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Content and Context: The Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2002

THE MAGAZINE OF RICE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2003

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14 SPEAKING OUT Rice's Community Dialogue Luncheons provide a forum for discussion of social issues.

BY DAVID D. MEDINA

18 CLASS: WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER Five sophomores in our ongoing series discover that their social adventures at Rice help them learn about themselves and their goals just as well as any academic program. BY M. YVONNE TAYLOR 28 CONTENT AND CONTEXT: THE HUMANITIES RACER AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 2002 Rice's humanists and social scientists are helping us understand the world of today and shaping the ideas of tomorrow. BY MALCOLM GILLIS

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35 RICE: THE NEXT CENTURY CAMPAIGN

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Photo by Tommy LaVergne SPRING '03 1 FOREWORD THINKING Wlyport WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

SPRING 2003, VOL. 59, NO. 3 The science fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling, who has lectured here at Published by the Division of Public Affairs Rice in the past, produced a novel and a series ofshort stories in the 1980s that Terry Shepard, vice president envisioned how humanity will evolve during the next few hundred years. Or,

EDITOR more precisely, how humanity will develop itself. Christopher Dow Sterling sees humanity dividing along two very different lines that he calls the Makers and the Shapers. The Makers are people who enhance themselves by CREATIVE DIRECTOR augmenting their external capabilities with the aid ofcomputers and prosthetics. Jeff Cox They are walking amalgams of humans and machines—the Borg of Star Trek fame, if you will, though not necessarily subservient to a hive mentality. The ART DIRECTOR Chuck Thurmon Shapers, on the other hand, are people who use genetic engineering to enhance themselves by internal means. The opposing philosophies and methodologies of

EDITORIAL STAFF these two branches of humanity eventually lead to war between them, despite David D. Medina '83, senior editor the fact that they remain alike in two very important ways. M. Yvonne Taylor, associate editor Tanine Allison, assistant editor First, both groups have attained their, by our standards,superhuman capabilities Lorrie Lampson, production coordinator through applied technologies. While the technologies Sterling describes are not yet as advanced as he depicts, they are no longer just the stuff of science fiction, DESIGN STAFF either. Every one ofthem is currently in development at universities and research Dean Mackey, senior designer Jana Starr, designer institutes around the world.For the Makers,researchers are working on everything Tommy LaVergne, photographer from advanced computerization to robotics to interfaces between electronics and Jeff Fitlow, assistant photographer the neural system. For the Shapers, there are gene therapy, cloning, and even genetic enhancement. Right here at Rice, we can see elements of many of these THE RICE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES technologies, particularly in the realm of nanoscale science, that would undoubt- E.William Barnett,chair; J. D.Bucky Allshouse;D. edly serve both factions should Sterling's imaginings come to pass. Kent Anderson;Teveia Rose Barnes;Alfredo Brener; Robert T. Brockman; Albert Y. Chao; James W. The second similarity is that, although the Makers and Shapers enhance Crownover;Bruce W.Dunlevie; James A.Elld ns,III ; themselves through life-altering technologies, they remain very human in body, Lynn Laverty Elsenhans;Karen 0.George; K. Terry Koonce;Cindy J. Lindsay;Frederick IL Lummis,Jr.; mind, and spirit. Hence the war among them, but also hence the peace that Michael R Lynch; Robert It Maxfield; Burton J. eventually ensues. Their divergent technologies and philosophies cannot erase McMurtry;Steven L. Miller;Bob Parks;W. Bernard Pieper; Karen Hess Rogers; Marc Shapiro;William their innate awareness of the humanness in others, and while there remains a N. Sick; L. E. Simmons level of suspicion and even prejudice between the two groups, they eventually

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS learn to coexist and work together. Malcolm Gillis, president; Zenaido Camacho, vice We can see in Sterling's work a parable about the conflicts that arise between presidentfor StudentAffairr, Dean W. Currie, vice presidentfor Finance and Administration;Charles any two opposing forces, ideas, or beliefs, but I think the point is not the sep- Henry, vice president and chief information arateness and conflict but the unity that supercedes the differences. The Makers officer, Eric Johnson, vice presidentfor Resource Development,Eugene Levy,provost-, Terry Shepard, and Shapers are driven to enhance themselves by the same urge that drives all of vice president for Public Affairs; Scott W. Wise, us to expand our personal and collective horizons. In the end,it is that common vice presidentfor Investments and treasurer, Ann Wright, vice presidentfor Enrollment, Richard A. urge that we recognize, not the specific techniques we use to move onward. Zansitis,general counsel. Creating the technologies that help us expand our horizons is a challenging, Sallyport is published by the Division of Public complex, and rewarding process, but there is another process of discovery that Affairs ofRice University and is sent to university is just as important: learning what it is to be human. In last year's president's alumni,faculty, staff, graduate students,parents of undergraduates, and friends of the university. report, Malcolm Gillis wrote about many ofthe ways Rice researchers are helping create the new technologies that will carry us into the future; in this year's EDITORIAL OFFICER:Office ofPublications,5620 Greenbriar,Suite 200,Houston, Texas 77005.Fax: report,"Content and Context," he highlights Rice programs in the humanities 713-348-6751. E-mail: [email protected] and social sciences that will help carry us into the future as a human race. In-

POSTAIAAAAA I Send address changes to Rice terestingly, these programs often are in synergy with our efforts in science and University, Development Services—MS 80, P.O. technology. While this synergy has the obvious effect ofcreating a whole greater Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892. than the sum of its parts, it also affirms a very important fact about humanity: ezooa RICE unavelearre We are not exclusively Makers or Shapers, but both at the same time.

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Rice University is better positioned than most universities but notimmune to the nation's economic troubles.

President Malcolm Gillis has noti- annual gifts, and indirect cost recovery budget planners expect the increase to fied vice presidents,deans, and the on research grants providing the rest. be even lower in 2005.In fact, because director of athletics that next year's Even when research grants and auxil- the markets have been declining for so budget will involve reductions in iaries (such as housing and dining) are long, it will be some time before the provide fewer dol- spending and added,the endowment provides more three-year moving average begins to lars for salary increases than in than 45 percent of the consolidated increase. recent years. budget. At the same time, Rice faces higher More than three years of the toughest expenses due to uncontrollable external stock markets since the 1930s have factors, such as double-digit increases taken their toll on university endow- in insurance and rising utility costs. The ments nationwide, and budget cuts projected increase in these areas—$3.1 have become the rule rather than the million—equals about 80 percent of exception. the new revenue from the unrestricted An article in the January 24 issue portion of the endowment. of the Chronicle of Higher Education Thus, in budget guidelines sent to reported on "the vast majority of col- deans, vice presidents, and the direc- leges and universities" that have seen tor ofathletics, the university has asked their endowment returns lose up to them to prepare for only very limited 19.8 percent. funding for salary adjustments. Vice "As endowments continue to shrink, presidents and the director of athlet- balancing budgets has become more ics were asked to accommodate modest challenging, a plight exacerbated by budget cuts. In addition to controlling shrinking financial support from gov- expenditures, the university will look ernments, foundations, corporations, for ways to enhance revenues. and individuals," the article said, not- "In common with universities around ing that many universities are cutting the country, we confront significant budgets and looking to reduce their Rice depends more on its economic challenge,"said Rice provost workforces. endowment than most universities— Eugene Levy."It is notthe first time this Starting with a hiring freeze last a boon in good econom times has happened,and it will not be the last. November, Rice took early action to but not in ba Rice is a strong,resilient university. Our avoid layoffs; however, the university goal now is exactly the same as our goal cannot avoid tighter budgets because To avoid sharp ups and downs in during financially more expansive times: the Rice endowment—between bud- the endowment payout—and thus to excel by applying what resources we geted expenditures and investment the university budget—the board of have to the best possible effect, by being losses of about 10 percent—dropped trustees employs a moving three-year creative and focused in continuing to in value from $3.37 billion in June 2000 average of the endowment's value to build the strongest possible university, to about $2.75 billion in December adjust the annual distribution from the and by ensuring that everything we do 2002. endowment. is framed within a sharp strategic vision Rice depends more on its endowment Although the endowment's value that best serves our students and faculty, than most universities—a boon in good has dropped, funds budgeted from it our employees, and our mandate. Our economic times but not in bad. While actually will increase next year to an economic challenge is a national one, most of Rice's peers use their endow- all-time high, but the increase will be affecting every university as well as cit- ment to provide less than a quarter smaller than usual. For fiscal year 2004, ies, states, and corporations. We will of operating budget revenues, Rice's funds budgeted from the endowment deal with it. I have every confidence endowment supports 73 percent ofthe will increase 4.25 percent,compared to in our continued success." core general budget, with net tuition 5.25 percent in this fiscal year. Barring a (tuition income minus financial aid), fast and strong recovery ofthe economy,

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There was another hurdle to over- come in the control room, where a Capturing the Moment single operator would be doing the work typically done by several techni- cians. The user interface has to allow Universities long to take advantage of communica- the operator to simultaneously view and tions technology switch any ofeight possible images:each to educate students who wish to of the four room cameras, the VCR, learn but who cannot actually be in the classroom. the presenter's computer screen, the Some ofthese students might be involved in real-time off-site videoconference picture,and an eighth output used for miscellaneous distance learning from remote locations,while others devices like DVD players or document may be accessing the lecture and associated materials cameras. The solution came from Terry Gra- days, weeks, or even years later. ham, an audio/video specialist in IT, who created a system of "cascading" frastructure Fund. The grant paid for windows on a touch-screen panel.With all equipment upgrades,and IT agreed this system,the operator can see all eight to provide stalling. images on the top halfofa touch-sensi- At least four cameras, audio equip- tive computer monitor. Tapping one ment,communications gear,and other of the eight small images with a finger multimedia equipment were installed in brings up a larger view in the bottom each offour mid-sized Rice classrooms. left section of the screen, also known While the multimedia setup in these as the director's preview. The operator rooms is not new, the rooms are con- uses a joystick to control pan, tilt, and trolled in an entirely new way. A single zoom,then gives another quick tap on technician in a central control room in the preview window to send the image the Mudd Building can control each to the audience. room."Normally, you'd need a whole "While Rice researchers will directly crew ofpeople for this kind ofproduc- benefit from this project, Hubert and tion, with people controlling the cam- his team have achieved something that eras,someone shifting between camera will be felt far beyond the boundaries views, and somebody else on sound," of Rice," says Tony Gorry, director of says Hubert Daugherty,the chieftech- CTTL and the principal investigator nical designer on the project. "What for the Capture Classroom Project. I've attempted to do "They've created a technical roadmap is replace all but one that any institution With the new Capture Until now, the complexity of video ofthose people with can use to signifi- production has made it difficult and ex- Classroom Project, a single cantly reduce the technology." technician sitting before a pensive to capture the substance and the financial barriers for The setup of bank of video essence ofa classroom lecture, but that displays can links between the control camera shots and distance learning." is changing thanks to Rice's Capture classrooms and the sound in four classrooms to Currently, the Classroom Project. The 18-month re- control room also is efficiently produce webcasts, project encompasses search program is aimed at lowering the unique. Traditional videoconferences, or four classrooms and video production costs associated with video production videotapes a small conference distance learning, making it easier and has cables running room.The research- cheaper than ever to produce a webcast, straightfrom microphones and cameras ers began using the videoconference, or videotape archive to the control room, but that wasn't first of the classrooms to come online of lectures and events. This is being practical in this case because the class- last October to produce weekly vid- done by creating a new infrastructure rooms are spread around campus and eoconferences between Rice and the for producing video in classrooms. The the control room is centrally located. University ofTexas Medical Branch at project is a joint effort ofthe Informa- Instead, Daugherty used the campus's Galveston for the Keck Center for Com- tion Technology(IT) Department and intranet to communicate with each class- putational Biology. Daugherty expects the Center for Technology in Teach- room. Daugherty isn't aware ofanyone all the rooms to be operational by the ing and Learning (CTTL), and it was who has ever devised such a system,and end of the spring. funded by an $850,000 grant to CTTL the setup took a lot of trial and error. -JADE BOYD from the Texas Telecommunications In-

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Consortium to Build Computing Grid across Texas Thumbs Up Rice University continues to help set the pace for diversity What the Web is to information, the Grid will be to comput- in its student population. ing. Users ofthe Web share information, users ofthe Grid will share processing power and applications and will pool resources to solve complex scientific and technical problems.

To help meet the challenges of providing the infrastructure for this next generation ofnetwork computing,Rice University has joined with other leading research universities and high-performance computing centers in Texas to form a consortium named High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT). The consortium originated as an informal discussion group for sharing expertise and experience among high-performance computing staff and researchers at Rice, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech 1-11PCAT institutions will University,the University ofHouston,and collaborate on proposals for the University ofTexas at Austin. As HiP- CAT grew to include more researchers and research funding as well as in fifth consecutive year, encompass additional technology areas,in For the the deployment and support Hispanic magazine has ranked particular Grid computing,it undertook its of infrastructure. the top five colleges first major project,the Texas Internet Grid Rice among nation for for Research and Education (TIGRE)in and universities in the July 2001,leading it to become a formal multi-institution consortium in October Hispanic students. The March issue scores us second, behind 2002. Eventually, the consortium plans to include all of the research institutions in Texas that utilize advanced computing resources. Stanford and ahead of Harvard, University of California at HiPCAT institutions will collaborate on proposals for research funding as well as the in the deployment and support ofinfrastructure. "HiPCAT will be able to leverage Berkeley, and Swarthmore. Rice's long-standing leadership in high-performance computing and Grid-enabling And Hispanic Network Maga- tools through Ken Kennedy's NSF-funded Grid Application DevelopmentSoftware zine recently ranked Rice number Project," says Jan Odegard,executive three for Hispanic students. Num- director of the Computer and Infor- bers one and two on their list are mation Technology Institute at Rice. Stanford and the University of "The TIGRE test bed will be an ideal California at Berkeley,and Rice collaborative environment across the is followed by the Massachusetts state of Texas for Grid research. The Institute ofTechnology potential for collaboration between and the University of researchers in Texas universities will California at Los Ange- greatly benefit the state." les. The rankings can For more information about HiP- be found in volume CAT, visit http://www.hipcatnet. 14, issue four.

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New Center to Examine Impact Coming to Campus? of Markets on Society Ifyou're planning to visit Rice, you might want to view our new campus map and park- We all know how much fluctuations in the stock ing information website. The market can affect daily life,for the better or worse. online map will help you find buildings, parking lots, and Learning to diagnose financial markets and their shuttle bus routes,and the site includes directions to Rice, a impact on society will be the work of Rice's newly virtual tour ofthe campus,and formed Center for Computational Finance and printable maps. Economic Systems (CoFES). http://wvvw.rice.edu/maps/

Taking a multidisciplinary approach multidisciplinary investigations. to the task, the center brings to- CoFES's first symposium, held gether economists, finance experts, last November and titled "Quan- computational scientists, engineers, titative Advances in Computational and others to develop next-gen- Finance and Economic Systems," was eration computational models of designed to appeal both to practi- financial markets. The tioners and to researchers center's research will be of "Researchers in the broad area of com- use not only to academics working on putational finance and but also to industry and problems economic systems. It was policy -makers. in different sponsored by the George "Like all of Rice's disciplines R. Brown School of En- academic research centers, gineering, the gravitated School of CoFES is a bottom-up Social Sciences, the Jesse to one initiative," says Katherine H. Jones Graduate School RICE UNIVERSITY another, and Ensor, director of CoFES of Management, and the and chair of the statistics CoFES grew Computer and Informa- department. "Researchers from those tion Technology Insti- working on these problems collaborations.' tute. Symposium funding •• Male Entrance - eke UNrersIty (=> in different disciplines gravi- was provided by William MAIN ENTRANCE tated to one another, and Rapson '53. CoFES grew from those collabora- More information about CoFES tions." A key component of CoFES is available online at http:// is the integration ofprobabilistic and www.cofes.fice.edu/. mathematical modeling for complex, —. 1.iADE BOYD

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riences both as a teacher and a father, he knows it's possible to teach pupils without understanding the precise workings Mortal Programming of their minds. Tour believes the key to "mortal programming"—programming a computer without knowing what is inside or having the ability to change the state of individual Is it possible to program a computer with- transistors—is to find the right mathematical techniques to out knowing what's inside? The answer to simulate the type of learning people experience every day. that question is essential to James Tour, "The first time I brought this up in a speech to the Rice faculty three years ago,several people told me it could never the Chao Professor ofChemistry, professor be done," Tour says. "At that point,I knew I needed to talk of mechanical engineering and materials to students, because students don't have any preconceived science,and professor ofcomputer science, ideas about what is possible or impossible." So Tour invited Summer and Chris Husband, newly mar- who has been working for more than a ried incoming graduate students in applied mathematics, decade to develop molecular computers. to join his project. "The joke around the office is that we didn't know that we were signing up for the impossible," Summer Husband said. "Chris and I just thought it was a Molecular microchips are an ambitious departure from the really intriguing idea, and as graduate students, we wanted norm in computing. At present, chipmakers use precision to work on a project that was challenging and unique." lithography to etch transistors into silicon wafers.For the past Tour's research team also included computer science graduate .0141.1110046 20 years,the number oftransistors crammed into a fingertip- student William L. Van Zandt and undergraduate Lauren S. sized chip has doubled every 18 months, and today's chips Wilson and collaborated with Paul D.Franzon and David P. EE contain more than 10 million transistors apiece. To program a Nackashi of North Carolina State University. I MI computer,computer scientists rely on the fact that they know To find out whether mortal programming was feasible, the exactly where each transistor is and how much current it will The black rectangles Husbands wrote a series ofcomputer simulations that mimic take to switch the transistorfrom on to off. All computer logic at the edges of this what goes on inside a nanocell—a one-micron square offilm builds from this simple on-or-offstate, and today's program- nanocell graphic are containing several hundred gold nanoparticles inter- the in/out leads. The ming relies on the notion that programmers are laced with thousands of molecular switches. entire cell, excluding omnipotent: Not only do they know what's Using a variety ofmathematical techniques, the outer portions inside the chip and where, they also have of the contact the team showed that it was possible to the power to change the state of any pads, would be train nanocells to serve as simple ad- approximately one single transistor. ders—a logic circuit capable of add- micron square. Molecular computing is altogether ing two whole numbers that are different. It is based on research by less than or equal to three—and as chemists,like Tour,who have shown logic gates—the elementary build- that individual molecules can per- ing blocks of digital circuitry that form the same switching functions as perform specific tasks. The results the transistors on silicon chips.Since of their research appear in a paper the molecules are about one million titled "Nanocell Logic Gates for times smaller than their solid-state Molecular Computing," published counterparts,the potential processing recently in the IEEE Transactions on power of a molecular computer dwarfs Nanotechnology. anything available today. The findings are significant because, One ofthe chiefbenefits ofthe technology in addition to being able to self-assemble, is that molecular chips would self-assemble,mean- nanocells are up to 50times smaller than the solid- ing chemists would simply mix up some chemicals and state-based logic gates. Solid-state systems also consume pour them onto a flat film and the chemical transistors would more power and generate more heat than nanocells. assemble by themselves.That's a much cheaper manufacturing The published study simply sought to prove that it is pos- process than etching. A state-of-the-art chip plant today costs sible to train nanocells as logic gates. Now the group is asking $3 billion and is expected to cost $6 billion by the middle of the really hard question: Can they actually conduct mortal this decade. programming? But critics ofmolecular computing also have pointed to self- Tour expects to publish that work this year. assembly as the Achilles' heel ofthe technology—ifcomputer

scientists don't know the details ofthe molecular microchip, -JADE BOYD how can they program it? Regardless ofhow cheap or powerful the computer is, it's useless Wit can't be programmed. Tour has never listened to those critics. Based on his expe-

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and led to the development of HiPco. In the HiPco process, the gaseous car- Nano Supply and Demand bon atoms don't come from vaporized graphite rods.Instead, they come from carbon monoxide gas, which is con- Single-walled nanotubes are a family of more than 30 tinuously pumped into a high-pressure molecules that greatly intrigue scientists and technolo- reaction chamber and mixed with an gists. Nanotubes are stronger and far lighter than steel, industrial gas containing the neces- sary catalysts to sustain the chemical and they have superior electrical properties—about one- reactions that create nanotubes. The third are metals and the rest are semiconductors. temperature and pressure conditions required in the HiPco process are Researchers have used both types to that reformed into buckyballs. In the common in industrial plants, making make electronic components like mo- early 1990s, researchers adding trace HiPco both less expensive and faster lecular wiring and molecular transistors metals to the graphite discovered car- for producing nanotubes than the that are 100 times smaller than those bon nanotubes—the metal atoms react laser-oven method. found in today's with the carbon atoms, causing them In 2000,Smalley, who also is a Uni- most advanced to grow into long tubular structures versity Professor at Rice and director of microchips. Nano- containing thousands or even millions CNL,and colleagues formed Houston- tubes also are being of atoms. based Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., considered for use in Prior to the advent ofHiPco,virtually a start-up company that holds exclusive the manufacture of all single-walled carbon nanotubes have worldwide license to the HiPco process extremely strong yet been produced at research laboratories, and other Rice intellectual properties. lightweight materi- either in laser ovens or in carbon arcs. In exchange for its support, NASA als and many other Both processes are labor-intensive and materials scientists have now received applications. time-consuming, and moreover, they more than a pound of nanotubes, Until now, though, yield just a few grams ofnanotubes per some 500 grams. "NASA was one of HiPco, developed by researchers at Rice's there has been a day and cannot be scaled up to produce the first organizations to understand the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, is significant bottle- larger quantities needed for commercial tremendous potential ofsingle -walled a milestone in the production of single- neck to nanotube applications. carbon nanotubes, and it was also one walled carbon nanotubes. In January, commercialization One of these laboratories was in of the first to invest in that potential," University Professor Rick Smalley (right) —the supply ofthese Rice's Center for Na- says Smalley. "It's fitting presented Brad Files of NASA's Johnson intriguing molecules noscale Science and that they are the first to Space Center with a quarter-pound con- has been limited. Technology, where a "NASA was one of benefit from HiPco." tainer of nanotubes that were produced Not only are the research group headed Ultimately,NASA hopes by HiPco in less than a week. the first organiza- by buckyball co-discov- to develop nanotube ap- processes used to tions to understand make nanotubes ex- erer Richard Smalley plications for space explo- the tremendous pensive—today's going rate for a gram perfected a laser oven ration. Because oftheir su- ofnanotubes is $500—they also are so process for making potential of single- perior strength-to-weight complex that, until a couple of years single-walled nano- walled carbon ratio,single -walled nano- ago,all the single-walled nanotubes ever tubes. The group began nanotubes, and it tube composites may one providing created worldwide totaled less than one nanotubes was also one of the day reduce the weight of pound. All that may change thanks to to research groups at spacecraft by 50 percent first to invest in that chemists in Rice University's Carbon Rice, NASA, and other or more compared to potential." Nanotechnology Laboratory (CNL) institutions in the late conventional materials. who have created the first process that 1990s under a program Other space-exploration can continuously produce single-walled called Tubes@Rice, and applications include carbon nanotubes in bulk. Known as Rice helped NASA's Johnson Space energy storage, life support systems, HiPco (high-pressure carbon monox- Center set up its own laser facility for thermal materials, nanoelectronics, ide process),the method is a watershed nanotube production in 1997. nanosensors, electrostatic discharge achievement in nanoscience. In 1998, NASA and Rice entered materials, and biomedical applications. The process used to create the first into a five-year program to collaborate buckyballs at Rice in 1985 was carried on nanotube research. One thrust of —JADE BOYD out in a laser oven. A rod of carbon that program was the development of graphite was vaporized by a laser, cre- a continuous flow process suitable for ating a cloud of gaseous carbon atoms large-scale production of nanotubes

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Nanoshell Sensor Opens Supercomputer Helps Decipher Door for New Methods to Phenomena of Nanotubes Examine Single Molecules Nanotechnology researchers at Rice's Center for Biological and Environmen- Scientists commonly use spectroscopy to tal Nanotechnology(CBEN) now have a discern detailed information about every- supercomputer powerful enough to deci- thing from distant galaxies to individual pher the quantum phenomena ofcarbon molecules. nanotubes and other nanomaterials.

Raman spectroscopy,in particular,allows scientists to observe They plan to use the supercomputer to find new ways the vibrational states of molecules and to identify specific to use nanomaterials to treat and diagnose disease and molecules that may be of interest, such as environmental to clean pollutants from the environment. contaminants or chemical or biological toxins.The problem is The 16-processor eServer p690, known as Regatta, that readings from single molecules are very weak. Although was acquired through a Shared University Research scientists can boost the Raman light emissions from a sample award from IBM.It will provide the intense computing by a million times or more by placing the sample power needed to solve incredibly complex mathematical next to small particles ofmetal called colloids, questions relating to molecular structure. Funded by they have never been able to precisely control the National Science Foundation, CBEN is the only the electromagnetic state of the colloids. academic research center in the world that is dedicated This means that the results and interpreta- to studying the interaction of nanomaterials and living tions of such studies vary widely. organisms and ecosystems. New work with nanoshells by a Rice nano- Carbon nanotubes are single molecules of carbon technology research group may solve that that can contain millions of atoms arranged in hollow cylinders. Although these tubes are just one-billionth ALAS problem. Led by nanoshell inventor Naomi Halas,the Stanley C.Moore Professor ofElectrical of a meter in diameter, they can stretch a millimeter and Computer Engineering,the group has demonstrated the or more in length. That's analogous to a 15-mile-long ability to precisely control the electromagnetic field around garden hose. Calculations on Regatta are showing that nanoshells, opening the door for chemical screening tech- even small imperfections in the tubes can drastically niques that could allow doctors, life scientists, and chemists affect their mechanical and electrical properties. to routinely and accurately analyze samples as small as a single Part ofthe reason is that nanotubes are so small. With molecule. larger wires and circuits—even the transistors on today's The precision is possible because of the structure of smallest microchips—quantum effects play a negligible nanoshells, which consist of a core of nonconducting mate- role, meaning engineers can ignore them altogether. At rial covered by a thin metallic shell. Because the research- the nanometer scale, however, the strange and coun- ers can control the thickness of the conducting shell, they terintuitive forces of quantum mechanics play a critical can precisely tune the electric and optical properties of the part in determining electric conductance properties. nanoshells to dramatically enhance the Raman light emis- To find out exactly how the nanotubes will behave, sions—up to a billion times in some cases. a research team led by Gustavo Scuseria, the Welch "This result is extremely important because it is the first Professor ofChemistry, uses the supercomputer to cal- time that anyone has actually designed and engineered a nano- culate precisely what happens as individual electrons and sensor specifically for obtaining chemical information," says photons interact with carbon atomsin a nanotube. Even Halas."There are widespread applications for this technology though Regatta can perform hundreds of millions of in environmental science, chemistry, and biosensing, and it calculations per second,it takes up to a week to solve the may have very important applications in the early detection equations describing a section of nanotube containing of cancer." a few thousand atoms. The research is described in AppliedPhysicsLettersin a paper When the research is complete, IBM expects it will titled "Controlling the Surface Enhanced Raman Effect via result in the development oflinear scaling theories and the Nanoshell Geometry," by J. B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, algorithms that will represent a major step forward in L. R. Hirsch, J. L. West,and N.J. Halas. It is available online theoretical molecular and biomolecular science. at http://ojps.aip.org/aplo/. -JADE BOYD

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From the time Richard Tapia began his career in education, he knew he 1 wanted to reach outto minority students—especially Mexican Americans— to show them that they could achieve whatever they put their minds to.

Tapia, the Noah Harding Professor of Computational that excellence comes in many flavors." and Applied Mathematics, knew the difficulties they Immediately the club became a tight-knit group, faced and the possibilities ahead because he already had holding a variety ofevents and activities, including La traversed this road.He emerged from the barrios Posada,a traditional Mexican Christmas celebration and ofLos Angeles to earn a Ph.D.,teach at pres- one of the biggest of the club's events even today. tigious universities across the nation, and Although it was among the first Hispanic campus- earn national based groups to go be- honors and yond academic fellowship, awards for RAMAS wasn't the first his work in organization at Rice for science and Hispanic students to con- engineering. nect with one another. In "I felt that the 1920s, Los Buhos gave my job was to students a venue to practice give back and guide their Spanish-speaking skills. Richard Tapia those who were similarly Other clubs, such as Sigma situated," he says. "I've Delta Pi, followed but still been there. I navigated the were focused primarily on waters." scholastic achievement. His desire to show others In 1924, Mexican busi- the way led him to create a nessmen in Houston cre- student group at Rice that ated a social and cultural recently celebrated its 30th organization for Mexican anniversary: HACER or Americans—Club Mexico the Hispanic Association Bello. Despite the fact that for Cultural Enrichment it was an off-campus club, at Rice. some Rice students became Begun in 1972 under active members, including the name RAMAS, Rice Primitivo Nino '28, who Association of Mexican was a founding member. American Students, the But having an on-cam- organization had three pus support group like RA- objectives: to provide sup- MAS became an important port to Mexican American element to the Rice experi- students at Rice and let ence for Hispanic students. them know there were other people like them on "RAMAS was a life raft for us, an oasis at the school," campus who had similar concerns and problems; to says Donald Nifio '79."For many ofus, it was the first recruit Hispanic students from high schools through- time away from home. It helped to get together with out Texas; and, says Tapia, "to teach and share with a group ofpeople who were brought up with a similar the Rice community who we are, what's important background. You have an immediate connection." to us, and our perspectives." But according to Tapia, Slowly the student population at Rice became more the overall goal was "to show the Rice community diverse, in part because of the recruiting efforts of

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RAMAS members, who were playing a larger role in and so much more." drawing minority high school students to Rice. By Maria Govea Villenas '91 says that a return trip to 1984, members of the club included not only Mexi- campus to attend a HACER party amazed her as she can American students but observed the transforma- also students of other Latin "What impressed me most about how HACER has tion in Rice culture."When American backgrounds. The developed over time is that it is not just a social I walked into the room and decision was made to change organization but is involved in recruiting minorities saw so many brown faces, I the organization's name to to Rice, educating the community about Latinos, was so surprised to see the reflect the broader cultural becoming involved in civil rights, and so much more." growth of the club." She background ofits members, Donald Nino '79 says she was even more sur- and RAMAS became HAG- prised "when at one point ER—Hispanics Associated during the party, a group of with Cultural and Educational Revitalization.The name students went up to the front and did a demonstration later was changed to Hispanic Association for Cultural of how Tejano music is danced. One of the students Enrichment at Rice. Club activities grew to include came to my table to ask me to join the group's dem- bringing Hispanic music, food, and films to campus; onstration. I could not believe I was dancing Tejano participating in the universitywide International Night in front of a Rice audience—sharing my cultural banquet; and performing heritage in Farnsworth community service and Pavilion! I credit HACER outreach projects. for this change in the Rice Now HACER members culture." include Mexican Ameri- Today, Rice is ranked cans,Cubans, Venezuelans, by Hispanic Magazine and Latinos of all types, among the top five says Heather De La Garza, universities that are current HACERpresident. succeeding in recruiting The organization continues and retaining Hispanic to work to educate the students, and it has been Rice community, offering top-ranked four consecu- an opportunity for immer- tive years. The magazine sion into a culture that goes lauded the many aca- beyond what books and demic opportunities and lectures can offer. It also social activities in which hosts a leadership retreat Latino students can encouraging students to participate. This year, take a greater leadership Hispanic Network Maga- role at Rice and is a link to zine ranked Rice number off-campusresources, such as three in the country for the Hispanic consulates, the Hispanics.(Seepage 5.)It Institute of Hispanic Cul- 2 seems that 30 years after ture, and respected Hispanic the creation of RAMAS, figures and professionals, all .1 Tapia's original goal of of whom can share their showing Mexican Amer- experiences and provide Members of the Hispanic Association for Cultural ican students that they networking opportunities. Enrichment at Rice can achieve excellence "What impressed me has grown into a mul- most about how HACER has developed over tifaceted, "multiflavored" cultural and educational time," says Donald Nino, "is that it is not just a boon for Rice. social organization but is involved in recruiting To find out more about HACER, visit the club's minorities to Rice, educating the community website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/-hacer. about Latinos, becoming involved in civil rights, -JENN I F E R EVANS

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GUESTS AT RICE'S COMMUNITY DIALOGUE LUNCHEONS, SPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF MINORITY COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, ARE TACKLING A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES. BRENT SMITH SPOKE RECENTLY ON THE QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP. ot THE

By David D. Medina There was a time when leadership was a birthright, Smith says, but not anymore. Furthermore, while with an emphasis in personality genes certainly have been shown to from the University of Maryland at affect people's character, the effect s society moves College Park. His research focuses is not terribly substantial. "In other forward and social on the personality characteristics words, leaders are not only born, and cultural issues of effective and ineffective leaders. they also are made." grow more complex, His early consulting career was Leadership is not all about leadership assumes dedicated to the development charisma. CEOs such as Jack paramount importance. But of human resources systems Welch of General Electric, what are the qualities of effective for selecting leaders at various Richard Branson of the Virgin leadership, and how are notions organizational levels. Group, and Herb Kelleher of about leadership evolving? "If one thing is true about Southwest Airlines are not the Brent Smith, assistant leadership, it is that there are no only potential role models of professor of management and universal truths in leadership. It all leaders. "Interestingly, given the psychology in the Jesse H. Jones depends on the context," he says. current corporate scandals, the Graduate School of Management, "That is, leadership varies in for- `un-CEO' is becoming a popular became interested in leadership profit, not-for-profit, and political press icon, given their presumed after he discovered that there is a organizations." trustworthiness and transparency." serious shortage of effective leaders It is easier, Smith says, to After much reflection, Smith in the business world. According explain what leadership is not: has come up with some "quasi- to Smith, the success rate of chief Leadership is most definitely enduring truths" about leadership. executive officers is a meager 50 not a position. Psychologically Leadership is everyone's percent. He also found that many and perhaps unconsciously, people concern. It amounts to a set of companies were unconvinced that attribute extraordinary power to practices, a process that can be their leaders had enough talent to those in positions of authority. taught and learned. There are move them forward. Organizations The power and influence we give certain competencies, such as began to realize that developing them are far beyond what they knowledge, skills, and abilities, that leaders was an imperative, he says. actually possess, he adds."A good can be taught to almost anyone. But what makes a good leader example of this is the compensation "Leadership is no more about is really hard to define. "In my own packages paid to CEOs—this can CEOs than it is about first-line field, we have given up the hope only be explained on the basis supervisors—just the competencies of ever agreeing on a definition of our presumption that they change, and some competencies of leadership," he explains. "At have a major influence on an endure regardless of where you are last count, there were about two organization's bottomline, which is in the organization." hundred." Smith received his rarely the case." Leadership has everything to Ph.D. in organizational psychology Leadership is not genetic. do with relationships. Leadership

SPRING '03 15 built into the system by rewarding and reinforcing learning. Role models must be cultivated and fail to adapt their strategy to the made visible. People who share audience," Smith says. "Managers their talents and develop others are not thoughtful about the must be rewarded. exists only in relation to followers, demands of their audience when And fourth, promote whether it is one-to-one or one- choosing something so basic as a experimentation and skill to-a-thousand. "Exemplary leaders motivation strategy." development and remove the risk are adept at building effective According to Smith's research, associated with failure if someone is relationships based on mutual organizations have done a very trying to learn something new. respect and caring. Trust is the poor job in developing leaders. These solutions, Smith says, central characteristic of effective In fact, in all too many cases they are not short term. They must be relationships." haven't taken the time to cultivate carried out over an extended period Leaders are action oriented. them. Organizations have taken the so that they become a permanent "Peter Drucker [author of books approach that those with the right part of the organization. "We live on management] referred to stuff will rise to the top. "I like to in a society that seems increasingly leaders as monomaniacs on a call this the unenlightened view of to be focused on the short term," mission." It is very difficult to be development," he says. he says. "This, I believe, explains passive and be an effective leader. "There is nothing inherently many dysfunctional aspects of our Effective leadership is wrong with using experience as the current corporate and political predicated on a thorough primary vehicle for development," environment, and it makes understanding of oneself. Without Smith explains. "In fact, it is being a leader and focusing on self-knowledge and insight, people the primary developmental development virtually impossible." lack an understanding of their tool—however, someone must be For example, the highly strengths and weaknesses. Effective there to manage the process and publicized corporate malfeasance leaders know what they are good at ensure that the proper lessons are disasters of Enron, WorldCom, and and what they are not. learned." ImClone are a result offocusing To understand how to develop So how do we develop leaders? on the short term, Smith says. The good leaders, says Smith, one Smith offers four suggestions. downfall of those organizations must know what makes a bad one. First, promote self-awareness. has been attributed to their CEOs, Based on research conducted by "We need to do something almost who were the first to go. the Center for Creative Leadership, completely antithetical to the Inculcating a culture of ethics most ineffective leaders, he culture of many organizations— and integrity takes time. We cannot explains, are insensitive and employ we need to give open, honest, make people moral, Smith says, an intimidating managing style. development feedback that but we can teach them what is They can be cold, aloof, and promotes self-awareness of ethical. "This requires a different arrogant. These are people who leadership strengths and focus for organizations and a move lack integrity, vision, and flexibility. limitations." away from the short-term, stock They are micromanagers. Second, teach people to price-driven mind-set that seems to But the lack of adaptability recognize important differences dominate now." is the main and most significant in others and to respect those With these long-term goals, problem that holds a manager differences. he says, maybe we can prevent back. "My research on managers' Third, create a culture of another corporate scandal such as use of influence suggests that they development. Learning must be the Enron catastrophe.

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0 ften the first step in understanding a social or cultural issue is to address the many viewpoints that contribute to it. That is the purpose of Rice's Community Dialogue Luncheons, organized through Rice's Office of Minority Community Affairs. Last November, the office completed its first round of these quarterly luncheons, which serve as a forum for community leaders to discuss social issues that affect all sectors of society.

DIALOGUE

A FORUM TO DISCUSS "It was good to take part and be enlightened by the exchange of ideas," says Craig Jackson '77, a law professor at Texas Southern University. "I am sure SOCIAL AND CULTURAL all of those in attendance outside of the Rice family were impressed with Rice's involvement in this kind of forum." ISSUES Offered every three months, the luncheons are designed to provide an informal gathering conducive to an engaging discussion and sharing of ideas. They also help to bring together people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds in order to get to know each other and form a network. The luncheons take place in the elegant Founder's Room in Lovett Hall. "These meetings are a great idea," says attorney Michael Gomez. "I think they go a long way in building goodwill between the community and Rice—not to mention, getting people, at least for a moment, to think about some of the larger issues." For each meeting, a Rice professor is invited to talk about a particular social issue, which serves as the topic of discussion for the select group of participants. "I found the discussion pertinent and lively," says Rabbi Kenneth Weiss. "The atmosphere that was created should be replicated in many places as a methodology for focusing groups on important issues." Robert Stein, dean of the School of Social Sciences and the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, gave the first talk about emerging political issues in Houston and the state. At the second luncheon, Stephen L. Klineberg, Rice professor of sociology, spoke on the demographic changes of Houston. Richard Tapia, Rice professor of computational and applied mathematics, gave the third talk on the condition of minority education. And Brent Smith, assistant professor of management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, lectured at the fourth luncheon on "Developing the Next Generation of Leaders." Baltazar Acevedo, who is now director of the Cross Border Institute for Regional Development at the University of Texas at Brownsville, moderated the discussions. The luncheons, which will continue through the year, include about 20 people who are considered leaders in Houston's various ethnic communities.

—David D. Medina

SPRING '03 17 WORK HARD

HARDER

It's no surprise to learn that Rice stu-

dents push themselves academically.

After all, according to the university's

2002 senior survey, undergrads at

Rice spend more hours burning the midnight oil than all but one of their Ivy and non-Ivy League peers. But Rice students also apply their fever- ish work ethic to the activities they enjoy in their off time—spending many hours working part-time jobs, volunteering, acting, dancing, organizing groups, skydiving, and of course, attending the requisite party or pub night.

This installment of "Class" tells the story of what happens in the lives of sophomores Aaliya, Phil, Alessandra, Lorenzo, and COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

Catherine when they take a much-needed break from burning the candle at both ends.

by M. Yvonne Taylor Photographs by Tommy LaVergne and Jeff Fitlow

18 SALLYPORT MARTEL • ACADEMIC INTERESTS: PREMED, PRELAW

For Aaliya l'aqub, life outside as the exotic creatures were brought concert,which was amazing in itself." the classroom typically includes in for rides throughout the evening. All week,Aaliya says,she looksfor- sharing her cultural heritage, be- This semester, Aaliya became an inward to spending Saturdays at M.D. ing involved in decision-making at tramural sports representative at her Anderson Cancer Center. coordi- her college, and making life better college, Martel.She also wrote a judi- nate the adult bingo games and serve for other people. Aaliya writes a Dr. cial code for the young cplege. "I've as a floor host,where I'm responsible Phil-like weekly advice column that organized a court system for college- for an entire floor of patients. I do deals with young people's issues for related matters," she explains. "It's anything I can to make their stay at the Pakistan Link newspaper. On really going to have a positive impact the hospital as comfortable as pos- campus, the sophomore has been on shaping our college community" sible. I also offer my friendship. It's either a member of or in leadership As if all of this activity Nveren't been a great experien"far and roles for both the Muslim Student enough, Aaliya also finds time to definitely an integral part of my life. Association and RUZ (which means create new organizations and do The more I spend time with the pa- Rice in Arabic). In fact, this semester volunteer work. Aaliya helped tients the more I realize exactly why she organized the RUZ event Arabian create a new student group, Rice I want to go into the medical field. Nights, which she characterizes as a for UNICEF, which was given the I love the human ast Of my job.- ."great success." "It was a great ex- opportunity by concert promoter Aaliya's volunteer work and leader- perience being part ofthe organizing Clear Channel Communications ship have provided her with an added team for that event because I was able, to conduct fundraising at a kpous. She won the Rotary Interna- to give my input on everything fromri Pearl Jam concert. Says A al Community Service scholar- tickets to food to entertainment," "The whole purpose of the e , tip and an all-around scholarship she says. "All in all, the event Was of course, was to raise money for from Target, which also; rTards designed to give people a taste of 4'1LJNICEF,the United Nations Children's community service. Aaliyajlokes anything and eve`rything Middle fund." But, she adds, "The experi- that her mother says it's about time Eastern. That means eirerythingAr" ence really gave me some insight Target gave her some money since fashion to cuisine to music to poetry into the marketing aspect of the another Of Aaliya's many interests to language." This year's eveirswill /- entertainment industry and exactly is shopping, shopping, shopping. probably also he remembered as the' how Clear Channel functions. As a night the camels ruled the campus, bonus, we attended the Pearl Jam

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SPRING '03 19 LOVETT • ACADEMIC INTERESTS: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, PSYCHOLOGY

It's the little things that matter to To be honest, I really get a kind of a personality in that community." he Phil Moore, or at least the little kids. high from kids looking up to me. I explains. And Phil frequently tests his \\ hen Phil isn't in class, studying, or love that feeling." The Lovett sopho- philosophicalideas about community working part time at the Learning Re- more plans to continue his work with building while attending parties at source Center on campus,he mentors children this summer. "I'll either go Rice, another of his favorite activi- and tutors young people. "I really to New York to work in the Catskill ties. "That's why I go to parties. ICs like kids," he says, "and I feel like mountains as a motivator at a camp not the party per se, it's just that I I want to do something with them for overweight kids or take an intern- sometimes like having deep,one-on- when I get older." He did some Web ship in Longview,Texas, as a resident one conversations with people. Other research and found an opportunity adviser for 12 to15 high schools kids times, I like being in the energy ofit." to tutor 'gh school student in who'll be working on a project that When asked to sum up his chemis t he says that he gets deals with building communities." extracurricular interests, Phil the m tisfaction from his other "The internship would deal simply replies. "I just like people." ment project. On Mondays he with questions like understanding spen o hours at Pilgrim Elemen- what makes a community, asking tary. "I play with the kids and help questions like why can 10 people them with their math," he says."We come together and each person fits play basketball a lot. The school is 98 percent Hispanic, and the majority of the kids are underprivileged. I feel that those kids remember my presence a lot more than a kid whose mom is paying for a tutor." Phil says that his volunteer work has had the added benefit of teaching him about himself. "I take the kids aside and ask them to tell me something good about their family. I ask them why they w why they w be. It

s Or t ,an're fling tnvgt :His extracurricular activities so helped him define what he be- - lieves will give him job satisfaction in the future. "I know that I just want to be around people, people who ap- preciate me and who I can do stufffor. That's why I like to be around kids.

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Hanszen sociology and policy across Houston,"she says. One ofthe the Family Research Council as studies major Alessandra Gonzalez lessonsshe shared with the group was one of 14 Witherspoon fellows. In speaks with passion when talking that she "learned from the full-time addition, Alessandra received one about the things that matter to her. volunteers that they were grateful to of about 30 scholarships from the Her viewpoints have been printed in be in a place where they knew they Phillips Foundation as a Ronald several articles in the Thresher, and were dependent on God to meet all Reagan Future Leader, and she she's been quoted in the Houston their needs." And she says, "I real- earned a Women in Government Chronicle as well. Her passion comes ized that though the socioeconomic Scholarship from the Federation from her faith, which leads her to conditions looked very different in of Houston Professional Women. do work in her downtime that helps Mexico,there is still the same need for "I love being a college student," others. "I was very uplifted when I relationships and personalfulfillment she exclaims,"because ifthere's any- went with Campus Crusade [a uni- in the children there as there is in me thing that I feel like I have no right versity student organization] to a and the freshmen across the hall." to be it's indifferent. With so -many Christian conference, and I'm eager Alessandra adds,"I really want to live neat opportunities at every corner, to put a lot of what God is showing my faith out at Rice for my friends the la:st thing I want to do is itt.iss me—a real love for my friends on and anybody!come in contact with." them and live a boring life, or worse, campus—into action by figuring Alessandra also is involved in a mediocre life. I know that ill ever out how to show that love to them." Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, feel like lip getting too comfortab# This semester,Alessandra traveled HACER,and HOLA,and she works at with my skation, then I am blind& to Monterrey, Mexico, on a mission the LRC nine hours a week. This year, ing myserto so much that come. trip, and she was asked to share her through HACER,she helped organize with sacdice and perseverance.i stories about the trip with members the Colores Latinos show,"which is a 411- of Momentum,a nondenominational big presentation to show the diversity Bible study group near campus that within Latin American culture," she includes many Rice students. "I was explains. "It's a lot of fun, and I'm happy to share my testimony with meeting a lot of people through,thati around 200 college students from all Alessandra's political passion are also creating many opportuni- t ties for her. This summer,she will be interning at the White House again.' She also was accepted to intern at

PASSION, AND PRAYER

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" 24 SALLYPORT SID RICHARDSON • ACADEMIC INTERESTS: POLITICAL SCIENCE, LANGUAGES

From producing and acting to as 4:45 A.M. on Saturdays to head out Lorenzo's participation in the spending several evenings in an iron to nearby Clear Lake for practice,and peace protests and interest in social lung, Sid Rich sophomore Lorenzo he is on the social committee of his justice have sparked more consider- Di Silvio is a slave to the theater. He college. He hosted the college's ation about his future career. But he loves the theater so much that he '80s party last fall, is a campus tour isn't sure where those interests will finds himself working on plays at guide, and is a member of the On- take him. "Needless to say, I've been other colleges as well as his own. Campus Programs Committee,which thinking about pursuing a career in His excitement about the stage is coordinates events where hundreds law recently, and the internships I'm palpable. In anticipation of last of students from the Houston area applying for would be a way for me semester's CO, ofAngels, which he descend upon the Rice campus. to explore what law is all about." produced and in which he tortured But one activity that Lorenzo is But, he muses, "I don't know—In himself by wearing an iron lung for especially proud of is his participa- or politics? We'll see which I like a part in the show, he gushed, "We tion in peace protests organized by better come this time next year!" have an amazing cast. I'm super Amnesty International, which were With all the activities on his plate psyched to be working with them held near campus this spring."It was it seems he'd be hard-pressed to find and the rest of the production so incredible!" he exclaims."Barbara time to study, but Lorenzo managed staff. I can see us working together Gittings, a gay rights activist, once to make the President's Honor Roll, fantastically. The show's fun, the said that she felt complete after par- though he admits it wasn't easy. people are fun, and the end result ticipating in a demonstration. I too "While I loved participating in every- is going to be amazing!" Lorenzo's felt amazing after doing what I did. thing," he says,1 must acknowledge best friend and fellow Sidizen Laura The solidarity, the candles everyone the amount oftime each activity takes Sawyer received accolades from the held, the peace signs people made, up.I overextended myself, participat- Thresherfor her performance,which and the honks we got from cars ing in a number of extracurricular was described .1, 'deliciouslyvarnpy." driving by who supported us—it activities as well as taking five However, the theater is just one of was all so amazing." Lorenzo sub- challenging classes. I can't believe Lorenzo's many extracurricular pur- sequently transferred his excite- I made it through the semester!" suits. He participates in crew during ment about the peace protests into the fall semester, getting up as early action, helping organize and support a peace rally at Rice that received local and national news coverage.

SPRING '03 25 WIESS • ACADEMIC INTERESTS: KINESIOLOGY, SPANISH

Everyone knows that Wiess important aspect of her social life. eral other Rice students and faculty sophomore Catherine DuPont is on In fact, she attends the same Bible members.- I've been really scared of the women's volleyball team at Rice, study group,Momentum, as Alessan- skydiving," she says."But as I put my but who knew that she likes playing dra. "I look forward to Momentum feet on the edge of the inside of the Uno so much she keeps a deck of every week," she says. "I never had plane and looked out, I didn't even cards in her purse so she'll always the hunger for religion before, but have time to let the fear take over.The be prepared in case an ow-tunny coming to Rice and seeing all the free fall was exhilarating, and I took to play a garnresents itself? "My different denominations is really in the beauty and sheer awesomeness friends and I mad( a new friend cool and eye opening. There are of the view. It was a spiritual feeling, at a restaurant the other day phiy- so many things we agree on, and and I was so touched by what a dif- ing Coo while we were waiting for it's made me want to look back at ference in perspective I was seeing." our food to come," she sa‘s. "Not my own faith and rediscover it for After reflecting on her experi- because we were impatient, but myself. I find that there's so much ences for a moment, Catherine because we just love playing Um." to learn from something so old." adds, "There are so many things Una isn't the only game she and Ifshe thought coming to Rice was a I've learned in college that I would her friends and volleyball mates Re- culture shock,Catherine also had the have thought,'Oh, that's so cliché to beca Pazo, Becka Kainz, and Lindsey opportunity to discover a completely say.' Things like, You'll know your- Carter like playing. "We love board different culture when she traveled sell better. But . . . you really do." games,"says Catherine."And our new to Argentina last year. "I needed to favorite game is Cranium," which, work on my Spanish and myvolleyball unfortunately, won't fit in anyone's skills,and Argentinean volleyball is so purse. The four frequently socialize far above U.S. volleyball," Catherine together, in part because of their explains. "It was a really good op- shared experience on the team."We portunity, and everthing happened -4 spend 20 hours a week practicing so fast that I didn't have time to be and then more time together after- too scared. The country was so hos- wards.It's kind of unusual," explains pitable, and I got to see so much ofit. Catherine."I'm really lucky because Before you leave the U.S.and go other 0 r- the three other sophomores on the places you assume everywhere must team are like my three best friends." be like this, but then you go some- Catherine went to Catholic schools where else and everything is different. CO exclusively before coming to Rice, It opens up a new part of your mind." and she finds that exploring her faith And Catherine had another experi- by attending mass at the Catholic Stu- ence last semester that opened her r" dent Center and Bible study groups mind and gave her another view ofthe 3) both on and off campus is another world. She went skydiving with sev- rn WHO ALSO .. .

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26 SALLYPORT When most people think about the social lives and activities of college students, they typically think of raucous parties and general mayhem. And to be fair, Rice has its share of that. But students who've chosen and been accepted to Rice often have an exceptional work ethic, varied interests, and a strong desire to go above and beyond the expected. This combination pushes them to find fun, creative outlets in which to pursue the goals they've set for themselves. Aaliya, Phil, Alessandra, Lorenzo,and Catherine are just five ex- amples of Rice students who work hard—and play even harder.

The next installment of "Class" will befeatured in the fall 2003 edition of Sallyport.

SPRING '03 27 Humanities • Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations The humanities and • Art and Art History • Asian Studies • Classical Studies social sciences g. • English • French Studies • German and Slavic Studies • History us the mte • Hispanic Studies • Italian • Kinesiology and met • Linguistics • Medieval Studies • Philosophy tools to u • Religious Studies • Study of Women and Gender understan Social Sciences • Anthropology • Economics • Managerial Studies • Political Science • Policy Studies • Psychology • Sociology

The Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2002

BY MALCOLM GILLIS PRESIDENT OF RICE UNIVERSITY

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the Rice Institute's science and technology. As Lovett en- Women's Center. Each year,more than opening ceremonies visioned,the Rice Institute is now Rice 40 percent ofRice undergraduates who in 1912, founding University, and humanities and social travel abroad to study are humanities tpresident Edgar Odell sciences have blossomed into schools, majors, and we have begun a program Lovett articulated two tenets that were and in them too we have excelled. The that provides travel grants to further to shape the institution: Rice would pages that follow sketch our standing increase opportunities for study abroad. "aspire to university standing of the in these disciplines and outline some of Our humanities students regularly win highest grade," and it would "assign the distinctive activities in humanities national awards including Rhodes, no upper limit to its educational en- and social sciences. Marshall,Watson, Fulbright, and Luce deavor." These would be accomplished, scholarships, just to name a few. he continued,through course work and Today, the School of Humanities research in the "three grand divisions: HUMANITIES comprises 11 departments: art and science, humanity, and technology." art history, classical studies, English, However,President Lovett and the first From the beginning,the Rice French studies, German and Slavic board of trustees already had privately curriculum included the hu- studies, Hispanic studies, history, acknowledged in 1909 that the new lcinesiology/human performance and school did not have sufficient means manities.Students in the earli- health sciences,linguistics, philosophy, to create in all disciplines programs of est classes studied English and and religious studies. Augmenting the quality he envisioned. He recom- modern languages, as well these are interdisciplinary programs mended to the board that Rice initially as more technical subjects, in ancient Mediterranean civilizations, concentrate on the two areas that would medieval studies, the study of women make the most impact on the rapidly during their first two years. and gender,and Asian studies—the lat- developing Houston area—science and Over time, departments and ter in conjunction with the School of technology. Social Sciences—as well as an education President Lovett, however, had no areas of humanistic studies were added until, in 1979, certification program. intention of ignoring the humanities Space limitations do not allow a full and social sciences, which at the time the School of Humanities account ofall the activities taking place were included in humanities. He knew was formalized as its own in the school. Rather, our focus is on that, although science and technology the prime strengths that have developed give us physical and abstract tools to academic division. in several departments. understand and manipulate the world around us, the humanities and social Since then,we have expanded both the sciences give us the intellectual and scope and ambition of the school. In History methodological tools to further our the last 20 years,the faculty,with more understanding of ourselves and en- than 130 full-time members,has more Rice's size does not allow usto engage in hance our lives. While scientists and than doubled in relation to the size every possible area of research within a of the student body. That is techniciansformulate and manufacture approxi- given discipline.Instead, we always have paint, it is the artist who manipulates mately one-fourth ofall Rice full-time concentrated on targeted areas that will paint in a manner that moves us. faculty, consonant with the fact that Indeed, the humanities and social sci- one-fourth ofRice undergraduates are have the most significant impact on both ences often inform the use of science humanities majors. Rice and society at large. and technology. Marie and Pierre Curie Through the various departments undertook research into radioactivity as and specialized initiatives that pro- Nowhere is this more evident than a purely scientific exercise,but the forces mote qualities of independence, in our Department of History. While they unleashed are not controlled by management, and scholarship such providing students with an outstand- devices or mathematicalformulae. They as Leadership Rice and the Rice Un- ing grounding in world and U.S. his- are controlled, for better or worse, by dergraduate Scholars Program, our tory, the history department has been the politician, the social scientist, the humanities students partake of some developing its prominence in three cultural critic,the philosopher,and even of the most interesting and rewarding specific areas. the artist. academic circumstances anywhere. For decades, Rice has been recog- Lovett and the board agreed that, as They also can take advantage of the nized internationally for its expertise the Rice Institute grew, departments many internships with cultural and arts in Southern U.S. history, a particularly would be added in the humanities, organizations available in Houston, fertile field ofstudy considering the na- and although that process has taken the nation's fourth-largest city. These tional and international influence that many decades, we have worked hard to include the Museum of Fine Arts, the South has historically had in cul- make our programs in the humanities Houston, the Bayou Bend Collection ture,economics, and politics.To further and social sciences as strong as those in and Gardens, and the Houston Area deepen and widen our influence in this

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field, we recently have brought in an Our creative writing program,although Politics, and Society" and numerous additional historian of the South and modest in size,remains one ofthe best conferences and symposiums. young new historians ofU.S. women's with a faculty that includes renowned Religious studies once meant semi- history and African migrations to the poet Susan Wood,who was awarded a nary school. Today,in a world in which New World.One ofRice's crown jewels prize from the Texas Institute of Let- religion is at the root of much global is the Journal ofSouthern History, the ters for her most recent book ofpoetry, conflict, it is vital that we understand official publication ofthe Southern His- Asunder,and writer-in-residence Mar- other religious cultures and traditions. torical Association. The journal moved sha Recknagel,whose memoir IfNights Faculty in the Department ofReligious to Rice in 1959 and, since 1983, has Could Talk has attracted national critical Studies are widely respected specialists been edited by John Boles,whose high and popular acclaim. Visiting fiction in analysis of religious traditions in editorial standards have increased its writers each semester help round out regions where religious conflict is en- luster as the publication for Southern the curriculum, and we currently are demic,such as the Middle East and Af- history and helped give Rice high searching for a nationally prominent rica, and in regions where the religion, visibility and credibility in the field. fiction writer to fill the place left by such as Bon, or Tibetan Buddhism, is Also here, among Fondren Library's Max Apple's retirement. influential but little understood.In the superb holdings in Southern history, past few years, religious studies faculty is the widely admired documentary Philosophy and Religious members have included a past president project, the Papers ofJefferson Davis. ofthe American Academy of Religion, Studies Intellectual and cultural historyconsti- a fellow of the American Academy of tute a second broad area of distinction. Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fel- Although this program is only afew years It is difficultto discuss Rice's Department low,a winner ofthe national Award for old,it already has had a significantimpact, of Philosophy without,in the same breath, Excellence book prize bestowed by the particularly in the history of science. It speaking of the Department of Religious American Academy of Religion, and dovetails with our third,and mostrecent, Studies, since both examine the history multiple National Endowment for the concentration—global and comparative Humanities and Ford Foundation grant and current state of philosophical history. Because the history department winners. In addition,Rice has initiated hasa larger proportion ofworld historians thought majorinternational conferences on such than is the national norm,particularly in topics as Cameroon and the Dead Sea premodern and non-Western histories, Although Rice's Department ofPhilos- Scrolls. we can offer specialization in a num- ophy is relatively small,it has solidified ber of historical traditions and tailored its standing in several important areas. Interdisciplinary Centers interdisciplinary majors that address The 2002-04 version ofBlackwell Pub- lishing's Philosophical GourmetReport, issues not normally available in less-flex- Philosophy and religious studies at Rice ible programs. Our graduates from this the most widely used,peer -based rank- represent much more than a simple program are particularly well-equipped ing of philosophy departments in the to understand the historical issues that English-speaking world,rates the Rice convergence of two modestly sized but have yielded cultures and economies very philosophy department "excellent" in influential departments that deal with different from our own. applied moral,political, and social phi- human thought. Within that convergence losophy—on par with Princeton, New is a set of new programs that will York University, and Duke,and ahead English grapple with the implications of genetic ofOxford,Stanford, and the University ranked highly in engineering, human enhancement, and The Department of English features one ofMichigan. Rice also ethics and political, modern,and 20th- cloning. of the top-ranked programs in Victorian century Continental philosophy—on literature and culture alongside a rich par with or ahead of Berkeley, UCLA, The capabilities and promises of such concentration of research in gender Yale, Cambridge,Brown, Cornell, and technologies are truly great, but they studies. The department has attracted the University of Chicago. Our inter- also present ethical thickets,challenging top students from across the nation disciplinary program in Continental our entire notion of what is natural, philosophy is one ofthe best, bringing and abroad, including two Presidential and even what it means to be human. together faculty from history,religious Much of the debate centers on the Scholars, and such faculty members studies, and French studies, as well as ways in which religious convictions af- as Kirsten Ostherr, who brings fresh philosophy. Another targeted area of fect moral judgments about biological perspectives to our offerings in visual study is value theory, which includes advances and the ways those judgments culture and will work with art and art ethics, social philosophy, and political subsequently influence—or should in- history chair Hamid Naficy to develop a philosophy. Many of these areas are fluence—public policy and the nature complemented by the department's and utilization of scientific research film studies program. long-standing lecture series "Ethics, itself.

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For several years, Rice faculty in phi- One, the Journal of Medicine and instruction through the development losophy and religious studies have been Philosophy, is housed in our Depart- of two powerful tools for language collaborating on research into these is- ment of Philosophy and edited by H. acquisition. sues with the Institute ofReligion in the Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. The other is The mostobvious ofthese tools is our Texas Medical Center(TMC) and with the New Yearbook for Phenomenology Language Resource Center, housed in Baylor College of Medicine's Center and PhenomenologicalPhdosophy,which up-to-date facilities in newly renovated for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. is housed at Seattle University but co- Rayzor Hall. This facility is equipped Many of our philosophy and religious edited by philosophy chair Steven with two computer classrooms fea- studies faculty members, in fact, hold Crowell. turing the latest foreign-language joint appointments with Baylor and The Center for Ethics, Medicine, software to supplement the study of other TMC institutions. From these and Public Issues is just the newest 13 languages—many ofwhich, such as joint efforts has evolved the Center for of the three interdisciplinary centers Arabic,Hebrew, Chinese, and Japanese, Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, based in the School of Humanities. use non-Roman characters or read right whose function is to develop teaching The oldest is the Center for the Study to left. Both classrooms are available and research programs that address the ofCultures, begun in 1984 by members for class use or in library mode for moral,legal, and public policy questions of the anthropology department and students. raised by healthcare and the biomedical now including facultyfrom philosophy, But grammar, no matter how profi- sciences. English, history, and sociology as well cient, does not make a language come Early on,center faculty instituted the as anthropology. Humanities dean Gale alive. For that, the student requires a Program on Biotechnology, Religion, Stokes calls this center"the intellectual measure of cultural immersion. Rice's and Ethics, which also includes mem- backbone ofthe school,"and it has been LRC is a leader here, too, with a li- bers ofRice's history department. This so successful in uniting departments brary of more than 1,500 films and program examines the historical and that it is easy to forget how strong the documentaries in 20 languages and contemporary significance ofreligious walls between them once were. The with high-speed Internet access to and ethical thoughtfor emerging issues center has been equally successful in foreign-language newspapers, televi- in biotechnology. One strong current bridging the geographic gap between sion programs, and other cultural of research has focused on appeals in Rice and the rest ofthe world by bring- resources to give students a more au- religious and ethical debates to treat ing internationally renowned scholars thentic language-learning experience. nature or natural conditions as a norm to campus and by organizing more than The second tool is language instruc- that should regulate biotechnological 50conferences, lecture series,symposia, tion software called ExTemplate. De- advances. Understanding the charac- and other events to examine issues of veloped by LRC staff, ExTemplate can ter of those appeals and the ways in cultural importance. produce exercises,tests, and evaluation which they affect public perception These efforts have not gone un- instruments in any language. Using this and, hence, policy is essential in help- noticed. Last summer, very generous software,students can take quizzesfrom ing shape biomedical research along donors helped the center complete the their computers anywhere on campusin lines that are not only productive but second of two matching grants, one all modalities,including speech, which beneficial and socially acceptable. from the National Endowment for is recorded and replayed to the instruc- More recently, Rice's researchers in the Humanities and the other from tor for grading purposes. bioethics have become interested in ethi- the Mellon Foundation, together to- cal concernsinvolved in five specific areas taling nearly $5 million. They will be Faculty ofbiotechnology:assisted reproduction, used to support the center and fund enhancement, hybridization, two programs human that will bring visiting Our humanities programs have advanced biodiversity, and agricultural/human scholars and teachersfrom elsewhere to as far as they have because of the husbandry. This project, titled "Alter- enrich the intellectual life on campus. ing Nature: How Religious Traditions While the Center for the Study of excellent faculty members we have Assess the New Biotechnologies," has Cultures promotes a greater under- recruited and retained. attracted a $1-million award from the standing of other cultures in our in- Ford Foundation.In making the award, creasingly globalized society,the Center Among those are a dozen who are the foundation's Constance Buchanan for the Study of Languages(CSL) was presidents, presidents-elect, or past said, "Until now, these questions have instituted to address the clear need for presidents of professional societies: not been the subject of rigorous, Rice graduates to be able to communi- Lilly Chen (Chinese language), In- comparative study. This undertaking cate within those cultures. Allintroduc- ternational Chinese-American Edu- promises to produce important new tory language instruction through the cational Research and Development insights into the moral implications of third year takes place through the CSL. Conference; Krista Comer (English), biotechnology." This has allowed us to consolidate our Western Literature Association; Ste- Our expertise and exposure in bio- resources,which, in turn,has helped us ven Crowell (philosophy), Society for ethics are enhanced by two journals. become a national leader in language Phenomenology and Existential Phi-

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losophy;Suzanne Kemmer(linguistics), provides much-needed classroom and emerging democracies, race relations, International Cognitive Linguistics As- office space.This pastfall, after the Jones taxation policy,preservation ofantiqui- sociation; Mark Kulstad (philosophy), School occupied its new building on the ties in Western Africa,neuroscience, and Leibnitz Society of North America; north side of Jamail Plaza, we began cognitive psychology, among others. Sydney Lamb (emeritus, linguistics), renovations ofHerring Hall,which will Linguistics Association of Canada and be the new home for the Departments Anthropology the United States; Michael Maas (his- ofEnglish, Linguistics, and Art and Art tory), Byzantine Studies Conference; History. With Herring's completion The enhancement in the social sciences Meredith Skura(English), Shakespeare sometime next year, Rice will have a at Rice is seen nowhere better than Society of America; Gale Stokes (his- humanities corridor that gives much- tory), American Association for the needed resources to programs that are in the Department of Anthropology. Advancement of Slavic Studies; Mar- the lifeblood of society and culture. Its 10 faculty members—increased tin Wiener (history), North American from only two in 1980—have earned Conference on British Studies; Edith it a distinctive and highly influential Wyschogrod (religious studies), SOCIAL SCIENCES reputation since the mid-1980s, when American Academy of Religion; and Jack Zammito (history), International Founded in 1979 as an in- they shook up the entire field by shifting Herder Society. dependent academic division, their focus from examining exotic and In 2001-02, many other humani- so-called primitive cultures to cultural the School ofSocial Sciences ties faculty received important awards anthropology, which looks at the rapid appointments. Among them are and has the task of helping us changes shaping contemporary society Baruch Brody (philosophy), elected understand the relationships around the world. to the Institute of Medicine of the among individuals, groups, National Academy of Sciences; Alex Byrd(history), recipient ofa fellowship and nonhuman elements in Some of these changes are due to ad- from the Shelby Cullom Davis Center the social, political, and eco- vances in technology,some come from at Princeton; Carl Caldwell (history), nomic environment. transformations within prominent cul- who spent a semester in Germany as tural institutions such as business and a Humboldt Fellow; Coulter George Increasingly, we must look specifically government,and some are the results of (classical studies),winner ofa four-year at the interactions between people shifting demographics. Still others are research fellowship at Trinity College— and technological issues ranging from the consequence ofunprecedented cul- Cambridge; and Todd Porterfield (art digitization to healthcare. It also is the tural phenomena,such as internation- and art history),who traveled to France job ofthe social sciences to give all our ally linked economies, environmental as a Fulbright Scholar. students—not just the 20 percent who issues, and terrorism. One branch of major in the social sciences—a cohesive cultural anthropology where Rice has Facilities overview of these many relationships become a leader is social and linguis- and interactions and guide them in tic anthropology,which focuses on the Expansion in our humanities offerings developing critical intellectual capaci- ways myth, ritual, and language shape cannot happen absent growth in ties. cultural ideals and mores. the habitat for humanities. The new Despite its youth,the School ofSocial Rice faculty have gained international Sciences has become a prestigious cen- Humanities Building was dedicated in recognition in related fields as well. ter of research in social and economic Some 25 years ago,archaeologists Susan 2000 and is now hometo the Departments Although fewer in theory. number than and Roderick McIntosh recognized a of History, Philosophy, and Religious those at our peer institutions, faculty region oflow hills and mounds located Studies, as well as to the Center for the in the school's five departments—an- outside the city of Jenne in Mali as the thropology, economics, political sci- Study of Cultures, the Goethe Center ruins ofthe lost city ofJenne-jeno,one ence, psychology, and sociology—and for Central European Studies, and the earliest urban civilizations on the ancillary programs—cognitive sciences, ofthe Program for the Study of Women and policy studies, and managerial stud- African continent.Since then,they have Gender. ies—have had an outsized impact on made significant discoveries about this their fields. Almost daily, the media, important early civilization, and their In January 2002, the language and policy-makers, businesses, and other interests have led them to become literature departments moved into a organizations contact our faculty leading international experts on the completely renovated Rayzor Hall, members for insight and expertise on problem of the destruction of cultural which has been upgraded to contem- issues such as local and national poli- history resulting from the pillaging of porary technological standards and tics,the Middle East,ethnic conflicts in artifacts from archaeological sites.

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Economics Richard Stoll and computer scientist Scholarships. Devika Subramanian to develop a Without a graduate program and The study of economics at Rice focuses computer system capable ofpredicting graduate students to help carry out on four areas—theory, econometrics, when and where international conflict research, faculty members rely heavily will arise. The system will gather and on undergraduates to participate in re- macroeconomics, and applied economics. collate data from international online search projects,deepening the learning news and information sources and will experience for sociology majors.Several We have one of the world's fore- then compare those with records ofpast areas ofresearch are emphasized in the most theorists in Herve Moulin, events to predict impending conflicts. department, including social inequal- whose graduate seminar is one of the Many of our political science fac- ity, a study of the healthcare needs of department's great strengths. Simon ulty members have earned national Mexican immigrants, the relationship Grant has established a reputation as reputations in urban and Southern between health and religion and race, one ofthe top decision theorists in the politics and in international conflict the impact ofreligion on public policy, world. He and other Rice economists resolution. Current research includes and the sociology of women's reading have developed state-of-the-art game the development of formal models groups.Chandler Davidson's civil rights theory models that businesses and gov- to explain foreign policy decisions, studies were cited in at least eight U.S. ernments worldwide are using to make computer simulation to study defense Supreme Court opinions in the 1980s economic decisions. Rice economists spending, and the politics ofemerging have established a world-renowned and 1990s. democracies, all ofwhich are especially particularly well-known proj- teaching and research program in One germane to understanding today's Houston Area Survey econometrics,an indispensable tool for ect is the annual political landscape and formulating Klineberg and statistical measurement. Their models conducted by Stephen appropriate public policy. this provide valuable insights that facilitate his students. Ongoing since 1982, In addition, there is frequent, in- ex- informed choices on issues surround- is perhaps the most comprehensive depth crossover between the political ing labor, tax systems, healthcare, en- amination ever taken of demographic science department,the economics de- ergy markets, and defense. Economics and social changes in a major urban partment,and Rice's James A.Baker III faculty members also work with Rice environment. According to Houston Institute for Public Policy to produce engineers and scientists in solving envi- business leaders, Klineberg's research research on international oil policy, ronmental problems and with Rice psy- has put Houston's business community urban economic development, the chologists to study risk behavior among atleast 10 years ahead ofwhere it would containment ofintemational terrorism, public school students. The latter has otherwise be in its understanding of and other issues. Since its inception in produced a partnership between Rice the challenges facing our city. Professor 1994, the Baker Institute has been a and the Houston Independent School Klineberg also has conducted extensive stellar resource for both departments, District to develop intervention pro- research on Houston's ethnic commu- Rice students, and Houston. Not only grams that effectively curb substance nities—since 1995,he has produced the does it bring world leaders and policy- abuse among school-age children. Houston Area Asian Survey, which is makers to campus, but it acts as a liv- the country's only systematic survey of ing laboratory for the issues studied by residents—and he has directed the Political Science Asian social science faculty. biennial Texas Environmental Survey since 1990. Rice Before 1962, political science at Sociology the meant a sole faculty member—in Psychology history department. Today, according to The hallmark of the Department of the National Research Council,the Rice Sociology is teaching. Its four senior Rice's Department of Psychology is Department of Political Science is one of faculty members hold 31 major known for the unique way in which the nation's finest. universitywide teaching awards, it blends two basic psychological principally the prestigious George R. traditions: the study of psychological The department ranks third in the Brown Prizesfor Excellence in processes within individuals and the amount of money received from the Teaching National Science Foundation(NSF) for and for Superior Teaching, and even the study of the individual in a cultural and political science research and is num- exceptional Brown Lifetime Award. social context. ber one in the amount of NSF funds received for doctoral dissertations. That has drawn some of Rice's best At Rice,the former is termed cognitive The department prides itselfon using students to major in sociology and to psychology, and it focuses on percep- statistical research to address pressing win in recent years the highly com- tion,learning, memory,and language, political issues.For example,a $400,000 petitive Truman and Watson Fellow- as well as on the physiological underpin- NSF grant is enabling political scientist ships and two of Rice's three Rhodes nings ofsuch processes. The latter tra-

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dition includes developmental, social, visual area at the back ofthe brain,which enriched by these interactions. Rice,in industrial/organizational, abnormal, detects objects that the eye sees. Find- turn, brings to the bargain strengths in and personality psychology. Although ings like this may one day lead to treat- management education,policy studies, the department is especially strong in ments that target affected areas while psychology,philosophy, religious stud- industrial/organizational psychology, reducing or even eliminating unwanted ies, and other areas, in addition to our human—computer interaction, and side effects ofdrugs presently in use to expertise and leading-edge research in cognitive psychology, Rice psychol- treat mental disorders. nanotechnology, biotechnology, and ogy majors are required to take a Researchers in cognitive sciences, information technology. University- broad range of courses covering both on the other hand, study mental phe- wide, the Rice—Texas Medical Center traditions. nomena such as perception, thought, partnerships number nearly 90, and The study ofhuman—computerinter- memory,the acquisition and use oflan- over the years, they have become a action is an especially fertile new field guage, learning, concept formulation, force of influence and inspiration by that draws researchersfrom psychology and consciousness. Some investigators serving educational, research, and and computer science to understand focus on relationships between brain outreach needs at many levels. how people use—and deal with—digital structures and behavior, some work Rice also has developed several devices and to facilitate the design of with computer simulation, and others programs with the Houston Indepen- more effective operating systems for work at more abstract philosophical dent School District. Currently, Rice computers, transportation vehicles, levels. Randi Martin,for example, has sponsors or hosts approximately 60 and other computer-based products. been studying the relation between initiatives in educational outreach. The Current research includes determin- short-term memory and language pro- majority of these programs focus spe- ing the effectiveness of animation and cessing in aphasics—patients who have a cifically on K—I2 education, and many multimedia training and looking at the language deficitfollowing brain damage engage teachers in professional devel- possibility ofusing other senses besides or stroke. Martin suspects that different opment in specific fields,enabling Rice vision,such as sound,when interacting types of memory problems originate to magnify the impact on students. In with computers. in different parts of the brain, and her practice,this also enhances the benefits studies could provide clues to the best of these programs to our own faculty Interdisciplinary Programs way to treat memory problems arising and undergraduates, who convey their from various causes. knowledge, and in the process, gain a The School of Social understanding ofwhat they have The Baker Institutefor Public Policy,cited Sciences has deeper two more interdisciplinary programs learned at Rice. above, is a paragon of interdisciplinary that have added special value across work.In addition,social sciences boasts the board in all fields ofstudy at Rice. two interdisciplinary degree-granting One is policy studies, which allows CONCLUSION programs allied with the Department the researchers and leaders of the The divide between the two cultures of Psychology—neuroscience and future to understand the social forces and governmental policies that affect described by C. P. Snow—science and cognitive sciences. their work and how those policies are technology on the one hand and the implemented. The second is manage- humanities and social sciences on the The former draws faculty from bio- rial studies, which gives students from other—is being bridged very effectively chemistry and cell biology, computer various fields the financial and mana- at Rice. We frequently have been inno- science, electrical and computer engi- gerial expertise they will need in their vators in fostering cooperative ventures neering,linguistics, and psychology to professional lives. among disparate disciplines and with team with experts from Baylor College other institutions. The growth that Rice ofMedicine to examine the neural basis Interinstitutional has seen over the past two decades in ofhuman behavior. Researchers in this the humanities and social sciences not Collaborations field use advanced imaging techniques only provides greater balance but has to understand how and where the brain fostered an explosion in interdisciplin- processes information for motor skills, Outside collaborative efforts have ary teaching and research that bodes memory,and perception to better help become very important to Rice. Two in well for Rice students and the world those who have suffered brain injury the social sciences are worth noting. generally. or conditions such as stroke or schizo- phrenia. A recent discovery in this area The first is numerous productive part- by Geoffrey Potts is that schizophren- nerships with the institutions of the ics exhibit impaired communication Texas Medical Center. These partner- between the frontal lobe of the brain, ships,large and small, bring to the table which controls functions like planning, significant resources in education and organization, and motivation, and the research, and Rice has been immensely

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GOAL VS. PROGRESS

BALANCE TO RAISE Remain True to Rice: Alumni and Friends 13.9% PENDING DESIGNATION 34.7%ENDOWMENT Challenging Times b6N6t Halt 4.0% FACILITIES ANNUAL Campaign Efforts 5.guND 24.4%

We are almost within sight of the goal for the Rice: 1PROGR ANS The Next Century Campaign, even if our fundraising efforts have been slowed by events that could not have GOAL: $500 MILLION PROGRESS: $430.3 MILLION been anticipated when the campaign was launched. In AS OF 4/30/03 spite of tough economic times, we have absolutely no doubt we will reach our $500 million goal.

What will it take? Sustained efforts from alumni,friends, faculty, and staffcommit- ted to this highly worthwhile cause. And success in the campaign is particularly important now,when Rice has seen some erosion of its endowment. Rice relies heavily on its endowment, which currently supports73 percent ofthe D. Kent Anderson '62 and J. D. Bucky Allshouse '71 university's core budget. Spending from the endowment has decreased approxi- the time to turn interest into action, no mately 10 percent since June 30, 2000, matter what the amount. Many needs are when the endowment reached its yet to be fulfilled, with naming opportunities still available. highest year-end value. There is no question Both ofus have personally With the endowment that the challenges ore witnessed how the campaign down, the importance of face are tough. but the Rice has enhanced the university, gift support is heightened standards of excellence and we are completely con- as we compete for the best remain strong. and brightest students with fident that it will continue to undergraduate scholarships and do so. Let's all make sure that graduate fellowships, as well as attract we achieve our goal. Our thanks to all of and retain the most acclaimed faculty you. with excellent research facilities and teaching opportunities. There is no question that the challenges we face Rice standards of are tough, but the J. D. BUCKY ALLSHOUSE '71 excellence remain strong. Campaign co-chair To our donors, we ask that you recon- sider your prior commitments and make Sustained efforts from alumni,friends, faculty, increased gifts and pledges. For those and staff committed to this highly worthwhile cause. of you who have not yet supported the D. KENT ANDERSON '62 campaign, please join the effort. This is Campaign co-chair X‘NEXT RICE CENTURY CAMPAIGN

Pictures of Success: Campaign Creates Striking Images Across Campus

Wherever you go on campus,you'll see the impact of Rice: The Next Century Campaign.The university has advanced dramatically,thanks to gifts from generous alumni and friends committed to ensuring a university of excellence for today and the future.

UNDERGRAD SCHOLARSHIPS: bringing the best and brightest to Bice

During the campaign, 261 new scholarships have been created.

RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES: maintaining unique residential life

The new Wiess College and Martel College, the ninth residential college, were dedicated in 2002.

ATHLETIC FACILITIES: hitting a home run GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS: FACILITIES: The new baseball stadium,Reck- supporting outstanding researchers ensuring excellence in teaching and learning ling Park, opened in 2000. Numerous fellowships have been NEW CONSTRUCTION: established, including one from The Jesse H. Jones Graduate

ENDOWED CHAIRS: the Brown Foundation for the School of Management, the honoring accomplished facullu MichaelP. Hammond Preparatory Humanities Building, and Dell Program at the Shepherd School Butcher Hall During the campaign, 21 new of Music, postdoctoral Mellon RENOVATIONS: chairs have been created. fellowships for the Center for the Keck Hall, Rayzor Hall Study of Cultures, and a Packard Fellowship for plasma research.

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Donations support many programs, operations, and facilities across campus.

RESEARCH: RICE ANNUAL FUND: focusing on the future supporting the universito (Ion-to-fig

Donations have been made for Donations support many pro- major research projects, includ- grams, operations, and facilities ing those from Shell Oil Com- across campus. Unrestricted an- pany Foundation for the estab- nual gifts are used at the discre- lishment of the Shell Center for tion of the president where the Sustainability at Rice and from needs are greatest. the Ford Foundation to support a joint program ofRice and Baylor These are representative of donations College of Medicine. made to the campaign through March 31, 2003.

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A Patron for Graduate Students

The welfare ofRice graduate students is Purvez Captain's passion. He's walked in their shoes and knows the issues they face on campus and later as alumni.

could say no? Rice was a fun envi- dinner to find out what is needed for ronment for someone wanting to current students to feel more con- be involved." nected to Rice and how to maintain But many of his fellow graduate that connection as alumni. students who weren't involved in "Grad students are now seeing that Purvez Captain extracurricular activities or didn't people care,"Purvez says."That Rice visit Valhalla found it hard to identify cares. That alumni care." Degrees: with Rice as a whole. They could see And Purvez does care. Despite • M.S., 1993 how they fit into their departments traveling 60 percent of his time as • Ph.D., 1994 but not necessarily with Rice. As a a transfer pricing and economics Department consequence, many of them aren't consultant for Ernst & Young, he • Economics involved with Rice as alumni. regularly has lunch with his adviser, Undergraduate Degree: Now,as an alum,Purvez is working • College of Wooster, 1988 hard to address this issue, which all Professor Robin Sickles, and oth- As a graduate student in ers in the economics department; Graduate Student Activities: the late 1980s and early universities face. attends ARA Board and V&W Per- • representative, Economics 1990s, Purvez not only As one ofonly two grad-only alums mits meetings; assists the econom- department studied intensely but on the ARA Board (there have been • Beer-Bike coordinator, Graduate mock interviews became very involved but three in the history ofthe ARA), ics department with Student Association in ensuring that gradu- Purvez has encouraged the ARA and for students entering the job market; • member, Honor Council Rice administration not to forget serves as the GSA's Beer—Bike table • member, Graduate House ate students were seen about the unique needs of current Committee and heard at Rice. He captain; serves as a Hanszen associ- • treasurer, Valhalla helped put together the and former graduate students. ate along with his wife; and mingles "Grad students don't want to be Volunteer Commitments: first women's Graduate with faculty,students, and alunuti at thought ofas grad students," Purvez • executive committee, Student Association Valhalla on Friday nights. His high Association of Rice Alumni Beer—Bike team (he says."They want to be thought ofas involvementis admittedly unusualfor • board of directors, Association of received strange looks Rice students." a grad-only alum, but not if Purvez Over the past year, while serv- Rice Alumni when he asked poten- has his way. • board of directors, V&W Permits ing on the ARA Board, Purvez has tial recruits ifthey could "It's important to stay connected • volunteer bartender, Valhalla cycle and chug), and he seen progress. Orientation activities to your undergraduate school, but • associate, Hanszen College served on the university now include graduate students, the don't forget your graduate school," • 2001 recipient, Friend of Rice committee to consider administration hosted a town hall Graduate Students Award he says. "You're in the trenches with building anew graduate meeting with graduate students last Professional: house. fall, the ARA has changed its awards other grad students every day. It's not • area director, Transfer Pricing and Purvez credits Pro- to read "Undergraduate/Graduate a competition—you build teamwork. Economics, Ernst & Young LPP, fessor Bob Patten, Alumni Awards," and last November, You build very strong friendships. Houston GSA faculty adviser, more than 400 grad-only alums came By getting involved as alums, we with encouraging him to a first-ever special homecoming can make the graduate student and other graduate students to get event held just for them. experience even better for current involved. "Dr. Patten has a very The ARA also created a subcom- students." dynamic—and persuasive—person- mittee that meets regularly and takes ality," says Purvez. "Besides, who current and former grad students to - LYNETTE JAMES

For more information about the campaign, go to http://www.rice.edu and choose Donor/Prospective Donor, or call Resource Development at 713-348-4600.

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cardboard. Yellow construction flags were randomly inserted into the mass, Cardboard Consumer sticking up out of it like tiny warning indicators. You feel like you could be sucked into the vortex, but its beauty Your eye catches snippets oftext on cardboard boxes— doesn't seem ominous. Giving up and Huggies, HP Printer, diving into the land of lost consumer Ultra Clorox, Inhalation Hazard, products suddenly has a seductive, si- Act II Popcorn,and Corrosive. No,you are not lost in the ren-like lure. Washburn has conjured an aisles of Sam's Wholesale; you are in an art installation. unexpected elegance from our detritus, and somehow,there is something oddly comforting about it. Pause for a moment to think of just a flat sections of cardboard boxes on few of the things you consume. Food, top of each other in layers, like hori- beverages, computers, cleaning prod- zontal shingles. The team ran through ucts, microwaves, bread machines, 70,000 drywall screws. The cordless copier paper, motor oil . . . the list is screwdriver casualty rate, however, is infinite. All ofthese multifarious items not known. Working inward from the are packaged and shipped in cardboard outer walls, the entire mass gradually boxes.After their briefperiod ofuseful- moves down and convergesin the center ness,those boxes are cut down,bundled in swirls and eddies. It looks like an together,and packed up for recycling by overachieving, obsessive-compulsive the retailer or carried home homeless person has been at by the consumer to be set out work fabricating a makeshift It looks like an in the green bin or tossed out shelter from found materials. overachieving, in the weekly garbage. The utterly overwhelming obsessive- From below you Artist Phoebe Washburn is scale imparts a tremendous compulsive can see that the a recycler par excellence and visual power to the piece. homeless entire assemblage the creator of "True, False, Washburn has given us a person has remains true to and Slightly Better," an been at work spiraling vortex of consumer Washburn's aes- over-the-top, jaw-dropping fabricating products, frozen in time. thetic of rig-job, installation at Rice Gallery. a makeshift Imagine a stop-action photo makeshift construc- Washburn scavenges card- shelter from of a tornado hitting a paper found materials tion. Wandering board boxes from retailers, recycling plant. The whole around, the massive sidewalks,and alleys. thing seems so kinetic, conglomeration seems Enticed by the spare yet it doesn't move. to be comically shored up beauty ofthe mate- Sitting against the by everything from scaffolding to rial, she keeps the box back wall, you can folding chairs and bags of Sakrete exteriors and printing as believe time has stopped to taped-together 2 X 4s and boxes they are, but with a nod one bare moment before of drywall screws. It's a seat-of-the- to the decorative, she this avalanche of consumer pants, whatever's-on-hand school of paints the interior sides need engulfs you. But with construction that results in creatively in colors straight out of all the drywall screws an- utilitarian solutions—or at least the suburban living rooms,bed- choring the thing together, impression of such. rooms, kitchens, and baths. the impression is imaginary. Washburn gives us an uncommon The paint itself is a form of recycling/ The dim, cave-like space is sporadi- beauty that veils an in-your-face con- artist economy. Washburn uses those cally lit with clamp lamps, and to better frontation with our insatiable consumer $5 Home Depot mistints—paint gal- view the chaos, the artist incorporated desires. Through sheer accumulation lons people returned because the colors into the work a six-foot -high platform and her deft sculptural sense, she has weren't quite right. constructed from scaffolding and acces- created something phenomenal by installation, Washburn filled sible For her via a staircase. The more intrepid presenting us with the gathered husks Rice Gallery with a swirling mass of could climb a ladder for free-standing ofour own greedy needs,in decorator cardboard—nearly 7,000 pounds ofit, an additional vantage point. colors. collected over a year's time. Starting Washburn created visual rhythm by at the top of the 16-foot gallery walls, interspersing mint greens, pale pinks, -KELLY KLAASMEYER Washburn and 11 assistants screwed and oranges amongst the brown

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One of three co-presidents of RDT, Will Rice senior and T • i_ammi T, • English major Jessi Harper says,"I'm impressed with the level Trip the LAgnt rantaslti ofdevotion that so many of us have to what is basically just a club. I think that most ofthat comes from the earnestness of 1111. Rebecca Valls and Christine Lidvall to cultivate a company that Moving in orchestrated unison, the dancers works hard to create high-quality productions. They guide sway, their arms sweep through the air, their us all to become better dancers and choreographers—better in the sense that we are technically more proficient and also feet tap, touch, and turn, directed by little more aware of the many, many ways to apply dancing to the else than the absorbing, repetitive rhythms rest of our lives." of bongo drums. Such earnest endeavor on the part ofstudents and instructors has not gone unnoticed. The dance company was invited by the Performance Prelude Program of the Society for the Periodically, a voice is heard counting, "One, two, three, Performing Arts to perform in the foyer ofWortham Center four, five, six, seven, and eight; one, two .. . ." It seems to last November,prior to the billed performance by the French be all the prompting the 30 members ofRice Dance Theatre company Ballet Preljocaj. They put on four student-choreo- need as they rehearse with a fluid coordination that belies graphed pieces: Sostegno, jointly choreographed by Baker the complexity of these technical drills. senior and electrical engineering major Abbie Bartlett and It's a Wednesday afternoon at the Harjo Dance Studio in Martel senior and bioengineering major Denise Marchand; Autry Gym, and the class in progress is one of two weekly Tuesday's Heart Mechanic by Wiess senior Amy Bellaire; technical sessions required ofall members ofthe Rice Sect-sy by Harper; and Circe by Will Rice junior Dance Theatre(RDT). Technical mastery, af- Mamie Air. ter all, catalyses well-honed art, point out Air, a biochemistry major, said she their instructors, Rebecca Valls, assis- had never choreographed for anyone tant director for dance programs,and but herself until she joined RDT. Christine Lidvall, Dance Theatre "Last semester,I choreographed a coordinator. seven-minute dance forfive danc- Both are professional dancers ers,and I have been thrilled with and choreographers of national its success. It is a joy to see a distinction. Valls, who also is dance develop from an idea to on the dance faculty at the a product." University of Houston, and Bellaire,who also made her Lidvall, who founded Chrysalis choreography debut this semes- Dance Company in Houston in ter,said, "I never realized all the 1983,demand high standards and thought that goes into creating a encourage the talent, passion, and piece for performance:the move- creative intelligence that they see in ment itself, moving your dancers these dancers. They understand that around onstage,the costumes,lights, talent begets talent. music." A double major in environ- Here at Rice, Valls and Lidvall have dis- mental science and engineering covered that, despite the demands of academic and political science, Bellaire pursuits, members of the company flourish as danc- shares the co-presidency with ers and aspiring choreographers. Valls credits RDT Harper and Baker senior Amy founder Linda Phenix for setting the tone for the Tankard. company and establishing high standards from the For Harper, now on her third start. Phenix launched the Rice dance program in 1979 choreography, "the process has and spent about 20 years with RDT before leaving to become so much simpler. I have direct Chrysalis. the confidence to run rehearsals in Rice Dance Theatre exists as a student organization the most effective way possible so that under the Office of Student Affairs. In other words, it my dancers and I can create something that is a club, but Valls notes that it is driven by a flair and we're all proud of." intensity more expected of a university department than As proficient as these dancers are, however, they also rec- a student club. Although the dancers do not have as ognize that there remains a lot of growing room for each many rehearsals as might be found among students in a ofthem—some more than others, perhaps. Valls and Lidvall university department, they're "self-motivated," Lidvall acknowledge that the company consists of mixed levels of says. "They have great memories, they're quick learners, technical skill and ability. they're intelligent." "Modern dance, however, is not just dependent on tech-

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nique virtuosity but on expression as well," Valls says. The modern idiom also draws on a larger palette of artistic ideas, colors, and abstraction, all of which build on intellectual processes and not intuition alone. For this reason, Valls and Lidvall consider Rice students particularly well-suited for modern dance."The modern dance aesthetic requires abstract thought,invention, individuality, and independent thinking," Valls says. "It is ballet and more. Whereas ballet focuses on the perfection of steps, modern dance is more concerned with the process of the craft." Well-suited though they may be to modern dance, Rice students still find themselves unprepared for their first encounter with the art. "It was a shock in many ways," Harper says. "The concepts were "The modern dance immediately bizarre to me, but aesthetic requires even more surprising was the abstract thought, change in my technique. For invention, individuality, a independent thinking. It i the first time, I had teachers ballet and more. Whereas emphasizing move- who were ballet focuses on the ment that complemented my perfection of steps, mode natural anatomy. I wasn't used dance is more concerne to moving in an 'organic'fashion with the process of or having people take the time to the craft." talk to me personally about how I could help myself become more free in my body." For Air, who has had about 15 years ofdancing, RDT has also given her a fresh perspective on life in a dance company. Given the disparity in ability levels, "it is not as professional as some of the companies I have been affiliated with in the past," she says."But that has actually been a very good thing because the cut-throat competition, bitterness, and cattiness is not present among the dancers in RDT. We are not trying to outdo each other for spots or compete for the teacher's attention. We are all friends. We have fun. We all share this passion for dance. That is the way it should be." The result is an atmosphere conducive to learning, growing, experimenting, inventing. Looking back on her years with RDT,Jessi says,"Everything is memorable about RDT. Not only is it a challenging dance company that works at a high level—while not excluding people with fewer years of experience or less technical ability—it is also a group of people with similar creative interests who like to spend time with one another." Such an attitude certainly contributes to the spirit ofteam- work and learning,and both instructors offer generous praise for the work their students have put in."I enjoy teaching and mentoring these young women and watching them grow as dance artists," Valls says."Much ofthe growth happens in the company class where we work on dance technique, bond as a group,and share our commitment and love ofdancing. The high point for me in class is when they perform full out and are totally present in the moment. That is true dancing."

—The•YING KOH

SPRING '03 41 Anderson Biological Laboratories as well as for renovation of the third floor of the Space Science Building, which now Design Unlimited houses the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He was the architect for the most recent addition to Co- hen House as well as for the 1975 addition. And along with Prison,hospital, school, library, bank,church, being chair of the University Parking Committee, Carmody house,office building—you name it, and Rice served as architect for the Rice University Parking Study 2000-2010,which provided the basis for the system ofgates professor ofarchitecture William Cannady has recently installed at parking lots around campus. probably designed and built one during the One of Cannady's most recent projects, the design of the past four and a half decades. newly relocated Houston Area Women's Center,couldn't be included in the exhibit. The center is a shelter for battered women and their children, and its location is confidential. "The only type ofbuilding I haven't done is a funeral home," To prevent men from following their children home from he jokes. school to find out where the shelter is, Cannady designed Carmady's repertoire includes work in the private and public the new facility with its own schooling complex. "The new sectors. The City of Houston,for example, hired him to de- center is completely hidden," he says. "It's the first of its sign a training center for employees. His firm designed Jones kind in the nation." He noted that the only way to enter Plaza—the focal point ofHouston's the center is by ambulance, police cultural district—across from Jones escort, or taxi. Hall and the Alley Theatre. Last Cannady has a bachelor of February,the School ofArchitecture architecture degree from the Uni- presented"45 Years:William T. Can- versity ofCalifornia—Berkeley and a nady, FAIA, Architect," an exhibit master's from Harvard University. ofsketches, blueprints, models,and He did postgraduate study at Uni- photographs from some of the 200 versity College London. He's been projects that Cannady has worked on teaching at Rice since 1964 while as a college student,faculty member, maintaining a general practice of and private architect. his own. His former students are During the 1970s, Carmody de- now "all over the place," he says. signed Lovett Square,a 36-unit proj- A survey of 100 schools of archi- ect oftownhouses that occupies the tecture conducted a few years ago entire block surrounded by Brazos, revealed that 10 ofthem—includ- Tuam, Bagby, and Anita just south ing Harvard's—were headed by of downtown."This set an interna- architects Cannady taught. tional standard for how to redevelop That makes Cannady proud.So inner-city urban housing," Carmody does his election by peers to the says. "It used land to create a lot of College ofFellows ofthe American open space and includes garages to Institute ofArchitects—one ofthe hide cars so that they don't dominate E AIA's highest honors. the setting." He still gets requests The courtyard of the house William Cannady designed at the Whether he's designing a 5,000- from international visitors to look intersection of Montrose Boulevard and Bissonnet acre prison near Huntsville or the at Lovett Square when they're in Houston. Northern Trust Bank near the Carmody used to live in the house he built on the south- intersection of Kirby and Westheimer, Carmody views the west corner of the intersection of Montrose and Bissonnet. most challenging aspect of a job as helping the client define Because it's located across from two museums,the house had the problem of what to build. to be sympathetic to the architecture ofthe museum district, "A lot of times they have preconceived something they but Carmody also gave it urban qualities for a single-family want to do," he says. "You have to question what they want household. to do and why before you start the drawing. You need to Other houses he has designed include the "palace-like" make sure you define the problem before you go out and home ofbasketball star Hakeem Olajuwon in Sugar Land and solve it." the private residence currently under construction on Rice Cannady has intended his buildings to be easy to construct, Boulevard across from the Owls' football practice field. use,maintain, and enjoy. His teaching and architectural work Cannady also has lent his architectural expertise to the are rooted in the philosophy of pragmatism, which aspires Rice campus. He served as the design architect for the major to preserve tradition while pioneering change. renovation ofKeith-Wiess Geological Laboratories and M.D. -B. J. ALMOND

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excellent books of photography— among them Rice University: A 75th A Bayou Runs Through It Anniversary Portrait and In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas—but Along Forgotten River may be his best work Most Houston drivers can navigate the book as much a portrayal of to date. The book's 80 large-format around the city with some knowledge Houston's growth and development black-and-white photographs do more of its intricate network of roads and as it is an extended portrait ofBuffalo than profile the terrain of the bayou. Bayou. They subtly explore the highways. Daily, however, those same diverse charac- Winningham opens by recounting teristics and sometimes contradictory drivers cross many bridges with little his meanderings through relatively character of the city that has used and thought of what lies beneath. unspoiled natural tracts west of often abused this water- Usually it's another road or maybe a Houston to pinpoint way. The common farm railway line, but frequently, it's one the bayou's headwaters. Winningham has pro- animals outside the city of the many streams and bayous that The process took him duced several excellent give way to the exotic overlay the landscape. Although es- some time—often when books of photography as a llama peers from a he thought he'd found River Oaks backyard. sential to Houston's early settlers, —among them Rice the source, he would People frolicking in those waterways today are generally University: A 75th An- ignored. discover fresh clues that Buffalo Bayou Park niversary Portrait and But not ignored by everybody. led him onward. With contrast with homeless In the Eye of the Renowned photographer and Rice the headwaters finally men beneath bridges just professor of art and art history Geoff located in three creeks Mexican Fiestas Winningham '65 saw Houston's prin- situated north and west —but Along cipal waterway—Buffalo Bayou—and of Katy, Winningham Forgotten Rivet found himself inspired by the same embarks on the journey may be his downstream. muse that motivated explorers of best work the past to trace the sources of other As the bayou picks up volume and winds to date. influential rivers."From the first time across the prairie toward I photographed Buffalo Bayou, over Houston's outskirts, the 20 years ago, I wondered where and touch ofhuman hands begins to appear how the stream began," Winningham in the presence of plowed fields, live- writes."I had to find out for myself,so stock, and picturesque farms. At last I began to explore the western suburbs the bayou edges into the city, almost of Houston, following the bayou as unnoticed until it flows beneath 610 best I could by car and foot." West to form the southern boundary of Winningham eventually found what Memorial Park. A little farther along, he sought, and his just-published a mile downstream and other people just west of downtown,it is most vis- Along Forgotten River:Photographs of fishing farther east. And dominating ible as the main conduit ofBuffalo Bay- Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship the central portion of the book is the ou Park between Memorial Drive and Channel,1997-2001, with Accounts of cityscape ofdowntown, jutting above Allen Parkway. Suddenly, full-blown, Early Travelers to Texas, 1767-1858 the trees and reflected in the water. there is downtown Houston,its steel (Texas State Historical Association, Along Forgotten Riveris no idealized and glass towers overshadowing the 2003) is both a candid documentary portrait with smiles resolutely in place human scale as well as the course of and a paean to a natural resource that and blemishes carefully airbrushed the bayou. After that,the bayou again remains fundamental to Houston's away. Instead, it is a fascinating look passes from casual view as it makes an economic and aesthetic vitality. The at Houston from the perspective ofthe ever-widening approach to the indus- supplemental excerpts from narratives river that has nourished the city from trialized precincts downstream.Those Houstonians by travelers who were among the first infancy. It is a view few in turn give way to vistas of Galveston attention to, but one they to journey through this region are have paid Bay, where the industrialization fades forget. simply a quaint touch. They add should not not into the background,nature reasserts historical depth and lend insight into itself, and the bayou ends, nearly 100 —CHRISTOPHER Dow difficulties—natu- the conditions and miles from its source. ral and man-made—that Houston's Winningham has produced several pioneers had to deal with, making

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Managing Managed Care Booknotes Customer-Centered Products: Creating Successful Products through Smart Requirements Management, by Managed healthcare is not new. It has After delving into those issues, she Kristin A. Farry '95 and Ivy F. Hooks been around atleast since 1869,when the examines the practices of managed (AMACOM,2000) care, including financial incentives, Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word the exchanges of disclosure and Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem offered a prepaid plan for comprehensive of Ethical Metaphysics, by Edith consent that may lend legitimacy to healthcare at St. Marys Infirmary in Wyschogrod, J. Newton Rayzor rationing, and other limits imposed Professor ofPhilosophy and Religious Galveston. by health plans. Her next consid- Thought at Rice(Fordham University Press, 2000) The controversies surrounding man- eration is the potential of ethicists, ethics committees, and various other aged care are not new, either, and History and Dynamics of Global Plate they are likely to continue. As baby forms of external oversight to move Motions,edited by Richard G.Gordon, boomers age and medical costs spi- managed care in desirable directions W.M. Keck Professor of Earth Science A. Richards; and Robert ral,few legislative issues will attract as at Rice; Mark Dirk Hilst (American Geophysical much attention—or produce as much "The story of managed Union, 2000) vitriol—as managed care. care is too complex, too Although most people see the de- Imperial Knowledge: Russian bate surrounding managed care as a full of moral ambiguity to fit Literature and Colonialism, by Ewa M. Thompson, professor of Slavic simple dichotomy of medicine versus neatly within the confines studies at Rice(Greenwood Publishing business, Mary R. Anderlik'97 argues of any simple framework." Group,2000) that defenders ofboth viewpoints focus too narrowly on that aspect and MARY R. ANDERLIK 797 Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment miss the larger social and moral in Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton, contexts. "Stories of personal Eggert '84, associate and discourage abuses. She finishes by Katherine tragedy and corporate greed professor of English at the University with a look at the future, arguing largely define managed care of Colorado, Boulder (University of that "managed care as we know it is a in the popular press," she Pennsylvania Press, 2000) transitional phenomenon,an ongoing writes in The Ethics of experiment in remolding values and Transformation, by Carol Berg '70 Managed Care (Indi- (ROC Books, 2000) organizations." In conclusion, she ana University Press, offers a set of seven guidelines for 2001). "Yet this sto- Usage-Based ModelsofLanguage, edited decision makers involved in shaping by Michael Barlow, assistant professor ry is too complex, healthcare's future. of linguistics, and Suzanne Kemmer, too full of moral associate professor oflinguistics, both Anderlik earned her Ph.D. at Rice ambiguity to fit at Rice (Cambridge University Press, and has a J.D. from Yale Law School. neatly within the 2000) She held a postdoctoral fellowship in confines of any simple clinical ethics at the University ofTexas When Mountains Walked, by Kate framework." Wheeler '77 (Houghton Mifflin Co., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Anderlik approaches managed care 2000) served as a research professor at the as a problem oforganizations—in par- Health Law and Policy Institute at the Who Gets Sick: How Beliefs, Moods and ticular the character of organizations University of Houston Law Center. ThoughtsAffect Health, by Blair Justice and the kinds of character traits they Currently, she is at the University of '66,associate dean for academic affairs form in the persons they affect, the at the University of Texas School of Louisville, where she is an associate relationship between business and bu- Public Health Houston (Peak Press, professor in the School of Medicine reaucracy, and the scale and complex- 2000) and a research scholar for the Insti- ity oforganizational and bureaucratic tute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Willa Cather: The Writer and Her structures. She also considers that the World,by Janis P.Stout '73, professor of Law. professional ideals of medicine,"with English,dean offacult ies, and associate its great promise and its susceptibility provost at Texas A&M University —CHRISTOPHER Dow (University Press of Virginia, 2000) to abuse," have a major impact on the quality of managed care.

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of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, In the News or service. Lerup joined the Rice faculty in 1993, and under his leadership, the School of Korn/Ferry CEO McNabb Joins Architecture has achieved national Jones School Council of Overseers prominence. For example, according Robert McNabb,chief executive officer to the Almanac of Architecture & De- ofKorn/Ferry International Futurestep sign 2001, Rice ranked No. 1 among colleges of architecture in NELSON CORREA, ELIZABETH GILLIS, Inc.,is the newest member ofthe Council schools and BUCKY ALLSHOUSE of Overseers for Rice's Jesse H. Jones the southern region ofthe United States Graduate and No.4 nationally in a customer-satis- School of Management. The HOOTS's Correa Earns Gillis Award council consists of business leaders who faction survey of more than 800 leading advise the dean and faculty ofthe school U.S. architecture firms by the Design For his outstanding contributions to on key strategic issues. Futures Council. Lund University in Rice and the community beyond, air- At Korn/Ferry, a leading provider of Sweden awarded an honorary degree in conditioning technician Nelson Cor- recruitment solutions, McNabb is technology to Lerup in 2001. rea has been honored with the 2003 responsible for accelerating Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary the firm's cross-selling Wiess School Dean Service. The award was established in partnership between Matthews Earns Honors 2000 to recognize a staff member for Korn/Ferry and Future- from YWCA of Houston his or her outstanding achievements and service in support of the mission of step to fulfill its global The YWCA of Houston the university. clients' range of needs has named Rice Universi- In 1999, Correa and several fellow for management and ty'sKathleenS.Matthews the employeesfounded HOOTS—the High human capital services. 2002 Outstanding Woman of Prior to joining Futurestep, Order of the Owls Tailgate Society—as Achievement in Medicine, SCi- a venue for facilities and engineering McNabb was president and chief H ence, and Technology. employees to socialize outside of work. executive officer of Corestaff, a global Matthews, dean ofthe Wiess School of But Correa saw even greater possibilities staffing company with headquarters in Natural Sciences and the Stewart Memorial and helped use HOOTS to raise scholar- the United Kingdom and the United Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biol- ship funds for the children of facilities States. Earlier, he was a senior executive ogy,was honored for her scholarly achieve- and engineering and housing and dining officer at Kelly Services, a Fortune 500 ments,her efforts to improve cooperation personnel who are admitted to Rice. company offering human resources so- and joint research among Houston-area Determined to maximize the orga- lutions that include temporary services, institutions of higher education, and her nization's potential, Correa enrolled in staff leasing, outsourcing, vendor on- work to promote science education for a fundraising class in Rice's School of site, and full-time placement. He has Houston children. Along with the award, Continuing Studies,took a public speak- served on the board of Corporate she received a congressional certificate of ing class, and became a regular visitor to Services Group PLC, a London Stock commendation for outstanding achieve- Rice's Office ofResource Development. Exchange company,and was a direc- ment from Houston congress- With the support of facilities and engi- tor ofHotJobs.com, a Nasdaq „. woman Sheila Jackson Lee. neering, he built up the momentum of traded company. Matthews joined the program. Beginning with an initial , Rice's faculty 30 years contribution of $800 for four small ACSA Honors Dean of ago, served as chair scholarships, HOOTS has since raised Architecture \tl of the Department of a permanent endowment of more than The Association of Col- Biochemistry and Cell $52,000, and scholarships this year to- legiate Schools of Archi- Biology from 1987 to taled $4,200. tecture has selected Lars 1995, and became dean The success ofthe program was recog- Lerup, dean ofthe Rice School of the Wiess School in 1998. nized outside the hedges last November, ofArchitecture and the William Ward Her research has attracted con- when the Houston chapter ofthe Associ- Waticin Professor of Architecture, as a tinuous funding from the National In- ation ofFundraising Professionals named 2003 ACSA Distinguished Professor. stitutes of Health for 27 years as well as it the city's best fundraising program in It is one of the association's highest support from other sources, including the under $250,000 category. awards and recognizes sustained cre- the National Science Foundation and ative achievement in the advancement the Robert A. Welch Foundation.

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the honor last year. William is ranked 35th in singles. Last year, he was named Doubles Double first-team all-Western Athletic Conference and was twice selected as player ofthe week. In academics, William also is scoring high marks. The economics and managerial studies Coming from a cold-climate country major has a 3.8 grade point average and was chosen for the such as England, tennis twins Richard Scholar-Athlete Award. and William Barker found the Houston "They are excellent athletes and honor students, which weather to be their cup of tea. In fact, is a good mix for Rice," says tennis coach Ron Smarr. the heat was one of the main reasons Smarr points out that the twins are the best defensive doubles they chose to attend Rice University. team in the country."They makethe otherteam play a lot of ball," he says,adding thatthey are mentally tough and like to compete "I love the hot weather," says Richard. "In England, you tothe end.In one match against highly ranked Stanford University, play indoors nine months ofthe year. In Houston,you play the twins were down 6-3 and came back to win 9-7. outdoors all 12 months." But playing in steamy conditions did take some getting "We are both very clever players," says Richard. "A lot used to. "My first week in of players go out there and try Houston was the hottest in to hit the ball as hard as they can the history ofthe city, I think. without thinking. But tennis is It was like 150 degrees," ex- a thinking sport. And mentally plains Richard."After being so we are both very strong. Some tired from all that practice, I people get nervous when they quickly became acclimated to are down in a match. We see it as the weather." an opportunity to pull an upset. Like the weather, the dy- We love challenges." namic duo has been hot on Like a well-choreographed the tennis court. After win- dance team, the twins have ning the Omni Hotels Na- developed a natural flow of tional Intercollegiate Indoor court movement after years of Championship in Novem- playing and practicing together. ber—the first such title in the Both are left-handed and have school's history—they started good reflexes, and each knows the season in January ranked exactly where his partner is on number one in the country in any given play. doubles. The two juniors had They started playing tennis a not lost between October and few years after they were born March,winning 24 matches in in Solihull in central England. a row. Their parents, avid players of In singles,Richard is ranked squash and tennis, gave them 24th in the country, and last rackets at the age of five and season, he was selected to the provided them with half-hour all-Western Athletic Confer- tennis lessons once a week. By ence first team for singles and the second team for doubles. the time they were 12, the twins had become England's He also was named the Region VI rookie ofthe year by the national champions for their age group. But being the best Intercollegiate Tennis Association. As a freshman, he won at such a young age took its toll on the Barkers. They had the Sammy Giammalva Award, given annually by Rice to to travel almost every weekend throughout England and the player who most contributed to the team. William won Europe, forcing them to miss school and forgo friends.

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"My parents weren't happy that Settling into a strange new place has I was sacrificing my education," says had its humorous moments. In their Richard. "I wasn't happy about the freshman year, the twins were baffled fact that I wasn't hanging out with when Coach Smarr, in his Southern my friends. If you put everything into accent, explained to the new recruits tennis at that young age, you wind up that all players must wear a nice pair without an education at 17." of pants when traveling. "Pants for us For the next five years,the twins gave means underwear," says William."We up tennis and gained a more balanced didn't understand why we had to wear life. They kept up with athletics, how- a nice pair ofunderwear." Seeing their ever, playing field hockey, soccer, and confused faces,Ladhani quickly cleared golf. While in high school at the King up the misunderstanding. Edward's School in Birmingham,they once again took up tennis. Though The affable twins speak in rapid-fire they had to work on their technique, sentences and enjoy exchanging they were amazed at how easily the repartees. When asked who is better game came back to them. of the two, Richard responds,"That's by "When we started again, we were far the easiest question you've asked. fresh," says William. "I don't com- Without a doubt, I am. Whenever I play pletely regret not playing for all those him, I let him have a couple of games so years,but it would have been nice to see he won't be embarrassed." where we would be had we continued." He adds that many of the opponents William counters that he has beaten that he beat during his early years are his brother two out of three times in now competing in Wimbledon. tournament play, and that the eight After high school, the twins played matches he has lost to Richard have professionallyfor a year while they honed been fixed. their skills in preparation for college ten- All joking aside, the twins are dead nis. Rice assistant tennis coach Shaheen serious about winning the NCAA Ladhani,who isfrom England,recruited doubles championship this May in them. By pure chance, William and his Athens, Georgia. "The easy part is brother had to play each other on the getting to be number one," says Wil- day Ladhani was scouting them. "We liam. "The hardest part is remaining fixed the game so we could both look there." good," William says. So, while everyone is gunning for the number-one ranked team in the When the Barkers arrived at Rice, nation,the pressure is slowly building they joined a team that, except for "A lot of players go for the twins. But they don't seem too composed largely two Americans, is out there and try to worried—after all, they thrive when of foreign students: three Brits, two hit the ball as hard the heat is on. Germans,one Japanese, one Guatemalan, and one Yugoslavian. The twins say they as they can without -DAVID D. MEDINA quickly felt at home, especially in a city thinking. But tennis as diverse and large as Houston. "What is a thinking sport I really like about Houston is the free And mentally we are refills," says Richard. "In England, you both very strong." have pay for them."

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Mance Named National Semifinalist for Basketball Student Rice Wins Athlete of the Year Award a Record

Rice senior guard Omar-Sell Mance has been named one of three finalists for the new national Men's Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year Award.

The award, sponsored by the star team, making him eligible for Albuquerque Convention and NCAA Academic All-American. Visitors Bureau, recognizes men Mance is also a selfless volunteer on and women student-athletes for and offcampus. At Rice,he serves on Straigh their athletic, academic, and com- the Student-Athlete Advisory Com- mittee and the Black Student Union. munity achievement. Offcampus, he is involved in the His Mance co-led the Owls in scoring Grace Foundation, whose members with 15.2 points per game, and he visit area hospitals to lift the spirits of helped lead Rice to 19 wins, children staying there,and the one of the program's The native Dream to Read Program, highest victory totals of Stone Mountain, whose members visit in almost 60 years. Georgia, is an outstand- elementary schools He was named ing student who juggled and challenge kids to second-team all- Division I basketball and read and make good Western Athletic Rice's rugged academic grades. Conference after I ranking among the league leaders in scoring, ‘‘'. shooting percentage, assists, Rice baseball has been on a steals, three-point field goals, and winning streak, and though it three-point percentage. ESPN com- was broken by Lamar with a 7-5 mentator Dick Vitale hand-picked upset in Reckling Park on April Mance as one of the top players 9, Rice still logged a school best in the WAC, and the Internet site of 30 straight wins. CollegeInsider.com named him the Most Valuable Player in At press time, the Owls had wrapped up their 7th con- the league in its annual secutive Western Athletic ofpostseason bas- round-up Conference championship ketball honors. and had their eyes set on the The native ofStone Moun- NCAATournament with hopes tain, Georgia, is an outstanding of a return trip to the College student who juggled Division I bas- World Series. ketball and Rice's rugged academic load majoring in mathematics. He is a two-time selection to the GTE/ CoSIDA District VI academic all-

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This young dancer was among the participants at the fifth annual Rice University Powwow, sponsored by the Rice University Native American Student Association. The event, held on the lacrosse field on April 11, featured ceremonial dancing and Indian food and crafts.

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