Richard Smalley Chemist, Buckyball Discoverer, Statesman for Nanotechnology

Richard Smalley Chemist, buckyball discoverer, statesman for nanotechnology

Bill Barnett's Quiet diplomacy The Rice Historical Society Meet Conference USA The little art department that could RICE SALLYPORT • THE MAGAZINE OF RICE UNIVERSITY • FALL 2005

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Bioethics may be a Is it the message in 9 relatively new field, 46 a radio commercial but its practitioners that influences a are applying it to the listener's perception of age-old problems of a product, or is it the end-of-life care. music?

When the National 12 Commission on the Voting Rights Act held a hearing in Montgomery, Alabama,last spring, seated among the seven 4 Need information on commission members state supreme court was Rice's Chandler cases? Turn to Rice Davidson. University's State Supreme Court Data Project. 11) 1)( s capitalism hitOe fdi- i of Multinational 5 corporations live up to the promise of improving conditions for the world's poor?

Criticism and blame An award-winning 3 14 student-designed Nur surrounding corporate scandals in recent device to counter Research on the pros and years don't stop at the muscle atrophy and 10 cons ofneedle exchange A Rice researcher rules boardroom door. bone loss during programs finds that many spaceflights out one ofthe most long-term ofthe arguments against osteoporosis prominent theories may help such efforts run counter explaining increased sufferers as well. to fact. risks for heart attacks for some Americans.

Cover Photograph by Tommy LaVergne 18 It's All About the People Bill Barnett may have stepped down as chair of the Rice Board ofTrustees, but his style of quiet diplomacy will continue to impact Rice for decades to come.

By Melissa Kean

24 Richard Smalley Rick Smalley, Rice chemist and co-discoverer ofthe buckyball, who died in Features October, has been called the grandfather of nanotechnology. Certainly he was one ofits greatest advocates. His energy and formidable presence will be missed, but his legacy will live on, not only in discoveries yet to be made but in ways of thinking about how science and technology can be used to improve lives worldwide.

By Jade Boyd

30 Alma Mater and the Auld Lang Syne What can be done to prevent the Sallyport from becoming another Rashomon Gate? The Rice Historical Society is working on just that.

By Christopher Dow hy is it that universities are referred to as "ivory towers"? The historical origins Rice Sallyport of the term are traced back to several verses in the Bible. It is most often used to Fall 2005, Vol. 82, No. 1 Wsuggest that academic institutions are separated from the world and the cares of Published by the Division one definition of the of Public Affairs daily life and ordinary people. Indeed, word "academic" refers to activity Terry Shepard, vice president or knowledge that is not practical or useful. Universities must remain committed to "curios- Editor ity-driven" and basic research, and researchers must be willing to question commonly held Christopher Dow assumptions. However, we should not take from that commitment an understanding that such Creative Director research does not—in either the long or short run—contribute importantly to the understand- Jeff Cox

ing and solution of pressing problems that concern us all. Art Director A great deal of work at Rice helps us move from unproven assumption to substantiated Chuck Thurmon knowledge. Examples in this issue of Sallyport include a study by statistician Rudy Guerra Editorial Staff David D. Medina '83, senior editor and colleagues that rules out one of the most prominent theories for why elevated levels of a Dana Benson, associate editor particular fat-carrying protein lead to increased risks for heart attacks among whites but not Sarah Williams, assistant editor Christie Wise, production coordinator among African Americans. New findings by Rice psychologist Geoffrey Potts demonstrate that alcohol-dependent patients Design Staff Tommy LaVergne, photographer initially may be incapable of certain cognitive skills required Jeff Fitlow, assistant photographer

by traditional therapy, possibly clearing the way to more The Rice University Board effective treatments. Jones School professor Doug Schuler, of Trustees James W. Crownover, chair; J.D. Bucky using empirical evidence, examines whether investments by Allshouse; D. Kent Anderson; Teveia conditions for Rose Barnes; Alfredo Brener; Vicki multinational corporations have improved the Bretthauer; Robert T. Brockman; Albert world's poor. And Andrew Lustig,director ofRice's Program Y. Chao; Edward A. Dominguez; Bruce W. Dunlevie; James A. Elkins III; Lynn on Biotechnology,Religion, and Ethics,offers a careful analysis Laverty Elsenhans; Douglas Lee Foshee; of the key ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care. Karen 0. George; Susanne Glasscock; "Rick epitomized Carl E. Isgren; K.Terry Koonce; Michael our commitment to The true pursuit of knowledge, even for its own sake, is R. Lynch; Steven L. Miller; M. Kenneth Oshman; Marc Shapiro;William N.Sick; discovering new ineluctably a commitment to the betterment of our world. L. E. Simmons This commitment is reflected at Rice not only in our research things about our Administrative Officers and teaching, but in our responses to the needs that arise in David W. Leebron, president; Kathy world and turning Collins, vice president for finance; the world around us. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, that knowledge to the Eric Johnson, vice president for our university reached out and accepted as visiting students, Resource Development; Eugene Levy, improvement of our provost, Terry Shepard, vice president without any payment to Rice, 120 Tulane enrollees displaced for Public Affairs; Scott W. Wise, vice lives. I know of no one by Katrina. And as shelters in Houston filled,students, faculty, president for Investments and treasurer, who brought more Ann Wright, vice presidentfor Enrollment; staff, and alumni alike mobilized to help people who had lost Richard A. Zansitis,genera/ counsel. energy and vision to everything, donating time, goods and money to help cover All submissions to Sallyport are subject that mission." the evacuee's needs. Volunteer efforts ranged from housing to editing for length, clarity, accuracy, appropriateness, and fairness to third —David W. Leebron and dining employees cooking 500 pounds of meat a day parties.

for evacuees, to Rice EMS students working double shifts Sallyport is published by the Division of providing care, to members of the Rice custodial staff organizing to clean restrooms at the Public Affairs ofRice University and is sent to university alumni,faculty, staff, graduate Astrodome. Having responded to some of the immediate needs created by the hurricane, Rice students, parents of undergraduates, and researchers already have turned their attention to improving our understanding of the natural friends of the university. phenomena behind such disasters and to studying the problems faced by the evacuees. It is Editorial Offices this fundamental ethic of making a contribution to others that ought to drive our teaching, Office of Publications—MS 95 P.O. Box 1892 research, and service missions. Houston, Texas 77251-1892 This was certainly true of Rick Smalley, our renowned Nobel Laureate who passed away just Fax 713-348-6751 Email: [email protected] before this issue went to press. This is an immense loss not only to the Rice community, but to the world scientific community. Rick epitomized our commitment to discovering new things Postmaster Send address changes to: about our world and turning that knowledge to the improvement of our lives. I know of no Rice University one who brought more energy and vision to that mission. We cannot replace Rick, but what Development Services—MS 80 P.O. Box 1892 he built at Rice in nanotechnology will endure as his monument and will yet produce many of Houston,TX 77251-1892 the great things he imagined. 02005 RICE UNIVERSITY

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Of particular interest in the spring 2005 issue of Sal- lyport was the article "Planting the Seeds of Art." We were dismayed to find no mention of Herbert Rather Jr.'52 in the article, despite the fact that his credentials in both architecture and art are at least as good—and more likely substantially more impressive—than those of anyone listed in this piece. He is too modest to note this omission, but his family Room for Ethics in is proud of his accomplishments. He had a noteworthy Making career as an architect for 45 years, directing and docu- menting large projects all over the United States as well Business Schools as overseas. At the same time, he pursued his second Criticism and blame surrounding corporate scandals in recent years didn't stop at career as a watercolor artist. He has had his work pub- boardroom door. Business schools also have been faulted for lished in a number ofnational art magazines and books. the not deterring and Additionally, his paintings have been accepted for ex- for possibly encouraging executive misconduct. In fact,several surveys suggest hibition in many prestigious juried shows. He has long that, historically, no more than roughly one-third of business schools made ethics been honored as a signature member of both premier or related subjects a course requirement. national watercolor organizations: the American Water- color Society and the National Watercolor Society. He also is one ofonly 59 artists who are currently Dolphin That is something that Duane Wind- integrating business ethics, business Fellows in the American Watercolor Society. sor, an expert in business ethics law, and areas such as stakeholder We hope that this missive is received with the same at Rice's Jesse H. Jones Graduate management and corporate social re- intent is to respectful spirit with which we send it. Our School of Management, would like sponsibility throughoutthe remainder convey information. We feel that his accomplishments to see change. Windsor argues that, ofa business or managementstudent's deserve more recognition. until ethics is accorded at least equal education. The Family of Herbert Rather Jr. Copperas Cove, Texas curriculum importance with other "If we expect our future business subjects like accounting,finance, and leaders to be value-setters,our business economics,the current concern over schools should profess and promote business ethics As a Rice grad(MA 1975 in geology)and avid reader of won't last—until the moral leadership over and above legal Sallyport and supporter of Rice University (I am a Rice Associate and I endow a scholarship as well as other ac- "If we expect ourfuture business leaders be value- tivities), I object to the political editorial style comment to in the article from Amy Myers Jaffe ["Nano Deemed setters, our business schools should profess and Best Long-Term Energy Alternative," summer 20051 promote moral leadership over and above legal that the 2003 energy bill was a giveaway to special inter- compliance ests. I worked very hard as an architect and contributor or minimum adherence to corporate on this energy legislation (I testified before the House codes of conduct." —Duane Windsor and Senate committees writing it), and Ms. Jaffe's comments are biased, misleading, and insulting. I am not a politician but a scientist and executive; Ms. Jaffe speaks next major scandal. In the Journal of compliance or minimum adherence from her background as a political scientist. Had it been Business Ethics Education, Windsor to corporate codes of conduct," marked as an fine, but to put it in editorial, it would be advocatesthat business schools require Windsor says. "Students should be context with nanoteclmology and other scientific ideas a foundation course addressing the provided the groundwork by ethic leads one to believe she is reflecting a scientific position moral, legal, and political education specialists to help them instead of a highly political one. I would suggest you understand put her biased political comments on the editorial page offuture business managers,taught by this increasingly complex subject area. so there is no confusion in the future. specialists and offered at the start ofa Otherwise,simply infusing ethics into Michael L. Johnson school's core curriculum—whether at other coursework becomes highly Houston, Texas the undergraduate or graduate degree superficial."• level. He also proposes systematically

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http://www.rice.edu/statecourt

Analyzing State Supreme Court Cases

For political scientists and other scholars hungering for information on impact on the kinds of decisions help them look at the informa- the state supreme court decisions, Rice University's State Supreme Court they make," Brace says. Using tion they needed to enter in the State Supreme Court Data database. The data entered by Data Project is a free all-you-can-eat buffet. Project, scholars can study the coders on the software template effects ofjudicial elections on went straight into a spreadsheet, The project boasts an online details. State courts decide more judicial behavior by compar- which avoided errors that might analysis of every state supreme than 99 percent of the litigation ing the dockets of appointed have resulted from copying data court case heard from 1995 in the United States, interpret- versus elected supreme courts, manually from paper. through 1998 in all 50 states. ing not only state laws but also how the composition of a court Biographical information on Each of the more than 30,000 federal laws. reflects a state's liberal or con- more than 400 state supreme cases in the database has been "With increasing state dis- servative tendencies, and how court judges is contained in coded to facilitate an extensive cretion over matters of public public opinion affects judicial the database, and although the variety of searches, such as bio- policy, the power of state courts decisions. database ends with court cases graphical information about a should be increasing, making Brace and Hall trained and from 1998, Brace is hopeful judge, the judge's vote in a case, that private funding will support the outcome of a case, legal is- extension of the project on an sues raised, and characteristics that can serve as infrastructure ongoing basis. "This would al- of litigants. "INe want this to be a permanent data archive low longitudinal studies of how "The states have an awesome for addressing fundamental Questions about law and politics." state supreme courts change responsibility for resolving the —Paul Brace over time," he says. vast majority of the nation's "We want this to be a perma- legal disputes," says Paul Brace, can serve studies of these institutions employed undergraduate and nent data archive that the Clarence L. Carter Profes- particularly timely," Brace says. graduate students at Rice and as infrastructure for addressing sor of Political Science at Rice about law "Without understanding the Michigan State to code more fundamental questions and principal investigator for "These nature of these institutions and than 200 details for each case. and politics," Brace adds. the project. "Unfortunately, the states, we are left with a very Additional NSF support was data will be ofinterest not only our knowledge of state courts, incomplete understanding of obtained to fund undergraduate to academicians but also to gov- including courts of last resort, is at- American politics." and graduate research related to ernment officials, practicing quite limited." citizens Unlike the unique U.S. Su- the project. One of the biggest torneys, and concerned With nearly $1 million in ofthe preme Court, whose justices challenges during the project's interested in the activities grants from the National Sci- are appointed for life and don't early phase was how to develop states' highest courts." ence Foundation (NSF), Brace have to worry about decisions a template that systematized To view the State Supreme and co-principal investigator being reversed, Brace notes that the collection of data to reduce Court Data Project, go to Melinda Gann Hall at Michigan most state supreme court judges mistakes. "Intercoder reliability http://www.rufrice.edu/ State University spent the past are elected and linked directly was incredibly high," Brace ex- -pbrace/statecourt/index. six years collecting and coding with voters and public opinion. plains, noting that the software html.• data on state supreme courts to —B. J. Almond "Whether or not judges are included hint buttons to guide meet the need for such pivotal elected [vs. appointed] has an coders through the cases and

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aspect of global capitalism that's creating new places of Examining the Pros and Cons of Global Capitalism knowledge and new bases of products, thereby improv- Most developmental economists believe that condi- investment tends to exploit ing the situation not only of tions of the world's poor have improved in the past the underdeveloped world!' workers but of others as well" However, Schuleradds, few decades as a result of modern global capitalism. explains Schuler. On the other lib- knowledge competition does Still, while the world's wealthy nations have become hand, the eral, more currently accepted not achieve the egalitarian richer, more than 1 billion people continue to live in position is that capitalism has structure advocated by so- extreme poverty. Perhaps, as Rice's Doug Schuler and raised the standard of living for cialist theorists because the other university researchers suggest, the contentions many of the world's poor. nature of such industries fa- by socialist economists regarding capitalism's role in To assess whether the vors educated workers over the uneducated inequality and poverty may be truer than liberal econo- promises of capitalism have been realized or have failed, Schuler and his co-authors mists care to admit. also reviewed the current role Schuler and his colleagues of nongovernmental organiza- examined five phenomena tions in response to claims by "Tosome extent, multinational involving international busi- even developmentalists that corporations have benefited ness: strategic alliances and a competitive global mar- people in developing coun- joint ventures, nongovern- ket will cause multinational tries," Schuler says, "but in mental organizations and corporations to locate their other instances, international anti-sweatshop campaigns, production facilities in coun- capitalism has failed to make terrorism, poverty, and knowl- tries with the lowest wages much of a dent,n reducing edge competition and least expensive working world poverty!' conclude that multina- They conditions. As part of a conference on tional corporations generally "Multinational corporations multinational corporations have improved the lot of poor generally provide better wages and global poverty reduc- people, but they also concur and working conditions than tion, Schuler, an associate with some of the predictions local companies in develop- professor at the Jesse H. made by socialist economists ing countries," Schuler says, Jones Graduate School of that free trade and capitalism "but NGOs have not been Management, co-authored can be destructive to develop- particularly effective in in- a study titled "Multinational ing countries the fluencing companies' social Corporations Through "Multinational corporations Uneven Development Lens" practices" that bring sophisticated prod- with Stefanie Lenway of the He cites the fact thatfewer ucts and efficient production Carson School of Manage- companies have complied to developing countries may mentat the University of Min- meaningfullyto improving their not displace thousands of local nesota and Lorraine Eden of labor or environmental condi- workers as uneven develop- the Mays Business School at tions in developing countries mentalists predicted!' Schuler Texas A&M University. and that many environmental says, but those Their paper examines recent activities groups rely on the very corpo- haven't trends in international busi- necessarily reduced rations they monitor for their ..1110,Y the ness from the perspective of number of poor people in own funding. Marxist—Leninist ideology. those countries either. In looking at the overall While many theories Industries requiring highly record of global capitalism, of "uneven develop- skilled labor seem to improve Schuler concludes that the ment" have been a country's economy by way liberal economists' perspec- debunked, Schuler of "knowledge competition" tive may be too rosy. and his colleagues or "learning by doing:' In es- "To buy into the argument p. found that some of sence, local skilled workers that open trade and private these older, largely and managers hired for high- global enterprise ensures eco- tech industries tend to learn nomic development!' Schuler Schuler discredited arguments regarding capitalism should not so much about the product says, "is just as simplistic as be completely discounted they manufacture that they believing that controlling a "The basis of uneven devel- eventually create the next nation's economy will benefit opment is that international generation of products. that country's people" exchange is inherently unequal 'Although knowledge com- and that international capital- petition largely has been limited ism through foreign trade and to specific Asian countries!' explains Schuler, "it's still an

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Music Has the Charm to Influence Perception favorable or unfavorable impres- a moderately stimulating and sions," Zhu says."On the other novel style Is it the message in a radio commercial or the music that hand,that same music can elicit For example,an ad fora travel rather influences a listener's perception of a product? According to feelings orthoughts consumers agencyshould use sedate specific events or than energetic background mu- Rui Zhu, it depends on the target audience, the format of the associatewith experiences,such as childhood, sic when touting dependable, message, and how the music is performed. or concepts and emotions, like hassle-free service with a verbal frivolity, calm,and fear" Consum- message that is simple and di- There are circumstances, for sion of the originality of a store ers'sensitivity to either of these rect. If the ad's verbal message example, when the style of a or product" Even if the young aspects of meaning imparted is delivered in a drama format radio ad's verbal message has listeners focus most of their by background music depends with more than one person little impact on the impression energy on the verbal message on the complexity of the conveying the informa- created by the background of a radio ad and simply react to verbal message tion, listeners will per- music A radio ad promoting a the sound of the music rather Radio ads that ceive the service to store's unique, original decor is than its referential meaning:' convey information be better when the more likely to leave a favorable Zhu explains, "the moderately in an easy-to-follow background music impression on young listeners stimulating, relatively novel style lecture format are is energetic versus if the background music is rela- of the music would still have left less demanding for sedate. tively novel and soulful than if a favorable impression." consumers to process In theirstudy,Zhu and it is performed in a more clas- In a study published in the Marketing theorists claim her colleague also point sical version.The format of the August issue of the Journal of that, under those conditions, to the importance of identify- verbal message—regardless Marketing Research, Zhu, as- the background music is likely ing consumers who are most of whether it's easy or more sistant professor of marketing to trigger associations for con- likely to pay attention to details mentally demanding to fol- at Jesse H Jones Graduate sumers—whatthey call music's of the ad One way is by com- low—will have little impact on School of Management, and referential meaning—which then paring their product category the impression created by the Joan .Meyers-Levy, professor are attributed to the product. to the target audience Those music in this circumstance of marketing at the University However, if the information is with very little motivation to Zhu and her research col- of Minnesota's Carlson School presented in a drama format, process information about a league explain that young lis- of Management, examined the listener has to pay closer product tend to pay more at- teners will associate a classical the relationships between the attention to the verbal portion tention to peripheral aspects version of background music content and style of a radio of the ad. In that situation, of radio ads. with concerned, benevolent pa- ad's verbal Message,the back- consumers are more likely to "In that case" Zhu says,"the ternalism, while a contemporary ground music,, and the target process the less complex em- listener is not all focused on the style references their desire to audience bodied meaning of background substance of the ad."• feelings may "Simply ,the souncl of ap,r- music and have a favorable be unique.Those —Pam Sheridan be transformed into an impres-, ticular piece Of mu ession if it i performed in I.

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Rice's Connexions project, a collaborative, community-driven approach to authoring, •IddlE East teaching, and learning that is intended to AhE-N1]5q1or Research provide a free cohesive body of high-quality educational content to anyone in the world. A new digital archive at Rice's Fondren Library has created Project staff and other experts will develop a virtual time machine for educational modules in Connexions that draw visiting the Middle East between on the TIMEA archive. the 18th and early 20th centuries. Researchers interested in TIMEA's educational potential is further landmarks of Jerusalem can see historic black-and-white pho- enhanced by research guides developed by Sanders and David Getman, a graduate stu- tos of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Mosque of dent in history. Using a virtual research project Umar. Scholars wanting to know more about the geography based on the book Oriental Cairo by Douglas Sladen, the guide walks students through the and culture of Cyprus can access an interactive map to study basic steps involved in conducting historical everything from roads and rivers to topography and histori- research and introduces a variety of resources available through Fondren Library, such as cal sites. Historians researching Syria under the Ottoman rule WebCat and WorldCat. can read explorer Gertrude Bell's The Desert and the Sown, an As more books and other materials are digitized, they will be added to TIMEA's account of her 1905 travel across the Syrian Desert. repertoire. Ultimately,TIMEA will have something ofinterest to a wide range ofdisciplines, including anthropology,archaeology, geogra- These and many more online learning oppor- of 19th-century travelers' books on Egypt, phy, history, literature, religion, and women's tunities await visitors to Fondren's Travelers in which includes many hard-to-find texts,images, studies. TIMEA's timeliness is evident by the the Middle EastArchive (TIMEA). The project and artifacts. For example, she has all English increasing prominence ofMiddle Eastern stud- provides easy access to narrative texts, maps, language editions ofthe Baedeker travel guides; ies at universities. photos, drawings, study guides, and other few libraries own more than a single edition In addition to Sanders, Spiro, Garza, and public domain resources related to travel in the Middle East from 1700 to 1923. Paula Sanders,associate professor ofhistory and a co-principalinvestigator for TIMEA,says that between the 18th and 20th centuries,Eu- ropeans and Americansconducted archaeologi- cal expeditions,toured religious sites,explored foreign cultures,and pursued geopolitical goals in the Middle East."A rich body ofliterature and images documents these travels,providing invaluable resources for scholars and students in disciplines ranging from English literature and women's studies to classical, Middle Eastern, and medieval archaeology, religion, and history," she says. "Unfortunately, these materials are scattered in libraries and private collections around the world,and conducting Fondren Library's Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) offers access to systematic research outside of major research resources related to that part of the world, including photographs, maps, text, and other materials. Leading the project are: front row, left to right, Lisa libraries is laborious." Spiro, Paula Sanders, Pamela Francis, a graduate student in English, and German Diaz, and back row, left to right, The project was initiated when Lisa Spiro, Eva Garza, Geneva Henry, David Getman, and project coordinator Marie Wise. director of Fondren Library's Electronic Re sources Center and a co-principal investigator ofthis guide. Other analog materials that will Geneva Henry,executive director ofthe Digital ofTIMEA,noticed that Michael Decker,post- be digitized include books, photographs, and Library Initiative at Rice, the TIMEA project doctoral fellow at Rice's Center for the Study postcards. The fast phase ofthe project,focus- staff includes Decker, now at the University of Cultures, often came to the center to scan ing on Egypt and Cyprus, is expected to be ofSouth Florida, and German Diaz, GIS sup- travelers' narratives thatfocused on the Middle completed by October 2006. port specialist for the GIS/Data Center and a East.Spiro saw the potentialfor more people to Eva Garza,director of Fondren's Geographic co-principal investigator ofTIMEA.Members benefitfrom Decker's digitization.The project Information Systems(GIS )/Data Center,notes ofFondren's Technical Services and Woodson gained support through a $250,000 National that TIMEA uses GIS resources to build inter- Research Center staffs provide support for the Leadership Grantfor Librariesfrom the Institute active maps that show the topography, roads, project.• ofMuseum and Library Services and a $30,000 bodies of water, and many other features of a —B. J. Almond grant from Rice's Computer and Information particular location. GIS allows users to visualize Technology Institute's Enriching Rice through and analyze spatial information in a dynamic TIMEA can be found at www.timea.rice.edu. Information Technology program. digital environment. Some of the narratives accessible through To facilitate its use for teaching, learning, TIMEA are from Sanders's personal collection and research, TIMEA is teaming up with

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Research@Rice

Study Could Change Treatment of Alcoholism

New findings by Rice psychologists could presage a change in the Differences in Heart Attack way therapists treat alcohol-dependent patients. They discovered Riskds Not Black-and- that, in some cases, traditional therapy requires certain cognitive skills, such as abstract thinking, that alcohol-dependent patients initially may be incapable of performing.

"Studies have shown that alcoholics have problems with executive functions—those that have to do with such cognitive tasks as work- An analysis of the historic support a relationship being memory, problem solving, and abstract thinking," says Geoffrey Dallas Heart Study con- tween the protein's size and Potts, a cognitive neuroscientist at Rice and principal author of ducted by statisticians from related levels of atheroscle- "Frontal Deficits in Alcoholism: An ERP Study," published in Brain Rice University and medical rosis in any of the groups we and Cognition. researchers from the Univer- studied." Potts, Rice postdoctoral fellow Mary "Reeni" George, and col- sity ofTexas Southwestern The Dallas Heart Study leagues at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Medical Center at Dallas is a groundbreaking multi- in Bangalore, India, have shown that alcohol-dependent patients has ruled out one of the ethnic investigation of car- seem to have brain malfunctions similar to those of patients who most prominent theories diovascular disease involving have structural damage to the frontal lobe. "The responses we got for why elevated levels of a thousands of Dallas County from subjects in our study" Potts says, "indicate that alcohol-depen- fat-carrying protein called residents, and it contains the dent patients are more similar to people with frontal lesions than to lipoprotein(a) lead to in- most representative sample patients with subcortical damage, both in their brain waves and in creased risks for heart at- of African American subjects their task performance" tacks among whites but not of any other statistical data- The frontal lobe is the most advanced among African Americans. set ever used to study Lp(a) part of the brain and is credited with such The theory is based and coronary artery calcium functions as attention, problem solving, on earlier lab studies that levels. In the Rice-led study, memory, judgment, impulse control, and showed lipoprotein(a), of- scientists looked at the re- regulating social behavior. Subcortical areas, ten referred to as Lp(a), cords of 1,288 subjects over on the other hand, are involved in more has a tendency to stick to the age of40-380 black primitive functions, such as some aspects some of the tissues that line women and 241 white wom- of emotions, certain motor functions, and blood-vessel walls. Some en over 45 and 381 black the regulation of thirst, hunger, and body researchers believe the adhe- men and 286 white men over temperature. sive property causes a chain 40—whose coronary calcium The researchers tested four groups of reaction in which, first, LDL levels had been determined using a modified version of the Petrides and Milner Number subjects ("bad" cholesterol) and then via electron beam computer task. All of the subjects were recruited from the National Sequencing calcium build up on the in- tomography and whose Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.The alcohol-dependent ner walls of blood vessels. Lp(a) levels were determined patients had an average drinking history of six years and were detoxified Although African Americans via blood tests. before taking part in the study.The subjects with subcortical lesions typically have two to four The researchers say their were stroke patients, and those with frontal lobe lesions were either times more Lp(a) in their analysis, which appeared in stroke patients or had recovered from tumor resections.The control blood than whites, the Lp(a) a recent issue of the journal group consisted of paid adult volunteers who had no prior history of proteins in whites tend to be Circulation, points to the substance use or neurological disorders. shorter and stickier than that need for further research to Through electroencephalograph recordings, the researchers in African Americans. determine whether African measured changes in the patients' brain waves before and during the The researchers looked Americans have a genetic number sequencing test. The study found that the ability to recall a for a relationship between mechanism that protects sequence of numbers was much lower for frontal lesion patients and increased levels of Lp(a) them from the risks of Lp(a). the alcohol-dependent group than for the subcortical lesion group or the and increases in coronary Ifsuch a mechanism is control group. In addition, both the alcohol-dependent and frontal lobe calcium, a leading indicator found, doctors might be able patients had similar abnormal brainwave activity, while the subcortical of coronary atherosclerosis, to use the information to patients had brain activity more like the control participants. but found no independent develop therapies and drugs Such findings may be critically important for therapists who treat relationship between plasma that reduce heart attack risks alcohol-dependent patients, since traditional therapy requires skills levels of Lp(a) and coronary for everyone. that the patients initially may not have. "In dealing with patients who calcium in either whites or The research was sup- have a known deficit," Potts says, "you first have to identify where African Americans. "This ported by the Donald W. they are having problems in case they need special help or training indicates that some other Reynolds Foundation and to overcome those deficits. When designing treatment for alcohol- mechanism is at work," says the National Institutes of dependent patients, for example, it would be important to know they Rudy Guerra, professor of Health.. may have working memory deficits as our study has shown."• statistics at Rice and the lead —Jade Boyd —B. J. Almond author of the paper."We also found no evidence to

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the patient's interests and a patient-centered assessment of the benefits and burdens of either initiating or continuing Ethca Ddhlips Posed By Ea-olth Care treatment," Lustig says. Patient autonomy, he explains, is not the sole de- and "quality oflife" versus The circumstances surrounding Terry Schaivo and terminant of what constitutes "sanctity of life." six ofwhom appropriate medical -month-old Knya Dismuke-Howard,both At the heart of many of treatment. "Healthcare died after being removed from life support, have fu- these legal and ethical issues re- professionals may deny forms of care they deem eled renewed debate over end-of-life care. garding a patient's care, Lustig says, are the concepts of patient harmful or futile," he says. autonomy and the physician's "As occurred in the case of At stake are not just the indi- of high-quality care as a person right to deny certain forms the Dismuke-Howard child, vidual lives of patients and their moves from a curative goal in of care because they may be who suffered from leukemia families argues a Rice Uni- intensive care to a palliative but, harmful or futile. and multiple-organ failure, versity religious studies scholar, goal." Ethicists, for example, a physician's judgments can fundamental questions about In a chapter for the Hand- generally draw a distinction sometimes run counter to the what medicine means as a pro- book ofBioethics titled "Death, between actively terminating wishes of the patient or surro- fession and practice. Dying, Euthanasia, and Pal- a patient's life and passively gate if the doctor believes the "Medicine is historically and liative Care: Prospectives allowing the individual to die treatment is inappropriate or professionally committed spe- From Philosophy of Medicine based on the patient's decision ineffectual." cifically to extending life and and Ethics," Lustig reviews and what would be identified as Above all, as doctors and curing patients," says Andrew the advancements in clinical the cause of death. In the case patients face troubling ques- Lustig, director of Rice's Pro- medicine, specifically end-of- of a patient on a respirator who tions about medical interven- gram on Biotechnology, Reli- life care, that have led to the wants to die, most ethicists tions at the end of life, the gion, and Ethics. "But it's still emergence of bioethics. He would consider withdrawing quality of the relationship be- difficult for practitioners and, also offers an extensive analysis that support justifiable because tween the doctor and patient obviously, for patients to accept of the prevalent theories of bio- is critical. Despite efforts to it's the patient's decision, and it a terminal prognosis and shift ethicists regarding key ethical enhance communication be- would relieve the patient's suf- their set of commitments from issues confronting patients and tween fering. "Ethicists would con- patients and healthcare curing to caring." physicians in either critical care sider such an action as a clear professionals, Lustig believes Part of this difficulty, Lustig or hospice settings. case of letting the patient die a significant gap still exists believes, stems from the tech- Issues that are of vital rather than killing the patient," between theories of doctor nological advances that have ethical concern, according to Lustig says, "because the cause and patient relations and what occurred in medicine and the Lustig, include distinctions of death is the underlying pa- really occurs. As an example, need to re-examine a number between withholding and thology of the lungs." he cites the 1995 SUPPORT offundamental philosophi- withdrawing life-sustaining In instances in which treat- Project, the first large-scale cal issues, beginning with the treatment, physician-assisted ment is withheld or withdrawn, study of dying patients in the scope and nature of medicine. suicide, what "dying naturally" Lustig claims that the consen- United States. Researchers on "Despite the dramatic improve- means in a hospice setting, the the sus among bioethicists is that project concluded that, ments in clinical care and in principle of"double effect" tra- either decision must involve even after extensive efforts, at- current practices involving hos- ditionally espoused by the Ro- the consent of the patient or tempts to improve the quality pice care," he says, "the medi- man Catholic Church, distinc- surrogate. "This decision also of information shared among cal profession is still a long way tions between "ordinary" and must take into consideration patients, doctors, and nurses from providing a continuum "extraordinary" treatments, failed.•

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million for the NEP resulted in a from physicians, pharmacies, Martin Researches Benefits of savings of between $1.3 billion the police, or other readily avail- and $4.1 billion. able sources. In 1997, Congress Needle Exchange The contrast between Austra- enacted Public Law 105-78, lia and the United States, Martin which prohibits federal funding Many opponents of needle-exchange programs arguethatsupplying notes, is "particularly striking:' of any program that distributes drug users with clean needles sends the wrong message. But a as evidenced by a presentation sterile needles for the injection researcher at Rice's James A. Baker Ill Institute for Public Policy that physician Alex Wodak of illegal drugs. advises that they should be concerned about the message they made during a 2002 Baker Consequently, only 120 NEPs Institute conference on "Mov- currently operate in the United actually are sending through their opposition. ing Beyond the War on Drugs." States, with funding from state Wodak, who helped persuade or city governments, private Despite the overwhelming 50 and 80 percent of IDUs the Australian government to foundations, and/or individuals. evidence that needle-exchange contract hepatitis C—the most support NEPs, reported that, Martin notes in his research programs (NEPs) can help dangerous strain—within their in 2000, the rate of 14.7 new paper that Houston—the fourth reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS first year of needle use. AIDS cases for every 100,000 largest city in the nation—has and hepatitis, many legislators Martin also translates the Americans was dramatically nearly 20,000 known cases of refuse to support such efforts problem into dollars. A 2005 higher than the rate of 1.1 new AIDS but no NEP. Dallas, on the and instead write off death and report from the Centers for AIDS case for every 100,000 other hand, has a program run by illness as "just deserts" for Disease Control and Preven- Australians. four volunteers who reportedly illegal behavior, says William tion (CDC) estimates that the During the 1990s, a small distribute 250,000 needles a pickup truck. "Lim- Martin, senior fellow in religion lifetime treatment cost for a number of U.S. cities experi- year from a Martin says, "this and public policy at the James person with HIV is $155,000. mented with NEPs. The most ited as it is: was effort surely plays some role in A. Baker III Institute for Public With 40,000 people being carefully studied program an AIDS rate 57 percent lower Policy. than that of Houston's." In a research paper posted responsible person wants to Although NEPS consistently on the Baker Institute website, "No are rejected by politicians and Martin paraphrases the mes- encourage drug abuse. No fis- platforms of both major political sage these opponents really cally prudent person wants to waste parties, Martin says some law- are conveying to injecting drug money simply to satisfy a sense of makers are starting to consider users (IDUs):"We know a way righteous indignation. No compas- changes in policy as they learn to dramatically cut your chances sionate person wants to consign more about studies confirming of contracting a deadly disease, to death or a people unnecessarily that NEPs can save lives and then spreading it to others, living hell." money without increasing drug including your unborn children. —William Martin abuse. Last year, for example, It also would dramatically cut the California became another state amount of money society is go- in New Haven, Connecticut, infected with HIV each year, that allows pharmacy sales of ing to have to spend on you and for those where researchers estimated lifetime treatment up to 10 sterile syringes without those you infect. But because in just the past five that the HIV and hepatitis B infected a prescription, and the Texas we believe what you are doing is projected to cost $31 transmission rates dropped by years legislature currently is consid- illegal, immoral, and sinful, billion."The CDC estimates that about one-third during the first is ering a bill that will permit the do what only 1,300 cases would need two years of the program. we are not going to operation of NEPs. social to be averted annually to make Government-funded studies we know works. You are "No responsible person moral, a program of syringe of NEPs and reports from such lepers, and as upright, full-scale wants to encourage drug sincerely religious people, we exchange and disposal for IDUs respectable organizations as the abuse: Martin says. "No fis- effective," Martin National Academy of Science, prefer that you and others in economically cally prudent person wants to the American Medical Associa- your social orbit die." notes. waste money simply to satisfy particularly tion, the National Institutes of Martin cites a number of Other countries, a sense of righteous indigna- Health, and the CDC, Martin alarming statistics to show the the Netherlands and Australia, tion. No compassionate person that sup- says, have endorsed access size of the drug problem. The have demonstrated wants to consign people unnec- drug clean to clean needles as an effec- number of IDUs is estimated plying addicts with essarily to death or a living hell. in exchange for their tive measure for reducing to be between 1 million and needles Fortunately, providing IDUs with ones is an effective means the incidence of blood-borne 1.25 million. By mid-2000, 36 used access to sterile syringes allows of reducing the incidence of diseases and increasing access percent, or 270,721, AIDS cases us to be responsible, prudent, -borne diseases. Addicts to treatment for drug users. "In in the United States had oc- blood and compassionate—admirable receive a clean needle for addition," he says, "they have curred among IDUs,their sexual criteria for good public policy." one they turn in; persuasively documented that partners, and their children, every used Martin is the Harry and Hazel this limits careless and danger- access to sterile needles neither and these three categories of Chavanne Professor of Religion disposal of contaminated encourages people to start people accounted for half of all ous and Public Policy and professor needles. A 2002 report from injecting drugs nor increases new HIV infections in the nation. of sociology. The full text of his Australia estimates that in the drug use by those who are In fact, 57 percent of children research paper is available at Australia's NEP helped already users." born with AIDS in the United 1990s, http://www.bakerinstitute.org. • States are the offspring of IDUs avoid 25,000 cases of HIV Yet policy-makers at the fed- or their sexual partners. IDUs and 21,000 cases of hepatitis eral, state, and local levels have —B. J. Almond also risk exposure to various C. In U.S. dollars, Australia's resisted providing IDUs with forms of hepatitis. Between investment of more than $71.8 easier access to clean needles

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A Community of Art

Providing a dynamic union of art and education is the goal of Rice University's newest partnership with the museum community of Houston, the Rice University—Museum Collaborative Partnership. RICE Led primarily by the School ofHumanities,the partnership brings together Houston's museums—with their wealth of original art, photography, and unique documen- r ANNUAL tation—and Rice's scholarly and educational resources to develop programs and studies of Houston's unique artistic holdings. Partnership representatives include FUND the President's Office; the School of Humanities, including the Departments of Learning Visual Arts and Art History and the Rice Art Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts, For Student Lift and Houston; the Menil Collection; and the Glassell School of Art.

The Rice Annual Fund is the university's most powerful giving program and is supported by more than 90 percent of Rice alumni who give to the university. Its sole purpose is to support student life and learning year after year. Your gift to the Annual Fund is the best wayto ensure that current and future students receive the most rewarding Rice experience possible. Members of the Rice University-Museum Collaborative Partnership celebrated the union at a March luncheon. Pictured are, standing from left, Joe Manca, Rice; Kim Davenport, Rice; Brad Boucher '69, Glassell School of Art; Joe Havel, Glassell School of Art; Karin Broker, Rice; Josef Helfenstein, • Financial resources supplied by the Annual Menil Collection; Gwen Goffe, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Bill Camfield, Rice; and Liz Howard '76, Rice; seated from left, Rice University president David Leebron, Suzanne Deal Booth '77, and Fund are crucial to maintain and enhance the Gary Wihl, Rice. Rice experience, supporting scholarships, graduate fellowships, residential college Suzanne Deal Booth '77, who received her bachelor ofarts degree in art history life, library resources, and initiatives that significant from Rice and has many years of experience in art conservation, made a might not otherwise be funded. gift to help launch Rice's participation. After obtaining a master ofarts degree and certificate in art conservation from New • Many strategic opportunities to York University, Booth began her work at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California improve the quality of the Rice and subsequently spent several years organizing international conservation educa- learning experience, tion projects at the Getty Conservation Institute. She currently is an art consultant including bringing world-class faculty and and founder of the Friends of Heritage Preservation, a small, private association visiting professors to campus and developing of members based in Los Angeles, dedicated to the recognition, preservation, and unique new academic programs, require conservation of artistic and cultural heritage. immediate funding. The Rice Annual Fund Booth has a longstanding interest in the Houston arts community. While a work- provides current-use money to seize these study student at Rice,she was an assistant to the late Dominique de Menil,founder opportunities. with her husband,John, of the Menil Collection that houses their vast art collection. At the time Booth was working with her, Menil was organizing exhibitions of her • Rice graduates have received one of the art collection at Rice's "Art Barn." nation's most highly valued degrees, along As an alumna,Booth has been actively involved in the Rice Art Gallery and serves with a uniquely rich college experience. A gift as a member of the Humanities Advisory Board and on the University Art Com- totheAnnual Fund helps extend those benefits this initiative," Booth mittee. "I'm delighted to be in a position to donate to says. to others and demonstrates appreciation for "It's richness of the Houston community and a great way to expand the artistic the great educational experience that our strengthen the cultural and community ties with Rice." city's graduates have received. "Suzanne's gift will enhance and develop every aspect of the visual arts at Rice University," says Gary Wihl, dean of the School of Humanities. "Greater ties to the museum community will create opportunities for new research of national and • The percentage of alumni who contribute international caliber, expand our offerings in studio arts, and give our unique Rice to the university has an impact on Rice's Gallery a much greater presence in the art world. Suzanne's gift is the capstone of national rankings and the level of corporate a building effort that will have lasting benefits to our students and faculty and to and foundation giving. Rice as a whole in connection with President David Leebron's new vision of our role in Houston." For more information or to give to the Rice Annual Fund, Joint undertakings include appointing fellows from the Glassell School to teach visit us at http://giving.rice.edu/annual. courses in the Department of Visual Arts; the production of major scholarship in the field of art history through symposia and exhibits; establishing postdoctoral Annual Gifts Office-MS 81 fellows to conduct research on specific holdings at the museums;jointly sponsored P.O. Box 1892 lectures and publications; and establishing two new positions at the Rice Gallery: Houston, TX 77251-1892 curator of education and director of outreach. • Phone 713-348-4991 • Fax: 713-348-5166 —Margot Dimond Email: [email protected]

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A Commitment to Voter Rights requirement that jurisdictions in all or part of 16 states submit voting changes to the Justice Department or a federal court When the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act held for approval before they can be implemented, a requirement a hearing in Montgomery, Alabama, last spring, seated among that more than 450 counties and townships provide language the seven commission members was Rice's Chandler Davidson, assistance to voters with limited English proficiency and autho- the Radoslav A. Tsanoff Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and rization of the Department of Justice to appoint an examiner or Sociology. But he wasn't there justto listen to the testimonies of send observers to any jurisdiction in the 16 states singled out lawyers and academicians specializing in voting rights, elected by the VRA to protect people of color. officials, and everyday citizens who wanted to share their Davidson has more than a passing familiarity with the ins experiences with discrimination against minority voters in the and outs of the VRA He testified before Congress for the 1982 South Davidson will draft a report summarizing information reauthorization of the act, and he co-edited a seminal book on that the commission obtains through a series of four to six re- voting rights, Quiet Revolution in the South The Impact of the gional hearings around the nation. Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 The hearings are bein eld to gather testimony and other His career-long interest in racial politics and minority voting evidence tiCat will be us to create a comprehensive record spans more than four decades "I got caught up in the civil rights of racial scriminatio ting since 1982 the last time the movement as a student at the University of-Texas [at Austin] in temporli „atures2f, oting Rights Act(VRA) were reautho- the early '60s," Davidson says He vividlremembers partici- rized C r'ess eni e VRA of 1965 to protect the right to p in in "stand ins" before the Civil Ri'lts* Act was passed vote a g minorti d it relies on an extensive record of at time, movie theaters in Austin woii Id not sell tickets to ion in• justify the need to extend provisions s, so Davidson and others would forlka line outside the box thati„ e in 2007. Those provisions include a and take turns buying tickets hen trying to purchase

Signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C. President Lyndon B. Johnson moves to shake hands with and give a pen he used to sign the bill into law to Martin Luther King Jr.

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another ticket for a black friend. When the theater refused to for Civil Rights Under Law, remains necessary. "There's still a sell the additional ticket, the protestors would request a refund lot of racism in this country," he says. "There are people who for the ticket they had already bought These repeated transac- don't want their representative to be black." tions slowed business for the theaters because other custom- Despite all the incidents of discrimination that he has read ers had to wait longer in line. Eventually the group picketed about over the years, Davidson was surprised by some of the other businesses in the university neighborhood, which evidence of discrimination presented during the hearing caused some of them to desegregate in Montgomery. A New Orleans political scientist,for When Davidson joined the Rice faculty in 1966, example, presented data showing that a high degree he was working on a PhD from Princeton and chose of racially politicized voting still exists throughout to study black politics and the rise of the civil rights the South And in a referendum in Alabama last movement in Houston for his doctoral thesis, which year, white voters overwhelmingly opposed removing was published as a book Back then, Houston's city from the state constitution some language requiring council consisted of eight members elected citywide segregation—even though this language was rendered Davidson realized how difficult it was for blacks to get elected null and void by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. under this system, given the racial bloc voting by whites, and "Racism just dies hard," Davidson says But he notes that he testified as an expert witness in the case that resulted in the much progre4,s has been made and pointed out that the number current council structure, which consists of nine single-member of black offic1 elected in Alabama now is proportiona districts and five at-large members. state's popul4ti on, thanks largely to the VRA "No He has since testified in more than 30 voting-rights cases hays,"ca that "• around the nation, and he says the National Commission on the , • , Voting Rights Act, which was created by the Lawyers Committee

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http://www.riceteamcobra.com

A. Austin Ham Christopher Gibson Zeyad Metwalli Roland Robb Thomas Rooney

Bioengineering's Team Cobra Strikes Down Its Competition

Most graduating students focus stimulate the muscles and bones on starting a career or attending in key physiological sites. Every- graduate school, but a group of five thing is run by a central control system that coordinates the effects seniors known as Team Cobra from of the motors. Rice's bioengineering program The RASC-ALforum required took on an additional challenge Team Cobra to extensively over- after graduating in May. They're haul its project because it called competing in several national for technology that could be ap- events where they will present plied across the spectrum ofspace exploration.Team Cobra adapted a yearlong research and design by expanding their concept from project that could revolutionize the single device to an interrelated long-term spaceflight and may aid "tool suite"that can be tailored to in the fight against osteoporosis the needs of a specific mission. here on Earth. The team has filed a provisional patent with Rice's Office ofTech- At its first national competition, nology Transfer,and according to the RevolutionaryAerospace Sys- team memberChristopher Gibson, tems Concept—Academic Linkage Michael Liebschner, an assistant (RASC—AL)forum, held just one professor ofbioengineering,intends that mostimpressed thejudges with STEVE also has a great deal of week after commencement,Team to use the device as a test bed for their drive for success,enthusiasm potential for use as a treatmentfor Cobra was awarded first prize by some ofthis year's bioengineering for space science,and community osteoporosis, says team member representatives from NASA and seniors. The prize for the RASC- engagement. Austin Elam. The belt portion of the space industry. AL contest was an expense-paid One reason the team has been the device may reduce bone loss The team is getting used to trip to another conference. This so successful is STEVE's innova- in elderly individuals with this winning awards for its prototype time, the team will go to SPACE tive design and the fact that it ad- metabolic bone disease. Best of device called the Spine and Tro- 2005, the premier space confer- dresses one ofthe most persistent all, it's easy to use, inexpensive, chanter External Vibration Effecter ence ofthe year, and is one ofjust obstacles NASA faces as it prepares and requires only 15 minutes of (STEVE), which is designed to a handfulofundergraduate/gradu- to return to the moon and explore use each day. counter muscle atrophy and bone ate presenters. Mars—loss of bone and muscle Based on prior research that loss duringlong-term spaceffights. In addition to Elam and Gibson, massduring long-term spaceffights. established that high-frequency, With an initial design funded by a the team includes Zeyad Metwalli, While current countermeasures low-amplitude vibration of bone $1,250 grantfrom the TexasSpace Roland Robb,and ThomasRooney. against muscle loss in micrograv- combats bone-density loss due GrantConsortium (TSGC),STEVE For more information, visit the ity are fairly successful, the bone to lack of normal body stress on brought home three top prizes at Team Cobra website,http://www. mass lost in the spine, hips, and bones,STEVE is a system ofsmall the November 2004 TSGC De- riceteamcobra.com. thighs is a critical concern because motors that can be strapped sign Challenge Showcase, as well to an —Jade Boyd as seven top honors in TSGC's no technology has been shown to astronaut's body to deliver vibra- spring competition. Team Cobra prevent it. Also of concern is the tions throughout all the joints also won the first TSGC Design lack of evidence that astronauts in the body. The system uses a Challenge Legends Award in its will regain the same bone quality combination of strategic load- four-year history, given to teams after returning to Earth. ing and vibration techniques to

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Shepherd School Students Perform at Kennedy Cente Rice University's Shepherd School of Music made an encore pe mance in May in the T Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. It w he second year the S d School has been invited to participate in the Conservatory Project, a program that ngs students from eight usic schools to one of the best-known venues in the country for a series of one-hou rformances of classic sic, opera, and jazz.

"This was a special opportunity for several of our sty_dents to The progr included works smposed by faculty members) 11it perform in one of our nation's most exalted music venues," Pierre Jalbert and Art Gottschalk, as well as works by Alain notes Robert Yekovich, dean of the Shepherd School. "Visibility Bernaud, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Chris Brubeck, and Ludwig van of this kind enhances the school's fine reputation and brings Beethoven. Shepherd School students were joined at the eight- credit to Rice" day event by peers from Berklee College of Music, The Juilliard Adding to the honor for students is the fact that attendees School, The Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music are selected by faculty to represent the best of the school's mu- at the University of Rochester, the Peabody Conservatory at sical talent Participants were Fei Xie, bassoon, accompanied Johns Hopkins University, the School of Music at Northwestern by pianist Kana Mimaki, Judson Perry, tenor, accompanied by University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music..

Pianist Calogero Di Liberto; Evan Bertrand, marimba; and Novus, —Dawn Dorsey a trombone quartet of Christopher Beaudry, Mike Clayville, Mike Selover, and John Widmer

Among the participants in the Performing Arts' Conservatory Project are, standing from left, graduate student Judson Perry, Novus member Mike Selover, Novus member Mike Clayville and graduate student Fei Xie, sitting from left, senior Evan Bertrand, Novus member Christopher Beaudry, doctoral student Kana Mimaki and Novus member John Widmer Not pictured is Calogero Di Liberto

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Rice students Julia Follick, Me- Shepherd School of Music, has biological and medical sciences, Beckman Center of the Na- gan Levin, and Anthony Potoc- been working to become an or- or some combination of these tional Academies of Sciences zniak will live, work, and study chestral harpist for most of her subjects. Research is conducted and Engineering in Irvine, Cali- abroad next year, thanks to the life, and the Fulbright grant will during two full-time summer fornia. The Arnold and Mabel Fulbright Program for U.S. help her merge this goal with research sessions and a part- Beckman Foundation gives Students. her love of Paris. She will spend time research session during the awards to program-related, Only about 600 Fulbrights the year abroad studying at the one academic year. nonprofit research institutions are awarded nationally each year Ecole Normale de Musique de Working in the lab of Bonnie to encourage research in chem- to graduating seniors and grad- Paris under professor of harp Bartel, professor of biochemistry and life science. Estab- uate students who are U.S. citi- Madame Perrin. The French istry and cell biology, Lin is lished in 1997, the Beckman zens. Awards are based on the approach to playing an instru- researching hormone response Scholars Program to date has applicant's personal statement, ment is emotion-driven, Levin defects in mutants of the plant awarded fellowships to 413 stu- proposed project, transcript, explains. She hopes to make her Arabidopsis thaliana. She is dents—four from Rice. faculty recommendations, and music more personal, intense, working on isolating mutants a language exam,if applicable. and meaningful. At the same that suppress resistance to aux- Hanszen College junior Nas- Each scholarship covers one time, she'll experience life in in, a phytohormone involved tassja Lewinski was one of 320 year of university study and re- Paris as a full-time resident, not in plant growth and stress re- undergraduate sophomores and search abroad. simply a tourist. sponses. By eventually cloning juniors in the United States Follick plans to work and Potoczniak, a graduate stu- the gene responsible for resis- this year awarded a nationally study in Germany during her dent in anthropology, will travel tance, she hopes to identify key competitive Barry M. Goldwa- Fulbright teaching assistantship. to Ukraine to examine how folk proteins of the elusive auxin ter Scholarship. It was awarded While studying there as an un- songs are transformed into cul- signaling mechanism. A clearer based on her plans to work in dergraduate, she met many Ger- tural commodities in the post- understanding of the auxin sig- the field of scoliosis research. mans whose less-than-favorable Soviet economy. He plans to naling pathway could have ma- Since 2002, Lewinski has been opinions about Americans were study how experts at four state jor agricultural implications. working in the lab of Rebekah based on outdated textbooks or institutions archive Ukrainian Pond is researching the trig- Drez,ek, the Stanley C. Moore poorly trained nonnative Eng- folk music. His specific inter- gered disassembly of TiO2 Assistant Professor of Bioengi- lish teachers. As a teacher in the est is in how everyday scientific nanoparticle-assembled capsules neering and assistant professor German schools, the May grad- research practices, as they relate (NACs)in the lab of Michael in electrical and computer en- uate hopes to counter German to folk music, are influenced by Wong,assistant professor in gineering. Lewinski currently prejudices against Americans, social, political, and economic chemical and biomolecular is the George R. Brown Un- starting with secondary-school constraints at local and national engineering. Pond hopes to dergraduate Research Assistant students. Follick also will take levels. engineer a mechanism for the studying the fluorescent proper- German-language classes at a triggered disassembly of the ties of type I collagen gels. local university to strengthen Two 2005 graduates—Grace NACs and then use it to work She also spent nine weeks her language skills and sit in on Lin and Mark Pond—were on controlled release of material during the summer participat- American studies classes to hear selected to participate in the stored within the center of hol- ing in Washington Internship what German students are be- Beckman Scholars Program. low NACs. for Students of Engineering ing taught about the United The highly competitive program The scholars will continue (WISE), where she learned how States. She hopes to gain useful provides funding—$17,600 per their research through next government officials make deci- ideas to implement in her own student—for research by under- summer, when they will join sions on complex technological classroom. graduate students in the areas of other Beckman Scholars for issues and how engineers can Levin, a graduate of the chemistry, biochemistry, and the a research symposium at the contribute to legislative and reg-

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Rice students are among the best and the brightest in the country as shown once again by the number of prestigious scholarships g and awards they won in 2005.

ulatory public policy decisions. with famed musician Francois tion between religion and the who received the most votes to The WISE program is ranked Rabbath. Rice graduate Natllee epidemic. be nominated for a Watson Fel- one of the 100 best internship Harren will study 20th-century The Wagoner Foreign Stud- lowship but did not receive the opportunities in the United performance history and its ies Scholarships are awarded to award. Both the Zeff and Wat- States by the Princeton Review, critical theory at the London Rice undergraduate and gradu- son fellowships give students Lewinski plans to pursue both Consortium. She wants to in- ate students who demonstrate about $22,000 to travel abroad an MD and a PhD to research vestigate works that challenge scholastic achievement, dedica- and spend one year working on improvements in scoliosis pre- the boundaries of performance tion, and character. Rice estab- a research project. vention and management. and study art history. lished the scholarships in 1997 The Goldwater Foundation is Ryan Foster, a graduate stu- through provisions made by By their record of accomplish- a federally endowed agency es- dent in history, will travel to the late James T. Wagoner '29, ment at Rice University, 68 tablished in 1986. Scholars were Potsdam, Germany, to collect who took his first trip abroad May graduates qualified for selected on the basis of academ- the necessary archival materi- after graduating from Rice and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. ic merit from a field ofstudents als to write the first contextual enjoyed extensive world travel Election to Phi Beta Kappa is in mathematics, science, and study of Joseph von Schelling's during his retirement, a significant honor recogniz-

By their record of accomplishment at Rice University,68 May graduates qualified for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Election to Phi Beta Kappa is a significant honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the liberal arts and sciences.

engineering who were nominat- most mature work, Naturphi- ing outstanding achievement in ed by the faculties of universities losophie. Wiess College senior This summer, Wiess College se- the liberal arts and sciences. To nationwide. The award covers Searcy Milam plans to take nior Emily Matuzek embarked be considered for membership, the cost of tuition, fees, books, Spanish literature courses in on a yearlong journey to re- a student at Rice must have and room and board for one to Spain and incorporate the Ian- search how other countries treat completed at least 90 semester two years. guage, culture, tradition, and autistic children. As a recipient hours in courses that reflect literary style into his own writ- of the Roy and Hazel Zeff Me- the pursuit oflearning for its Seven Rice students will spend ing. Elitza Ranova, a graduate morial Fellowship, Matuzek is own sake, rather than a focus on the next academic year studying student in anthropology, will visiting Denmark, India, and the development of particular abroad, each having earned a travel to Bulgaria to conduct Chile to examine the diagnosis, professional skills. As an addi- Wagoner Foreign Studies Schol- research for her dissertation. treatment, and education pro- tional indication of intellectual arship. Her anthropological fieldwork cess for autism in each country. breadth, at least 10 of these Brown College junior Nancy will focus on lifestyle and con- She chose those three countries qualifying courses must be cho- Brown, an English major, will sumption changes as they relate because of their different ap- sen from outside the division in attend Queen Mary University to the postsocialist country's proaches to diagnosing and which the student's major lies.• in London to study literature political transition. Recent treating the disease. in the modernist period, a time graduate Laura Sawyer will The Zeff Fellowship was —Reported by Lindsey Fielder and Linda Williams oftremendous progress and spend the next year at the Uni- created by Stephen Zeff, the upheaval in the arts and poli- versity of Cape Town in South Herbert S. Autrey Professor tics. Shepherd School student Africa studying the AIDS epi- of Accounting at the Jesse H. Shawn Conley plans to spend a demic in that country, with a Jones Graduate School of Man- year in Paris studying the bass particular focus on the connec- agement, for the Rice student

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L It's All About the People By Melissa Kean • Photography: Tommy LaVergne Trying to get Bill Barnett to talk about him- t self is a challenging proposition. Although ; he tries, really, to make an effort to answer questions about his years at Rice and his own a accomplishments,invariably the conversation moves back to what he really wants to talk about: all the other people who have made Rice the special place that it is.

Barnett's emphasis on the contributions of versity. Like so many of his generation who Stern—as well as a distinguished legal career. others is both wise and true. To the extent came to Rice from the small cities and towns He is a former chair of the 15,000-member that Rice has realized the ambitions of its of Texas and Louisiana, he was drawn by Antitrust Section of the American Bar Asso- founding president, Edgar Odd Lovett, it is Rice's lack of tuition as much as by its aca- ciation and a fellow of the American College because of the dedicated efforts of an entire demic reputation. By all testimony, Barnett of Trial Lawyers. In 1984, Barnett became community. Through the decades, thou- was a very serious student, although—again, the managing partner of Baker Botts L.L.P., sands offaculty, staff, and alumni have main- like many others—he had a bit of a rude a position he held for 14 years. During that tained deep emotional ties to the university, awakening when confronted with Rice math time, he led the firm through a number and their work and unstinting generosity and science classes. He graduated from Rice of significant changes. Baker Botts nearly remain vital to the success of the institution in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in eco- doubled in size, added offices in Dallas and at every level. Still, as chair of Rice's Board nomics, but his real interests lay elsewhere. New York, expanded its areas of practice, of Trustees from 1996 to 2005, Barnett has Coming from a family of lawyers, he always and grew a significant international presence made critical contributions to the continu- intended to pursue a legal career. Pausing with the opening of offices in London and ing health and maturation of Rice as a seri- only long enough to marry classmate Peggy Moscow. Barnett became senior counsel in ous university. Mauk the Monday after graduation (sug- 1998 and continued in that role until his Curiously, Barnett's contributions are gesting that he had,indeed, found time retirement in June 2004. so overarching that it is almost hard to see for something besides his studies), he im- All the while, Bill and Peggy Barnett have them clearly. Much of what he has done, mediately headed off to Austin to begin given freely and generously to the Houston quietly and thoughtfully, has been to bring law school at the University of Texas. Law community. A native Houstonian, Peggy about changes—some readily visible, others school proved a natural fit for Barnett, and has focused her attention on education and much less so—that will allow other members during the three successful and productive healthcare. Always active in church and in of this extraordinary community to thrive years he was there, he was a member of the her children's schools, she also has served into the future. He has been, to a great de- Order of the Coif and Chancellors and a the broader Houston community in many gree, responsible for creating the opportuni- comment editor for the Texas Law Review. ways. She has chaired the development ties, resources, and environment that enable He received his LLB with honors in 1958. board of the UT—Houston Health Science trustees, students, faculty, volunteers, staff, Following law school, Barnett returned Center and has been an active and success- and alumni to reach high levels of accom- to Houston and joined the firm of Baker ful fundraiser for the University ofTexas plishment in the service of the university's Botts, where his practice concentrated on School of Nursing at Houston, where she mission. commercial litigation and antitrust law. He was the founding chair ofPARTNERS, a Barnett's many commitments to Hous- spent the next couple of decades building a support group for the students and faculty ton and Texas have been so varied that it's family—Bill and Peggy have two children, of that institution. Her own contributions to surprising he's not a native of the state. Ann Barnett Stern and Edward William Rice are innumerable, and she has sat on the He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Barnett Jr., both lawyers in Houston, and boards of the Shepherd School of Music, the moved to Houston only to attend Rice Uni- two grandchildren, Carter and Margaret Friends of Fondren Library, and the Baker

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Institute Roundtable. on reaching the age of 70, the that ought to guide its future. Like his wife, Barnett also has customary retirement age for Rice In many ways, his leadership has served on a wide variety of educa- trustees. underscored the importance of tional, civic, and corporate boards, Barnett's election as board chair the university's role as a servant including the University of Texas was received with a bit of surprise ofsociety and a participant in the Law School Foundation, Baylor on the Rice campus. Although world around it. For example, he, College of Medicine, the Texas active on the board, particularly former president Malcolm Gillis, Heart Institute, St. Luke's Epis- Barnett's vision has proved in the founding of the new James and the board stood firmly on the copal Health System, the Center A. Baker III Institute for Public side ofincreasing racial diversity for Houston's Future, JPMorgan Policy, he had not been especially on campus, helping devise creative Chase Bank, and Reliant Resourc- both broad and farsighted. visible to the faculty and staff of programs to continue supporting es. He is a former chair of the the university, and few had any minority students after the Hop- Greater Houston Partnership and real idea of what to expect from wood decision by the Fifth Circuit Central Houston, Inc. In 2001, He gently has guided the his leadership. To those who know Court prohibited most efforts to he was appointed by Houston him, however, it is unsurprising make campuses more reflective of mayor Lee Brown to chair a task university through a series of that his nine-year tenure at the American society. force charged with transforming head of Rice's Board of Trustees Barnett also fully embraced the the city's zoo into a premier insti- has been marked not only by the notion that the university must tution. The next year, the zoo was fundamental decisions that kind of steady growth and prog- actively seek out collaborations privatized successfully, and Barnett ress that the Rice community has with other institutions around was elected the first chair of the come to take for granted but also Houston and elsewhere to attract board of the nonprofit corpora- have improved the campus, by truly extraordinary changes. and keep the kind offaculty who tion that now manages the facility, Barnett's vision has proved both want to perform meaningful and Houston Zoo,Inc. broad and farsighted. He gently exciting research. In doing so, he Barnett first joined the Rice enriched the experiences has guided the university through continued the tradition of col- University Board of Governors a series offundamental decisions laboration that Rice, because of its as a term member in 1991, when of faculty and students, that have improved the campus, small size, developed early in its that board still maintained a two- enriched the experiences offac- history. Most important and clos- tiered governance structure. Only ulty and students, and positioned est to home, Barnett has helped the seven trustees had voting au- and positioned Rice to plan Rice to plan its future with energy spearhead Rice's efforts to build a thority; the eight term governors and confidence. He has led the collaborative research center—on and four alumni governors acted board in making these changes land between the Rice campus in advisory roles. In 1994, he was its future with energy and with an eye toward distant as well and the Texas Medical Center—to elected a trustee along with his law as current needs, providing Rice house research groups from Rice school classmate James A. Baker, confidence. with the long-term flexibility to and other leading institutions in III, filling positions left vacant respond to circumstances that can- the medical center. by the retirements of Josephine not possibly be anticipated today. Always quick to understand the Abercrombie and John Cox. In Barnett brought to his work as importance of building a global 1996, Barnett was elected chair of chair of the Rice board a ground- presence for Rice in a world made the board after Charles Duncan ed understanding of the institu- faster and smaller by emerging stepped down from that position tion, its goals, and the principles technologies, Barnett reached out

20 Rice Sallyport to bring international perspectives was followed almost immediately ing his tenure, a building boom, to the campus. These included by the university's first national begun in the early 1990s, trans- a faculty—student exchange with championship in any team sport formed the face of the campus. Monterrey Tech and the Uni- when the Owls won the College Like the other changes that came versity of Monterrey in Mexico World Series in 2003. And this is to Rice during these years, this as well as bringing leaders with just one example. The nine years spate of new construction and international experience onto the of Barnett's term as chair were renovation also was informed and Rice board. Further, he strongly highly successful ones for Rice Always Quick to guided by a coherent vision of the supported Rice's cooperation in athletes, as many Rice teams, both institution's intellectual purpose. the planning and development of men's and women's, were com- First articulated by Edgar Odell an entirely new university modeled petitive in the Western Athletic understand the importance Lovett, this vision found new ex- after Rice: International University Conference, all while Rice con- pression in the mid-1990s, when Bremen in Germany. tinued to be among the nation's of building a global the Strategic Planning Committee, Barnett helped Rice reach off leaders in graduation rates for its comprising members of the Rice campus in one other quite impor- athletes. faculty, staff, administration, stu- tant way. After President Gillis an- Barnett's sense of responsibil- presence for Rice in a dent body, and board, produced nounced his intention to retire on ity for these athletes, and for the an aggressive report. It called for June 30, 2004, Barnett was instru- institution as a whole, led him to a series of initiatives to elevate mental in guiding the university commission a study of all aspects world made taster and graduate studies in targeted areas through the critically important of the university's athletic program to national distinction, strengthen search process for a new president. in 2004. The results of the board's the already excellent undergradu- In what has become the Rice tra- deliberations on this report—a smaller by emerging ate program, increase the number dition of openness and collegiality, decision to remain in Division of faculty, and begin to address he organized a committee, chaired 1-A but also to tighten the ad- technologies, Barnett pressing building needs. This re- by board trustee Jim Crownover, missions process for athletes and port became the foundation for whose members were drawn from require improved financial perfor- an ambitious plan that the board all parts of the Rice community. mance—probably wholly satisfied reached out to bring approved in 1997. Rice: The Next After an amicable and exciting no one, but opened a flexible and Century Campaign sparked a ma- nine months, the search con- pragmatic path forward. The thor- jor capital fund drive to raise $500 cluded successfully in December oughness of the study will provide international perspectives million, the success of which pro- 2003 with the announcement that a factual foundation for any future vided many of the resources that the Rice board had unanimously discussions of the topic, but far have helped advance the universi- elected David Leebron, then dean more important, Barnett's deci- to the campus. ty's strategic plans. of the Columbia Law School, as sion to release the report to the The creation of new spaces on Rice's seventh president. entire community immeasurably campus that are central to Rice's In his leadership of the board, strengthened the bonds of trust educational and research mission Barnett also has honored the Rice between the Rice campus and the is another of Barnett's legacies. tradition of the scholar—athlete. board of trustees. The construction oftwo residen- The construction of Reckling The most visible changes that tial colleges, Martel in the north Park, a modern and beautiful new Barnett helped bring to Rice are, cluster and a new Wiess College in facility for Rice's baseball team, of course, the physical ones. Dur- the south, along with the renova-

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After President Gillis announced his intention to retire on June 30, 2004, Barnett was instrumental in guiding the university through the critically important search process for a new president.

tion and expansion of Jones and and biosciences programs and is atic over time. Rice and Houston Brown, added space for about 350 a centerpiece of plans for future had grown far larger, far more students, allowing more than 70 academic growth. The largest new diverse, and far more complex percent of undergraduates to live facility on campus is the Jesse H. since the original seven-member on campus. Similarly, the replace- Jones Graduate School of Manage- board was authorized by William ment of the old Graduate House ment's Janice and Robert McNair Marsh Rice in the 1891 charter of with the new Graduate Apart- Hall, a fitting home for what, fi- the university. Rice graduates now ments on Bissonnet Street gave nally, is a business school worthy Above all, Barnett's leadership were spread all across the country more graduate students access to of Rice's reputation. and around the world. More con- affordable and functional housing. But the buildings, in and of stituencies existed that ought to Academic facilities also saw up- themselves, aren't what is im- of Bice has been characterized be represented, and more knotty grades. The Humanities Building, portant to Barnett. Instead, he sets of problems had arisen whose nestled between Fondren Library is excited about the reason these by a meticulous attention to solutions often called for compe- and Rayzor Hall, has provided buildings exist. They are, he says, tence in specialized and sometime badly needed classroom and office "all about the people." That is, technical fields. Attracting enough space and brought faculty mem- they fulfill their purpose by help- process, allowing all voices to people who could bring the neces- bers in history, philosophy, and re- ing provide students and faculty sary skills to the boardroom took ligious studies together in a single with what they need to do their on greater urgency in proportion location. This building, along with jobs and make Rice successful. be heard and ensuring that all to the greater complexity of the Rayzor Hall, renovated to ad- As valuable as these visible institution. dress the special needs offoreign changes will be to Rice's future, Service on the Rice board, language study, and Herring Hall, the most profound and far-reach- perspectives are respected. whether as trustee or advisor, al- remodeled to house the English ing modifications that Barnett ways has been a cherished honor and art history departments,forms has brought to Rice are those He continually has acted on among Rice alumni and Housto- a coherent humanities corridor de- that went almost unnoticed by nians. Ensuring that everyone who signed to foster study in these vital students, faculty, and staff. Real- makes the enormous commit- areas by providing technologically izing that a failure to recognize the belief that the more people ments of time and effort that this up-to-date facilities. The construc- and adapt to social and economic service entails has an equal voice tion of the new, startlingly green developments would ensure insti- in decision making seemed only Library Service Center on Main tutional erosion, he undertook an that are heard, the better the fair. In characteristic fashion, Bar- Street has allowed the long-await- effort to revitalize and strengthen nett first quietly built a consensus ed major renovation of Fondren the governance structure of the among the board members that Library—currently underway— Rice board itself. university's decisions will be. the time had come to meet these that will provide significant sup- Both the dual structure that issues squarely. In late 1997, he port to the academic needs of split members into two groups— put together an ad hoc commit- faculty and students, particularly seven lifetime trustees who held tee to study the governance struc- in the humanities and social sci- all authority and 12 governors tures and practices of other elite ences. Old Chem also underwent who only could advise—and a universities, with an eye toward a major renovation. Now renamed geographic restriction that meant understanding what changes really Keck Hall, it serves as the home almost all trustees had to live in would make sense at Rice. to many of Rice's bioengineering Houston had become problem- Even in the midst of contem-

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22 Rice Sallyport Bill Barnett, David W. Leebron, and Malcolm Gillis plating significant alterations, that Rice has become. It is their geographically scattered group, With a calming, low-key de- though, Barnett displayed respect contributions, also, that Barnett however, other arrangements meanor, a willingness to seek for would have to be made. the role of continuity and Rice lauds when he says, "It's all about and accept good advice, and tradition. The committee mem- the people." Again, Barnett turned to the a seemingly endless capacity bers, who met with academic A second fundamental change, kind of calm and deliberative ap- leaders across the country and brought about by a lawsuit to proach that he always favors. He for preparation, Barnett repeat- read countless pages of sometimes amend the charter, was the end appointed a board committee, this edly has been able, slowly and numbing commentary on gover- of the prohibition of debt financ- time to begin a thorough process determinedly, to move Rice into of Rice's long of canvassing the membership and nance issues, were trustees Burt ing. An original part positions of greater strength. His McMurtry and Kent Anderson tradition offiscal conservatism, the working toward a decision about exemplary service to Rice Univer- and emeritus trustees Hank Hud- ban on any kind ofindebtedness leadership. Throughout, it was speth and Ralph O'Connor—in- had, by 1998,long since become clear that he expected the group sity puts him in the company of dividuals who shared long, deep a costly anomaly. Along with the to reach a full consensus, however Rice's finest and most important ties to Rice and possessed both success of the capital campaign, long it took. As it turned out, the leaders, such as Captain James historical perspective and a keen this change helped bring about the quiet and careful discussions led A. Baker, George R. Brown, and workings of badly needed new construction to a relatively quick outcome. The understanding of the Charles Duncan,all linked bytheir the university as a whole. and renovation during Barnett's Rice board unanimously elected embrace of Edgar Odell Lovett's In 1998, after a great deal of tenure and, even more important, Jim Crownover as its next chair at work and discussion, the trustees has given future generations of its December 2004 meeting. visionary belief in Rice's poten- filed suit in Harris County District Rice leaders a critical tool for man- It is difficult to imagine anyone tial for limitless excellence and Court to amend Rice's charter. aging the institution's finances. besides Barnett being able to build by their drive to move the univer- more consensus for so much transforma- The new Rice Board of Trustees Finally, Barnett had one sity closer to achieving that vi- would have 25 members, all of important responsibility to fulfill tive change. To accomplish this sion. Rice's ability to perform its whom could vote. There would before he could step down at the requires first the sound judgment intellectual mission is be definite term limits and an end end of this past June. When the to understand the proper course far stron- to geographical restrictions so that governance changes were enacted and then the flexibility and prag- ger for Bill Barnett's efforts, and talented leaders from around the in 1998, the board didn't amend matism to move others to the best the Rice community owes him a possible position for the university. country, and even beyond national its bylaws to make provisions for debt of gratitude that can never chair. This simply Above all, Barnett's leadership of borders, could work alongside electing a new be repaid. trustees from Houston and Texas, wasn't an issue until Barnett's Rice has been characterized by a combining fresh ways of think- retirement date approached, at meticulous attention to process, ing with the deep familiarity of which time it became rather press- allowing all voices to be heard Rice possessed by local leaders. As ing. In the days of the seven-mem- and ensuring that all perspectives strong new members have been ber board, selection of a new chair are respected. He continually has added, these changes already have may have been contentious at acted on the belief that the more begun to open up the board in times, but it was never complicat- people that are heard, the bet- many ways, resulting in a sophisti- ed. Seven people simply decided ter the university's decisions will cated and diverse leadership group among themselves—matters were be, and thus he has contributed With the kind of national and in- worked out privately, and four greatly to the spirit of common ternational experience needed to votes were enough to carry the enterprise that binds the Rice guide the ambitious institution day. With a much larger and more community.

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By Jade Boyd Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer ofthe buckyball and one of the best-known and respected scientists in nanotechnology, died in Houston on October 28 after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

Smalley,who joined Rice University in 1976,shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with fellow Rice chemist Robert Curl and British chemist Sir Harold Kroto for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyballs," a previously unknown third form ofcarbon. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Smalley; two sons, Chad and Preston; a brother, Clayton; two sisters, Linda and Mary Jill; stepdaughters Eva and Allison; granddaughter Bridget; and a host offriends and relatives. "We will miss Rick's brilliance, commitment, energy, enthusiasm, and humanity," Rice president David Leebron said. "He epitomized what we value at Rice: pathbreaking research, commitment to teaching, and contribution to the betterment of our world. In important ways, Rick helped build and shape the Rice University of today. His extraordinary scientific contributions, recognized with the Nobel Prize, will form the foundation ofnew technologies that will improve life for millions. His life's work and his brave fight against a terrible disease were an inspiration to all." Colleagues and scientific leaders say it is hard to overestimate the role Smalley played in founding and fostering the development of nanotechnology,one ofthe mostimportant and exciting new areas ofscientific inquiry to arise in the past quarter century. "Rick was incredibly creative and had the ability to make his creative vision a reality," said Curl, University Professor Emeritus, the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeri- tus ofNatural Sciences, and professor emeritus ofchemistry. "His mind was sharp and incisive.Whenever I brought up some point thatI thought he might have overlooked, I found that he had already thought of it and refuted it in his own mind. I have met many eminent scientists; I've never met anyone smarter, more creative, and more focused. His mind waslike a searchlight bringing whatever itlooked at into clarity." No one was better than Smalley himselfat describing nanotechnology in plainspoken terms."We are about to be able to build things that work on the smallest possible length scales, atom by atom,with the ultimate level offinesse," Smalley told the U.S. House of Representatives while testifying in 1999 in support of the National Nanotechnol- ogy Initiative(NNI). "These little nanothings and the technology that assembles and manipulates them—nanotechnology—will revolutionize our industries and our lives." Nanotechnology draws its name from the nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter. Buckyballs measure one nanometer in diameter, and their discovery at Rice in 1985 frequently is cited as one of the earliest and most influential discoveries in the development of nanotechnology. "In my view, this was a singular event in the history of nanotechnology," said Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. "It not only created the whole new field of fullerene chemistry, but it also immediately made feasible the notion of making things from the bottom up,just as physicist Richard Feynman predicted 50 years earlier." Fullerenes—the family ofcompounds thatincludes buckyballs and carbon nanotubes—remained the central focus ofSmalley's research until his death,and Smalley himselfnever shied from espous- ing the importance of fullerenes, particularly carbon nanotubes. "[Fullerene research] probably has transcendent importance in many areas of technology and, perhaps, in society," Smalley told Small Times magazine in 2001. "It's a heady thing to be involved. It's almost like church."

Fall '05 25 Due in part to Smalley's leadership, the United States launched the The launch ofSputnik in 1957 excited his interest in science, and he NNIin 2000.NNI is a sweeping federal research-and-development pro- first became serious about education at the age of 16. In an autobiog- gram that coordinates the nanotech efforts of nearly two dozen federal raphy written for the Nobel committee in 1996, Smalley also credited agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Department his high school chemistry teacher,Victor Gustafson,as a key inspiration. ofDefense, and NASA.NNI funding has more than doubled in the past "[Chemistry] was the first class I had ever taken with my sister Linda, five years, with federal spending for 2005 topping $1 billion. who was a year older than I and was a far better student than I had ever At the time of NNI's creation, Lane served as assistant to the presi- been," Smalley said. "The result was that, by the end of the year, my dent ofthe United States for science and technology and director ofthe sister and I finished with the top two grades in the class. We hardly ever U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy. He said Smalley played missed a question on an exam. It was an exhilarating experience for me a crucial role in getting the initiative approved, both by President Bill and still ranks as the single most important turning point in my life,even Clinton and by Congress. Smalley's testimony on Capitol Hill, from my current perspective nearly four decades later." in particular, helped establish him as one of the leading At his aunt's urging, Smalley enrolled as a chemistry voices for nanotechnology. major at Hope College in Holland,Michigan, in 1961. "Rick overwhelmingly carried the day,"said Caltech's He transferred to the University of Michigan two James Heath,one ofSmalley's PhD students on the years later, earning his bachelor's degree in 1965. bucicyball discovery, who has risen to become a Smalley began his PhD studies at Princeton in leading voice for nanotechnology."He sat there 1969 after four years work at Shell Chemical in front of Congress with no hair, as a result of Co. in New Jersey and the birth of his eldest the chemotherapy,and talked about the promise son, Chad. His studies in the Princeton labora- of nanotechnology for cancer and other diseases tory ofElliot R. Bernstein marked Smalley's first and how it would pay offfor his children. It was exposure to the discipline of chemical physics, absolutely riveting." and Smalley said he learned from Bernstein "a Smalley's fervent belief that nanotubes were a penetrating, intense style of research that I had wonder material that could solve some ofhumanity's never known before." mostintractable problems—such as clean energy,clean Smalley came to Rice as an assistant professor in water,and economical space travel—led him to crusade 1976,following three years ofpostdoctoral research at for more public support for science and to take up the the University of Chicago under Donald H. Levy. mantle of business after more than three decades Smalley rapidly became"a major intellectual force" in the laboratory. in chemistry and chemical physics at Rice, Lane Smalley helped found Carbon Nanotechnologies said, helping found the Rice Quantum Institute Inc. in 2000 to make sure his discoveries made in 1979. He was named the Gene and Norman it to the marketplace where they could benefit Hackerman Chair in Chemistry in 1982 and was society. He was convinced that nanotubes could appointed a professor of physics in 1990. be used to solve society's problems only if they "Rick made great contributions to science," were manufactured in bulk and processed eco- Curl said. "While fullerenes and nanotubes nomically. In 2002, he embarked on a two-year dominated the end of his research career, he had crusade to promote the use of nanotechnology to made many contributions of towering magnitude tackle what he described as the No.1 problem facing before them." humanityin the 21st century—the need for cheap,clean Smalley was the pivotal force in the development of energy. Smalley crisscrossed the country,gave dozens nanoscience and technology at Rice. He foresaw the of keynote addresses, testified before Congress, potential of the discoveries emerging at this scale and met with countless leaders in government, and moved with characteristic intensity to forge academia, and industry. Rice's program as the founding director of the "Rick cared little about honors and much more Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology about how applications of nanoscience might (CNST). His efforts resulted in the construc- help resolve pressing human problems in energy tion of Dell Butcher Hall and the endowment accessibility,food supplies, and medical diagnosis ofchairs and the recruitment offaculty pursuing and treatment," said Malcolm Gillis, University nano-related research in departmentsthroughout Professor, the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of science and engineering. Indeed,almost a quarter Economics, and professor of management at Rice. of Rice's faculty hires in science and engineering "In meetings with Rick in the past year, it was clear to since 1985 have expertise relevant to nanoscale science me that the primary reasons for his dogged, determined and technology, and many others have incorporated this battle against his disease had first to do with his family and area into their research agenda. This robust and enthusiastic second with his desire to witness at least a few of the social benefits he community will continue the tradition of excellence and vision that expected from buckyballs, buckytubes, and other nanoparticles." Smalley initiated almost two decades ago. Smalley was born June 6, 1943, in Akron, Ohio, and spent most "I think of Rick as the father of nanotechnology in the sense that, of his youth in Kansas City. He was the youngest of four children. better than anyone else, he articulated the vision of its future and how The childhood influences he credited most for his success were his it would impact the world,and he did so in a kind ofuniversal language mother's love ofscience, the skills she imparted in draftsmanship, his that was understandable and inspiring to everyone,"said William Barnett, father's tenacity and mechanical abilities,and the inspirational example trustee emeritus and former chair of the Rice Board of Trustees. of his aunt, who was one of the first women in the country to earn a Throughout his career, Smalley maintained a strong commitment to PhD in chemistry. teaching and public service. For example, he still taught undergraduate

26 Rice Sallyport "']hen Rick and Bob won the Nobel Nue, it broke a boundary and forever changed the way people think about Rice." "Rick was a visionary, and his charisma and logic made those he worked with buy into the vision Rick convinced us that we could be better, stronger, and take wore chances if we just tried Smalley was the pivotal force in the development of nanoscience and technology at Rice.

chemistry in the fall of 1996 when the Nobel American Carbon Society Medal (1997), the famed architect and geodesic dome inventor Prize was announced. Franklin Medalfrom the Committee on Science Bucluninster Fuller. "One key thing I learned from Rick that!try and the Arts of the Franklin Institute (1996), Smalley was fond of pointing out that the to teach my students is that we are here doing Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize from the machinery of life itself, at the most basic level science because the taxpayers have given us a European Physical Society (1994), the Welch ofDNA and protein encoding,draws its power license to do that," Heath said."We need to do Award in Chemistryfrom the Robert A.Welch from controlling matter with atomic precision. great science that can change the world we live Foundation (1992), Ernest 0. Lawrence He coined the term "wet" nanotechnology to in, and we need to be sure that we can always Memorial Award from the U.S. Department apply to the biological systems that operate at explain to the average nonscientist on the street of Energy (1992), and the Irving Langmuir the nanoscale and "dry" nanotechnology to why their investment is worthwhile." Prize in Chemical Physics from the American describe the physical/chemical systems that Even while battling cancer,Smalley maintained Physical Society (1991). nanotechnologists were developing. At one a hectic work and travel schedule and an intense While the Nobel Prize won him worldwide point in the early years following the discov- focus on his research.As director ofthe Carbon recognition, the award carried a special sig- ery of buckyballs, he said that biology was the Nanotechnology Laboratory,he continued to nificance for members ofthe Rice community only working nanotechnology. His vision was develop foundational technologies for carbon because it resulted directly from work carried to work at the interface between these wet nanotube production and processing. out on the campus. "When Rick and Bob and dry systems to bring the range ofsystems One ofSmalley's most ambitious programs, won the Nobel Prize,it broke a boundary and that could be generated in the dry realm to the Armchair Quantum Wire project, began in forever changed the way people think about bear on the wet world of biology and to create April with $11 million fundingfrom NASA.He Rice," said James Crownover,chair ofthe Rice entirely new systems. described the quantum wire during his accep- Board ofTrustees."With thatachievement, they "Rick could focus so completely on his tance ofthe Distinguished Alumni Award from showed that with imagination,inspiration, and goals, and he could inspire his students and Hope College in May,calling it "a continuous commitment,there are no boundaries to what his colleagues to a similar focus,"said Kathleen cable ofbuckytubes that we expect will conduct Rice and its people can accomplish." Matthews,dean ofthe Wiess School ofNatural electricity 10 times better than copper yet have From the momentoftheir discovery,bucky- Sciences and the Stewart Memorial Professor of only one-sixth the weight, a zero coefficient balls attracted scientific attention worldwide. Biochemistry."He had the ability to persuade of thermal expansion, and a tensile strength Carbon,at the time,was believed to be one of others with a rare intensity ofthought and spirit. greater than steel. Ifwe succeed, we'll be able the most stable of all elements, with only two He brought both passion and intellect to his to rewire the world, replacing aluminum and primary forms: graphite and diamond. The work,and he displayed a degree ofdedication copper in virtually every application and per- discovery of a third form was astounding to and engagement that could motivate others to mitting a vast increase in the capacity of the many, and it presaged the dawning of a new new levels of achievement." nation's electrical grid." era in the physical sciences in which scientists Similar words were echoed by Curl: "Rick Smalley was a member ofthe National Acad- could exert an unprecedented level ofcontrol was a visionary, and his charisma and logic emy of Sciences and a fellow of the American over materials. made those he worked with buy into the Academy of Arts and Science, the American Shaped like soccer balls and no wider than vision. Rick convinced us that we could be Physical Society,and the American Association a strand of DNA,buckyballs are molecules of better, stronger, and take more chances if we for the Advancement of Science. pure carbon. Each contains 60 carbon atoms just tried. I hope that we don't forget that. He was the recipient of countless honors, arranged in a hollow sphere. The atomic ar- Then his legacy to Rice will make a lasting including the Lifetime Achievement Award rangement ofthe carbon atoms resembles two transformative difference." • from Small Timesmagazine(2003), the Glenn conjoined geodesic domes,and Smalley coined T. Seaborg Medal from UCLA (2002), the the name "buckminsterfullerene" in honor of

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I 1 111111.1, L.Iii .11 The Rice Historical Society

by Christopher Dow

History is a fragile thing. It can be lost, destroyed, altered by interpretation, or deliberately suppressed. Most often, it is simply misremembered Try reminiscing with an old friend about bygone days, and you'll find that historical accuracy is doubtful, even for relatively recent personal events. So, what can be done to prevent the Sallyport from becoming another Rashomon Gate? The Rice Historical Society is working on just that.

Rice University is an ideal subject for historical Historical Commission.They started collecting get any response." study because it is a unique and well-defined university archives,but their main objective was They did, ending up with an initial mem- entity with roots that do not extend so far into to provide the resources for a book about the bership of nearly 200. Today, membership the past that they are obscure. As Karen Hess history of Rice University up to 1963." remains a very steady 260. "The purpose of Rogers'68, emerita member ofthe Rice Board That book,A History ofRice University: The the group is to collect and preserve the his- of Trustees and the principal founder of the Institute Years, 1907-1963,written by Freder- tory of Rice and to make it known," Rogers Rice Historical Society(RHS), puts it,"You can icka Meiners '63, was published in 1982, and says."We have serious lectures,symposia, and wrap your arms around Rice's history." when it was finished, the Historical Commis- tours each semester, but we also like to have There is more than love in that embrace. sion disbanded.To fill the gap,the Association a couple of really nice parties during the year, Rice's past is intrinsically interesting because of Rice Alumni formed an alumni archives so we have fun, too." it is so connected to the growth of Houston committee to collect memorabilia, and they But scratch the surface, and you'll see that and Texas. William Marsh Rice was intimately asked Rogers to serve as chair. "It was a loose the motivations of the members run deep. involved in the development of Texas, and group," Rogers says."We met once a week to Founding member Greg Marshall, who also many ofthe individuals who have nurtured Rice encapsulate things in Mylar,and the collection has served as president, cites a personal fasci- over the years have been movers and shakers was kept in the alumni office." nation with history, but underlying that is the on the local, state, and national scenes. More John Boles '65, the William Pettus Hobby effect Rice has had on his life. "For me, Rice recently, Rice's indelible influence on major Professor of History and an expert on Rice's was a very formative experience," he says. "I scientific and humanistic advancements makes past, recalls discussions within the commit- was plucked out of a small Texas town that the university's past even more important to tee regarding an official historical club, but had fewer people than Rice and was given an remember. nothing got off the ground until Rogers opportunity to view the world through the took the various ideas and put them together lens ofRice, where every form ofdiversity that HISTORY in the early 1990s. She organized a steer- I'd read about in books existed in microcosm. ing committee consisting of Boles, Nancy Going to school at Rice was the completion of To collect and preserve Rice history,the Wood- Boothe '52, Harry Chavanne '33, Shirley my education—ofthe kind of cultural educa- son Research Center was created in 1968 to Laughlin Hamner '63, Greg Marshall '86, tion that you ought to get. Over the years, I serve as the university archives, and while the Joyce Winning Nagle '44, and her friend, Lee would go back and look at the old yearbooks involvement ofan official friends group to help Chatham Sereau, and RHS was confirmed and think,'That doesn't really tell the whole in the effort took much longer, there were as an official Rice friends group in 1995. story.' And I began to realize how short the precedents. "The Historical Society didn't With cachet in hand,RHS set about acquir- half-life ofinstitutional memory really is." grow out ofa vacuum," Rogers says. "At least ing membership."We printed brochures asking Atleast one memberjoined because,initially, 20 years before we got started, Ray Watkin people tojoin and sentthem to alumni," Rogers she had little choice. In the late 1990s,Melissa Strange [then Ray Watkin Hoagland '36], H. recalls. "It was a very bold thing to do because Kean '96 was studying the integration of pri- Malcolm Lovett ['21], Willoughby Williams it was a large mailing—maybe 20,000—and we vate universities in the South for her doctorate • ['39],and some other people founded the Rice sent the brochures out not knowing if we'd in history when she suddenly found herself

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on the board. "I didn't even know about the the way people spoke around the time of the searched, and the writers work really hard on organization at the time," Kean admits. "But founding of the university with the way they them.I know,because I see them searching the the charter calls for a grad student to be on speak now." Any aspect of Rice is fair game, archives. And that's a valuable service in itself. the board, and I got this notice in the mail and other topics have included the history of The Woodson Research Center archives have one day saying I was on the board and when choosing Rice presidents and how the process not been thoroughly examined, and there are the next meeting was." She laughs. "I'm sure has evolved over time, a botanical tour of the a lot of interesting things buried in there." John Boles volunteered me." campus, Albert Thomas and the role Rice RHS also has published two books.The first, Since earning her doctorate, Kean has writ- played in bringing NASA to Houston,campus written by Boles, was Edgar Odell Lovett and ten a history of Rice's School of Continuing architecture, athletics, the evolution of the the Founding ofthe Rice Institute. "I'd given a Studies and worked on a history of science Rice Hotel, and Rice's role in the founding variety of talks on the topic of Lovett and the and engineering at Rice. More recently, after and development of International University speech he made at the opening of the institu- serving as the administrative assistant to the Bremen. RHS events usually are held on the tion," Boles says. "Lovett's vision is so central presidential search committee that brought Rice campus or elsewhere in Houston,although to what we're doing now, and it's the kind of President David Leebron to Rice, she was members occasionally go to Galveston for lec- document that everybody who is interested in named Rice's first official university historian. tures, tours, or parties. Rice ought to read. But it was hard to find. It Currently, she is working on an up-to-date Because the minimal expenses associated was printed in the Book ofthe Opening and in history of Rice. She says RHS has given her with events and parties are paid for ad hoc by a pamphlet issued in 1916, but it hadn't been a lot of perspective on the university and its the membership,RHS dues are designated for reprinted since. I thought that it should be past."The organization is just great," she says. other projects that meaningfully contribute to more readily available and that the speech's "It's such a vivid connection to material that the historical study of Rice. One ofthe princi- initial impact would be better appreciated if was just paper to me before." pal projects is The Cornerstone, which contains readers had an understanding of the state of historical articles about Rice. Wanda Waters,a higher education at the time. So my idea was EVENTS AND PROJECTS friend Rogers had known both in high school to preface that famous talk with an introduc- and at Rice,agreed to be the newsletter's editor tory scaffold." RHS supports itself primarily through mem- for the first year or two,and she came up with The second book is Houston as a Setting of bership dues."The lowest-level membership is the name and established the format. theJewel: The Rice Institute,a reprint ofa book still $25 a year," Rogers says. "And it's a deal When Waters stepped down, Boles ap- originally published in 1913 that spotlighted because we don't charge people anything to proached Mary Dix to take up the reins. Dix, the opening ofthe Rice Institute."It's the best come to our events unless it's something where who had just retired from Rice after 26 years as snapshot we have ofHouston in 1912,"Rogers we have to buy a ticket to a play or something editor of The Papers ofJefferson Davis, agreed, says. "It features the Rice Institute, but it also like that." RHS holds about three events each and she has edited The Cornerstone since. A talks about all the public and private schools spring and fall semester, an annual meeting professional historical editor, Dix is pleased and the prominent men in business and city in June, and a seasonal party here and there. with the articles published in The Cornerstone. government as well as important architecture Members also receive a quarterly newsletter, "They're usually quite good, and they're very and the Houston Ship Channel." The Cornerstone,and discounts on books pub- personal," she says. "Good topics on Rice An upcoming book project had its genesis lished by the society. aren't difficult to come up with. There's just in the years when George Rupp was president. RHS events generally have a speaker who an amazing amount of history. I don't know "A group of students at the time produced a gives a talk on some aspect of Rice history or of any school with so much." volume aboutthe history ofRice,"says Rogers. a related topic. "Most of the time, we have Kean is enthusiastic about The Cornerstone. "Each studenttook a particular subject,like the historians like John Boles," Rogers says,"but "From a historian's perspective,it's extremely development ofthe college system,the history we've also had speakers like linguistics professor well done," she says. "Obviously, it's not of a specific college, or the history of women Nancy Niedzielski,who gave a talk contrasting scholarly material, but the articles are well re- at Rice, and they published it. John Boles has

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"It's people remembering the great times they had as students here and trying hard to contribute something as adults by preserving that past."

—Melissa Kean

been wanting to do that since." double set ofthe Campanille and doesn't need restricted. But we want them to give it to us Boles and Kean even co-taught a Baker any more except for the boxed edition from because, in the future, anything might shed College course on Rice history, and the stu- 1970. Nor does it need more freshman beanies light on something that may not seem impor- dents wrote essays on their research. "It's the from Slime parade. It islooking for class rings, tant right now." kind of class where students can go down to however, although all those go to Woodson RHS would like to see the archival mate- Woodson and do real historical research based rather than remain in the RHS archives. rial eventually come out ofstorage and go on on authentic archival materials and primary For Rogers, some of the most important display. "If there ever were a Rice museum, sources," Boles says. He and Kean selected items in the collection are scrapbooks and which we hope to have one day," says Boles, the best of those essays for publication, and family histories. "We've been given some au- "or maybe an elaborate visitors center,we could they hired one ofthe students to serve as edi- tobiographies—the sorts ofthings that people display materials that wouldn't be particularly tor, with RHS footing the costs. "If we have do just for their families," she says. "We have appropriate for the Woodson archive but that a class like this every couple of years," Boles three that were written by people born in the are important to Rice history." says, "we can turn out a series Another way RHS is helping ofbooks on different aspects of augmentWoodson'sarchives is by Rice history. In the future, hav- funding the digitization ofsome ing these kinds of vignettes of ofthe collections,specifically an history will be important." academicjournal once published by Rice and variously titled The ARCHIVES RiceInstitute Pamphlet and Rice UniversityStudies, material about Research and publication aren't the Masterson presidency, and the only ways RHS contributes a number of audio and video to Rice history. The society also tapes. Some of the latter were Left to right: John Boles, Melissa Kean, and Karen Hess Rogers actively seeks historical Rice in- interviews taped by Meiners for formation and memorabilia for both the official first decade of the 20th century who came to A History ofRice University and unearthed by university archivesin Woodson Research Center Rice in the '20s. Two were from very rural Kean."We didn't know we had them," Kean and its own archives. "The Historical Society backgrounds, so it was a really life-changing says, "but once we did, we found interviews has a totally separate collection that consists experience for them. These kinds of histories with people long dead, like Malcolm Lovett. of things that Woodson isn't interested in," are really wonderful,not just because they talk I'd give anything to talk to Malcolm Lovett. Rogers says."We always run new acquisitions about Rice but because they tell whatlives were It would be—I don't want to say tragic—but by them first, but they don't want objects that like at the time." it would be bad to lose that history." take up a lot of space. If they don't want it, With her professionalinterest in the history of There are plenty of reasons to preserve as we keep it." higher education,Kean is especially concerned much of Rice's history as possible for the fu- The RHS archives grew out of the alumni with RHS's efforts to preserve material, both ture, but that doesn't mean the effort has to association collection ofmemorabilia,and much for Woodson and in its own archives. "The be dull or tedious. "It's a very happy group," ofit now is kept in a rented storage space."We Rice Historical Society made me see so clearly Kean says, summing up the Rice Historical have megaphones,photographs, diplomas, old the importance of building the archives," she Society. "It's people remembering the great invitations, extra building cornerstones, and says."One ofthe things we're relatively short times they had as students here and trying things like that that," Rogers says. Because on in Woodson is faculty papers, so any time hard to contribute something as adults by RHS has received so much donated material, anybody retires, I make it my business to tell preserving that past."• the group had to come up with a list ofitems them not to throw their stuffaway. We'll even it does and doesn't want. It has,for example,a sort it out for them or restrict it ifthey want it

For more information on the Rice Historical Society, go to ricehistoricalsociety.org, email [email protected], or call 713-348-4990.

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department—many done during lectures Mulcahy took a selection of the highly gestural drawings done on various scraps Student of paper and clustered them into one larger vertical piece This presentation gave cohesiveness to the assortment of images and conveyed a strong sense of Saner's work OUTPUT was Mulcahy's first stint as IUTPUT a solo curator. "I realized how powerful curators are," he says "It's very similar to making Art is all about choices. art for me, but instead of using a pencil, you are using other people's art." Rebecca Villarreal, for example, decided Mulcahy was impressed with the to teach herself to weld Using Rice equip- ambition and motivation of artists like ment, the graduating senior created her Villarreal as well as the collaborative aptly titled floor sculpture, Rebar, from work of Leslie McAhren and Courtney lengths of curved rebar welded together Dow. Snacks, a 16mm film by McAhren in an open cylinder. Visually, the piece was and Dow, was the standout of the show. similar to a sheaf of wheat bound together In fall 2004, they received the Mavis C in the middle and curving outward at the Pitman Exhibit Award base and top to help finance the film, and they shot it during the fall and But even after she fabricated the labor spring semester. Adapted from a short story intensive sculpture, Villarreal's work wasn't by Sam Lipsyte, the film centers around done The rebar curling out on top created an awkward Baby Huey-esque teen and a circumference that was too broad to fa his love of food What was most striking through the gallery doors Instead of leav- about the work, shot entirely in Houston, ing the work out of the show, Villarreal was the artists' ability to evoke a palpable decided to trim the rebar sections Art is sense of place through all about choices their camera work and choice of locations that are wonder- To choose a curator for this year's stu- fully evocative of the Bayou City's swampy dent show, OUTPUT Rice Student Exhibit splendor—ranging from the banal to the 42, Rice Gallery director Kim Davenport tropically overgrown and derelict turned to Rice's own student body. Bren- For the vast majority of the graduating For the vast majority of the graduating dan Mulcahy was a graduate student in students,visual artwas nottheir sole major. architecture and had studied fine art as an students, visual art was not their sole As in the past, this year's crop had double undergraduate Following graduation, he and even triple majors, and their other landed a job working as an assistant to studies often informed their work In the artist Sol LeWitt, known as the "dean" of major As in the past, this year's crop had case of Will Thompson, his documentary conceptual art Mulcahy started thinking films led directlyto his figurative about graduate school, but after spending paintings double and even triple majors, and their Chnstel Miller's interest in gender studies four years working with LeWitt, he figured resulted in her series of staged photographs that getting an MFA in studio art would of "drag kings"—black-and-white be redundant other studies often informed their work. images of women dressed as men. With an interdisciplinary approach to For Mulcahy, the difference between art, Mulcahy decided to pursue a master's making artwork in a traditional sense degree in architecture at Rice The graduate and curating is that, with curating, "You program here suited him Mulcahydescribes are given a fixed set of variables, and then you it as "veryexpenmental," allowing students move them around to sort of flush out the to pursue interests that range from the composition or concept that you want practical to the highly theoretical to make If you want to have an agenda,then Mulcahy brought his open, artistic curating is a good place to be." sensibilities to his job as curator. He met Mulcahy graduated last Mayand headed with the graduating art majors and asked to New York When asked what his plans to see their work—not just projects they are, he replies, "I'm just going to be an had done as a part of their classes but artist." Given his open approach to art, also things they had created on their own that could involve any number of things, That's how he discovered Ruya Saner's curating among them drawings Saner had a collection of quickly and surreptitiously sketched portraits of —Kelly Klaasmeyer students and faculty in the architecture

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A Cloud of Kites kites in his epic installation, the first kites, like Hashimoto's, The installation team worked Infinite Expanse ofSky, a 1998 were made from silk and bam- 12-hour days, but curato- project at the Museum of Con- boo. Hashimoto found one rial assistant Katherine Kuster Walking into Superabundant temporary Art in Chicago. "All of the largest Chinese manu- says that, in spite of the time Atmosphere, Jacob Hashimoto's my friends, my parents, me, facturers of dragon kites—the crunch, Hashimoto sought installation at Rice Gallery, was everyone that I knew in the segmented bodies of which to foster an air of relaxation. from tiny circular The installation team listened like walking into a cloud. In one world, everybody, sat around are created and built 14,000 pieces, and kites—and asked them if they to a lot of Radiohead as well of his most striking works to that was a killer," the artist could create an elliptical kite. as books on tape, a staple in date, the 32-year-old artist filled revealed in an interview for the To his relief, they could. Hashimoto's own studio. the gallery with thousands of tiny Superabundant Atmosphere ex- Hashimoto's elegant and airy Based on past experience, kites that hung in rows from the hibition catalog. installation belies the labor-in- Hashimoto believes that if the installation team is tense, ceiling, creating the effect of a it comes across in the work. cumulus cloud hovering low in The idea makes sense; it would the gallery. Hanging 9,000 kites was an epic effort in itself, be hard to realize this kind of requiring at least 18,000 knots, each one tied by subtle undulation if everyone Hashimoto's kites aren't the hand.The installation took five days and required is harried and trying to work as quickly as possible. sort of diamond-shaped ones six assistants.Then Hashimoto spent an extra day you flew as a child. They're For the viewer, Superabun- half tweaking things on his own. tiny ellipses made from cream- and a dant Atmosphere was interactive colored silk stretched over a in a delicate and quiet way. the gallery, you were bamboo frame, drawn from the Entering enveloped by the tranquil, Japanese tradition of kite-mak- efforts required to cre- otherworldly atmosphere. The ing. Peering through the glass Diamond-shaped or hexago- tensive first step in achiev- thousands of tiny kites swayed that covers the front wall of nal kites take Hashimoto about ate it. The ing its phenomenal effects was in response to your move- the gallery, visitors were struck two minutes each to make by to stretch parallel wires taut ments, connecting you, the by the sheer spectacle of the hand. But to create an elliptical across the gallery ceiling. Each room, and the piece. Visitors work. The neutral tones of the kite, according to Hashimoto, in- kite was hung from slender walked behind it to view the silk blended with the stone of takes about an hour and shaping the black threads tied to the wires. thousands of threads unob- the gallery floor and the white volves soaking and frame. Making the Rows of kites started low in the scured by the kites; they blew walls to create an ethereal envi- bamboo 9,000 kites required for his back of the room and slowly on the kites, creating ripples ronment. Rice Gallery installation would undulated upward like the through the work. The ffight- Although Hashimoto has have taken Hashimoto more underside of a cloud. Hanging less kites seemed to levitate used kites in previous exhibi- than four years, working 40 9,000 kites was an epic ef- in the air of the gallery. With tions, for the Rice Gallery in- hours a week. fort in itself, requiring at least simple components and a lot of stallation, he chose the elegant For the Rice Gallery kites, 18,000 knots, each one tied by man-hours, Hashimoto man- elliptical forms because they Hashimoto turned to China. hand. The installation took five aged to create an environment occur in some of his favorite Kites, like a lot of other inno- days and required six assistants. that felt effortlessly serene.• screen paintings as Japanese vations, originated in China. Then Hashimoto spent an extra to —Kelly Klaasmeyer clouds moving from scene Some historians believe they day and a half tweaking things scene, marking the passage date back 3,000 years and that on his own. of time. Hashimoto first used

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Pictured left to right: Neil "Sandy" Hay athIlk Tsanof rown, John O'Neil, EarAl James Chillman Jr ARTS

When John O'Neil was being recruited in 1965 to chair Rice's new Department ofFine Arts,he was unimpressed with what he found on campus. In his personal notes about the creation of the department, which chronicle a five-year period and appear in full below, O'Neil comments that, "Interest on campus in the establishment ofthe Department ofFine Arts seemed unenthusiastic. Some older faculty members actually were hostile."

1 returned to Oklahoma," writes O'Neil,a renowned painter who, ment. Broker hopes that, in the in the humanities and is impor- at the time, was director of the School of Art at the University of future, a component will be tant for its role in academia, the Oklahoma, "realizing that even though Rice enjoyed a fine added to the program wherein museum world, and publish- Rice students can take courses ing," explains reputation in science and engineering, any distinction in art Joseph Manca, at the Glassell School in such chair ofthe department."We would be hard won." areas as ceramics, foundry, and have our own major and honors jewelry making, which Rice program, we do our own hiring currently does not have the re- and promotion offaculty, and How things have changed since not expressed in numbers starts sources to offer. we control our own budget." then. The original Department to give you hives." Visual arts is not just for stu- The department has moved of Fine Arts morphed into the With support from the presidents who want to pursue ca- into the renovated Herring Department of Art and Art His- dent and the dean of the School • reers as artists, Broker explains. Hall, formerly home to Rice's tory, which in 2003 split into of Humanities, Gary Wihl, In fact, she considers the arts a business school. It includes the two—the Department of Art Broker forged a new collabora- vital educational component. state-of-the-art Visual Resource History and the Department tion with the Glassell School Center, a collection of 300,000 of Visual Arts. Today, they are images of works of art and vi- important components of the sual culture from prehistoric to humanities at Rice. And as the "III e can develop the Renaissance student contemporary times. departments celebrate their we can take students with the math and the chemistry Studio art and art history 40th anniversary on campus, are very different disciplines, their chairs find much more en- background and make them great." Manca points out, and ideally thusiasm for the arts here than —Karin Broker never should have been joined their predecessor O'Neil did together, but having two sepa- decades ago. rate departments wasn't practi- Karin Broker, chair of the at the Museum of Fine Arts, Through the arts, she says,"We cal 40 years ago. O'Neil, who Department of Visual Arts, is Houston. The Core Program can develop the Renaissance died in 2004, had a great vision especially pleased about one of will bring recent master's offine student—we can take students for both the visual arts and art the biggest proponents of the arts graduates from the Glassell with the math and the chemis- history at Rice, and Broker—his humanities at Rice: President School to Rice as adjunct lectur- try background and make them officemate for many years—is David W. Leebron. She was ers. Rice students will receive great." confident that the state of the bowled over by Leebron's ad- instruction from the "cream Art history, meanwhile, also is arts at Rice today is what he was vice in his matriculation address of the crop" in the arts world, blossoming since becoming its working toward. to the Class of2008: "Take an and the new graduates will get own department. "Art history —Dana Benson art class, even though anything a taste of the academic environ- is a major intellectual discipline

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Beginnings: Personal Notes About the Founding of the Department of Art and Art History (1965-1910) By John O'Neil

the greater part over and after "Oh,I'm pretending that this of a house on the campus pe- lunch in the Faculty Club at is a university!" riphery also was examined, as 1\18PRING IgHU, Cohen House. There had been Jasper also had taught a was the erection of a temporary I received, in my office at the difficulty in finding a room for painting course at Rice and, at steel structure. The latter op- School of Art of the University my Houston stay since festivi- the end of the 1964 academic tion was adopted, with a loca- of Oklahoma in Norman, a ties attendant to the opening year, staged the first-ever art tion in the shadow of the track telephone call from Elinor Ev- of the Astrodome were then in students' exhibition. In the stadium: this was to serve for ans, a recently arrived teacher progress. I was given room in a studio area, he also had a col- studio courses. In art history, in the Department of Architec- Holcombe Street motel, where league, David Parsons, who a position already had been ture at Rice University. Elinor, the air conditioner immedi- had been recommended by advertised and was accepted by an artist with a master's degree ately failed, so my evaluation of Jimmy Chillman, director William Kane. from Yale, where she had stud- Houston at this point was quite emeritus of the Museum of During my campus tour, I ied with Josef Albers, was call- low. Fine Arts, Houston, to teach found lecture rooms and studio ing to tell me that Rice wanted During the visit, I found beginning drawing as well as rooms, all located in Anderson to establish a fine arts depart- that there had been some art sculpture to architecture stu- Hall, to be chaotic: a tumble ment as part of the humanities, instruction on the Rice campus dents. of old and sometimes broken and she had been asked to in past years, all within the If Jasper Rose didn't think furniture, trash, wadded paper, recommend an artist or art his- Department of Architecture: highly of Rice as a university, it and abandoned student paint- "The entire Rice campus seemed almost aggressively anti-visual:

torian to be chair. Would I be James Chillman Jr., retired di- may have been because it had ings. The entire Rice campus interested? rector of the Museum of Fine changed to that designation seemed almost aggressively Having just completed 14 Arts, Houston, and Katherine only in 1960, having previ- anti-visual. A Jacques Lipchitz years as a tenured professor and Tsanoff Brown, a graduate ously been the Rice Institute, bronze of Gertrude Stein, director of the School of Art at of Rice and Cornell, taught a The new concept took root poorly shown in Fondren Li- Norman, a school with a fac- few fundamental art history slowly. Interest on campus in brary, bore the burden of the ulty of 14, a graduate program courses, as did Jasper Rose, a the establishment of a Depart- single work of art in this pocket dating from 1934, 200 art ma- visitor from England holding a ment of Fine Arts (later to of academia. I returned to jors, and a respected art muse- one-year appointment at Rice. be given the more accurate Oklahoma realizing that, even urn, my interest in change was Jasper departed in 1965 to name Department of Art and though Rice enjoyed a fine mild. However, I did send a accept an appointment to the Art History) seemed unen- reputation in science and engi- note to Philip Wadsworth, then instructional staff of the Uni- thusiastic. Some older faculty fleeting, any distinction in art dean of humanities at Rice, versity of California at Santa members actually were hostile, would be hard won. asking for information. An Cruz, but not before he had However, an effort had been Soon after my return to Nor- exchange of letters followed, surprised the Rice campus by made to find a suitable space to man, there was a telephone then a telephone call from wearing academic regalia to his house the department, at least call, followed by a letter from Wadsworth asking me to come classes. Once, striding across temporarily. Under consider- Dean Wadsworth: he offered to Houston in order to meet the quadrangle in his vivid and anon was the basement of the me an appointment as professor several members of the archi- flowing robes, he encountered food services building (an idea and chair of the Department of tecture faculty and others from then-president Kenneth Pitzer, eventually abandoned: cooking Fine Arts. I delayed a decision related disciplines. The meet- who asked him what the festive odors merging with that of oil until I could discuss the offer ing was low-key, conducted for occasion was. Jasper replied, paint!); the rent or purchase with my dean, Donald Clark. I I

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thought Rice needed the help dent paraphernalia. the English department was ings by Dorothy Hood (one of I felt qualified to give, and a Applications arrived for both releasing him so that he could which, later stolen, had been plan was formed for me to take the art history and studio posi- join the fine arts faculty. given to the department by a year's leave from Oklahoma tions. We invited portfolios President Pitzer, taking in Meredith Long), photography to go to Rice as a visitor and from 14 artists and narrowed our recent soggy state, said we by Geoff Winningham selected acting chair. I planned to step the art history search to Mar- would be moved to the sec- from his master's exhibition at away from these posts when tha Caldwell, who eventually ond floor of Allen Center, the the School of Design in Chi- the department had been prod- was appointed. During the business office, as soon as the cago, and the third annual stu- ded into existence. Rice agreed search, a new wing for Fondren building was complete. I asked dent show, which caused some to the plan. Library was under construc- for the space to include a de- campus ripples. Jim Simmons, In fall 1965, the Depart- tion. During spring 1966, a partmental art gallery and for a head of the Office of Buildings ment of Fine Arts appeared, violent storm sent 14 inches small budget to purchase works and Grounds, objected fiercely and a major curriculum was ap- of water into our basement of- of art to form a teaching col- to an overflow of student work proved. The instructional staff fices, inundating and ruining lection, and both requests were being shown in the halls of Al- was Katherine Brown, David work in the artists' portfoli- approved. len Center, which forced us to Parsons, William Kane, James os—we had little furniture and The second annual art stu- stay within the gallery limits. Chillman, and myself. Three storage space at the time, and dents' exhibition was staged The contract for Martha rather gloomy departmental the floor served as a convenient at the Rice Memorial Center; Caldwell was not renewed; we "In fall 1965, the Department of Fine Arts appeared, and a major curriculum was approved."

offices, one with a window and table. Slides and books belong- it seemed to signal a change searched for a replacement. two without, were assigned ing to Kane, Brown, and Chill- in the visual atmosphere of Earl Staley, a recent MFA grad- to us in the basement of Fon- man also were water soaked. the campus. However, at the uate of the University of Ar- dren Library. Studio courses When the waters subsided, we end ofthe spring 1966 semes- kansas, was appointed to teach in drawing and painting began also discovered that a group ter, the department still was printmaking and drawing, the in a temporary steel building of Henry Miller watercolors, struggling to develop, and I printmaking equipment already situated in what proved to be a given to us just a week before petitioned Oklahoma for a one- having been purchased. The quagmire. One brave student, by the architecture department, year extension of my leave since slide collection was begun with Paul Pfeiffer Jr., decided to risk had been washed bone clean. I couldn't face leaving so many Juwil Topazio as curator. In the becoming an art major. Insurance covered the losses, loose ends at Rice. This, too, past, only large lantern slides A search began for a full- but paying claims spread over was approved, in black-and-white were used time studio instructor as well an entire year. All the studio In fall 1967, we moved to for lectures. Winningham, then as a replacement for Bill Kane, applicants had to be informed new quarters in Allen Center; teaching at the University of St. who had resigned after be- and asked to state the value of the offices were small, but the Thomas, was employed to pho- ing appalled by the primitive their destroyed work—some,it gallery was a clean, luminous tograph the glass slides and re- working conditions; poverty of seemed, hadn't sold much and space. The initial exhibition duce them to a 35mm format. resources; damp, hot climate; thought the event to be a per- was attended by Houston no- A decision had to be made and the deluges that year that sonal bonanza! tables, including Oveta Culp about my pending return to prompted one student to dub When something resembling Hobby. Six exhibitions were Oklahoma. President Pitzer the campus William Rice's normalcy appeared, Neil Ha- staged for the first season, in- was very persuasive in en- marsh. Boots, umbrellas, and yens, the director of Rice Play- eluding those of the California couraging me to remain per- raincoats became necessary stu- ers, came in to inform us that painter John Tomas, ink draw- manently at Rice, and after a [ I

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difficult time of indecision, I dential Insurance grounds. Se- the slide collection and cura- offered to erect another build- agreed to do so. He had as- bastian "Lefty" Adler arrived in tor, the exhibition program ing, a true art center, to be sured me that future building 1966 to direct it in a series of with its technical staff, and the designed by a distinguished plans included a new structure spirited exhibitions. The Hous- photography and film program architect. For the immediate to house art and architecture. ton Symphony, the Houston (designated not very happily solution, however, he wanted Such a plan actually was drawn Grand Opera, and the Alley "media") with two instructors, to build a temporary structure, but was rejected because of the Theatre were well established plus generous funds to fuel brick faced, to be situated near excessive cost of$7 million. and supported. Commercial the various activities. We were Fondren Library. The Board of An alternative, but temporary, galleries such as Kiko and Loui- enthusiastic, but some Rice ad- Trustees rejected this because space for art was then included siana & Bute were appearing. ministrators observed that the the architectural style was in in the planning of Sewall Hall, There was a very heady feeling de Menils "had a poor track conffict with the Rice tradition. a gift of Blanche Sewall. At this in Houston that almost any- record" in educational support The longer-term plan was then stage, Pitzer was offered the thing of worth in the arts could and that the proposed merger followed, and a de Menil invi- presidency of Stanford Univer- be accomplished, and with en- was "unprecedented," as in- tation to Louis Kahn, brought sity, which he accepted. Fine thusiasm. deed it was. back a second time by Rice, arts was thus abandoned to its A few gifts to the depart- Thus began months of nego- produced a few preliminary fate by a powerful friend. ment appeared, the first from tiation, sometimes on campus, sketches by him. A short time Although I found Rice the estate of the portrait paint- but frequently at the de Menil later, Kahn, dead of a heart at- The de Menils had proposed that the entire spectrum of art activity at St Thomas be shifted to Rice, a wedding without precedent University a sterile, even bleak er Tamera de Kuffner—mostly residence on San Felipe, at tack in New York, brought a environment, Houston itself decorative objects such as dinner parties, at the Faculty great dream to an end. showed stirrings of a vigor- furniture, silverware, and crys- Club, and at the then Criterion To help solve the space ous cultural life: the Museum tal—that went to enhance the Club. There were many stick- problem, we decided to close of Fine Arts, Houston, under interior of Cohen House. ing points: there was no room the gallery temporarily in order James Johnson Sweeney staged In 1967-68, the departmen- at Rice for such a large group to create office space for the superb exhibitions in the grand tal gallery began its second sea- of people with attendant equip- St. Thomas group, and the de space of Cullinan Hall; the son. Sometime that year, there ment, and Sewall Hall, with Menils finally decided to build University of St. Thomas his- were rumors that the de Menils one portion planned to house two temporary structures, of tory of art program and its were dissatisfied with certain a small art department and a neutral design, at a point dis- extraordinary fine exhibitions, aspects of their role at the Uni- departmental gallery, would tant from the main campus. directed by Dominique de versity of St. Thomas. Shortly be inadequate. Many of the de One,in time referred to as The Menil with the support of her thereafter, Dean Tapazio came Menil proposals were extraor- Barn, housed exhibitions, work husband, John, gave a unique to me with the startling news &nary: at one point John de space, and some studio space. and blazing life to the intel- that the de Menils had pro- Menil asked me to go to the Next door, but not quite a lectual and cultural milieu. Rice posed that the entire spectrum president and ask him to stop clone, was the Media Center. could only dream of achieving of art activity at St. Thomas the Sewall Hall construction, Dominique de Menil, who had a parallel art order. There also be shifted to Rice, a wedding a structure which at that time been art chair at St. Thomas, was the courageous Contem- without precedent. The shift was rising above ground! The became, at Rice, the director of porary Arts Museum, housed would include a group offour request was, of course, refused the Institute for the Arts, cre- in a small building on the Pru- art historians, the art library, by me, but John nonetheless ated especially for her.

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A frenzy of activity ensued. tional protests against the war staff in the Grand Hall of the the de Menil teaching collec- Moved to the Rice campus in Vietnam took place here in Rice Memorial Center. This tion. Even though a small but were art historians William a brief occupation by students was done. The film was Lone- pleasant departmental gallery Camfield, Mino Badner, Philip of Allen Center. some Cowboys, which in the at- was provided, together with an Oliver-Smith, and Walter Wid- Earl Staley's appointment at mosphere of 1969 might have adjacent loading dock, storage rig. Juwil Topazio graciously the termination of his three- been considered titillating. areas, and both a freight eleva- resigned her slide curator post, year contract was not renewed. Warhol and attendant "family" tor and a passenger elevator, which was then given to Pat Earl had been hired as a print- members—Ultra Violet and none of the dozens of people Toomey. John de Menil wanted maker, but he wanted to teach others—paraded in front of the who pored over the blueprints Gerald O'Grady and Geoff painting instead. Since he was audience before the film began. ever realized that there was Winningham to teach in the a young artist without many The following day, several no connection above ground media program, but strong credentials, the department members of the administration between the two wings of the objections by the Rice English decided to look for a replace- called on me in my office. The building, nor was this critical faculty blocked the appointment. Before his departure, I usual reaction to the film event fact mentioned by the archi- ment of O'Grady, a Chaucerian asked Earl to have a solo show ranged from dislike to distaste. tects. Thus the fine arts area, scholar who had been given on campus—this was before These opinions also applied to with the exception of sculpture three teaching awards at Rice the gallery opened. The exhibi- the notion of any art activity and gallery, emerged elevator- but had been denied tenure for tion was staged in the Ham- at all on campus, expressed in less. Warhol and attendant "family" members—Ultra Violet and others—paraded in front of the audience before the film began. reasons unclear. O'Grady did man Hall lobby; the work was such questions as,"Mr. O'Neil, Dominique de Menil, Dan not go down to defeat quietly. vigorous and somewhat erotic just what do you have in mind Tapazio, and myself were ap- After one of several confer- and accompanied the Rice for the future of the fine arts pointed as a trio to make deci- ences with Dean Topazio, Players presentation of Edward department?" My answer to sions about how that future he was described as being "a Albee's Tiny Alice. A poster that was,"A vital and vigorous for the arts at Rice could be windmill of words." I had commemorated both events, creative and scholarly discipline, realized. At my request, Domi- enrolled in a film course at St. The Institute for the Arts open to the examination of all nique and I met in order to Thomas with O'Grady and held its first exhibition, a ideas in the visual arts and the prepare a budget proposal for thought him an unusually fine marvelous one titled, "The study and interpretation of the the coming year to be submit- instructor, the flow of Ian- Machine," co-sponsored by history of art." The then-dean ted to Tapazio. Dominique guage put to good use. the Museum of Modern Art. of the graduate area, however, seemed genuinely surprised As on other campuses, 1969 Shortly thereafter, the Media rather stubbornly insisted, "Art when I asked her to put to- was a year of upheaval at Rice. Center (actually part of the doesn't belong at Rice because gether a budget for the Insti- A new president to replace Department of Fine Arts) be- student accomplishment cannot tute for the Arts major exhibi- Pitzer, William H. Master- gan giving courses in film with be accurately graded." tion program. She replied,"We son—a former Rice faculty James Blue as instructor. In Meanwhile, plans for Sewall always just pay for whatever member—faced a protest to order to inaugurate the center, Hall had to be revised in order expenses there are." the appointment by a united John de Menil had proposed to make room for the increased I realized then that the fu- student and faculty group. that a new film by Andy War- number of faculty and staff, ture, at least for several years, Masterson sensibly decided to hol be previewed by the faculty, Space needed to be found for was going to be a wild ride.• forfeit the appointment. Na- students, administrators, and the arriving Art library and

Fall '05 41 ON THE BOOKSHELF

Children's Books Offer Informative Look at Construction Equipment For those of us who live in urban areas such as Houston, it's a familiar scenario when a little voice from the back of the car suddenly pipes up, "Mommy,what's that big machine overthere?" That's easy,it's a bulldozer. But then the questions keep coming, leaving even adults wondering Rice lloiversiN Prowled about the bevy of construction equipment that is an everyday sight on our roads and highways. Want the lowdown on Rice That's the premise of the University? Then don't look at College Prowler series of A series of children's books by guidebooks that give a re- the university's brochures meant Rice's Linda Williams helps alistic impression of stu- answer those questions. The to attract new students or ask dent opinions on campuses Mighty Machines book set the faculty or administration or across the country. The (Capstone Press, 2004)includes even the major magazines that guides are student written Backhoes, Bulldozers, Concrete and often tell it like it is from do annual rankings of colleges Mixers, Cranes, Dump Trucks, a student perspective—the repetitive. While this likely is a and Earth Movers. and universities. Ask the stu- bad as well as the good. The strong selling point for younger Geared toward children ages dents themselves. 160-page College Prowler children, those in the 6 to 8 age 5 to 8,the books are large with volume on Rice, Rice Uni- range might find the books a simple text and colorful, unique versity Off the Record: Stu- little below their reading level. photography. All the books fol- dents Speak Out! by Julia Because of the subject matter, low the same formula: a gen- Schwent '04, contains hun- the books are more likely to ap- eral description of the piece of dreds of quotes from Rice peal to boys. equipment and its function, a students about topics rang- The books' best feature is the section on the parts of the ma- ing from academics to the photography, and the close-ups chine, and a chapter specifically attractiveness of the student include labels that point to the on its purpose. All the books population. The quotes are different parts. There also are include a table of contents, a grouped in topical sections photos of the machines at work. glossary, and an index. and supported with statisti- Williams, a technical writer They encourage children to cal information. Some of for the Wiess School of Natural learn more about the machin- the nearly 30 sections of Sciences, has penned another ery by offering a "Read More" the guidebook cover Rice's series of books whose titles section and information about best and worst, on- and off- include Chemistry Demystified, a website, http://www.fac- campus housing, diversity, Earth Science Demystified, thound.com, where children student organizations, and and Environmental Science can access a list of sites related essential Rice-related termi- Demystified.. to the book's topic. nology.• Designed for use in schools —Dana Benson and libraries, the books are —Christopher Dow informative, but they also are

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Evan Casher has a good life as an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and things have gotten Accounting and Finance for Small Business Made Easy, by Robert Low '78 (Entrepreneur even better since the beginning of his romance with Press, 2004) his new girlfriend, Carrie. Little does he know that Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with a frantic call from his mother is about to make his Leaders of the Southern Association for life explode. Women Historians, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner '90, associate professor of history at the University of North Texas in Denton, and history at Evan arrives at his parents' home to find his to Florida to the Midwest and overseas to Constance B. Schulz, professor of the University of South Carolina in Columbia mother murdered. The killers assault Evan, London as he races to stay one step ahead of (University of Missouri Press, 2004) demanding he turn over a set of digital files the professional killers trailing him and find his mother sent to him the day before. The not only the incriminating files and his miss- Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace killers don't believe Evan's distraught pro- ing father but also the real identity of the in an Age of Extinction, by SueEllen Campbell tests that he doesn't know what they're talk- leader of the rogue spy ring. But even if he '73, professor of English at Colorado State ing about, and they begin torturing him for succeeds, will he be able to trust his father University (University of Utah Press, 2004) the information, but he is rescued by a man when he finds him? Or his girlfriend? The Future of Work: How the New Order of named Gabriel. A disgraced Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your ex-CIA operative, Gabriel tells Management Style, and Your Life, by Thomas Evan that the parents he has W. Malone '74(Harvard Business School known and trusted all his life Press, 2004) weren't who he thought they George MacDonald Exposes False Conflicts, by were and that his whole life is Mary Ellis Taylor '44(Authorhouse, 2004) a carefully constructed lie. So begins Jeff Abbott's The Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World, series editor Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) Library of Medieval Women, series editor Panic is a page- Jane Chance (Boydell and Brewer, 2004) turner filled with tense Literature of the American West, by Greg Lyons '72, professor of English at Central encounters and narrow Oregon Community College (Longman, 2003) escapes as Evan struggles Magna Carta, by Katherine Fischer Drew '44, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor Emerita of to stay alive long enough History at Rice (Greenwood Press, 2004) Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, to find the truth, save the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction, by Marcia Brennan, assistant those he loves, and professor of art history at Rice (MIT Press, destroy the spy ring. 2004) Searching for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries, edited by Angela Boswell '95, associate professor of history at Henderson State University, and Thomas Appleton Jr. (University of Missouri Press, Panic(Dutton, 2005), sending Evan Panic is a page-turner filled with tense en- H. 2003) on a twisty journey where deceit rules and counters and narrow escapes as Evan strug- death rewards failure. Along the way, he gles to stay alive long enough to find the Toni Morrison: Playing with Differences, by learns that his father has gone missing and truth, save those he loves, and destroy the Lucille P. Fultz, associate professor of English that his own life is in danger because the spy ring. And it nicely portrays the angst of a at Rice (University of Illinois Press, 2003) digital files contain information that exposes young man caught up in machinations be- Trading Up, by Candace Bushnell '80(Hyperion a sinister rogue spy ring. Everyone wants the yond his understanding, who must come to Press, 2003) files—various government agencies as well grips with the evil done by his parents or pay as the leader of the spy ring, whose back- the price for that evil with his own blood. Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River, ground is shrouded in mystery—and almost Nominated for three Edgar and two An- by William L. Shea '75, professor of history at the University of everyone seems to want Evan dead. Even Awards, Abbott '85 is the author of thony Arkansas, and Terrence J. Winschel, a novels, includ- worse, the more he looks for the answers seven mystery and suspense historian at Vicksburg National Military Park that can save him, the more Evan begins to ing A Kiss Gone Bad, Black jack Point, and (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) realize that his parents, some of the govern- Cut and Run.• ment agents, and even his girlfriend, may —Christopher Dow The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art: A be working for the bad guys. Drama of Spiritual Understanding, by Liam 0. The journey will take him from Texas Purdom '81 (University Press of Florida, 2003)

Fall '05 43 Each pc Rice honors several of its best teachers with the George H. Brown liward for This year, professor of French studies Lynne Huffer, Superior Teaching• third from left, was singled out for excellence in teaching. Those honored for their superior skill in the classroom are,from left, Michelle "Mikki" Hebl, associate professor of psychology and management; Joel Wolfe, associate professor of history; Stephen Klineberg, professor of sociology; Brian Gibson, lecturer in kinesiology; and Jose Aranda, • associate professor of English. Not pictured is Don Johnson,the J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electri- cal Engineering and Statistics.

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Teaching Awards

Bonnie Bartel Bala Dharan Bridget Gorman Michael Gustin Meng Yeh

Although Lynne Huffer's classes in women and Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Award. Winners are voted on by alumni two and five genderstudies often deal with highly politicized Statistics; Joel Wolfe, associate professor of history; years out from graduation. associate professor of Dharan,who teaches courses in financial accounting, issues, she manages to maintain the delicate and Michelle "Mikki" Hebl, psychology and management. financial statement analysis, and evaluation, notes,"It's balance required to keep students at ease but Hebl also earned the Julia Mile Chance Prize for tough for an accounting professor to wow the students. on their toes. Excellence in Teaching, which is given annually to an Accounting is not normative, not a closed, well-defined Huffer's alchemyof intellectual stimulation and relaxation associate or full professor who provides students with theory. My students have to deal with a lot of practical makes a lasting impression on students, and it is on the intellectual cha Ilenge and inspiration,shows extraordinary situations in order to learn. So they are asked to do a list of reasons she is the recipient of the 2005 George dedication to students' professional development, and lot in my courses." R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice's most enhances gender-sensitive leadership on campus. Michael Gustin credits his optimism and outgoing prestigious teaching award. Recognizing the rare combination of excellence in personality for his success in the classroom. Gustin, Every year, Rice commends its best teachers with both teaching and scholarship, the 2005 Charles W. associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, is George R. Brown awards. One is chosen for the excel- Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement was given the recipient of the 2005 Nicholas Salgo Distinguished to lence prize, which includes an award of $6,500, while Bonnie Bartel, professor of biochemistry and cell Teaching Award. Created in 1966 by the Noren—Salgo several are recognized forsuperiorteaching,which offers biology. The Duncan Award is open to tenure-track or Foundation, it is Rice's oldest teaching award.The Salgo tenured members of each year by members of the junior a $2,000 prize. Awards are based on survey responses the facultywith fewer than 10years winner is chosen of experience, and it includes a $5,000 and senior class and awarded a $1,500 prize. from alumni who graduated two and five years ago. prize. It always is a challenge to balance teaching and The Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize is awarded each As director of Rice's Program for the Study of Women research, Bartel says, so she tries to tie together con- year to an outstanding assistant professor at Rice Uni- and Gender, Huffer teaches Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, cepts from both areas. "I sometimes get insights for my versity based on faculty review of student evaluations. Bisexual,and Transgender Studies,as well as two senior research projects when I am reading for a lecture," she For 2005, the award was presented to two recipients: capstone courses. explains. "Moreover, much of the teaching that I do oc- sociology's Bridget Gorman and Adrian Lena rdic in "I create a space where students feel they can express curs in my laboratory, where the teaching and research the earth science department. Many students indicated their views," Huffer says. "However, they must always are seamless." that,although they initiallyenrolled in theirclasses simply of others, and they must support their be respectful Rice's 2005 Presidential Award for Mentoring has to meet a requirement, the courses became among the materials from the class." arguments with been awarded to mechanical engineering'sYildizBaya- most rewarding they have taken. Since she began teaching the introductory class zitoglu, the Harry S. Cameron Professor in Mechanical Two lecturers of Chinese in the Centerfor the Study of seven years ago, enrollment has grown to 75 students Engineering. She is a pioneer among women engineers Languages are recipients of the 2005 Sarofim Teaching from only eight. Huffer believes a critical examination of who has gained national acclaim for her support of Award for Excellence: Meng Yeh and Chao-mei Shen. sexuality is importantfor everyone—regardless of sexual students, particularly young women. Created with support from Rice endowment manager orientation or identity. Many students are attracted to The mentoring award is given annually to a faculty Fayez Sarofim, the award is given to lecturers in the the courses' multid i sci pl ina ry nature—weaving together member who has demonstrated a commitment to mentor- School of Humanities who show exceptional profes- philosophy, anthropology, history, literature, political ing students,either graduate or undergraduate. Particular sionalism and dedication to students.. science, psychology, and other disciplines. emphasis is given to candidates who have promoted The six faculty who earned the George R. Brown diversity by mentoring women and underrepresented —Reported by B. J. Almond, Jade Boyd, Dawn Dorsey, and Debra Thomas Award for Superior Teaching are Jose Aranda,associ- minorities. The award includes a $2,000 prize. ate professor of English; Brian Gibson,a lecturer in the The J. Howard Creekmore Professor of Management Department of Kinesiology;Stephen Klineberg,profes- Bala Dharan has been awarded the 2005Jesse H.Jones sor of sociology; Don Johnson, the J.S. Abercrombie Graduate School of Management Teaching Excellence

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— Kathy Collins —Eugene Levy — Shih-Hui Chen In the News —Rebekah Drezek —Malcolm Gillis — Ken Kennedy — Richard Tapia — Peter Vail — Marcia O'Malley — Yehia Massoud — Susan Ossman — Moshe Vardi — Martin Wiener — Peggy Shaw — Yildiz Bayazitoglu — Martha Alexander — Eusebio Franco

Collins Named VP for Finance the space agency with independent 3,000 bioengineers and biomedical discoveries have, among them, advice and guidance on its major engineers. 10 products Reorganizing Rice's administrative approved by the Food program and policy issues. Athanasiou was selected and Drug support services, President David as a fel- Administration. One of As chair of the planetary protec- low for pioneering work in articular those—VidaCare's W. Leebron has created the new EZ-I0, a device tion committee, Levy will lead the cartilage bioengineering and for used by paramedics and frontline Division of Finance and named group that advises NASA on mat- substantial contributions to research military medics in Afghanistan and Kathy Collins vice president for ters related to protecting planets, that have resulted in numerous Iraq to inject lifesaving finance. medications moons,comets, and asteroids.The bioengineering products. directly into the bones of patients suf- Collins, who formerly was as- committee's focus is preserving the He also received the first Van fering blood loss and shock—already sociate vice president and budget ability to study other worlds as they C. Mow Medal from the American is credited with saving numerous director, reports to both the president exist in their natural states, avoiding Society of Mechanical Engineers. lives and was recognized recently and the provost, heading a division contamination that would obscure Established in 2004, the medal is with top honors in the critical-care that includes the Budget Office,the the ability to find life elsewhere—if given to an individual who has made and emergency medical category Office of Institutional Research,and it exists—and ensuring prudent a significant impact on the field of of the prestigious Medical Design the Controller's Office. precautions are taken to protect bioengineering through research, Excellence Award competition. Before coming to Rice in 1995, Earth's biosphere in case it does. education, professional development, Collins served for seven years as Levy has been a member of this and leadership in the profession as budget director with the U.S. De- committee since 2002. a mentor and through service to the partment ofTransportation and nine Asa member of the NAC,Levy will bioengineering community. Composer Chen Awarded years in the White House Office provide counsel directly to NASA's Athanasiou's research centers on Commission of Management and Budget. She administration on issues of space the regeneration of cartilages of the Shih-Hui Chen,assistant professor holds a bachelor of arts degree in policy. Levy began his term in June musculoskeletal system—tissues of composition and theory at the urban studies from Mount Holyoke and will serve along with the likes of that cannot heal themselves. His Shepherd School of Music, was College and a master of arts de- former senator and astronaut John Musculoskeletal Bioengineering one of seven composers awarded a gree in city planning from Harvard Glenn, author Homer Hickam, and Laboratory conducts basic research commission for new musical works University. filmmaker James Cameron. on the healing processes of cartilage by the Serge Koussevitzky Founda- and applied research into methods tion in the Library of Congress and of growing tissues in the lab. the Koussevitzky Music Foundation Athanasiou has published more Inc. The foundations perpetuate Levy Named Chair of NASA Athanasiou Honored for Pioneering than 150 peer-reviewed papers former Boston Symphony director Committee Work in Cartilage Bioengineering and 200 conference proceedings Serge Koussevitzky's lifelong ef- Rice's Howard R. Hughes Provost Kyriacos Athanasiou, the Karl F and abstracts, and he holds some forts to encourage contemporary and professor of physics and as- Hasselmann Professor of Bioengi- 25 U.S. patents. He has mentored composers. tronomy Eugene Levy has been neering, has been elected to the more than 130 medical residents, The Empyrean Ensemble,founded named chair of NASAs Planetary inaugural class of fellows of the postdoctoral researchers, gradu- in 1988 at the University of Califor- Protection Advisory Committee and Biomedical Engineering Society, ate students, undergraduates, and nia—Davis, will perform Chen's com- a member of the NASA Advisory an international professional orga- high school students. Moreover, missioned work, scored for voice Council(NAC), a group that provides nization representing more than three companies founded on his and chamber ensemble. Chen's

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Kathy Collins Eugene Levy Rebekah Drezek Malcolm Gillis Ken Kennedy Richard Tapia

work has been performed by the specifically, for creating new tech- of study in Vietnam. The board is His national service includes a Cleveland Chamber Symphony, nologies for the early detection of made up of six private citizens ap- 1998 appointment to co-chair the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, many cancers. She currently is de- pointed by the White House, four Clinton administration's Information and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, veloping new optical technologies members of Congress, and the Technology Advisory Committee, a among others. Her musicfrequently for improved detection, diagnosis, secretaries of state, treasury, and group charged with reviewing the appears in programs abroad,and she and monitoring of breast, ovarian, education. effectiveness of all of the nation's is the recipient of numerous awards, and endometrial cancer. federally funded research and de- fellowships, and grants. Drezek received another significant velopment spending for information honor by earning a 2005 Beckman technology. Young Investigator Award from the Kennedy Honored by AAAS Kennedy, who earned his bache- Beckman Foundation, which sup- Ken Kennedy has been elected a lor's degree from Rice in 1967 and Bioengineer Drezek Wins AAMI ports the work of the nation's most fellow of the American Academy of joined the faculty in 1971, helped Award promising young researchers in the computer science Arts and Sciences, an organization found Rice's chemical and life sciences. Only 20 Rice University bioengineerRebekah founded in 1780 to honor intellec- department, the Computer and awards are given each year. Institute, Drezek has been awarded the 2005 of the tual achievement, leadership, and Information Technology Becton Dickinson Career Achieve- Drezek's award comes with a three- creativity. the Center for Research on Paral- ment Award by the Association year, $264,000 grant. Kennedy, University Professor and lel Computation, and the Center for for the Advancement of Medical the Ann and John Doerr Professor High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft), which Instrumentation (AAMI). Drezek of Computational Engineering in the he is the Stanley C. Moore Assistant Department of Computer Science, still directs. Former President Gillis Named to Professor of Bioengineering and an is among 196 new fellows of the Board of Federal Agency assistant professor in electrical and academy, the nation's oldest and computer engineering. Malcolm Gillis, University Professor, most illustrious learned society. Tapia Named One of Tech's '50 The AAMI Career Achievement the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Profes- Kennedy is one of the nation's Most Important Hispanics' Award is given each year to an in- sor of Economics, and professor of leading experts on high-performance dividual who is innovative, creative, management, has been appointed computing. His research focuses on The editors of Hispanic Engineer & and fundamentally committed to to the board of directors of the Viet- developing high-level programming Information Technology magazine improving the health and well-being nam Education Foundation. tools for parallel and distributed have selected Rice's RichardTapia of the world's population. It recog- The foundation is an independent computer systems. He currently as one of the 50 Most Important nizes outstanding achievement in U.S. federal agency founded by leads two multi-institutional research Hispanics in Technology and Busi- the development of medical devices, Congress to promote closer rela- efforts: the Los Alamos Computer ness for 2005. Honorees are chosen instruments, or systems that will tions between the United States Science Institute, a consortium of for the annual list based on their help all people live healthy lives. It and Vietnam. It offers opportunities five universities and the Los Alamos outstanding work in the field of includes a $1,500 prize. for Vietnamese nationals to pursue National Laboratory, and the Grid technology and for their institutional Drezek was selected for her graduate and postgraduate studies Application Development Software leadership. groundbreaking developments in in science and technology in the Project, a National Science Founda- Tapia is the Noah Harding Profes- optically based medical diagnostic United States and for American tion-sponsored effort involving eight sor of Computational and Applied tools for women's healthcare and, citizens to teach in the same fields universities. Mathematics, associate director of

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Peter Vail Marcia O'Malley Moshe Vardi Yildiz Bayazitoglu Martha Alexander

graduate studies, and director of greater understanding of Earth's all disciplines each year. Career mixed-signal and system-on-chip Rice's Center for Excellence and geological history. grants include both an educational designs. The system-oriented in- Equity in Education. Vail's concepts have had far-reach- and research component. terconnect synthesis strategies The Top 50 list includes many ing implicationsfor both science and O'Malley will use her funding will use statistical modeling meth- of the nation's highest-achieving commerce, revolutionizing the field to develop innovative laboratory odologies incorporating inductance Hispanic executives, managers, of stratigraphy and greatly enhanc- modules using haptic devices to to produce layout that meets design and researchers in industry, gov- ing methods for oil exploration. Vail enhance student learning, rein- constraints. ernment, and academia. Honorees joined Rice's faculty in 1986 after a vigorate an introductory robotics The educational component of have demonstrated leadership on a 30-year career at Exxon. He retired course to include hands-on experi- Massoud's grant calls for the use broad front—not only in the work- from Rice in 2001. ments with haptics and robotics, of a dynamic computer engineer- place but also in their communities. The Franklin Institute was estab- and promote high school outreach ing curriculum in both his graduate Throughout 2005, honorees will lished in 1824 in Philadelphia to train that includes internships, campus class, which uses an innovative be presented to young people as artisans and mechanics in the fun- visits, and demonstrations using semester-long project emphasizing role models, and their accomplish- damentals of science.The Benjamin haptics to encourage students to original research, and his under- ments will be upheld as examples Franklin Medals are given annually pursue careers in science and en- graduate class, which stresses the of the important daily contributions in seven disciplines of science to gineering. Haptic technology allows fundamentals of the very large-scale made by thousands of Hispanics in those whose achievements reflect users to simultaneously see and integration design process. technology-related jobs. the spirit, innovation, and inspiration feel virtual environments through of Benjamin Franklin. the use of computer-controlled desktop devices that contain sen- sors and actuators. Three Rice Faculty Earn Geologist Vail Awarded Franklin Massoud's CAREER project will Guggenheim Fellowships Medal Awards Support Developing focus on developing more efficient Three Rice faculty members are Careers of Young Engineers Peter Vail, the W. Maurice Ewing methods of designing integrated among this year's recipients of pres- Professor Emeritus of Oceanogra- Assistant professors Marcia circuits and system-on-chip. Due to tigious Guggeneheim Fellowships. phy, was honored with the 2005 O'Malley, mechanical engineer- the continuously increasing operat- Anthropologist Susan Ossman, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth ing and materials science,and Yehia ing frequencies, interconnect has computer scientist Moshe Vardi, and Environmental Science. It Massoud, electrical and computer become the main limiting factor of and historian Martin Wiener were recognizes his pioneering and in- engineering, have won Faculty Early the performance of integrated cir- selected by the John Simon Gug- novative ideas for using seismic Career Development (CAREER) cuits. To facilitate and develop the genheim Memorial Foundation on reflections to identify sequences Awards from the National Science new system-oriented interconnect the basis of distinguished achieve- of subsurface rock layers, greatly Foundation. synthesis paradigm for mixed-signal ment in the past and exceptional enhancing exploration for oil-con- The grants support early career nanoscale interconnects, Massoud promise for future accomplishment. taining rock. He also discovered development of junior faculty, and and his research group will research This puts the number of Rice faculty that similar changes in the rock they are among the most competi- and create analytical modeling, who have received Guggenheim record appear worldwide and can tive grants at the National Science optimization, and synthesis meth- fellowships at 37. be attributed to global changes Foundation, which awards only about odologies that facilitate generalized Ossman, visiting associate pro- in sea level, thus contributing to 400 of the five-year grants across design automation in integrated fessor of anthropology, will use

48 Rice Sallyport Business Information Center's Shaw Earns Shapiro Award

Located at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, the Business Information Center serves as a business and economics reference library for MBA students as well as for the rest of the Rice community and the general public.

her fellowship for a project titled expected to participate. for MBA students as well as for the student life and activities at Rice "People of the Third Step: Arab The Guggenheim received by rest of the Rice community and the and beyond, work to make a posi- Serial Migrants in a Global World." Wiener, the Mary Gibbs Jones general public. In addition to ordering tive impact by raising awareness She will conduct research on people Professor of History, will support books,journals, and other materials of women's issues, and serve as from Arab nations who have been his continuing study of British crimi- and managing the daily activities of role models in the empowerment residents of two or more countries, nal justice history. By examining a the center, Shaw teaches classes of women. so-called "serial migrants." She will number of homicide cases in British for MBA students on how to use The 2005facultyand staff winners spend eight months developing a colonies that evoked fundamental BIC services, conductjob searches, are Rebekah Drezek, the Stanley survey and traveling in the Arab questions about the nature and ra- and research companies. C. Moore Assistant Professor in world, Europe,and the United States tionale of British authority, Wiener The BIC houses 5,000 volumes, Bioengineering and assistant pro- to conduct in-depth interviews to will explore a deeper understanding including annual reports and peri- fessor in electrical and computer understand what kinds of families of the dynamics of British imperial- odicals, and a variety of electronic engineering; Yildiz Bayazitoglu, and individuals such global move- ism and address emerging areas databases and services, such as the Harry S. Cameron Professor in ment creates and how increased in the study of British history. The lnvestexts and online access to Mechanical Engineering; Martha serial migration is changing the project will result in a book, ten- the most current financial infor- Alexander, LANP administrator in Arab world. tatively titled An Empire of Law? mation. electrical and computer engineer- Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Violence, Race, and Authority in The award,funded by an endow- ing; and Eusebio Franco, custodial Professor in Computational Engi- the British Empire. ment from the late Beth Shapiro, and grounds manager in facilities, neering and professor of computer who served as university librarian engineering, and planning.• science, will use his award to lead from 1991 until her death in 1995, was created to recognize a member —Reported by B. J. Almond, Jade the six-month "Special Program on Boyd, Margot Dimond, Jennifer Evans, Business Information Center's of Fondren Library staff who has Logic and Algorithms" at the Isaac the and Lindsey Fielder Shaw Earns Shapiro Award Newton Institute for Mathematical developed an innovative program to provide library services at Rice or Sciences in Cambridge, England. Peggy Shaw's dedication to maintain- who has shown exemplary service The program aims to bring together ing high standards and her creative to the leading theoretical computer sci- approach to her job are among the university community. entists to bridge a longstanding reasons she was selected as the divide between those who seek to 2005 recipient of the Shapiro Library ensure and verify the correctness Staff Innovation Award by the Staff Impact Awards Honor Outreach, of computing systems and those Travel and Development Committee Service who measure and ensure the ef- of Fondren Library. ficiency of computer resources. Since joining the Fondren staff Several Rice faculty and staff mem- His program will center around a in 1986, Shaw has overseen the bers have been recognized with series of workshops focusing on Business Information Center(BIC). Impact Awards, given annually by developments in recent years that Located at the Jesse H. Jones the Women's Resource Center to have begun to bridge the gap. More Graduate School of Mangement, those who demonstrate service than 100 leading computer science the center serves as a business to the campus community, show theorists and mathematicians are and economics reference library involvement and participation in

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_ One immediate advantage to competing in C-USA Ti Ilia _I IS 'A neat RCM in the will be decreased travel time,reducing the amount of missed classesforstudent-athletes as well astravel expenses. Rice also will have a shot at five football bowl games and more television opportunities for all sports. C-USA football and both men's and women's HE Oars Spilt COMIntillg In the ..osm basketball games can be seen on ESPN/ESPN2,and College Sports Television Networks, Inc., also will carry football, basketball, and other C-USA sports. AthlEtic Conference, Inc ilk ilillig the One ofthe most exciting aspects ofthe move is the chance to play in-town rival University ofHouston __ in meaningful conference games. Rice sports fans will have the opportunity to attend those events, La IEMbosolid intim c oml]loristill]. but games between Rice and its other new rivals also are more within reach,as the schools are closer _ geographically than most ofthe WAC competition. C-USA is a two-division conference,with Rice and lildct,...... 1tools have OXIMIECOd HESS Houston in the West division along with SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, and UTEP. The remaining teams are in the East. In all, Rice athletic teams won 15 conference I knit110 'Nom otod NE noi1 11140 to titles since joining the WAC.In 2000,Rice won an unprecedented six WAC titles, including in women's basketball, men's and women's cross-country, women's indoor and outdoor track and field, and rep iCdt0 that in Conference EA,1.11iCil lb baseball. In the WAC and the Southwest Confer- ence, of which Rice was a member for 82 years, the Owls have won 61 conference titles, including the SWC football co-championship in 1946,when joins Starting i ith the AU H SHE. the team went on to win the Orange Bowl.

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East Carolina University University of Southern Mississippi University of Alabama at Birmingham Location: Greenville, North Carolina Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Location: Birmingham, Alabama Founded: 1907 • Enrollment 21,797 Founded: 1910• Enrollment: 15,259 Founded: 1969 • Enrollment 16,693 Nickname: Pirates • Colors: Purple and Gold Nickname: Golden Eagles • Colors: Black and Gold Nickname: Blazers • Colors: Forest Green and Old Gold President Steve Ballard President Shelby F Thames President Carol Garrison Athletics Director Terry Holland Athletics Director Richard Giannini Athletics Director Watson Brown Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: baseball, basketball, football, golf, tennis, in- Men: baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, tennis soccer, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and door track and field, outdoor track and field • Women: Women: basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, soft- field • Women: basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, ball, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and swimming and diving, tennis, indoor track and field, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, volleyball field, volleyball outdoor track and field Football Stadium: M.M. Roberts Stadium (33,000) Football Stadium: Legion Field (72,000) Football Stadium: Dowdy-Ficklen (43,000) Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Reed Green Coliseum Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Barlow Arena (8,500) BasketballNolleyball Arena: Williams Arena at Min- (8,095) Baseball: Young Memorial Field ges Coliseum (8,000) Baseball: Pete Taylor Park Athletic Point of Pride: UAB upset Virginia, propelling Baseball: Clark-LeClair Stadium Athletic Point of Pride: Southern Miss is the only the Blazers to the Elite Eight of the 1982 NCAA Tourna- Athletic Point of Pride: Over the past 12 seasons, the school in Conference USA to win championships in ment in just the program's fourth year of existence. East Carolina football program has participated in six bowl football, men's basketball, baseball, and softball. Notable Alumna: Vonetta Flowers, the first African Amer- games and finished with a Top 25 national ranking twice. Notable Alumnus: NFL quarterback Brett Favre ican to win a gold medal in a winter Olympics(bobsled) Notable Alumnus: NFL quarterback Jeff Blake Athletics Website: http://southernmiss.com Athletics Website: http://uabsports.com Athletics Website: http://ecupirates.com 7\17 THE HERD LSV

Marshall University University of Memphis University of Central Florida Location: Huntington, West Virginia Location: Memphis, Tennessee Location: Orlando, Florida Founded: 1837 • Enrollment 16,551 Founded: 1912• Enrollment 20,332 Founded: 1963 • Enrollment 44,000 Nickname:Thundering Herd • Colors: Green and White Nickname: Tigers • Colors: Blue and Gray Nickname: Golden Knights • Colors: Black and Gold President Michael J. Farrell President: Shirley Raines President: John C. Hitt Athletics Director: Bob Marcum Athletics Director: R. C. Johnson Athletics Director: Steve Orsini Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, soccer • Women: basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, soccer, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and soccer, tennis • Women: basketball, cross-country, golf, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor track and field • Women: basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor field, outdoor track and field, volleyball softball, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and track and field, volleyball field, volleyball Football Stadium: Marshall University Stadium (38,016) Football Stadium: Florida Citrus Bowl (65,438) Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Henderson Center (9,043) Football Stadium: Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Basketball/Volleyball Arena: UCF Arena (5,100) Baseball: University Heights Baseball Field (62,380) Baseball: Jay Bergman Field Athletic Point of Pride: Marshall's football team has Basketball Arena: FedEx Forum (18,400) Athletic Point of Pride: A total of 28 players have been played in seven bowl games since moving to Division I-A Baseball: Nat Buring Stadium drafted or signed to free-agent contracts in the NFL in the in 1997 and has posted wins in five of those appearances. Athletic Point of Pride: Since 1987, Memphis has post- past six years, including nine players from the 2002 roster. Notable Alumnus: NFL quarterback Byron Leftwich ed an 89 percent graduation rate for student-athletes. Notable Alumni: NFL quarterback Daunte Culpepper, Athletics Website: http://herdzone.com Notable Alumnus: Former NBA star Anfemee Hardaway women's soccer star Michelle Akers Athletics Website: http://gotigersgo.com Athletics Website: http://ucfathletics.com

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Rice University Southern Methodist University University of Tulsa Location: Houston, Texas Location: Dallas, Texas Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Founded: 1912 • Enrollment 4,785 Founded: 1911 • Enrollment: 10,038 Founded: 1894 • Enrollment 4,100 Nickname: Owls • Colors: Blue and Gray Nickname: Mustangs • Colors: Red and Blue Nickname: Golden Hurricane • Colors: Old Gold, President David W. Leebron President R. Gerald Turner Royal Blue, Crimson Athletics Director Bobby May Athletics Director Jim Copeland President Steadman Upham Athletics Director: Judy MacLeod Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: basketball, football, golf, soccer, tennis • Women: Conference-Sponsored Sports: tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, swimming and Men: basketball, cross-country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, Women: Basketball, cross-country, soccer, swimming diving, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and indoor track and field, outdoor track and field • Women: and diving, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track field, volleyball basketball, cross-country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, and field, volleyball indoor track and field, Football Stadium: Gerald J. Ford Stadium (32,000) outdoor track and field, volleyball Football Stadium: Skelly Football Stadium: Rice Stadium (70,000) Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Moody Coliseum Stadium (40,385) Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Basketball/Volleyball Arena: Autry Court (5,000) (8,998) Donald W. Reynolds Center (8,355) Baseball: Reckling Park Athletic Point of Pride: SMU has ranked among the Athletic Point of Pride: Tulsa has won six national Athletic Point of Pride: Rice won the 2003 NCAA top 10 athletic programs in private institutions nation- championships—four in women's golf(1982 and 1988 baseball national championship. ally in seven of the past eight years. NCAA and 1980 and 1982 AIAW titles) and two in Notable Alumnus: Houston Astro Lance Berkman Notable Alumnus: Championship PGA golfer Payne Athletics Website: http://riceowls.com Stewart men's basketball (1981 and 2001 NIT). Notable Alumni:former NFL Athletics Website: http://smumustangs.com wide receiver and former U.S. Congressman Steve Largent, professional golfer Nancy Lopez Athletics Website: httplitulsahurricane.com

University of Houston Tulane University University of Texas at El Paso Location: Houston, Texas Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Location: El Paso, Texas Founded: 1927 • Enrollment 30,757 Founded: 1834 • Enrollment 12,676 Founded: 1914 • Enrollment 18,542 Nickname: Cougars • Colors: Scarlet and White Nickname: Green Wave • Colors: Olive Green and Nickname: Miners • Colors: Dark Blue, Orange, with Navy trim Sky Blue and Silver accent President G. Jay Gogue President Scott Cowen President Diana Natalicio Athletics Director Dave Maggard Athletic Director: Rick Dickson Athletics Director Bob Stull Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Conference-Sponsored Sports: Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, Men: basketball, cross-country, football, golf, indoor indoor track and field, outdoor track and field • Women: tennis, outdoor track and field • Women: basketball, track, outdoor track • Women: basketball, cross-coun- basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball, swimming cross-country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, try, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track, outdoor and diving, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, volleyball track, volleyball and field, volleyball Football Stadium: Louisiana Superdome (64,900) Football Stadium: Sun Bowl (51,500) Football/Soccer Stadium: Robertson Stadium Basketball/Volleyball Arenas: Fogelman Arena Basketball Arena: Don Haskins Center(12,500) (32,000) (3,600), New Orleans Arena (17,832) Athletic Point of Pride: Former UTEP basketball Basketball Arena: Hofheinz Pavilion (8,479) Baseball: Turchin Stadium coach Don Haskins broke color barriers by starting five Baseball: Cougar Field Athletic Point of Pride: 79 percent of Tulane's stu- black players in a championship game. The Miners Athletic Point of Pride: In its athletic history, Houston dent-athletes graduated in the latest NCAA graduation defeated top-ranked Kentucky to capture the NCAA title has produced 648 All-Americans. The Cougars also rate report, placing Tulane 14th among Division I-A in 1966. UTEP is the only school in the state of Texas to have compiled 17 NCAA team championships and 55 universities. win a national crown in men's basketball. NCAA individual champions. Notable Alumnus: Former Yankee slugger and presi- Notable Alumni: NBA hall-of-famer Nate Archibald, Notable Alumni: Former NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon, dent of the American League Bobby Brown NFL defensive star Seth Joyner Olympian Carl Lewis Athletics Website: http://tulanegreenwave.com Athletics Website: http://utepathletics.com Athletics Website: http://uhcougars.com

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Asthousands of evacuees came into Houst daysfollowing Hurricane Katrina,the Rice col responded in ways both large and small:fro in 120 Tulane students forthe fallsemesterto restrooms atthe Astrodome,an effort sponta organized by employees of facilities, engi and planning. The Ley Student Center se the collection site for the HOOTS/Rice Ht Katrina Food Drive, and thanks to the gel of Rice people, the drive resulted in the co of more than 2,500 pounds of supplies, in bottled water, paper goods, diapers, cloth nonperishable foods.