Rice University and Houston Methodist will unveil the Houston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance in an Oct. 10 kickoff event featuring demonstrations of the center's state-of-the-art capabilities. Located in Rice's Tudor Fieldhouse, the center will allow physicians, academic researchers and university students to work side by side with student athletes, trainers and coaches to advance research, clinical care initiatives and educational activities in exercise physiology, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
The event will feature remarks by Reginald DesRoches, president of Rice; Dr. Marc Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist; Thomas Killian, dean of Rice's Wiess School of Natural Sciences; Dr. Patrick McCulloch, the John S. Dunn Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at Houston Methodist; Tommy McClelland, director of athletics at Rice; Augusto Rodriguez, chair of Rice's Department of Kinesiology; and Bradley Lambert, human subjects research director at Houston Methodist's Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Laboratory.
The event starts at 5:30 p.m. and will be held at the Tudor Fieldhouse, Rice University, 6500 Main St.
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Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 4,552 undergraduates and 3,998 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots of race/class interaction and No. 4 for quality of life by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
