[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 104 (Thursday, July 12, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1239]
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CONGRATULATING RICE UNIVERSITY ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY

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                           HON. PETE SESSIONS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 12, 2012

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, for the last one hundred years Rice 
University has made unique and important contributions to our Nation 
and the world. Despite its small size, Rice has stood as one of the 
most forward-thinking institutions, contributing monumental advances in 
science and technology, as well as to the liberal arts. It was Rice 
University that opened the Nation's first department of space physics 
and produced American business magnates like Howard Hughes. It was Rice 
University that was the decades-long teaching home to Nobel Prize 
winners Richard Smalley and Robert Curland, and it is Rice University 
that continues to educate some of the brightest minds in the world. At 
this moment, Rice students are developing coated sand that can purify 
water in countries without access to clean drinking water and lithium-
ion batteries that can be painted onto any surface.
  In 2008, Rice University was ranked the number one institution for 
``industry impact.'' Education is the key to our Nation's future, and 
it is institutions like Rice University that will ensure that America's 
greatest days are not in the past. Please join me today in celebrating 
the many accomplishments that Rice has achieved over the last one 
hundred years, and many more surely to come.

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