Comments on: Rice/Baylor Merger Update

By: ricealum

ricealum — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:53:41 +0000

i am all for a merger.

point of concern: for a school that touted its top 10 (or near top 10) rankings in both clinical and research rankings in US News, they are quick to denounce the ranking system now. i think the BCM administration has some issues to resolve within itself and that BCM itself needs to build its resources back up before merging with rice.

i saw leebron speak recently about this merger, and i think if done properly, both rice and baylor (hopefully then Baylor College of Medicine AT Rice University) will benefit!

By: UTSWStud

UTSWStud — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:49:02 +0000

Brilliant video lecture Dr. Vardi! Definitely worth watching in it’s entirety to get the entire real picture of the situation between Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University.

The above link is not working (I think bc the URL includes a period) so those who want to see go here: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/merger/
and then go to “Public Lecture – A Personal Perspective on the Rice-BCM Merger, Oct. 26, 2009″ where you can see the slides and video.

Slides: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/merger/merger09tk.pdf
Video: http://webcast.rice.edu/webcast.php?action=details&event=2048%22

By: Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:43:44 +0000

See public lecture at http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/merger.

By: E

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:22:29 +0000

M.D. Anderson is actually a separate unit of the University of Texas System. It is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and UT-Houston. Although, it is more integrated with UT-Houston.

By: UTSWStud

UTSWStud — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:54:13 +0000

Another update to Rice-Baylor 9/25/09 – http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6637587.html

By: Rishi

Rishi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:25:58 +0000

Not that I’m aware of. I summarized the important topics he covered. The latter segment of the conference was a Q & A session.

By: james

james — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:00:13 +0000

hey rishi, is there anywhere to read the update the dr. butler gave??

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:28:45 +0000

Me too, Fyfy! As a single unit, they’ll be a powerhouse in the southern United States.

By: fyfy vay

fyfy vay — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:06:48 +0000

I am glad they are merging

By: UTSWStud

UTSWStud — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:02:32 +0000

Well M.D. Anderson is officially under the UT-Houston medical school (hence the name – The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) not with Baylor College of Medicine, so any research coming out of M.D. Anderson would benefit UT Houston’s rank.