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Rice University, officially William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It sits on a 300-acre (120 ha) campus adjacent to the Houston Museum District and the Texas Medical Center .
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The Baker Institute was founded in 1993. James Baker envisioned a public policy institute where “statesmen and scholars work[ed] in an atmosphere of intellectual excellence and strict nonpartisanship to develop fresh, informed approaches to policy,” while the idea for a public policy institute on campus came from Rice University political science professor Richard Stoll. [5]
The campus of Rice University is located on a heavily wooded 290-acre (120-hectare) plot of land on South Main Street in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. It is located east of Rice Village , a retail district, south of Boulevard Oaks and Southampton , west of the Texas Medical Center , and north of Southgate .
It serves the largest number of undergraduates, with over a third of Rice undergraduates choosing a major in the social sciences. [1] It is composed of seven departments: anthropology , economics , linguistics , political science , psychology , sociology , and sport management .
Roger Penrose, former Rice University’s Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics, [121] awarded 2020 in physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity [122] Richard Smalley, professor of chemistry, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
The George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing is an academic school at Rice University in Houston, Texas.It contains the departments of Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and ...
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