Herman Brown Hall for Mathematical Sciences
This modest building is noteworthy in Rice campus lore because of a former faculty member who once had an office here. At the start of the Carter administration, George H. W. Bush was replaced in his position as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Returning home to his adopted hometown of Houston, the man who would later become the nation’s 41st president taught entrepreneurship for Rice’s Jones School of Business, which at the time did not have its own building. Years later, President Bush would host the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations on the Rice campus. (For the summit, Rice President George Rupp was happy to offer President Bush the temporary use of his own, much nicer, office on the second floor of Lovett Hall).
What’s there: Classrooms and faculty offices for the Departments of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy
Named for: Herman Brown, founder of Brown & Root
Built: 1968, George Pierce-Abel B. Pierce
Rice Campus Map No. 17