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Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its:

• Size—2,850 undergraduates and 1,950 graduate students

• Selectivity—10 applicants for each place in the freshman class

• Resources—an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5-to-1 and the fifth-largest endowment per student among private American universities

• Residential college system—which builds communities that are both close-knit and diverse

• Collaborative culture—which crosses disciplines, integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate work

Rice’s wooded campus is located in the nation’s fourth-largest city and on America’s South Coast.

Study shows nanoshells ideal as chemical nanosensors
11 January 2005 - Rice University
Nanoshells can enhance sensitivity to chemical detection by factor of 10 billion
Research demystifies quantum properties of exotic materials
15 December 2004 - Rice University
Physicists from Rice University, Rutgers University and the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, offers a new explanation of the way quantum effects could create some of the strange electronic properties that have been observed in the important class of 'heavy fermion' materials.
Rice refining production of pure nanotube fibres
02 September 2004 - Rice University
Rice University scientists are refining pioneering chemical production methods used to make pure carbon nanotube fibres.