William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a campus in Houston, Texas, United States.

Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a preeminent research university with a distinct undergraduate and graduate focus.

William Marsh Rice's estate funded the establishment of the Rice Institute

The history of Rice University began with the untimely demise of Massachusetts businessman William Marsh Rice.

On September 23, 1912, the anniversary of William Marsh Rice's murder, the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art began course work.

The Founder's Memorial Statue, a bronze statue of a seated William Marsh Rice, holding the original plans for the campus, was dedicated in 1930, and installed in the central academic quad, facing Lovett Hall.

1960 saw Rice Institute formally renamed William Marsh Rice University.

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 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.

* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )

Many authors: Stephen R. Marsh, Stephen Perrin, Ian Lee Starcher, Anthony Affronti, Jimmy Akin II, William A Barton, Norman Doege, Bruce Dresselhaus, Ray Greer, Zoran Kovacich, George MacDonald, Steve Maurer, Sandy Petersen, Wayne Shaw, John Sullivan — most are listed because they provided one or more optional rules.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

In 1930 John Angel ( sculptor ) completed the Founder's Memorial at Rice University depicting a seated William Marsh Rice in line with specifications by architect Ralph Adams Cram.

Opening 1912 as William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Art, and Science, it is known today as Rice University.

* William Marsh Rice Collection, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library

** William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder ( b. 1816 )

* March 14 – William Marsh Rice, American university founder ( d. 1900 )

Members of the City Council are Aaron Randolph ( 1st Ward ), Marty Small ( 2nd Ward ), Vice-President Steven L. Moore ( 3rd Ward ), President William " Speedy " Marsh ( 4th Ward ), Dennis Mason ( 5th ward ), Timothy Mancuso ( 6th Ward ), Moisse Delgado ( at-large ), Frank M. Gilliam, Jr. ( at-large ) and George Tibbitt ( at-large ).

Levy resigned in October 2007 and then-Council President William Marsh assumed the office of Mayor and served the six-week remainder of his term.

* William W. Marsh House

The village had numerous hotels, including the Marsh Hotel, on North Shore Drive, which was host to U. S. President Grover Cleveland and future U. S. President William McKinley, as well as many world dignitaries.

* William Marsh Rice ( 1816-1900 ), businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University.

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

and " Chase Away " by Brett Holland and William R. Rice have also been added.

Focusing on the effect of sexual conflict, as hypothezised by William Rice, Locke Rowe et Göran Arnvist, Thierry Lodé underlines that the divergence of interest constitutes a key for evolutionary process.

William Rice and G. W.

Rice started off the drive with a 19-yard reception and 10-yard run on a reverse play, while Young added a 12-yard completion to John Taylor and a 15-yard scramble before eventually finishing the drive with his third touchdown pass, this one a five-yarder to fullback William Floyd.

He soon set up the Rice and Nichols general store, which became the William M. Rice and Company.

She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

Lyell entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1816, and attended William Buckland's lectures.

William Gordon ( d. 1816 ), eldest son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a General in the Army.

Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

William Roberts's review, for the August 1816 British Review, was more positive than previous analysis but with no detail about the work: " passing over the two other poems which are bound together with ' Christabel ', called ' The Fragment of Kubla Khan ', and ' The Pains of Sleep '; in which, however, there are some playful thoughts and fanciful imagery, which we would gladly have extracted if our room would have allowed it.

The British embassies of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ( 1793 ) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ( 1816 ) were foiled, since kowtowing would mean acknowledging their King as a subject of the Emperor.

He was Pylades to William Charles Macready's Orestes in Ambrose Philips's Distressed Mother when Macready made his first appearance at that theatre ( 1816 ).

William Gladstone was educated from 1816 to 1821 at a preparatory school at the vicarage of St Thomas's Church at Seaforth, close to his family's residence, Seaforth House.

::- from The Germans on the Heights of Hochheim ( 1816 ) by William Wordsworth

The Cherokee in Missouri Territory increased rapidly in population, from 1, 000 to 6, 000 over the next year ( 1816 – 1817 ), according to reports by Governor William Clark.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

Classed examinations in law were introduced in 1816 by James William Geldart.

Texas pioneer William Whitaker Reed was born in Bedford County in 1816.

* William Waightstill Avery, ( 1816 – 1864 ), member of the Congress of the Confederate States from North Carolina

* William James Blacklock, British landscape artist, was born in Shoreditch in 1816.

In July 1816 " incessant rainfall " during that " wet, ungenial summer " forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday.

* William Stephens Smith ( 1755 – 1816 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from New York ( 1813 – 1816 ) and son-in-law of President John Adams

* William Smith ( registrar ) ( 1816 – 1895 ), Ghanaian civil servant

* William Stephens Smith ( 1755 – 1816 ), 1789 U. S. Marshal for New York district and son-in-law of President John Adams

* 1816, Brothers, schooner, 40 tons, Captain William Hovell, one life lost.

Frederick I William Charles of Württemberg (; 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816 ) was the last Duke of Würtemberg, then briefly Elector of Württemberg, and was later elevated to the status of King of Württemberg, by Napoleon I.