Rice University
Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It sits on a 300-acre campus adjacent to the Houston Museum District and the Texas Medical Center.
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. It has a 6:1 student-faculty ratio.[3] Rice has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1985 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[9][10][11] The university is organized into eight schools of academic study.[12][13][14] Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of the American Athletic Conference.[15] Its teams are the Rice Owls.
The university's alumni include 26 Marshall Scholars, 12 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Churchill Scholars, and 3 Nobel laureates.[16][17][18][19] The Rice Space Institute has collaborated with the Johnson Space Center for more than 50 years.[20] In business, Rice graduates include CEOs, founders of Fortune 500 companies and four billionaires;[21] in politics, alumni include politicians and cabinet members.
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.[148]
In science and technology, Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts; Robert Curl,[149] Nobel laureate discoverer of fullerene; Robert Woodrow Wilson,[150] winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation; Matthew Sands,[151] physicist and co-author of The Feynman Lectures on Physics; David Eagleman,[152] celebrity neuroscientist and NYT bestselling author; and NASA former Apollo 11 and 13 warning systems engineer and motivational speaker Jerry Woodfill.[153]
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,[179] Brock Holt,[180] Bubba Crosby,[181] Harold Solomon,[182] Frank Ryan,[183] Tommy Kramer,[184]Jose Cruz, Jr.,[185] O.J. Brigance,[186] Larry Izzo,[187] James Casey,[188] Courtney Hall,[189] Bert Emanuel,[190] Luke Willson,[191] Tony Cingrani,[192] Anthony Rendon,[193] and Leo Rucka,[194] as well as three Olympians[195] (Funmi Jimoh '06,[196] Allison Beckford '04,[197] and William Fred Hansen '63).[198]
