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Rice University was founded by William Marsh Rice in 1892 and was originally named "The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art." It opened in 1912 in the Museum District of Houston, Texas.
Rice boasts a 3 billion dollar endowment, owing partly to William Marsh Rice's generous bequest. Until 1964 Rice did not charge tuition. Today, Rice still charges considerably lower tuition than most private universities. Indeed, near the beginning of the 21st century, Rice was named a "Best Buy" by U.S. News & World Report; and the university topped the best-value catagories of both the Princeton Review and The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
Rice professors Robert Curl and Richard Smalley received the Nobel Prize in 1996 in chemistry for their discovery of fullerenes. Other Nobel Laureates have had affiliations with the university, both as alumni and researchers. Some of the first work on artificial hearts was done with the help of Rice faculty. Rice has emerged in recent years as a world leader in the field of nanotechnology.
Rice Univeristy is located in the Houston Museum District, adjacent to Hermann Park and the Texas Medical Center, and is served by an offsite light rail station on the Red Line of the Houston METRORail system.
The campus is organized into a number of quadrangles, and features buildings designed in a style informally called neo-Byzantine.
The Academic Quad is centered on the memorial to William Marsh Rice. It includes the administration buildings, Fondren Library, and the buildings for physics, languages, architecture, and the humanities.
The Engineering Quad is centered on a set of three sculptures collectively entitled "45/90/180" and includes buildings for the electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and computer science departments.
The Residential Quad is home to a college system similar to those found at Yale University, Oxford and Cambridge. The nine residential colleges (Baker, Brown, Hanszen, Jones, Lovett, Martel, Sid Rich, Weiss, Will Rice) act as self-governed social units. Each college has unique traditions, including Baker 13, Beer Bike, and the Night of Decadence (also known as NOD). Seventeen Magazine named Rice the "coolest college in the land" in its "Top 100 Coolest Colleges" issue in October 2002.
Rice participates in NCAA Division I-A athletics and is part of the Western Athletic Conference. However, in 2005 Rice will leave the WAC and join Conference USA. Rice Baseball won the national title in 2003. Rice Stadium seats 72,000 and was the site of Super Bowl VIII and a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962. In addition to football, Rice Stadium also serves as the performance venue for the university's famous Marching Owl Band.
Rice's mascot is an owl named "Sammy."
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