phenomena 86 Rice Engineering Initiative for Energy Transition and Sustainability REINVENTS research initiative on energy generation long term energy storage and the development of processes and materials for sustainable energy systems 87 Rice Neuroengineering Initiative NEI fosters research collaborations in neural engineering topics 88 Rice Space Institute RSI fosters programs in all areas of space research 89 Smalley Curl Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology SCI the nation s first nanotechnology center 90 Welch Institute for Advanced Materials collaborative research institute to support the foundational research for discoveries in materials science similar to the model of Salk Institute and Broad Institute 91 Woodson Research Center Special Collections amp Archives publisher of print and web based materials highlighting the department s primary source collections such as the Houston African American Asian American and Jewish History Archives University Archives rare books and hip hop rap music related materials from the Swishahouse record label and Houston Folk Music Archive etc Admissions Edit Fall Freshman Statistics 2019 92 2018 2017 2016 93 2015 94 2014 95 2013 96 Applicants 27 087 20 923 18 063 18 236 17 951 17 728 15 415Admits 2 361 2 328 2 864 2 785 2 865 2 677 2 581Admit rate 8 7 11 1 15 8 15 3 16 0 15 1 16 7 Enrolled 964 960 1 048 981 969 949 978SAT range 1470 1560 1460 1550 1490 1580 2090 2340 2070 2330 2060 2320 2040 2320ACT range 33 35 33 35 33 35 32 35 32 35 31 34 31 34Admission to Rice is rated as most selective by U S News amp World Report 97 For fall 2020 Rice received 23 443 freshmen applications of which 2 346 were admitted 10 0 up from a record low 8 7 acceptance rate in 2019 98 The middle 50 range of SAT scores for the class of 2023 were 1470 1560 the middle 50 range of the ACT Composite score was 33 35 92 Rankings Edit Academic rankingsNationalARWU 99 42 56Forbes 100 12THE WSJ 101 18U S News amp World Report 102 15Washington Monthly 103 73GlobalARWU 104 101 150QS 105 100THE 106 136U S News amp World Report 107 167 National Program Rankings 108 Program RankingBiological Sciences 39Business 25Chemistry 32Computer Science 20Earth Sciences 24Economics 42Engineering 33English 35History 34Mathematics 26Physics 28Political Science 33Psychology 50Statistics 43 Global Subject Rankings 109 Program RankingArts amp Humanities 194Biology amp Biochemistry 222Chemistry 119Clinical Medicine 684Engineering 224Environment Ecology 248Geosciences 163Materials Science 14Mathematics 87Molecular Biology amp Genetics 333Physics 82Social Sciences amp Public Health 386 Rice was ranked tied at 17th among national universities and 108th among global universities 6th for best undergraduate teaching 5th for Best Value and tied for 16th Most Innovative among national universities in the U S by U S News amp World Report in its 2022 edition 110 Forbes magazine ranked Rice University 21st nationally among 650 liberal arts colleges universities and service academies in 2019 19th among research universities and 2nd in the South 111 In 2020 Rice was ranked 105th in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings In 2020 Rice was ranked tied for 95th internationally 41st nationally by the Academic Ranking of World Universities Rice University was also ranked 85th globally in 2020 by QS World University Rankings Rice is noted for its entrepreneurial activity and has been recognized as the top ranked business incubator in the world by the Stockholm based UBI Index for both 2013 and 2014 112 The Princeton Review ranked Rice 4th for Best Quality of Life 8th for Happiest Students 113 20th among the most LGBT friendliest colleges 2014 2015 114 and one of the top 50 best value private colleges in its 2020 edition 115 Rice was ranked 41st among research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2007 116 In 2011 the Leiden Ranking which measures the performance of 500 major research universities worldwide using metrics designed to measure research impact ranked Rice 4th Globally for effectiveness and contribution of research 117 118 119 In 2013 the university was again ranked first globally for quality of research in natural sciences and engineering and 6th globally for all sciences 120 Student life Edit A view along the inner loop with three of the university service personnel s traditional golf carts in view Situated on nearly 300 acres 120 ha in the center of Houston s Museum District and across the street from the city s Hermann Park Rice is a closed campus filled with greenery and close to amenities in the nation s fourth largest city Rice s campus adjoins Hermann Park the Texas Medical Center and a neighborhood commercial center called Rice Village Hermann Park includes the Houston Museum of Natural Science the Houston Zoo Miller Outdoor Theatre and an 18 hole municipal golf course NRG Park home of NRG Stadium and the Astrodome is two miles 3 2 km south of the campus Among the dozen or so museums in the Museum District was until May 14 2017 121 the Rice University Art Gallery 121 open during the school year from 1995 until it closed in 2017 Easy access to downtown s theater and nightlife district and to Reliant Park is provided by the Houston METRORail system with a station adjacent to the campus s main gate The campus recently when joined the Zipcar program with two vehicles to increase the transportation options for students and staff who need but do not otherwise have access to a vehicle 122 Residential colleges Edit Main article Residential colleges of Rice University In 1957 Rice University implemented a residential college system which was proposed by the university s first president Edgar Odell Lovett The system was inspired by existing systems in place in England and at several other universities in the United States The existing residences known as East South West and Wiess Halls became Baker Will Rice Hanszen and Wiess Colleges respectively List of residential colleges Edit Below is a list of residential colleges in order of founding 123 Baker College named in honor of Captain James A Baker friend and attorney of William Marsh Rice and first chair of the Rice Board of Governors Will Rice College named for William M Rice Jr the nephew of the university s founder William Marsh Rice Hanszen College named for Harry Clay Hanszen benefactor to the university and chairman of the Rice Board of Governors from 1946 to 1950 Wiess College named for Harry Carothers Wiess 1887 1948 one of the founders and one time president of Humble Oil now ExxonMobil Jones College named for Mary Gibbs Jones wife of prominent Houston philanthropist Jesse Holman Jones Brown College named for Margarett Root Brown by her in laws George R Brown Lovett College named after the university s first president Edgar Odell Lovett Sid Richardson College named for the Sid Richardson Foundation which was established by Texas oilman cattleman and philanthropist Sid W Richardson Martel College named for Marian and Speros P Martel was built in 2002 McMurtry College named for Rice alumni Burt and Deedee McMurtry Silicon Valley venture capitalists Duncan College named for Charles Duncan Jr Secretary of Energy Each residential college has its own cafeteria serveries and each residential college has study groups and its own social practices Although each college is composed of a full cross section of students at Rice they have over time developed their own traditions and personalities When students matriculate they are randomly assigned to one of the eleven colleges although legacy exceptions are made for students whose siblings or parents have attended Rice 124 Students generally remain members of the college that they are assigned to for the duration of their undergraduate careers even if they move off campus at any point Students are guaranteed on campus housing for freshman year and two of the next three years each college has its own system for determining allocation of the remaining spaces collectively known as Room Jacking Students develop strong loyalties to their college and maintain friendly rivalry with other colleges especially during events such as Beer Bike and O Week Colleges keep their rivalries alive by performing jacks or pranks on each other especially during O Week and Willy Week During Matriculation Commencement and other formal academic ceremonies the colleges process in the order in which they were established Baker 13 Edit Baker 13 is a tradition in which students run around campus wearing nothing but shoes and shaving cream at 10 p m on the 13th and the 31st of every month as well as the 26th on months with fewer than 31 days The event long sponsored by Baker College usually attracts a small number of students but Halloween night and the first and last relevant days of the school year both attract large numbers of revelers 125 Rice University students participating in the Beer Bike water balloon fight in front of the Sallyport Beer Bike Race Edit According to the official website Beer Bike is a combination intramural bicycle race and drinking competition dating back to 1957 Ten riders and ten chuggers make up a team Elaborate rules include details such as a prohibition of bulky or wet clothing articles designed to absorb beer water or prevent spilled beer water from being seen and regulations for chug can design Each residential college as well as the Graduate Student Association participates with a men s team a women s team and alumni co ed team Each leg of the race is a relay in which a team s chugger must chug 24 US fluid ounces 710 ml of beer or water for the men s division and 12 US fluid ounces 350 ml for women before the team s rider may begin to ride 126 Participants who both ride and chug are referred to as Ironmen Willy Week is a term coined in the 1990s to refer to the week preceding Beer Bike a time of general energy and excitement on campus Jacks pranks are especially common during Willy Week some examples in the past include removing showerheads and encasing the Hanszen guardian The morning of the Beer Bike race itself begins with what is by some estimations the largest annual water balloon fight in the world Beer Bike is Rice s most prominent student event and for younger alumni it serves as an unofficial reunion weekend on par with Homecoming The 2009 Beer Bike race was dedicated to the memory of Dr Bill Wilson a popular professor and long time resident associate of Wiess College who died earlier that year In the event of inclement weather Beer Bike becomes a Beer Run The rules are nearly identical except that the Bikers must instead run the length of the track Campus institutions Edit Rice Coffeehouse Edit Rice Coffeehouse began in Hanszen College where students would serve coffee in the Weenie Loft a study room in the old section s fourth floor Later the coffee house moved to the Hanszen basement to accommodate more student patrons That coffeehouse became known as Breadsticks and Pomegranates and closed due to flooding Demand for an on campus Coffeehouse grew and in 1990 the Rice Coffeehouse was founded The Rice Coffeehouse is a not for profit student run organization serving Rice University and the greater Houston community 127 Over the past few years when it has introduced fair trade and organic coffee and loose leaf teas 128 Coffeehouse baristas are referred to as K O C s or Keepers of the Coffee Rice Coffeehouse has also adopted an unofficial mascot the squirrel which can be found on T shirts mugs and bumper stickers stuck on laptops across campus The logo pays tribute to Rice s squirrel population claimed by students to be unusually plump and frighteningly tame The Pub at Rice Edit Formerly known as Willy s Pub The Pub at Rice is Rice s student run pub located in the basement of the Rice Memorial Center It opened on April 11 1975 with Rice President Norman Hackerman pouring the first beer The original name was chosen by students in tribute to the university s founder William Marsh Rice After the drinking age in Texas was raised in 1986 the pub entered a period of financial difficulties and in April 1995 was destroyed in a fire The space was gutted but renovated and remains open 129 130 On February 15 2022 the Rice Thresher announced the rebranding of Willy s Pub as The Pub at Rice 131 Rice Bikes Edit Rice Bikes is a full service on campus bicycle sale rental and repair shop 132 It originated in the basement of Sid Richardson College in February 2011 In 2012 Rice Bikes officially became the university s third student run business Rice Bikes merged with a student run bicycle rental business in 2013 and operations moved to the Rice Memorial Center in 2014 133 In 2017 the business moved to the garage of the Rice Housing and Dining department s headquarters 133 Rice Bikes sells refurbished bicycles bought from students and functions as a full bicycle repair shop Student run media Edit Rice has a weekly student newspaper The Rice Thresher a yearbook The Campanile college radio station KTRU Rice Radio and now defunct campus wide student television station RTV5 They are based out of the RMC student center In addition Rice hosts several student magazines dedicated to a range of different topics the spring semester of 2008 saw the founding of two magazines a literary sex journal called Open and an undergraduate science research magazine entitled Catalyst The Rice Thresher 134 is published every Wednesday and is ranked by Princeton Review as one of the top campus newspapers nationally for student readership It is distributed around campus and at a few other local businesses and has a website The Thresher has a small dedicated staff and is known for its coverage of campus news open submission opinion page and the satirical Backpage which has often been the center of controversy The newspaper has won several awards from the College Media Association Associated Collegiate Press and Texas Intercollegiate Press Association The Rice Campanile was first published in 1916 celebrating Rice s first graduating class It has published continuously since then publishing two volumes in 1944 since the university had two graduating classes due to World War II The website was created sometime in the early to mid 2000s The 2015 won the first place Pinnacle for best yearbook from College Media Association KTRU Rice Radio is the student run radio station Though most DJs are Rice students anyone is allowed to apply It is known for playing genres and artists of music and sound unavailable on other radio stations in Houston and often the US The station takes requests over the phone or online In 2000 and 2006 KTRU won Houston Press Best Radio Station in Houston 135 136 In 2003 Rice alum and active KTRU DJ DL s hip hip show won Houston Press Best Hip hop Radio Show 137 On August 17 2010 it was announced that Rice University had been in negotiations to sell the station s broadcast tower FM frequency and license to the University of Houston System to become a full time classical music and fine arts programming station The new station KUHA would be operated as a not for profit outlet with listener supporters 138 The FCC approved the sale and granted the transfer of license to the University of Houston System on April 15 2011 139 however KUHA proved to be an even larger failure and so after four and a half years of operation The University of Houston System announced that KUHA s broadcast tower FM frequency and license were once again up for sale in August 2015 KTRU continued to operate much as it did previously streaming live on the Internet via apps and on HD2 radio using the 90 1 signal Under student leadership KTRU explored the possibility of returning to FM radio for a number of years In spring 2015 KTRU was granted permission by the FCC to begin development of a new broadcast signal via LPFM radio On October 1 2015 KTRU made its official return to FM radio on the 96 1 signal While broadcasting on HD2 radio has been discontinued KTRU continues to broadcast via internet in addition to its LPFM signal RTV5 is a student run television network available as channel 5 on campus RTV5 was created initially as Rice Broadcast Television in 1997 RBT began to broadcast the following year in 1998 and aired its first live show across campus in 1999 It experienced much growth and exposure over the years with successful programs like Drinking with Phil The Meg amp Maggie Show which was a variety and call in show a weekly news show and extensive live coverage in December 2000 of the shut down of KTRU by the administration In spring 2001 the Rice undergraduate community voted in the general elections to support RBT as a blanket tax organization effectively providing a yearly income of 10 000 to purchase new equipment and provide the campus with a variety of new programming In the spring of 2005 RBT members decided the station needed a new image and a new name Rice Television 5 One of RTV5 s most popular shows was the 24 hour show where a camera and couch placed in the RMC stayed on air for 24 hours One such show is held in fall and another in spring usually during a weekend allocated for visits by prospective students RTV5 has a video on demand site at rtv5 rice edu 140 The station went off the air in 2014 and changed its name to Rice Video Productions In 2015 the group s funding was threatened but ultimately maintained In 2016 the small student staff requested to no longer be a blanket tax organization In the fall of 2017 the club did not register as a club The Rice Review also known as R2 is a yearly student run literary journal at Rice University that publishes prose poetry and creative nonfiction written by undergraduate students as well as interviews The journal was founded in 2004 by creative writing professor and author Justin Cronin 141 The Rice Standard was an independent student run variety magazine modeled after such publications as The New Yorker and Harper s Prior to fall 2009 it was regularly published three times a semester with a wide array of content running from analyses of current events and philosophical pieces to personal essays short fiction and poetry In August 2009 the Standard transitioned to a completely online format with the launch of their redesigned website ricestandard org The first website of its kind on Rice s campus the Standard featured blog style content written by and for Rice students The Rice Standard had around 20 regular contributors and the site features new content every day including holidays In 2017 no one registered The Rice Standard as a club within the university Open a magazine dedicated to literary sex content predictably caused a stir on campus with its initial publication in spring 2008 A mixture of essays editorials stories and artistic photography brought Open attention both on campus and in the Houston Chronicle 142 The third and last annual edition of Open was released in spring of 2010 Athletics EditMain article Rice Owls Rice Stadium Rice plays in NCAA Division I athletics and is part of Conference USA Rice was a member of the Western Athletic Conference before joining Conference USA in 2005 143 Rice is the second smallest school measured by undergraduate enrollment competing in NCAA Division I FBS football only ahead of Tulsa 143 The Rice baseball team won the 2003 College World Series defeating Stanford giving Rice its only national championship in a team sport The victory made Rice University the smallest school in 51 years to win a national championship at the highest collegiate level of the sport The Rice baseball team has played on campus at Reckling Park since the 2000 season As of 2010 update the baseball team has won 14 consecutive conference championships in three different conferences the final championship of the defunct Southwest Conference all nine championships while a member of the Western Athletic Conference and five more championships in its first five years as a member of Conference USA Additionally Rice s baseball team has finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments Rice now has made six trips to Omaha for the CWS In 2004 Rice became the first school ever to have three players selected in the first eight picks of the MLB draft when Philip Humber Jeff Niemann and Wade Townsend were selected third fourth and eighth respectively In 2007 Joe Savery was selected as the 19th overall pick The Owls in a game against the Texas Longhorns In 2004 05 Rice sent its women s volleyball soccer and basketball teams to their respective NCAA tournaments The women s swim team has consistently brought at least one member of their team to the NCAA championships since 2013 In 2005 06 the women s soccer basketball and tennis teams advanced with five individuals competing in track and field In 2006 07 the Rice women s basketball team made the NCAA tournament while again five Rice track and field athletes received individual NCAA berths In 2008 the women s volleyball team again made the NCAA tournament In 2011 the Women s Swim team won their first conference championship in the history of the university This was an impressive feat considering they won without having a diving team The team repeated their C USA success in 2013 and 2014 In 2017 the women s basketball team led by second year head coach Tina Langley won the Women s Basketball Invitational defeating UNC Greensboro 74 62 in the championship game at Tudor Fieldhouse Though not a varsity sport Rice s ultimate frisbee women s team named Torque won consecutive Division III national championships in 2014 and 2015 144 In 2006 the football team qualified for its first bowl game since 1961 ending the second longest bowl drought in the country at the time On December 22 2006 Rice played in the New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans Louisiana against the Sun Belt Conference champion Troy The Owls lost 41 17 The bowl appearance came after Rice had a 14 game losing streak from 2004 to 2005 and went 1 10 in 2005 The streak followed an internally authorized 2003 McKinsey report that stated football alone was responsible for a 4 million deficit in 2002 Tensions remained high between the athletic department and faculty as a few professors who chose to voice their opinion were in favor of abandoning the football program The program success in 2006 the Rice Renaissance proved to be a revival of the Owl football program quelling those tensions David Bailiff took over the program in 2007 and has remained head coach Jarett Dillard set an NCAA record in 2006 by catching a touchdown pass in 13 consecutive games and took a 15 game overall streak into the 2007 season In 2008 the football team posted a 9 3 regular season capping off the year with a 38 14 victory over Western Michigan University in the Texas Bowl The win over Western Michigan marked the Owls first bowl win in 45 years Rice Stadium also serves as the performance venue for the university s Marching Owl Band or MOB Despite its name the MOB is a scatter band that focuses on performing humorous skits and routines rather than traditional formation marching Rice Owls men s basketball won 10 conference titles in the former Southwest Conference 1918 1935 1940 1942 1943 1944 1945 1949 1954 1970 denotes shared title Most recently guard Morris Almond was drafted in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz Rice named former Cal Bears head coach Ben Braun as head basketball coach to succeed Willis Wilson fired after Rice finished the 2007 2008 season with a winless 0 16 conference record and overall record of 3 27 Rice s mascot is Sammy the Owl In previous decades the university kept several live owls on campus in front of Lovett College but this practice has been discontinued due to public concern regarding animal welfare Rice also has a 12 member coed cheerleading squad and a coed dance team both of which perform at football and basketball games throughout the year Notable people EditMain article List of Rice University people As of 2011 update Rice has graduated 98 classes of students consisting of 51 961 living alumni Over 100 students at Rice have been Fulbright Scholars 25 Marshall Scholars 25 Mellon Fellows 12 Rhodes Scholars 6 Udall Scholars and 65 Watson Fellows among several other honors and awards Rice s distinguished faculty and alumni consists of five Nobel laureates a Turing Award winner two Pulitzer Prize award winners six Fulbright Scholars 29 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Recipients 14 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 Abel Prize winner 3 members of the American Philosophical Society 35 Guggenheim Fellowships 12 members of the National Academy of Engineering 2 members of the National Academy of Medicine 10 members of the National Academy of Sciences five fellows of the National Humanities Center and 86 fellows of the National Science Foundation 145 In science and technology Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts Robert Curl 146 Nobel laureate discoverer of fullerene Robert Woodrow Wilson 147 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation David Eagleman 148 celebrity neuroscientist and NYT bestselling author and NASA former Apollo 11 and 13 warning systems engineer and motivational speaker Jerry Woodfill 149 In business and entrepreneurship Rice alumni include Thomas H Cruikshank the former CEO of Halliburton 150 John Doerr billionaire and venture capitalist 151 Howard Hughes film producer and aviator 152 Fred C Koch chemical engineer and entrepreneur 153 Elizabeth Avellan 154 co founder of Troublemaker Studios Tim and Karrie League 155 156 founders of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Drafthouse Films Brian Armstrong 157 founder and CEO of Coinbase Burt McMurtry Silicon Valley venture capitalist 158 159 In government and politics Rice alumni include Alberto Gonzales former Attorney General 160 Charles Duncan former Secretary of Energy 161 William P Hobby Jr former lieutenant governor of Texas 162 John Kline Member of the House of Representatives 163 George P Bush politician 164 165 Josh Earnest White House Press Secretary for President Obama 166 Ben Rhodes Deputy National Security Advisor for President Obama 167 168 Glenn Youngkin Governor of Virginia 169 Annise Parker the 61st Mayor of Houston 170 In the arts Rice alumni include Larry McMurtry Pulitzer Prize winning author and Oscar winning writer of the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain 171 Joyce Carol Oates who left her Ph D to become a full time writer novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist 172 John Graves author of Goodbye to a River and Candace Bushnell author of Sex and the City who attended for three semesters 173 174 Caroline Shaw Pulitzer Prize winning musician 175 In athletics Rice alumni include Lance Berkman 176 Brock Holt 177 Bubba Crosby 178 Harold Solomon 179 Frank Ryan 180 Tommy Kramer 181 Jose Cruz Jr 182 O J Brigance 183 Larry Izzo 184 James Casey 185 Courtney Hall 186 Bert Emanuel 187 Luke Willson 188 Tony Cingrani 189 Anthony Rendon 190 and Leo Rucka 191 as well as three Olympians 192 Funmi Jimoh 06 193 Allison Beckford 04 194 and William Fred Hansen 63 195 Notable Rice University alumni Howard Hughes aviator engineer industrialist film producer and director Joyce Carol Oates noted author and Professor Emerita at Princeton University Annise Parker 1978 61st Mayor of Houston Alberto Gonzales 1979 former U S Attorney General Peggy Whitson 1986 NASA astronaut Josh Earnest 1997 29th White House Press Secretary He Jiankui Ph D 2010 Chinese biophysicist John Doerr BS 1973 MEng 1974 billionaire venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins George P Bush 1998 Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office Jim Bridenstine 1998 thirteenth NASA Administrator Glenn Youngkin B S B A Governor of Virginia Brian Armstrong 2005 cofounder and CEO of Coinbase Tommy Kramer 1977 Former quarterback for Minnesota Vikings Stephen Hahn 1980 24th Commissioner of Food and Drugs 2019 2021 Maryana Iskander 1997 social entrepreneur lawyer and CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation 2022 Notes Edit Other consists of Multiracial Americans amp those who prefer to not say The percentage of students who received an income based federal Pell grant intended for low income students The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum References Edit William Marsh Rice and the Founding of Rice Institute Rice University Fondren Library Archived from the original on August 19 2017 Retrieved October 31 2018 As of June 30 2020 update U S and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 Report National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA February 19 2021 Archived from the original on February 21 2021 Retrieved February 19 2021 a b Rice at a Glance The Office of Institutional Research Rice University Fall 2018 Archived from the original on December 15 2015 Retrieved February 12 2019 Rice Facts Faculty and Staff Rice University Archived from the original on February 25 2011 Retrieved January 19 2011 a b c Fall 2021 Enrollment The Office of Institutional Research Rice University Archived from the original on March 2 2022 Retrieved July 5 2022 IPEDS Rice University Archived from the original on November 7 2021 Retrieved November 7 2021 About Rice Rice University Archived from the original on September 28 2020 Retrieved September 28 2020 Color palette Rice University Archived from the original on March 2 2011 Retrieved April 13 2017 Best Undergraduate Teaching National Universities Archived from the original on March 8 2017 Rice on pace to double research spending by 2027 Archived from the original on July 13 2020 Retrieved July 12 2020 Rice s AAU membership important to mission news rice edu October 31 2002 Archived from the original on July 19 2020 Retrieved July 19 2020 Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup carnegieclassifications iu edu Center for Postsecondary Education Archived from the original on July 19 2020 Retrieved July 19 2020 a b c Majors Minors Programs Rice University Archived from the original on January 5 2018 Retrieved October 31 2018 a b Information for Graduate Students PDF Rice University Archived PDF from the original on June 7 2011 Retrieved November 22 2008 Academic Schools Rice University June 16 2009 Archived from the original on December 19 2008 Retrieved November 22 2008 a b Honor Code Office of Academic Advising Rice University Archived from the original on November 1 2018 Retrieved October 31 2018 Marshall Scholarship Statistics Archived from the original on December 15 2022 Retrieved January 16 2023 Winning Institutions Search The Rhodes Scholarships www rhodeshouse ox ac uk Retrieved March 1 2023 See page 10 of 38 and page 37 of 38 at Boyd John May 15 2014 Famous Rice University alumni Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on June 4 2014 Welcome to RSI Archived from the original on September 21 2020 Retrieved September 9 2020 These 11 Colleges Have Minted A Ton Of Successful Tech Executives Business Insider July 26 2021 Archived from the original on January 16 2023 Retrieved January 15 2023 The Short History of Race Based Affirmative Action at Rice University The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education The JBHE Foundation 13 36 38 Autumn 1996 doi 10 2307 2963155 JSTOR 2963155 Blum Deborah 2010 The Poisoner s Handbook Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicie in Jazz Age New York Penguin Books pp 14 6 ISBN 978 0 14 311882 4 Graduating Class Has 35 Members PDF Rice Thresher June 12 1916 Archived PDF from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved September 26 2019 a b Jones College Rice University Archived from the original on July 21 2018 Retrieved July 21 2018 McCants J T June 1953 McCants Recalls Earliest Days PDF Sallyport Archived PDF from the original on September 26 2019 Retrieved September 26 2019 Splendid Celebration Marks First Commencement PDF Rice Thresher June 12 1916 Archived PDF from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved September 26 2019 Morris Little Carol 1996 A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas Austin Texas University of Texas Press p 248 ISBN 978 0292 76034 9 Archived from the original on April 13 2014 Retrieved September 6 2012 Monumental changes require removing monuments to the Confederacy The Kinder Institute for Urban Research Archived from the original on August 8 2020 Retrieved August 10 2020 Rice Founder s Memorial statue to be relocated in Academic Quad Rice News News and Media Relations Rice University Archived from the original on January 25 2022 Retrieved January 25 2022 U S Naval Administration in World War II HyperWar Foundation 2011 Archived from the original on January 12 2012 Retrieved September 29 2011 Announcement of Rice Institute s name change to William Marsh Rice University Fondren Library Woodson Research Center Rice University Archives July 1 1960 hdl 1911 68439 Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved September 24 2021 a b Adcock Catherine Winter 2006 Rice Fact and Fiction What s Your Rice Historical IQ Sallyport Online Rice University Archived from the original on February 11 2012 John F Kennedy Moon Speech Rice Stadium Houston Texas September 12 1962 Er jsc nasa gov September 12 1962 Archived from the original on July 6 2015 Retrieved October 28 2012 Black History at Rice Rice Alumni Archived from the original on February 28 2022 Retrieved February 28 2022 Dow Christopher Summer 2007 Diversity That Was Then This Is Now Sallyport Online Rice University Archived from the original on May 8 2012 Coffee v William Marsh Rice University 408 S W 2d 269 Archived from the original on March 8 2021 Retrieved October 31 2018 A Vision For Rice University s Second Century 10 Point Plan Rice University Archived from the original on May 2 2014 Retrieved May 7 2008 Rice University News amp Media Media rice edu Archived from the original on June 7 2011 Retrieved January 22 2010 Rice to consider merger with Baylor College of Medicine The Rice Thresher Archived March 3 2011 at the Wayback Machine Rice to Work with 2U on Launch of Online Business Short Courses Campus Technology Campus Technology Archived from the original on June 20 2018 Retrieved June 20 2018 MBA Rice Hybrid Online Degree Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University December 7 2017 Archived from the original on June 15 2018 Retrieved June 20 2018 Britto Brittany June 14 2019 Rice s reckoning University to launch task force to address its segregationist history HoustonChronicle com Archived from the original on June 26 2020 Retrieved June 22 2020 Britto Brittany January 29 2020 In victory for students community groups Mayor pledges city will strike deal ensuring innovation district provides far reaching benefits Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on September 8 2021 Retrieved September 8 2021 It s time for Rice Management Company to get serious about a Community Benefits Agreement The Rice Thresher Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved September 9 2021 America s most beautiful college campuses Travel Leisure September 2011 Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved December 18 2013 Barron David December 10 2020 After 70 years Rice Stadium remains a Houston landmark Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on December 23 2022 Retrieved December 23 2022 Rice Official Athletic Site Facilities Riceowls cstv com Archived from the original on April 2 2009 Retrieved January 22 2010 The speech Why the Moon is available on the Rice Webcast Archive Archived January 11 2009 at the Wayback Machine a b Rice University led Ion innovation district breaks ground HoustonChronicle com July 19 2019 Archived from the original on December 5 2020 Retrieved December 28 2020 Harms Natalie August 19 2020 Rice University transforms iconic Sears building into innovation hub Culture Map Archived from the original on August 10 2020 Retrieved August 19 2020 a b In Houston s Third Ward Community Groups are Fighting for Equitable Development The Texas Observer November 18 2020 Archived from the original on January 7 2021 Retrieved December 28 2020 a b c d Faculty Handbook University Governance and Structure Rice University Archived from the original on September 6 2015 Retrieved November 9 2015 About Us Rice Management Company Rice University Archived from the original on January 23 2021 Retrieved December 28 2020 a b Whalen Emma August 26 2021 Midtown TIRZ OKs infrastructure deal with Rice University around Ion campus impact Archived from the original on September 2 2021 Retrieved September 9 2021 a b Carnegie Classifications Rice University Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved November 22 2008 Rice Facts University Accreditation Rice University Archived from the original on January 11 2009 Retrieved November 22 2008 Rice Composition Exam Rice University 2012 Archived from the original on September 9 2011 Retrieved March 6 2013 Undergraduate Business Minor Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University February 9 2016 Archived from the original on November 1 2018 Retrieved October 31 2018 Degree Requirements Department of Sociology Rice University Archived from the original on November 1 2018 Retrieved October 31 2018 Beyond Traditional Borders Beyondtraditionalborders rice edu Archived from the original on July 1 2007 Retrieved January 22 2010 College Scorecard Rice University United States Department of Education Archived from the original on May 25 2022 Retrieved May 24 2022 a b Student Enrollment Office of Institutional Effectiveness Rice University Archived from the original on March 2 2022 Retrieved December 23 2022 Rice Honor Council Rice University Archived from the original on June 25 2022 Retrieved February 6 2011 The material fact Rice leads the world April 15 2010 Archived from the original on March 29 2020 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship named No 1 university business incubator in the world www yourkatynews com June 24 2014 Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved December 25 2014 BioScience Research Collaborative Leading Research Infinite Possibilities Rice University brc rice edu Archived from the original on June 25 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Boniuk Institute Rice University boniuk rice edu Archived from the original on June 24 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Britto Brittany October 25 2019 Rice launches new center for African African American studies Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on September 20 2020 Retrieved September 18 2020 Chao Center for Asian Studies Rice University chaocenter rice edu Archived from the original on November 2 2015 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice University Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality cswgs rice edu Archived from the original on July 5 2022 Retrieved June 11 2017 Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge D2K Rice University d2k rice edu Archived from the original on June 8 2022 Retrieved April 16 2020 Rice University Digital Signal Processing DSP dsp rice edu Archived from the original on April 23 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Welcome Humanities Research Center hrc rice edu Archived from the original on July 4 2022 Retrieved June 11 2017 Rice University Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering IBB ibb rice edu Archived from the original on April 23 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology kenkennedy rice edu Archived from the original on June 28 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 About Kinder Institute for Urban Research Archived from the original on October 8 2014 Retrieved December 25 2014 Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics LANP lanp blogs rice edu Archived from the original on June 25 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Lilie Lab Rice University business rice edu lilie lab Archived from the original on June 23 2021 Retrieved March 29 2022 Moody Center for the Arts moody rice edu Archived from the original on June 24 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen oedk rice edu Archived from the original on March 29 2020 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice Cinema vada rice edu Archived from the original on March 28 2020 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice Center for Engineering Leadership rcel rice edu Archived from the original on September 7 2015 Retrieved June 23 2020 Religion and Public Life Program Archived from the original on October 3 2020 Retrieved October 1 2020 Rice Design Alliance ricedesignalliance org Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice Center for Quantum Materials rcqm rice edu Archived from the original on April 18 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 REINVENTS Rice University reinvents rice edu Retrieved February 6 2023 Neuroengineering Neuroengineering Rice University Archived from the original on May 2 2020 Retrieved April 30 2020 Rice Space Institute rsi rice edu Archived from the original on September 12 2020 Retrieved March 29 2020 Rice Smalley Curl Institute sci rice edu Archived from the original on June 8 2022 Retrieved March 29 2020 The Welch Institute for Advanced Materials welchinstitute org Archived from the original on March 27 2022 Retrieved September 13 2020 a b Admission Statistics Undergraduate Admission Rice University admission rice edu Archived from the original on January 3 2020 Retrieved January 3 2020 Common Data Set 2016 2017 PDF Archived from the original PDF on August 9 2017 Rice University Office of Institutional Research Rice University Archived from the original on July 23 2018 Retrieved July 22 2018 Common Data Set 2014 2015 PDF Rice University Archived from the original PDF on October 11 2016 Retrieved July 31 2016 Common Data Set 2013 2014 PDF Rice University Archived from the original PDF on September 5 2015 Retrieved July 31 2016 Rice University U S News amp World Report 2017 Archived from the original on August 21 2012 Retrieved November 10 2015 Rice accepts 10 percent of applicants for the Class of 2024 The Rice Thresher Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved April 14 2020 ShanghaiRanking s Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Ranking Consultancy Retrieved September 13 2022 Forbes America s Top Colleges List 2022 Forbes Retrieved September 13 2022 Wall Street Journal Times Higher Education College Rankings 2022 The Wall Street Journal Times Higher Education Retrieved July 26 2022 2022 2023 Best National Universities U S News amp World Report Retrieved September 13 2022 2022 National University Rankings Washington Monthly Retrieved September 13 2022 ShanghaiRanking s Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Ranking Consultancy Retrieved February 25 2023 QS World University Rankings 2023 Top global universities Quacquarelli Symonds Retrieved February 25 2023 World University Rankings 2023 Times Higher Education Retrieved February 25 2023 2022 23 Best Global Universities Rankings U S News amp World Report Retrieved February 25 2023 Rice University U S News Best Grad School Rankings U S News amp World Report Archived from the original on November 24 2020 Retrieved September 26 2020 Rice University U S News Best Global University Rankings U S News amp World Report Archived from the original on August 18 2021 Retrieved September 26 2020 Rice University Rankings U S News amp World Report 2021 Archived from the original on April 25 2022 Retrieved February 26 2022 America s Best Colleges Forbes August 15 2019 Archived from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved September 13 2019 On top of the world again Rice Alliance named No 1 university business incubator Houston Business Journal June 24 2014 Archived from the original on September 6 2017 Retrieved June 7 2017 Rice University Rankings amp Lists The Princeton Review 2012 Archived from the original on March 1 2014 Retrieved August 1 2011 Staff Reports Princeton Review updates list of 20 most LGBT friendly unfriendly colleges LGBTQ Nation Archived from the original on January 2 2023 Retrieved January 2 2023 Rice University Rankings amp Lists The Princeton Review 2011 Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved August 1 2011 The Top American Research Universities PDF The Center for Measuring University Performance 2007 Archived from the original PDF on May 5 2015 Retrieved November 22 2008 Rice University News amp Media Rice University News amp Media Media rice edu Archived from the original on February 6 2012 Retrieved September 28 2012 Leiden Ranking Leiden Ranking Archived from the original on June 19 2012 Retrieved September 28 2012 2011 2012 Leiden Ranking Archived from the original on June 19 2012 Retrieved September 28 2012 Leiden ranks Rice No 1 for natural sciences and engineering No 6 for all sciences Archived April 27 2013 at the Wayback Machine News rice edu 2013 04 24 Retrieved on 2013 09 06 a b See the web page for the Rice University Art Gallery 1995 2017 Rice University Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved April 27 2009 Rice University Art Gallery closed May 14 2017 ending its exhibition program For more than twenty years Rice Gallery was the only university gallery in the nation devoted to commissioning site specific installation art Zipcars offer campus a new transportation option Media rice edu Archived from the original on June 7 2011 Retrieved October 28 2012 Rice University About the residential college system Archived August 3 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved April 23 2011 College Assignments Rice edu May 11 2015 Archived from the original on May 2 2017 Retrieved May 9 2017 Garza Cynthia Leonor March 15 2007 Rice undergrads share a sense of community Houston Chronicle Viren Sarah April 14 2007 Beer Bike s 50th bash lets good time roll at Rice tradition that began in 1957 now integral part of school s social scene Houston Chronicle Coffeehouse 16 Years of Providing Rice with Society s Most Acceptable Drug The Rice Thresher November 17 2006 Rice University Residential colleges Rice University June 10 2016 Archived from the original on October 21 2016 Retrieved October 21 2016 Willy s Pub Rice University Archived from the original on February 12 2005 Retrieved November 22 2008 Willy s Pub 1975 1995 The Thresher Online April 21 1995 Archived from the original on July 10 2007 Retrieved December 31 2006 Willy s Pub rebrands as the Pub at Rice Archived from the original on July 6 2022 Retrieved February 16 2022 Rice Bikes rice edu Archived from the original on November 15 2014 Retrieved April 22 2015 a b History rice edu Rice Bikes Archived from the original on February 22 2015 Retrieved April 22 2015 The Rice Thresher The Rice Thresher Archived from the original on September 10 2009 Retrieved October 28 2012 Houston Best of Houston Best Radio Station page 1 Houston press com September 21 2000 Archived from the original on April 26 2007 Retrieved January 22 2010 Houston Best of Houston Houston Bestof houstonpress com Archived from the original on September 30 2007 Retrieved January 22 2010 Houston Best of Houston Best Hip hop Radio Show page 1 Houston press com September 25 2003 Archived from the original on May 6 2007 Retrieved January 22 2010 Kever Jeannie August 16 2010 UH System board considers plan to buy Rice radio station Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on August 17 2010 Retrieved August 18 2010 Correspondence for KTRU Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original on September 17 2011 Retrieved April 18 2011 RTV5 Rice Student Television rtv5 rice edu R2 The Rice Review Archived May 16 2007 at the Wayback Machine r2mag rice edu Rice sex magazine makes its virgin launch Archived May 2 2008 at the Wayback Machine chron com a b Merrick Amy September 20 2004 Another Money Losing Season Wall Street Journal Archived from the original on November 8 2020 Retrieved February 15 2013 News www usaultimate org Archived from the original on September 12 2015 Retrieved June 11 2017 Rice University Faculty Achievements Archived from the original on August 18 2021 Retrieved July 1 2021 Ketterer Samantha July 5 2022 Rice chemist Nobel laureate Robert Curl dies at 88 Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on July 16 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Wilson Robert Woodrow 1936 history aip org Archived from the original on October 7 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Dansby Andrew August 28 2020 David Eagleman wants you to think much more about the brain Preview Houston Arts amp Entertainment Guide Archived from the original on May 4 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Jerry Woodfill Biological Background SpaceActs com 2012 Archived from the original on May 17 2013 Retrieved August 4 2013 Thomas H Cruikshank Halliburton Co Profile and Biography Bloomberg com Retrieved July 27 2022 John Doerr Forbes Magazine Archived from the original on July 27 2022 Retrieved July 26 2022 Howard Hughes www famoustexans com Archived from the original on June 6 2014 Retrieved July 27 2022 1992 Fred C Koch Kansas Business Hall of Fame Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Malik Sumaiya Elizabeth Avellan plants seeds of change through Connecther film fest Austin American Statesman Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Meet Tim League one of Fast Company s Most Creative People Fast Company Archived from the original on February 12 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Meet Karrie League one of Fast Company s Most Creative People Fast Company Archived from the original on February 12 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Coinbase s Brian Armstrong Remembered At Alma Mater Rice University Alumni Spotlight Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 McMurtry College mcmurtry rice edu Archived from the original on November 2 2022 Retrieved November 2 2022 Burton J McMurtry CHM Archived from the original on November 2 2022 Retrieved November 2 2022 Alberto Gonzales Former Attorney General georgewbush whitehouse archives gov Archived from the original on July 2 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Charles W Duncan Houston org www houston org Archived from the original on August 1 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 William P Hobby Jr The Texas Politics Project July 29 2019 Archived from the original on December 27 2019 Retrieved July 27 2022 John Kline The Hill Page 1 The Hill Archived from the original on July 27 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Root Jay October 3 2019 George P Bush was on the road to flunking out of Rice His grandmother helped him turn things around The Texas Tribune Archived from the original on July 27 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Birenbaum G May 18 2022 George P Bush and His Run for Texas Attorney General Washington Monthly Archived from the original on July 27 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Josh Earnest whitehouse gov January 4 2012 Archived from the original on November 19 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Ben Rhodes The Barack Obama Scholars Program April 24 2019 Archived from the original on May 1 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Ben Rhodes Former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Archived from the original on June 27 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 Glenn Youngkin College Stats College Basketball at Sports Reference com Archived from the original on May 22 2021 Retrieved July 27 2022 Scherer Jasper May 11 2019 Annise Parker at Rice commencement Failure is an option Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on July 27 2022 Retrieved July 27 2022 An Ode to Larry McMurtry s Enduring Houston Houstonia Magazine Archived from the original on July 29 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 W Audrey June 1 2019 Author Spotlight Joyce Carol Oates Arcadia Publishing Archived from the original on June 16 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Adams Patty September 21 2008 Big Apple Babe Candace Bushnell Page Six Magazine Archived from the original on September 11 2012 Retrieved May 10 2012 John Graves Texas Monthly Archived from the original on May 19 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Rice alumna Caroline Shaw wins Pulitzer in music news2 rice edu Archived from the original on November 2 2022 Retrieved November 2 2022 Chen Howard February 23 2022 Lance Berkman and Jose Cruz Jr A look back at 2 spectacular playing careers before their coaching days KPRC Archived from the original on March 7 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Duncan Henry February 25 2019 How Brock Holt Became Boston s Glue Guy Joker Mag Archived from the original on April 18 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Remember Bubba Crosby Pinstripe Alley June 26 2015 Archived from the original on November 12 2020 Retrieved July 30 2022 HAROLD SOLOMON RETIRING AT GRAND OLD AGE OF 33 Chicago Tribune Archived from the original on September 26 2020 Retrieved July 30 2022 Swartz Jimmy November 13 2020 The Life And Career Of QB Frank Ryan Complete Story Browns Nation Archived from the original on June 15 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Thomas Mike December 21 2020 Why Does Tommy Kramer Former Vikings QB Have a Packers Urinal in His House Sportscasting Pure Sports Archived from the original on July 24 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Duarte Joseph May 18 2022 Jose Cruz Jr discovers Rice baseball won t be rebuilt overnight Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on May 18 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Hill Glynn A September 4 2019 Owls great O J Brigance can always call Rice home Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Martin Sean Special Teams Ghost Leaves Lasting Impression in New England Bleacher Report Archived from the original on July 24 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Farmer Chris Houston Texans TE James Casey Bookmark Him Now Bleacher Report Archived from the original on February 14 2010 Retrieved July 30 2022 Catching Up with Former Reps Courtney Hall NFL Players Association Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Rice Owls highest NFL draft picks since 1970 CW39 Houston April 27 2022 Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Rice University s Luke Willson is a Stand up Guy Pro Player Insiders Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Ramsey Joshua Down on the Farm Is Tony Cingrani the Cincinnati Reds Top Prospect Bleacher Report Archived from the original on August 22 2012 Retrieved July 30 2022 Doering Joshua October 28 2021 Angels Anthony Rendon God will use me regardless of on field success Sports Spectrum Archived from the original on November 1 2021 Retrieved July 30 2022 Tribute for Leo Victor Rucka Sterling White Funeral Home and Cemetery Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Future Owls futureowls rice edu Archived from the original on May 19 2017 Retrieved May 9 2017 Khan Jr Sam March 30 2008 Angleton boys loom large at Rice track meet Chron Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Staff reports June 10 2022 NCAA track Rice s Grace Forbes second in 10 000 meters Houston Chronicle Archived from the original on June 10 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 Litsky Frank June 28 1964 Vault Is 4th Best The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on July 30 2022 Retrieved July 30 2022 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rice University Official website Rice University Athletics website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rice University amp oldid 1148569406, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.