Rice University

Overview This collection documents not only the early years of the Rice Institute, but also the years the institute was in the planning stages and William Marsh Rice's involvement. The assets of the institute are also detailed.

Overview Correspondence, news clippings, contracts, speeches, reports, minutes, and other types of documents used in conducting the business of the President’s Office from the Assistant to the President, Mark Scheid 1999-2006.

Abstract This collection consists of correspondence, financial information, newsletters, newsclippings, photographs, recordings, memorabilia, and uniforms related to Rice University Bands, including MOB, Rice Jazz Ensemble, and Rice Concert Band.

Abstract: The memoranda, reports, proposals and correspondence generated by or for the Rice University Committee on Undergraduate Teaching.

Overview Records of the Search Committee for the position of Dean of Architecture, spanning the years 1988 to 1993.

Abstract Baker College is one of the five original residential colleges at Rice University. These records consist of material related to college business, social activities, publications, and correspondence, as well as photographs, video, and scrapbooks.

Overview This collection consists of materials related to the Lynn R. Lowrey Arboretum on the campus of Rice University. Included are records of the inaugural plantings in 1999, news clips, meeting minutes, correspondence, planning information, and oral interviews on videotape, conducted by the Conservation History Association of Texas for the Texas Legacy Project, 2004. Also included is Charles Tapley’s presentation copy of Texas Wild Flowers by Eliza Johnston.

Abstract These records contain information on commissions, minutes of meetings both of the committee and of the Association of Naval ROTC Colleges; questionnaires sent to other schools with ROTC programs; information on various ROTC summer camp programs and a significant number of correspondences between ROTC Committee chairmen, faculty, and administration.