Research Centers, Institutes and Groups

Click here to view a list of Research Centers, Institutes and Groups across Rice University.

Office of Research

The Office of Research seeks to sensibly improve Rice’s research productivity and expand the impact of its discoveries on both scholars and communities alike. We do this by:

• Providing faculty and staff with excellent service in proposal development and award submissions.
• Informing and equipping our researchers to efficiently address a broad gamut of research compliance issues.
• Engaging in collaborative commercialization activities that put our intellectual property portfolio on a strong financial foundation while developing commercialization partners more intentionally.
• Constantly updating and investing in our research and scholarship infrastructure.
• Developing unconventional and non-traditional support for Rice’s research.
• Supporting campus-wide initiatives that nucleate activities across divisions even as they externally define Rice’s research enterprise.

ERC Diversity and Culture of Inclusion

The major goals of this supplementary NSF NEWT ERC Project, Understanding Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Practices across Engineering Research Centers (ERCs), was to identify the ways in which ERCs D&I culture develops, as well as identify and collect both current and past D&I content and assessments across ERCs that are currently receiving NSF funding to develop a catalog of D&I content and assessments in ERCs, going back to the inception of currently funded ERC partners. This catalog has been broadly disseminated through a variety of means including publication, online resources, and hands-on workshops. For more information, click here.