Rice University President'sOffice Records, Norman Hackerman 1969-1985

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Rice University President'sOffice Records, Norman Hackerman 1969-1985

Correspondence, reports,notes, drafts, memos, etc. created and collected by the Rice UniversityPresident's Office, (Norman Hackerman, President). These materials reflect thedaily business of the President's Office during the years 1969-1985, concerningacademics, fundraising, atheltics, administration, research, student life, andplanning for Rice's future.

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Hackerman, Norman

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland on 2 March 1912. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (1932), Ph.D., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (1935). Employment: 1935-1939 Loyola College ; 1936-1940 Colloid Corporation ; 1939-1941 United States Coast Guard ; 1941-1943 Virginia Polytechnic Institute ; 1944-1945 Kellex Corporation ; 1982- The Robert A. Welch Foundation ; 1945- University of Texas at Austin ; 1970- Rice University. From the description of Oral history interview w...

Rice University.

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Rice University's Office or Research and Graduate Studies oversees research and graduate programs. From the guide to the Research and Graduate Studies office records UA 130., 1996-2001, (Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University) William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research uni...

Hackerman, Norman

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Norman Hackerman served as Rice Univerity's fourth Presdient from 1970 - 1985, after serving 25 years at the University of Texas. Immediately preceeding Hackerman was Acting President Frank Vandiver (1969-1970), who succeeded Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer. During his tenure at Rice, the university launched the Jeese H. Jones Graduate School of Administration, and the Shepherd School of Music, as well as establishing separate engineering and social sciences schools, and new bioc...

Vandiver, Frank

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