William Marsh Rice University, referred to the Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on the campus of 295 acres (1.19 km2) in Houston, Texas, USA. The university is located near the Houston area museum is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.
Opened in 1912 after the death of its namesake, William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a research university with a focus at the university level. The emphasis on education is reflected by a small student body and 6: 1 ratio of students to faculty members. The university has a very high level of research activity for their size, with $ 115300000 in financing research sponsorship in 2011. Rice notes of Applied Science programs in the areas of artificial heart research, structural chemical analysis and signal processing and space sciences, and nanotechnology. He was ranked first in the world in the field of research and materials science by the Times Higher Education (THE) in 2010 and is a member of the Association of American Universities rice.
University and organized into a ten residential colleges and eight schools of academic study, including the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, and the George R. Brown School of Engineering, Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Humanities. Graduate programs are offered through the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, School of Architecture, Shepherd School of Music, and Susan M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. Students must rice by a strict honor code, which are carried out by the Council of honor student-run.
Rice compete in 14 NCAA varsity sports section I, and forms part of the United States, and often compete with its rival across town, the University of Houston. And it offers intramural sports and club in a wide variety of activities such as jitsu wrestling and water polo, and crew.
Rice University history began with the sudden death Massachusetts acts of William Marsh Rice, who made his fortune in real estate, and the development of railways and trade cotton in Texas. In 1891, Rice decided to hire a tuition-free educational institution in Houston, which bears his name, to be created upon his death, his estate allocation of more than about financing the project. Rice will set forth the institution to be "competitive institution at the highest degree," and that would allow only white students to attend. On the morning of September 23, 1900, Rice was found dead by his valet, assumed that he died in his sleep. Shortly thereafter, made a big check suspiciously to the New York City Bar Rice, signed in late Rice, was noticed by an employee in the bank because of a spelling error in the recipient's name. Attorney Albert T. Patrick, then announced that Rice had changed his desire to leave the bulk of his fortune to Patrick, instead of creating an educational institution Rice. And it resulted in the subsequent investigation by the Attorney General in New York resulted in the arrest of Patrick and servants Rice and server Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he was asleep. Rice's friend and personal lawyer in Houston, James Baker, the father, and helped in the discovery of what turned out to be fake commandment with forged signature. Jones has not been tried since he cooperated with the prosecutor and testified against Patrick. Patrick has been found guilty of conspiring to steal a fortune Rice and convicted of murder in 1901, although he was pardoned in 1912 because of conflicting medical testimony. Baker helped guide the real estate Rice fortune worth $ 4.6 million in 1904 ($ 121 million today), towards the establishment of what was called the Rice Institute. The Council took control of the assets on April 29 of that year.
In 1907, the Board of Trustees chose 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 the president of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson. In 1908, Lovett accepted the challenge, and was formally inaugurated as the first president of the institute on October 12, the 1912 carried out extensive research before formalizing the new institute plans, including visits to 78 institutions of higher learning around the world in a long tour between 1908 and 1909. I was impressed carried things like the aesthetic beauty of the unification of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, a subject which was adopted by the Institute, as well as the residential college system at Cambridge University in England, which was added to the Institute after several decades. Lovett called for the establishment of the University of the "highest degree", "Foundation for Liberal Education and technical" sanctified "just as much to achieve for instructions." Maintaining the highest standards and numbers down, "he said Lovett." Teachers discerning must take its role in university teaching, and the spirit must dominate everything. "
In 1911 the foundation stone for the first building of the Institute mode, and the administration building, now known as Hall carried out in honor of the founder of the President. On September 23, 1912, on the anniversary of the assassination of William Marsh Rice, William Marsh Rice Institute began to advance the arts and sciences and the arts course work. It was recorded 48 male and 29 female students, non-payment of tuition fees, with classes taught by dozens of faculty members. An unusual time, Rice accepted mixed acceptance.
After three weeks of opening, holding international academic amazing festival in celebration, so Rice the world's attention for a full scholarship. Four years later, at the first graduation ceremony, he was awarded 35 bachelor's degree and master's degree one. That year, students voted to adopt the honor system, which still exists today. He awarded the first doctorate in 1918 in mathematics Hubert Bray.
During World War II, it was Rice Institute and one of the 131 colleges and universities at the national level that have participated in the program for the V-12 Navy College Training provided to students through the Maritime Commission.
Founder of the memorial statue, a bronze statue of William Marsh Rice sits, holding the original plans of the campus, was dedicated in 1930, and installed at the Central Academy of quad, facing the hall and wit. The statue has been developed by John landlords. And it adopted the residential college system proposed by the President carried out in 1958, with the establishment of the East Room to become that Baker College, South Hall residence become Lowell Rice, West Hall College to become Hanszen College, and a temporary Wiess become Wiess College.
In 1959, Rice's Computer Institute went online. 1960 saw the Rice Institute officially named the William Marsh Rice University. The disposal of rice a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between the modest oil company refinery and NASA, to create the NASA Manned Space Center (now called the Johnson Space Center) in 1962. President John F. Kennedy after he gave a speech at Rice Stadium, stressing that the United States intends to reach to the moon before the end of the decade of the 1960s, and "to become the nation faring the world's leading space". This relationship has remained from NASA, Rice University and the city of Houston strong to this day.
The original charter of the Institute of Rice hoped that the university accept and educate, free of tuition fees, and "white residents of Houston, and the state of Texas." In 1963, the Board of Management, Rice University presented a lawsuit to allow the university to amend its charter to accept students of all races and charge tuition. In 1964, Rice was officially amended the charter of the university graduate abolition of racial segregation and university departments. Board of Trustees of Rice University has prevailed in a lawsuit to invalidate the racist language in the trust in 1966. Rice began charging tuition for the first time in 1965. In the same year, Rice launched a $ 33 million development campaign ($ 248 million). $ 43 million ($ 262 million) raised by its conclusion in 1970. In 1974, it was the establishment of two new schools in Rice, Graduate School of Jesse H. Jones School of Management and the sponsor of the music. Launched a challenge Brown Foundation, a fundraising program designed to encourage annual gifts, in 1976, it ended in 1996 after raising $ 185 million ($ 279 million). Rice School of Social Sciences was established in 1979.
On-campus housing exclusively for men over the first forty years. Jones was the first women's college accommodation on the campus of Rice, followed by Brown College. According to legend, and college women are meaningful at the opposite end of the campus from the list of men colleges as a way to maintain fitness campus, which was greatly appreciated by Edgar Odell Lovett, who did not even allow the seats to be installed on campus, fearing that they were " It may lead to participation in the fraternity between the sexes. " Given the road linking the north to the center of college campus tongue-in-cheek name of "Walk of the Virgin." Individual colleges mixed became between 1973 and 1987, with floors of one genus of colleges that may turn them mixed by 2006. By that time, it has built many new residential colleges on campus to deal with the growth in the university, including the college Lovett, Mr. Richardson College, and the College of Martel.
And held economic summit of industrialized nations at Rice in 1990. In 1993, was created by James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. In 1997, Edythe Bates Old Grand device Recital Hall and the center of nano-science and technology, which was named in 2005 for the Nobel Prize and the late Professor Richard Smalley, Rice was dedicated, in the rice. In 1999, it was created diversity and nano-technology center environment. Rice baseball team was ranked No. 1 album in the country for the first time in that year (1999), holding the top spot for eight weeks.
In 2003, and he won the album's first national championship in baseball, which was the first of its kind at the university in any team sport, beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then Texas and Stanford University twice all the way to the title. In 2008, President David Leebron issued a ten-point plan titled "Vision of the second century," drawing up plans to increase funding for research, and enhance existing programs, and to increase cooperation. Brought another wave of construction campus plan, including the erection which newly renamed building Biosciences Cooperative Research (aimed at strengthening cooperation with the adjacent Texas Medical Center), and an entertainment center again, and a basketball court Autry Court renovated, and add new residential colleges, Duncan College and McMurtry.
Starting from late 2008, and is considered the university merger with Baylor College of Medicine, though, it refused to integrate end up in the university choose Rice in 2010. The guaranteed offline admission to Baylor College of Medicine after graduation as part of the medical scientists Rice / Baylor program. According to Professor John Paul's history, "a book recently released University Builder: Edgar Odell carried out and the establishment of Rice Institute, and included the original vision of the first president of the University hopes in the faculties of medicine and law in the future.
