Please make your credit card gift by 11:59 p.m., Central Standard Time, December 31, 2024, to receive a tax deduction for calendar year 2024.
The COVID-19 Research Gift Fund is central to Rice University’s coordinated effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Gifts toward the fund will support a range of faculty initiatives — spanning biomedicine, engineering, social sciences, humanities and other fields — and are intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future. The fund will be highly flexible and allow faculty to access supplies and other resources immediately needed by research groups. It will also develop partnerships with the city of Houston and the Texas Medical Center to support projects designed to help the community deal with both the immediate and long-term effects of the global crisis.