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New page: == Summary == Rice University is a university in Houston, Texas, known for its acclaimed engineering, architecture, and music programs. The s...
== Summary ==
Rice University is a university in [[Houston]], [[Texas]], known for its acclaimed [[engineering]], [[architecture]], and [[Shepherd School of Music| music]] programs. The school also has a well-recognized [[history]] department, and like every major research university, has a department on [[evolutionary biology]].<ref>http://www.students.rice.edu/students/Departments.asp</ref> The university is consistently ranked highly in [[U.S. News and World Report]], at 17 in 2007, but significantly higher in sciences.<ref>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php</ref> The school is known as well for its connection with the [[Houston Medical Center]], [[Baylor School of Medicine]], and the emergent field of [[nanotechnology]], which Rice's [[Richard Smalley]] in large part pioneered.<ref>http://smalley.rice.edu/smalley.cfm?doc_id=5112</ref>
== Residential Life ==
The University breaks its students into [[residential colleges]], which included in 2007 the colleges of Hanszen, Baker, Brown, Lovett, Weiss, Jones, Martel, Sid Richardson, and William Rice Jr. Attorney General [[Alberto Gonzalez]] is a Rice University graduate, and an alumnus of [[Lovett College]] specifically.
== Vandalism ==
At least one Rice University alumnus has been accused of vandalism for attempting to relate the results of knowledge obtained at the university to articles on [[Conservapedia]].
Rice University is a university in [[Houston]], [[Texas]], known for its acclaimed [[engineering]], [[architecture]], and [[Shepherd School of Music| music]] programs. The school also has a well-recognized [[history]] department, and like every major research university, has a department on [[evolutionary biology]].<ref>http://www.students.rice.edu/students/Departments.asp</ref> The university is consistently ranked highly in [[U.S. News and World Report]], at 17 in 2007, but significantly higher in sciences.<ref>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php</ref> The school is known as well for its connection with the [[Houston Medical Center]], [[Baylor School of Medicine]], and the emergent field of [[nanotechnology]], which Rice's [[Richard Smalley]] in large part pioneered.<ref>http://smalley.rice.edu/smalley.cfm?doc_id=5112</ref>
== Residential Life ==
The University breaks its students into [[residential colleges]], which included in 2007 the colleges of Hanszen, Baker, Brown, Lovett, Weiss, Jones, Martel, Sid Richardson, and William Rice Jr. Attorney General [[Alberto Gonzalez]] is a Rice University graduate, and an alumnus of [[Lovett College]] specifically.
== Vandalism ==
At least one Rice University alumnus has been accused of vandalism for attempting to relate the results of knowledge obtained at the university to articles on [[Conservapedia]].