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Business Wire: Beacon Roofing Supply to Acquire Roofing Supply Group from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for $1.1 Billion in Cash and Stock

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Beacon Roofing Supply to Acquire Roofing Supply Group from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for $1.1 Billion in Cash and Stock

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Rice has unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the heart of the Village, while reimagining the west side of campus anchored by the renovation of Rice Stadium.

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Rice University has signed an $8.1 million cooperative agreement to lead the United States Space Force University Consortium/Space Strategic Technology Institute 4 (SSTI), called the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies (CASST) at Rice.

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The building consolidates Rice’s visual arts programs, long scattered across campus, into a single state-of-the-art space that emphasizes collaboration, transparency and public engagement.

Rice opens Sarofim Hall, a transformative new home for the visual arts

Amid unprecedented enrollment growth, Rice will open its 12th residential college, the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao College — referred to as Chao College — made possible by a generous gift from the Chao family foundation.

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