A New Home for Alumni Affairs

On July 5, 2006, the Office of Alumni Affairs & University Events moved from its location in the Rice Memorial Center to new facilities in the Ralph S. O'Connor House. In summer 2009, O'Connor House was renamed the Peter and Nancy Huff House and underwent a renovation and expansion in 2009-10.

Home to five Rice presidents since 1949, Huff House now includes alumni affairs and the Center for Student Professional Development (formerly the Career Services Center).

A home on campus for alumni has been envisioned for at least a decade. The possibility that the Huff House could provide such a facility arose in 2003 when the university finalized plans to use what is now the Wiess President's House as the Rice presidential residence.

Rice University, the Association of Rice Alumni, and the Office of Alumni Affairs are grateful to Anne Baillio '62 and Karen Rogers '68 for co-chairing the campaign for the original renovation of O'Connor House, and to Peter '59 and Nancy Huff for making the current expansion possible.

Huff House is south of Jones College, near campus entrance 1. See the online campus map for more information. Visitor parking is available in the Founder's Court Visitor Lot on weekdays, and in the Founder's Court and Lovett Lots on weeknights and weekends.