Duncan College
At Rice, a residential college functions as an extended family. Rice undergraduates are randomly assigned to one of 11 residential colleges so that each college represents a cross-section of the university’s diversity.
Duncan College is the newest of Rice’s 11 residential colleges, home to the self-identified “Duncaroos.” The environmentally friendly building was the first at Rice, and one of the first in Houston, to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.
What’s there: Undergraduate housing, Duncan College Commons
Named for: Anne and Charles Duncan. Mr. Duncan ’47 is the former president of the Duncan Food Company and the Coca-Cola Company. He also was Secretary of Energy during the Carter administration and chairman of the Rice Board Trustees from 1982 to 1996.
Built: 2010, Hopkins Architects
Rice Campus Map No. 23