Rice University closed Tuesday

MEDIA ADVISORY

David Ruth
713-348-6327
david@rice.edu

Rice University closed Tuesday

HOUSTON – (April 19, 2016) – Rice University is closed today, April 19, for all but essential employees. All day and evening classes are cancelled.

Essential employees who cannot come to work because of hazardous roads in their area or because of other storm-related reasons should notify their supervisor.

The safety of our students, faculty and staff is always the university’s No. 1 concern, and we do not want anyone to risk their safety to get to work or class.

The Crisis Management Team will monitor the situation and provide an update later today.

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Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,910 undergraduates and 2,809 graduate students, Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for best quality of life and for lots of race/class interaction by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. To read “What they’re saying about Rice,” go to http://tinyurl.com/AboutRiceUniversity.