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Good hedges make good neighbors

Rice and Houston. Houston and Rice. It's a synergistic relationship that's been mutually beneficial for more than 95 years. And, as we approach our next 100 years of service, we have renewed and strengthened our commitment to engaging the Houston community. As one of the nation's premier research universities, we look at our home city as the fourth-largest laboratory in the U.S., and we're committed to making it central to student discovery through community-based research and learning experiences. We're also committed to taking care of it just like we do our own internationally acclaimed facilities. After all, isn't that what being a good neighbor is about?


Fondren
A diamond year for Rice’s Fondren Library

For six decades, Fondren Library has been at the center of Rice University’s campus. That’s reason enough to celebrate. The institution will mark the diamond anniversary of its world-class library Wednesday with a special panel discussion. Find out what the library has meant to generations of Rice faculty, students and alumni by attending the event.

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Dinner Dialogues
Rice helps deliver an act of good faith over dinner

Each fall, people of varied backgrounds gather around dinner tables across the country to share their beliefs, values and faith as part of the Amazing Faiths Project. In partnership with Rice's Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, this annual gathering will be held Nov. 12 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

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Campus trees
Rice students help preserve museum's treasures

For decades, museum staffers have been depending on the old-fashioned method of building plywood boxes around things they want to keep. Of course, it doesn't take a curator to figure out that's not the best way to store the world's most prized possessions. So luckily for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, a group of Rice students didn't have any trouble thinking outside of the box.

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And the greenest campus in Texas is …

When it comes to going green, Rice University is second to none in the Lone Star State. The institution earned the highest grade among Texas schools in the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card issued this month by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. By making its campus more environmentally-friendly, Rice was named “a campus sustainability leader.”

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