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About Social
Sciences
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The
School of Social Sciences is the newest school
at Rice and recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
It also has the smallest number of faculty
of the four main schools. But despite this,
it graduates the most majors of any school,
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Rice undergraduates
choosing a major in the social sciences. At the
graduate level, four of our five departments have
Ph.D. programs, and the fifth has a post-doc program.
All of these programs achieve excellence by concentrating
on select areas for education and research.
The School of Social
Sciences contains five departments: Anthropology,
Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
In addition, there are three interdisciplinary majors:
Cognitive Sciences, Managerial Studies, and Policy
Studies. Students in Cognitive Sciences are engaged
in the multidisciplinary study of the mind. Managerial
Studies provides an understanding of the environment
in which business and other organizations exist,
and of the tools used by managers. Policy Studies
students learn to analyze and evaluate public policy
and gain an understanding of the policy making process.
There are approximately seventy faculty in the school,
and about ninety graduate students. Although the
school contains only about fifteen percent of the
fulltime faculty at Rice, they consistently win
between a third and a half of all university-wide
teaching awards.
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Get to Know... |
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David Leebron
President, Rice
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David W. Leebron
was appointed the seventh President of Rice University
in 2004, where he is also Professor of Political
Science. He grew up in Philadelphia and graduated
summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1976. He
attended Harvard Law School.
After graduating magna cum laude in 1979, he moved
to Los Angeles where he began a career in law. He
became a faculty member of the New York University
School of Law in 1983, where he also served as Director
of the International Legal Studies Program.
In 1989, David joined the faculty of Columbia University
School of Law, and in 1996 he was appointed Dean
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Did You Know?...that
Rice's first president, Edgar Odell
Lovett, a professor of mathematics,
served as the top administrator for
the University from 1907 to 1946.
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