Vision:

The goal of the Smalley Institute is to maintain our leadership role in nanoscale science and engineering through creation, investigation, and application of functional structures within nanometer dimensions.

Rice University is an independent, private college with 2700 undergraduate and 2000 graduate students. At Rice, our vision is:

• To provide an unsurpassed undergraduate education
• To ensure that such an education remains affordable
• To produce internationally distinguished scholarship in carefully focused areas of research
• To maintain the distinctive character of a community of learning that is relatively small in scale