Rice University and Houston Methodist will unveil the Houston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance in an Oct. 10 kickoff event featuring demonstrations of the center’s state-of-the-art capabilities. Located in Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse, the center will allow physicians, academic researchers and university students to work side by side with student athletes, trainers and coaches to advance research, clinical care initiatives and educational activities in exercise physiology, injury prevention and rehabilitation.

WHO: Reginald DesRoches, president of Rice; Dr. Marc Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist; Thomas Killian, dean of Rice’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences; Dr. Patrick McCulloch, the John S. Dunn Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at Houston Methodist; Tommy McClelland, director of athletics at Rice; Augusto Rodriguez, chair of Rice’s Department of Kinesiology; and Bradley Lambert, human subjects research director at Houston Methodist’s Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Laboratory

WHAT: Kickoff event for the state-of-the-art theHouston Methodist-Rice University Center for Human Performance

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Oct. 10

WHERE: Tudor Fieldhouse, Rice University, 6500 Main St.

Visitor parking for media available upon request. Rice campus maps are available at www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html.