22. Rice University faculty and administrative records

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These papers include research files, course materials, selected student papers, and documents related to the daily and annual business of the sociology department, including financial reports, departmental memos, faculty evaluations, and correspondence. In addition there are drafts, typescripts, and published articles written by Elizabeth Long.

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The Alex J. Dessler Academic Papers chroncile primarily the Rice University career of the Professor Emeritus of Space Physics & Astronomy. The bulk of his papers are in the correspondence and publications series. Meeting notes and proposals are detailed, and the visuals show images and drawings used for various presentations and talks. His personal materials follow his career outside of Rice and also include some of his honors.

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This collection contains the professional files of Rice University professor of Musicology Marcia Citron. The collection contains essays, journals, newsclippings, magazines, programs, correspondence, conference ephemera, etc.

Abstract This collection is comprised of materials gathered by Dr. James Castañeda over forty-seven years of involvement with athletics at Rice University. There are records pertaining to the two sports he coached, baseball and golf, as well as the full range of sports partici- pated in by Rice students. Also included are materials relating to both the “R” Association, which is made up of winners of varsity letters, the Owl Club, whose members are donors supporting Rice...

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Course materials, notes, correspondence and administrative papers of Dr. Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Dr. Patten's research areas include Nineteenth-century British literature and art, and history of the book.

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These records reflect the daily business of the Provost's Office under physicist Dr. Neal Lane’s leadership (1986-93). They reveal the daily business of the Provost's Office, which has the overall responsibility for the institution's educational and research programs.

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Paul Cooper’s papers document his professional career as a composer, music critic, author and teacher, at Rice University, University of Michigan, and University of Cincinnati. Formats include correspondence, compositions (scores), course notes and outlines, photographs, notes, performance, programs, and sound recordings; dates range from 1943-1995.

Abstract Since 1963, Rice has conducted a self study every 10 years as part of an accreditation process. The university takes an intensive look at itself and examines all aspect of university life and activity, including faculty, staff, students and infrastructure. The collection includes 12.5 linear feet of documents and related corporate materials for self studies from 1963 to 1995. The record includes meeting minutes, reports, surveys, correspondence, computer generated reports and published...

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Correspondence, reports, notes, drafts, memos, etc. created and collected by the Rice University President's Office, (Norman Hackerman, President). These materials reflect the daily business of the President's Office during the years 1969-1985, concerning academics, fundraising, atheltics, administration, research, student life, and planning for Rice's future.

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The William V. Houston Personal Papers document Houston's personal life and academic career beginning with his university education at Ohio State and Chicago in 1925, and continuing with his studies in Munich and Leipzig during 1927 and 1928 and his work at the California Institute of Technology from 1928 until he accepted the presidency of Rice Institute in 1946.