Brown House
Each of Rice’s 11 residential colleges is led by a college magister who lives in on-campus residences adjacent to the colleges and whose role is to serve as advisers to the students own elected leadership. College magisters are usually a married couple (at least one of whom must be a tenured faculty member), although single faculty members occasionally serve as a magister. Magisters and their families are recruited, interviewed and nominated by the students of each respective college and typically serve five-year terms.
What’s there: private residence
Named for: Margarett Root Brown, wife of Brown & Root founder and former Rice board member Herman Brown
Built: 1965, Brown & Root (Albert E. Sheppard, staff architect)
Rice Campus Map No. 14