[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11056]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                  RICE UNIVERSITY'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Speaker, I have the singular privilege of 
representing Rice University, and I join my colleagues from Houston in 
recognizing and congratulating them on their 100th anniversary this 
year.
  Rice has consistently been ranked as one of the Nation's greatest 
universities and recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the 
Nation's top 20 universities. And they've consistently ranked in the 
top 50 universities in the world.
  Rice University researchers are pioneers in a broad spectrum of 
fields, including space, energy, and my personal passion, 
nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is an absolute game-changer, 
revolutionizing everything that we will touch and see in the 21st 
century. Rice University is the birthplace of nanotechnology research.
  Nanotechnology holds incredible potential for everything from curing 
cancer to improving the storage and transmission of electricity and 
moving electricity in ways that we cannot even imagine today, allowing 
us to miniaturize devices. Multistage nanoparticles will allow the 
delivery of cancer-curing drugs to individual structures within cells, 
allowing scientists to identify diseases at the cellular level, things 
that could not have been possible without the groundbreaking work at 
Rice University.
  I congratulate them on their 100th anniversary today.

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