This collection documents the academic career of Dr. Franz R. Brotzen (1915-2010) of Rice University, who served as Stanley C. Moore Professor Emeritus of Materials Science, as Dean of Engineering and as master at Rice's Jones and Brown colleges.

These records consist of the academic and Rice University-related work, correspondence, course materials, publications, and student work of Kathleen S. Matthews.

The collection consists of historical information about and publications of the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies from the 1960s through 2013. The publications are about specific programs, conferences, and institutes, as well as course description brochures and course catalogues.

This collection contains correspondence, departmental records, course preparation materials, and course assistant records relating to Thomas A. Rabson’s career as professor of electrical engineering at Rice University. Also included are conference materials, reference materials, energy research studies and reports, and information concerning Dr. Rabson’s grant proposals, consultation with energy and electronics corporations, and expertise in lasers and ferroelectric thin films.

Physics course evaluations, grant funded research applications, experiment notes, related to the T.W. Bonner Lab at Rice University.