HOUSTON – (Aug. 25, 2020) – Due to Hurricane Laura, Rice University is suspending normal operations — including all classes and events — at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, and all day Thursday, Aug. 27.
All academic activities will be discontinued during this period. Academic buildings along with other major venues — including Fondren Library, Gibbs Recreation Center and Rice Memorial Center — will be closed to all but essential employees. Only essential personnel will be allowed in labs.
All gated entrances to the campus will be closed at 5 p.m., with the exception of entrances 8 (at the intersection of University Boulevard and Stockton Drive) and 20 (at the intersection of Rice Boulevard and Kent Street).
No decision has been made yet on whether classes will resume on Friday.
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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 3,962 undergraduates and 3,027 graduate students, Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots of race/class interaction and No. 4 for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.