New Jones School home to be dedicated Sept. 18

New Jones School home to be dedicated Sept. 18
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The new building
to house the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
will be dedicated Sept. 18.

The dedication
ceremony is to start at 4:30 p.m. with comments from William
Barnett, chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees; Rice President
Malcolm Gillis; and Jones School Dean Gilbert Whitaker.
A reception and open house will take place immediately following
the ceremony.

The Jones School
building is part of the “Rice: The Next Century Campaign,”
the university’s most comprehensive fund-raising effort.
The 167,000-square-foot building is three times larger than
the school’s former home in Herring Hall. It features
high-tech discussion classrooms, an auditorium that can
accommodate 425 people, a high-tech trading room, breakout
rooms, student lounges and a new commons.

Designed by Robert
A.M. Stern Architects, the building is composed of brick
and limestone with marble accents and has a traditional
tile roof familiar to other buildings on campus, a pedestrian
arcade crossing through the heart of the quadrangle and
a multipurpose paved terrace.

At the groundbreaking
ceremony in May 2000, Whitaker commented, that the “new
building is an important step in having the Jones School
reach its full potential to be one of the world’s best
in management education and scholarship.”

Rice staff and
faculty can get a sneak preview of the new facility tomorrow,
Sept. 13, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.