Pictures of Success: Campaign Creates Striking Images Across Campus

Wherever you go on campus, you’ll see the impact of Rice: The Next Century Campaign. The university has advanced dramatically, thanks to gifts from generous alumni and friends committed to ensuring a university of excellence for today and the future.

Undergrad Scholarships:
bringing the best and brightest to Rice
During the campaign, 261 new scholarships have been created.

Residential Colleges:
maintaining unique residential life
The new Wiess College and Martel College, the ninth residential college, were dedicated in 2002.

Athletic facilities:
hitting a home run
The new baseball stadium, Reckling Park, opened in 2000.

Endowed chairs:
honoring accomplished faculty
During the campaign, 21 new chairs have been created.

Graduate fellowships:
supporting outstanding researchers
Numerous fellowships have been established, including one from the Brown Foundation for the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program at the Shepherd School of Music, postdoctoral Mellon fellowships for the Center for the Study of Cultures, and a Packard Fellowship for plasma research.

Facilities:
ensuring excellence in teaching and learning

Donations support many programs, operations, and facilities across campus.

Research:
focusing on the future
Donations have been made for major research projects, including those from Shell Oil Company Foundation for the establishment of the Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice and from the Ford Foundation to support a joint program of Rice and Baylor College of Medicine.

Rice Annual Fund:
supporting the university day-to-day
Donations support many programs, operations, and facilities across campus. Unrestricted annual gifts are used at the discretion of the president where the needs are greatest.

These are representative of donations made to the campaign through March 31, 2003.