Research

Content Description Dr. Williams papers include his correspondence, and resources gathered over the period 1983 to 2020. The main thrust of his work was directed at gathering information about and categorizing the status of individuals involved avocationally in astronomy. The resources gathered for these studies include articles from professional journals, newspapers, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and secondary sources involving their scientific activity, discoveries and contribution, their lives, e.g. their...

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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 Kathryn Morrow African American Research Collection contains research and essays from Morrow’s years in graduate school, as well as a powerpoint presentation on a CD, and census documents, registration lists, and collection guides focused on African Americans in Texas in the 1860-1880s.

Scope and Contents The Larry W. Bryant UFO research collection contains personal papers such as correspondence, photographs, and articles written by Larry Bryant, as well as papers from his participation in UFO organizations like MUFON and CAUS, including board meeting minutes, budget notes, and quarterly reports. A large section of the collection is devoted to Bryant’s research into ufology using court cases against the government and Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain files kept from...

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This collection contains typescripts, proofs, correspondence, microfilm, and notecards of Madeleine Alcover for her critical editions and studies on Cyrano de Bergerac; Cyrano’s family, as well as his writer-friends Charles d’Assoucy, Le Royer de Prades, Henry Le Bret, and others. The collection also contains documents and correspondence related to Alcover's academic career.

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This collection contains the teaching resources and writings of renowned teacher, researcher, playwright, and actress Naomi Carrier, whose advocacy for African-American voices in history has had a profound effect on educational representation in Texas.

Abstract Oral history interviews and research materials dating from 1975-1978 related to Fredericka Meiners’ book, A History of Rice University: The Institute Years, 1907-1963, which was commissioned by the Rice Historical Commission. This collection includes original audiotapes, transcripts of selected interviews, related correspondence, documents, typescripts, and notes, and a digitized version of the audiotapes (created 2003 by the generosity of the Rice Historical Society). A small amount of...

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This collection consists of the activities of the Rice University Hobby Center for the Study of Texas.

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These records reflect the daily business of the Office of Institutional Research, which administrates grant funded projects at Rice University. Types of records include Information Requests, Rice Facts, Rice University Profiles, New Faculty, Reading Files, and more.

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Documents related to the daily business of the Regional Information & Communication Exchange (R.i.C.E.), which was established in 1967 as a fee-based information service operating as a cost-recovery center within the division of community services of Fondren Library. RiCE closed in December 2003.