W.M. Keck Hall
Originally named the Chemistry Building and later renamed Butcher Hall, this historic campus building underwent an extensive internal renovation between 1998 and 2000, funded by a generous gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The building provides laboratory space and offices for faculty in the Department of Biosciences and the Department of Bioengineering. Under the steps of the chemistry lecture hall is the graduate student lounge, Valhalla.
What’s there:
Named for: Oil entrepreneur and philanthropist William Myron Keck
Built: 1925, Cram & Ferguson and William Ward Watkin
Rice Campus Map No. 43