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For many years members of various institutions in the Texas Medical Center have collaborated with the faculty of Rice University. Those Collaborative efforts have grown to major proportions encompassing projects in nearly half of the Texas Medical Center Institutions.
I am particularly pleased that our Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library has launched a cooperative endeavor with the Fondren Library at Rice University. A seamless operation will allow faculty and students in the Texas Medical Center and at Rice University to utilize the combined holdings of both libraries. Thereby, enlarging research and study opportunities to a level that is unparalleled.
We at the Texas Medical Center look forward to expanded opportunities and increased productivity as our Rice/Texas Medical Center Library partnership leads the way in promoting education, research and patient care.
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Of all the nation’s universities, Rice University is among the best prepared—and best situated—for fruitful interinstitutional collaboration. To see the truth of this assertion, one only has to look at our many joint projects with the several distinguished institutions of the Texas Medical Center, just across Main Street from our campus. These undertakings include joint degree programs, collaborative research, teaching, and outreach projects. These activities have enabled both Rice and the Texas Medical Center to leverage hard-won achievements in many fields. Rice brings to the bargain complementary strengths in nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology as well as our assets in management education, social sciences, and the humanities. The medical schools and hospitals of the Texas Medical Center bring to the table extremely rich sources of expertise and scholarship across all biomedicine, in both basic and clinical sciences.
Our collaborations with the Texas Medical Center began auspiciously in 1964, when researchers from Rice worked with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey of Baylor College of Medicine to develop an implantable artificial heart. Today, these efforts have blossomed into 90 productive partnerships, large and small, in education, research, and outreach.
We are justly proud of all our joint programs with the Texas Medical Center and of their truly astounding range. Almost all of Rice’s academic divisions and several of our centers, institutes, and other offices are involved in one or more of these efforts, interacting with some 20 institutions of the Texas Medical Center. Rice has been enriched immensely from these interactions.
The future is even more promising. Four million patients each year make use of the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest. Hundreds of researchers and students at Rice and Texas Medical Center institutions represent the future of biomedical science and technology. In addition to patients, students, and faculty, people around the nation and the world are touched by the Rice/Texas Medical Center partnerships. Activities of these joint undertakings are detailed in the pages that follow. I invite you to explore these outstanding programs on the leading edges of scholarship, service, and teaching in service to humanity.
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