Wiess College
At Rice, a residential college functions as an extended family. Undergraduates are randomly assigned to one of 11 residential colleges so that each college represents a cross-section of the university's diversity.
Present-day Wiess College is the second structure on the Rice campus to bear that name. The original Wiess College, whose buildings were built in the 1950s, was demolished and the new Wiess College was built in a different location in 2002.
What's there: Undergraduate housing, Wiess College Commons
Named for: Harry C. Wiess, Rice trustee and founder and former president of Humble Oil (now Exxon-Mobil)
Built: 2002, Machado & Silvetti Associates and Kirksey & Partners
Rice Campus Map No. 78