Mission

Our mission is to bring together scholars with complementary expertise to solve complex problems. To achieve this we

• Work to develop a community of interdisciplinary researchers
• Facilitate collaborations across department and school boundaries
  
• Encourage new research centers and groups in areas of strength
• Develop, promote, and support industrial and inter-institutional collaboration
• Support building infrastructure required to be successful in research
• Promote Rice computing and IT research capabilities internally and externally
• Stimulate and promote the use of information technology in education
• Expand collaboration by developing partnerships beyond the traditional K2I boundaries, specifically focusing on humanities and social sciences