Endowed with a $15 million gift in 2010 from the foundation, the Institute provides analysis on a range of pressing urban issues such as education, transportation, health, development, resiliency, immigration, and more. In addition to the long-running Kinder Houston Area Survey, the Institute produces research and leads the conversation on topics important to Houston, Sunbelt cities and all urban areas.
In 2018, the foundation contributed $6 million toward the future home of the school of sciences at the university, which will bring together its departments and institutes for the purposes of research and collaboration.
kinder.rice.eduNews & Press
- Rice University has named a new director at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research —Houston Public Media
- Ruth López Turley named next director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research —Press Release
- Houstonians are more positive than ever, Rice survey shows —Houston Chronicle
- Calm before COVID-19: 2020 Kinder Houston Area Survey reveals growing sense of solidarity, empathy ahead of pandemic —Press Release
- 2019 Year in Review: Kinder Institute for Urban Research —Blog Post
- Does Charity Still Start at Home? Exploring the State of Place-Based Giving —Inside Philanthropy
- Public concern about flooding ebbs in area, Kinder survey shows —Houston Chronicle
- Rethinking Water Detention and Development Regulations in Greater Houston. —Houston Matters
- ‘Dream job’: Harris County Judge Ed Emmett ’71 returning to Rice —Rice University
- Too many traffic cops, not enough safety [Opinion] —Houston Chronicle
- Harvey Impacted Houstonians In More Ways Than One: Houston Area Survey —Houston Public Media
- Spotlight on Stephen Klineberg —TMC News
- How Houston has become the most diverse place in America —Los Angeles Times
- Taking Houstonians’ pulse on traffic, crime, immigration and more —Blog Post
- Grants Roundup: $25 Million From Bloomberg Aims to Curb Drowning Deaths —The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- The state of Houston transportation, and the Houston Area Survey —Houston Matters