Rice community visits new residential colleges

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– September 16, 2009Posted in: Current News

Rice community visits new residential colleges
McMurtrys, Duncans reach out to students

BY JESSICA STARK
Rice News staff

On Sept. 8, the Rice community gathered at the new north colleges —
Duncan and McMurtry — to explore the buildings and talk with the
students who live there. On hand for the special sneak peek were the
residential colleges’ namesakes: Charles ’47 and Anne Duncan and Burton
’56 and Deedee ’56 McMurtry.

Both of the colleges feature
energy-efficient technologies and green roofs, which hold soil, reduce
stormwater runoff and protect plant life. Each is being built to meet
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards developed by
the U.S. Green Building Council.

Though students have moved
into the completed portions of the new colleges, construction in other
areas is ongoing. Each college will be formally dedicated in the fall
of 2010.

PHOTOS BY JEFF FITLOW
From left, Rice president David Leebron, Charles and Anne Duncan,
Deedee and Burton McMurtry and University Representative Y. Ping Sun
celebrate the new north colleges and the students living within them.
Deedee
McMurtry, right, talks with Rice undergraduates about her own
experiences at the university. She said she and her husband “had a
wonderful time” at Rice and advised current Rice students to be
“faithful and generous alums.”

Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
Charles Duncan, right, talks with students and Sidney Burrus, the
Maxfield Oshman Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, left, about the energy-efficient technologies in their new
college home.

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