Editing Rice University (section)

==Campus==
{{Main|Campus of Rice University}}Located near the city of [[West University Place, Texas|West University Place]], Rice University's campus covers a {{convert|285|acre|ha|adj=on}} area within Houston's museum district and is heavily wooded.[[File:Rice University Main Entrance.jpg|thumb|The main entrance to Rice University]]
[[File:Rice University Mechanical Laboratory and Power House.jpg|210px|thumb|Rice University Mechanical Laboratory and Power House. The second building on campus.]]

The campus is defined by five streets: Greenbriar Street, Rice Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Main Street, and University Boulevard. Throughout its history, Rice University's buildings have been situated within this "outer loop." However, in recent times,{{When|date=April 2023}} new facilities have been constructed in proximity to the campus. Despite this, most of the academic, administrative, and residential structures are still situated within the original pentagonal area. Some off-campus buildings include the Collaborative Research Center, graduate student housing, the Greenbriar building, and the Wiess President's House.[[File:Founders bench.jpg|thumb|upright|A stone bench in the Academic Quad]]

Rice University's campus houses around 50 buildings that are dispersed between the main entrance located at its easternmost corner and the parking lots and Rice Stadium situated at the western end.  The [[Lynn R. Lowrey Arboretum]], consisting of more than 4000 trees and shrubs is spread throughout the campus.
[[File:View outside Brochstein Pavilion.png|thumb|177x177px|View of Rice campus outside Brochstein Pavilion]]
The university's first president, [[Edgar Odell Lovett]], intended for the campus to have a uniform architecture style to improve its aesthetic appeal. Nearly every building on campus is noticeably [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]] in style, with sand and pink-colored bricks, large archways and columns being a common theme among many campus buildings. 
[[File:Duncan Hall at Rice University.jpg|thumb|Duncan Hall is Rice's hub for engineering and computation.]]
Lovett Hall, named for Rice's first president, is the university's landmark building. Through its Sallyport arch, new students symbolically enter the university during matriculation and depart as graduates at commencement. Duncan Hall, Rice's computational engineering building, was designed to encourage collaboration between the four different departments situated there. The building's foyer, drawn from many world cultures, was designed by the architect to symbolically express this collaborative purpose.

The campus is organized in a number of [[quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangles]]. The Academic Quad, anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice, includes [[Ralph Adams Cram]]'s masterpiece, the asymmetrical Lovett Hall, the original administrative building; [[Fondren Library]]; Herzstein Hall, the original physics building and home to the largest [[amphitheater]] on campus; Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts; Rayzor Hall for the languages; and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department. The Humanities Building, winner of several architectural awards, is immediately adjacent to the main quad. Further west lies a quad surrounded by McNair Hall of the [[Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business|Jones Business School]], the [[James Baker Institute|Baker Institute]], and Alice Pratt Brown Hall of the [[Shepherd School of Music]]. These two quads are surrounded by the university's main access road, a one-way loop referred to as the "inner loop". In the Engineering Quad, a trinity of sculptures by [[Michael Heizer]], collectively entitled ''45 Degrees, 90 Degrees, 180 Degrees'', are flanked by Abercrombie Laboratory, the Cox Building, and the Mechanical Laboratory, housing the Electrical, Mechanical, and Earth Science/Civil Engineering departments, respectively. Duncan Hall is the latest addition to this quad, providing new offices for the Computer Science, Computational and Applied Math, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics departments.

[[File:McNairHall 1.jpg|right|thumb|McNair Hall, home to the Jones School of Business]]

Roughly three-quarters of Rice's undergraduate population lives on campus. Housing is divided among [[Residential colleges of Rice University|eleven residential colleges]]. The colleges are named for university historical figures and benefactor. Five colleges, McMurtry, Duncan, Martel, Jones, and Brown are located on the north side of campus, across from the "South Colleges", Baker, Will Rice, Lovett, Hanszen, Sid Richardson, and Wiess, on the other side of the Academic Quadrangle. Of the eleven colleges, Baker is the oldest, originally built in 1912, and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest, and opened for the first time for the 2009–10 school year. Will Rice, Baker, and Lovett colleges are undergoing renovation to expand their dining facilities as well as the number of rooms available for students.
[[File:Empty Rice Stadium, Cloudy Day.jpg|thumb|Rice University's football stadium]]
The on-campus football facility, [[Rice Stadium (Rice University)|Rice Stadium]], opened in 1950 with a capacity of 70,000 seats.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barron |first=David |date=2020-12-10 |title=After 70 years, Rice Stadium remains a Houston landmark |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/After-70-years-Rice-Stadium-remains-Houston-15793320.php |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223194738/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/After-70-years-Rice-Stadium-remains-Houston-15793320.php |url-status=live }}</ref> After improvements in 2006, the stadium is currently configured to seat 47,000 for football but can readily be reconfigured to its original capacity of 70,000.<ref name="Rice Official Athletic Site - Facilities"/> The stadium was the site of [[Super Bowl VIII]] and a [[We choose to go to the Moon|speech]] by [[John F. Kennedy]] on September 12, 1962, in which he challenged the nation to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade.<ref name="rice4"/> The recently renovated [[Tudor Fieldhouse]], formerly known as Autry Court, is home to the basketball and volleyball teams. Other stadia include the [[Rice Track/Soccer Stadium]] and the Jake Hess Tennis Stadium. A new Rec Center now houses the intramural sports offices and provide an outdoor pool, training and exercise facilities for all Rice students, while athletics training will solely be held at Tudor Fieldhouse and the Rice Football Stadium.

===Innovation District===
{{Main|Rice Innovation District}}In early 2019, Rice announced the site where the abandoned [[Sears]] building in [[Midtown Houston]] stood, along with its surrounding area, would be transformed into "The Ion," the hub of the {{convert|16|acre|ha|adj=on}} South Main Innovation District.<ref name=":2" /> President of Rice, [[David Leebron]] stated "We chose the name Ion because it's from the Greek ienai, which means 'go'. We see it as embodying the ever-forward motion of discovery, the spark at the center of a truly original idea. It also represents the last three letters in many of the words that define the building's mission, like inspiration, creation, acceleration and innovation."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harms |first=Natalie |date=August 19, 2020 |title=Rice University transforms iconic Sears building into innovation hub |url=https://houston.culturemap.com/news/innovation/01-30-19-rice-university-innovation-the-ion-sears-building-midtown-construction/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810074352/https://houston.culturemap.com/news/innovation/01-30-19-rice-university-innovation-the-ion-sears-building-midtown-construction/ |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |access-date=August 19, 2020 |work=Culture Map}}</ref>[[File:The Ion in Houston.jpg|right|thumb|The Ion building under construction in the [[Rice Innovation District]] ]]
Students of Rice and other Houston-area colleges and universities making up the Student Coalition for a Just and Equitable Innovation Corridor are advocating for a [[Community Benefits Agreement|community benefits agreement]] (CBA), a contractual agreement between a developer and a community coalition.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=2019-07-19|title=Rice University-led Ion innovation district breaks ground|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Rice-University-led-Ion-innovation-district-14109401.php|access-date=2020-12-28|website=HoustonChronicle.com|language=en-US|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205032126/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Rice-University-led-Ion-innovation-district-14109401.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Residents of neighboring [[Third Ward, Houston|Third Ward]] and other members of the Houston Coalition for Equitable Development Without Displacement (HCEDD) have faced consistent opposition from the City of Houston and Rice Management Company to a CBA as traditionally defined, in favor of an agreement between the latter two entities without a community coalition signatory.<ref name=":3" />