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Foreword Thinking • 3 Through the Sallyport • 14 Students Departments 41 Arts • 46 Scoreboard • 48 On the Bookshelf

There's predator and 6 12prey, and then there's mutuality.

a Nanodevice, build thyself. n It's bigger. It's bolder. It's boron.

What the heck is that? It's good to be at the 42Is it an instrument? 6 top ofthe trash heap when you're in a recycling contest.

Plasmas are found in " the middle ofwhite dwarfstars. So, how do you get them into a lab? Freeze them, ofcourse.

The women's swim team pools its talents They may not be Burt 46 as it strokes toward the championship. 17 Reynolds, but they're in the same race.

He's not defacing books Call it alternative filers You might have more in

41 — he's re-facing them. 6 alternative fuel. 4 -yr -qv common with zebra fish than you think.

Excuse me,my ribs are 7 rattling. I'd better take this call. 18 Competition, Collaboration and the Rise of 34 On a Mission Global Higher Education Michael Owen has never let cultural differences By David W. Leebron slow him down in a Foreign Service career that has taken him to Europe, Africa and India.

20 Words of Wisdom By Kevin Markey Features When you want to be the best, you've got to stand up and make yourself known. 38 Enduring Reflection: The Houston Area Survey 22 Building on the Vision Most of us have a hard time taking stock of our Rice's Vision for the Second Century already exists on own lives. Stephen Klineberg keeps tabs on an paper, but Facilities, Engineering and Planning is turning entire city.

the touchstone into the tangible. By Christopher Dow

28 What's Your College? Introduced 50 years ago, Rice's college system has become a dominant feature of undergraduate student life.

By Christopher Dow

What do Saul Bellow, Vice Admiral James Stockdale, Allen Ginsberg, John Irving, Julian Bond and Tom Stoppard have in common? Think of Rice as an excellent little university residing quietly behind its hedges? Rice Sallyport Fall 2007, Vol. 64, No. 1 Think again — about the quiet part, at least. Inside the hedges, something is cooking. No matter where you look — from campus facilities to programs to international collaborations — there's activity as the Published by the Office ingredients of President David Leebron's Vision for the Second Century begin to simmer. of Public Affairs Linda Thrane, vice president One ingredient we're adding more of this year is students. The V2C recipe calls for an increase in the Suzanne Gschwind, director of size of the student body by approximately 30 percent during the next decade. This fall, Rice saw the Communications Services beginnings of that with our 742-member freshman class. In addition to being Rice's largest-ever group Editor of first-year students, they were selected from the largest applicant pool in Rice's history. You can read Christopher Dow about them in more detail in this issue, and a pretty impressive bunch Editorial Director they are. It's encouraging to know that these exceptional young women Tracey Rhoades and men will leave Rice with the tools to become the kind ofinfluential leaders so necessary for the coming century. But rest reassured that, at Creative Director Jeff Cox 3,002, our undergraduate class is only seven larger than last year's. The projected growth will occur gradually over the next decade. Art Director We're also adding more cutting-edge facilities for learning and research Chuck Thurmon to the mix. You'll be hearing a lot more about them during the next Editorial Staff couple of years, but a perfect example is the Collaborative Research Merin Porter, staff writer Jenny West Rozelle, assistant editor Center, introduced in our last issue. When completed, this state-of-the-art teaching and research facility will bring a new dimension to bioengineering and biomedical sciences Design Staff by combining,for the first time in one place, researchers from Rice and Tommy LaVergne, photographer "So, the next Jeff Fitlow, assistant photographer multiple institutions from the Texas Medical Center. Ingredients aren't all we're adding. We're kickin' it up a notch, too. time you think of The Rice University Board At a recent town hall meeting where President Leebron updated faculty of Trustees Rice, don't think James W. Crownover, chairman; J.D. and staff on the progress of the V2C, he related an incident in which a Bucky Allshouse; D. Kent Anderson; student approached him and commented on how much more vibrant aloof, behind Teveia Rose Barnes;Alfredo Brener;Vicki the Whamond Bretthauer; Robert T. Brockman; campus seemed than in the past. The president replied that's because the hedges and Albert Y. Chao; Robert L. Clarke; Bruce all the campus construction is limiting space and forcing people into W. Dunlevie; Lynn Laverty Elsenhans; closer contact. The audience laughed in appreciation of the joke — and quietly smart. Douglas Lee Foshee; Susanne Morris Glasscock; Carl E. Isgren; K. Terry because they knew it isn't strictly true. Life on campus isn't more vibrant Think passionate, Koonce; Robert R Maxfield; Steven L. because of confinement but because boundaries are falling and exciting Miller; M. Kenneth Oshman; Jeffery possibilities are opening up. unconventional 0. Rose; Hector Ruiz; Marc Shapiro; L. E. Simmons; Robert B. Tudor III; Research is part of those possibilities, but we have our exceptional and, at nearly James Turley students to thank for much of the excitement in the air. They're per- 100 years of age, Administrative Officers forming better than ever in the classroom — which is saying a lot — and David W. Leebron, president, Eugene making groundbreaking discoveries even while undergraduates. Equally all the wiser." Levy, provost; Kathy Collins, vice impressive, they're taking their burgeoning expertise to an international president for Finance; Darrow Zeidenstein, vice presidentfor Resource level as they travel to learn and serve in countries the world over. Development, Kevin Kirby, vice president And back at home, no student space is more vibrant — or nearer and dearer to the hearts of students for Administration; Chris Munoz, vice and alumni alike — than the colleges. We'll keep you abreast of the presidentfor Enrollment, Linda Thrane, construction of Rice's 10th and vice presidentfor Public Affairs;Scott W. 11th colleges — McMurtry and Duncan, respectively — but in the meantime, we help celebrate how Wise, vice presidentfor Investments and the colleges enhance student life at Rice with a retrospective on the college system's 50th anniversary. treasurer, Richard A. Zansitis, general counsel. As any good cook knows, a tasty dish is more than ingredients and seasoning. It deserves stunning presentation, and you'll be seeing a lot more of that, too, as Rice steps more boldly into the world. Just It is the policy of Sallyport to run letters as the CRC extends Rice's footprint outside the hedges, our new marketing campaign is working to that respond to a particular article only within one year following the article's make people across the country and around the world aware of Rice and all the wonderful research and publication. All submissions to Sallyport educational opportunities going on here. And along with Rice's greater visibility is a makeover of the are subject to editing for length, clarity, Rice "look," complete with a new logo and a fresh accuracy, appropriateness and fairness to design for our Web sites. third parties. So, the next time you think of Rice, don't think aloof, behind the hedges and quietly smart. Think Sallyport is published by the Office of passionate, unconventional and, at nearly 100 years ofage, all the wiser. That's the Rice recipe for doing Public Affairs ofRice University and is sent good and achieving greatness. to university alumni,faculty, staff, graduate students, parents of undergraduates and friends of the university.

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Rice 360° is designed to tap students' and faculty members' creativity and their desire to make a difference, serve others and save lives.

always knew I wanted to go to Rice University unveiled plans on Sept. 28 for a $100 medical school and work toward to combat pressing health problems ending health disparities, but it million initiative really put a fire in me, particu- in the developing world. larly in the arena of health policy. I'm very determined to get involved in public policy and Called "Rice 3600: Technology lives and the lives of the world's wanted to know when it would health policy now." Solutions for World Health," most needy patients." be available there." This sort of grassroots dedi- the plan was announced during Rice 360° is designed to tap A Rice student team en- cation is one of the reasons the annual meeting of the Clin- students' and faculty members' rolled in this fall's class already Rice President David Leebron ton Global Initiative in New creativity and their desire to is working on developing a believes the Rice 360° initiative York. It will focus on establish- make a difference, serve oth- battery-powered IV drip moni- will be successful. "Rice has all ing an institute to create, test ers and save lives. It builds tor that can warn nurses and the elements to make a differ- and disseminate new technolo- on Rice's successful Beyond doctors in time to prevent pedi- ence in solving urgent global gies and educational programs Traditional Borders program, atric deaths. Hospitals currently health problems," he said. "Our that help achieve the United in which students learn about are reluctant to use lifesaving brilliant and gifted students are Nation's health-related Mil- global health issues and design fluids because they are unable an enormous asset to Rice 360°. lennium Development Goals. technologies in response to to control the volumes given to The university's bioengineering These include halting the spread problems doctors face in the patients. and nanotechnology programs of HIV, slashing the mortality developing world. BTB is sup- Sophie Kim and Christina are among the world's best. We rate of children under 5 by two- ported by a grant to Rice from Lagos, two Rice undergradu- have strong and growing ties thirds and reducing the num- the Howard Hughes Medical ates who interned this summer with the world's largest medi- ber of women who die from Institute's Undergraduate Sci- in Lesotho, taught a health and cal center, and Rice's Baker In- complications of pregnancy and ence Education Program. HIV-awareness class of their stitute is home to world-class childbirth. Last summer,seven under- own design in an orphanage. experts in public policy and "Studies estimate that nearly graduates took their technolo- They also worked with social global science policy. Another 10 million children under age gies and educational programs workers and doctors at a clinic advantage is provided by Rice's 5 die each year in develop- to Africa for real-world testing to revamp the counseling pro- Jesse H. Jones Graduate School ing countries because they do and implementation in clinics gram that teaches HIV patients of Management, which has a not have access to appropriate run by the Baylor International and their caregivers how to take wealth of expertise in entrepre- health technologies — tech- Pediatric AIDS Initiative. antiretroviral medications. neurship and microfinance." nologies that we often take for Kim Bennett, a senior who "Our goal was to make ad- Rice has committed to secur- granted here," said Rebecca interned this summer in Malawi, herence counseling much more ing $100 million from a vari- Richards-Kortum, who is step- was on a team that designed a educational by teaching the ety of sources over the coming ping down as bioengineering pump to dispense liquid medi- concepts of drug resistance, decade to fund the institute's department chairwoman at the cation accurately according to a how antiretroviral therapy works programs. Rice 360° already has end of the academic year to child's individual needs. Called and the importance of strict received $2 million in funding, spearhead the Rice 360° initia- the ABC pump,the device aims drug adherence," Kim said. including a gift to seed research tive. "Rice's strong commit- to eliminate human error associ- Kim and Lagos trained about in cost-effective health technol- ment to its undergraduates is ated with current syringe and 40 volunteer counselors to en- ogies from Rice Board of Trust- one ofour unique strengths. medicine cup techniques. sure that the program would ees Chairman Jim Crownover Rice 360° will capitalize on this "I brought the ABC Pump to continue long after they left. and his wife, Molly.• commitment by blending engi- Malawi to show it to the doc- "Seeing what I saw — the neering, education and service tors in the clinic where I was kids that were dying and their in a way that ignites students' working," Bennett said. "It met families — you cannot be com- imaginations to change their with rave reviews. One doctor placent after that," Kim said. "I

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Size is Relative If someone told you Not Your Average Lab Rat Rice is a large research university, you might When you look in the mirror, you wonder how they de- fine the word "large." wouldn't expect to see a zebra fish star- But Academic Analytics, ing back, but you have more in com- which named Rice the most productive large research mon with them than you may realize. university in Texas, recognizes that Rice strides across Zebra fish cost about a dol- mothers' bodies — and thus fish overexpressed the LMO4 the academic landscape in lar each at the pet store, adults can be observed under a micro- gene, making more protein can lay up to 500 eggs at once scope during every step of their than normal, those same areas seven-league boots. and the fish grow from eggs to development. shrank. The findings appeared A collaboration between hunting their own food in just "It's a beautiful organism for in the journal Developmental three days. Stony Brook University "Even so, humans experiment," Lane said. "It de- Biology. and zebra fish aren't that dis- velops in a very regular way, so "The study suggests that faculty and researchers similar," said assistant profes- any abnormality is easy to spot, LMO4 independently regulates at Educational Directories sor of biochemistry and cell even for undergraduates with two other genes that promote biology Mary Ellen Lane, who only a few days of training." growth in those areas of the Unlimited to rate univer- is Rice's resident zebra fish ex- Lane's zebra fish studies ex- embryo," said Lane. "It fills in sity programs, Academic pert. "For every zebra fish gene plore one of the major unex- another piece of the bigger pic- we isolate, there is a related plained areas in developmental ture of what's going on Analytics during compared doc- gene in humans." biology: how the brain and neurological development." toral programs at research Zebra fish — like rats and central nervous system develop. Lane established Rice's zebra universities by measuring fruit flies before them — are In her latest work, Lane, as- fish program six years ago. She the scholarly productivity of faculty based on their "It's a beautiful organism for experiment. It develops in a book and journal publica- very regular way, so any abnormality is easy to spot, even tions, citations of journal for undergraduates with only a few days of training." articles, federal grants and —Mary awards and honors. To be Ellen Lane considered a large research university for Academic Analytics' Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, an institution must have at least becoming regular contribu- sisted by graduate students said the program got a major 15 Ph.D. programs across tors on research ranging from Catherine McCollum and Shi- boost in 2003, when fellow ze- cancer to cocaine addiction. vas Amin and undergraduate bra fish researcher Dan Wagner multiple disciplines. Rice's For example, zebra fish were Phillip Pauerstein, zeroed in joined the faculty. Their facility ranking was based on 27 used in a landmark 2005 study on a gene called LMO4 that's houses 18,000 zebra fish and that led scientists to the human known to play roles in both cell employs a full-time fish caretak- Ph.D. programs. In addition, gene that regulates skin color. reproduction and breast cancer. er. They recently won funding Rice was the only Texas in- It helps that zebra fish embryos Using the tools of biotechnol- from Rice's Faculty Initiatives grow from just a single cell to ogy, the team stitution to make the top 25 studied zebra Fund to hire a research scien- having a forebrain, hindbrain, fish that couldn't transcribe tist to oversee collaborative list nationally, where it ranks spinal column and eyes in a the LMO4 gene and observed research with partners in the No. 22.. scant 24 hours. It also helps marked enlargement in both Texas Medical Center.. that the embryos are transpar- the forebrain and optical por- —B. J. Almond —Jade Boyd ent and develop outside their tions of the embryos. When the

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older, and it's boron.

A new tudy by Boris Yakobson (right), profess of mechanical engineering and materials science and f chemistry, graduate student Arta Sadrzadeh (left) an colleagues predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms

A new study by Boris Yakobson, pro- buckyball, or B80. "This has not been failed to create a hollow ball that structure could be termed a buckyball. fessor of mechanical engineering and observed or even conceived of before. would hold its form,so another boron Yakobson mentioned this to Robert Curl, materials science and of chemistry, We hope it may lead to a significant atom was placed in the center of each co-discoverer of the original buckyball and his associates Nevill Gonzalez breakthrough." hexagon for added stability. along with Harold Kroto and the late Szwacki and Arta Sadrzadeh,predicts In the earliest stages of its work,the Yakobson said it is too early to Richard Smalley. the existence and stability of another team attempted to build a buckyball speculatewhetherthe boron buckyball "Bob said with a chuckle that it was buckyball molecule consisting entirely using silicon atoms but determined will prove to be as useful as its Nobel more of a buckyball than his buckyball," of boron atoms.The paper was an edi- that it would collapse on itself. The Prize-winning sibling. "All we know," Yakobson said, adding that C60 was tor's selection in the April 20 issue of search for another possible atom led he said,"is that it's a very logical, very named forfamed architect Buckminster Physical Review Letters. the researchers on a short trip across stable structure and likely to exist. It Fuller because the molecule looked like The boron buckyball is structurally the periodic table. opens up a whole new continent to conjoined geodesic domes,a structure similar to the original buckyball, a "One reason we tried boron was explore.There should be a strong effort Fuller invented."When Fuller made his cage-shaped molecule of 60 carbon because it is one atomic unit from to find it experimentally. That may not domes, he made them from triangles atoms, but it has an additional atom carbon," Yakobson said. "Boron also be an easy path, but we gave them a because hexagons would collapse," in the center of each hexagon, which has the ability to stick together better good road map." Yakobson explained. "C60 is made significantly increases stability. "This than other atoms, which made it even Following the paper's acceptance, up of hexagons, but in B80, we fill the is the first prediction of its possible more appealing." there was some debate with the hexagon with one more atom, making existence," Yakobson said of the boron Initial work with 60 boron atoms journal's editors about whether the triangles."• —Mark Passwaters

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To of the lion

It's good to be at the top of the trash heap when you're in a recycling contest. The contest was Recycle- Mania,which drew more than 200 colleges and universities nationwide,including eight in Texas Rice contended in six different categories,finishing first among Texas universities in per capita paper recycling and 14th out of a national field of 111 In the Per Capita Clas- sic category, which measured thetotalamountof recyclables collected per person, Rice placed 54th out of 175 "This was our second year Ramon Gonzalez (left) and Syed Shams Yazdani have identified the metabolic processes and conditions that allow a strain of E. coli to convert to compete in FiecycleMania," glycerin into ethanol. said Ricesustainabilityplanner RichardJohnson "We showed Ending Biodiesel's pounds of biodiesel," he said, cesses and conditions that allow real improvement and partici- "and that has caused a glycerin a strain of the bacterium E. coil pated in more categories this Glycerin Glut glut." Many manufacturers not to convert glycerin into etha- year. We again demonstrated Call it an alternative fuel's only are unable to sell glycerin, nol," Gonzalez said. "It's also but also must pay to dispose ofit. very efficient. We estimate the that we could compete with alternative fuel. the best, including schools Researchers across the globe operational costs to be about 40 are racing to find ways to turn percent less that those of pro- that are well-known for their U.S. biodiesel production is at waste glycerin into profit. Some ducing ethanol from corn, and environmental programs." an all-time high, and a record are looking at traditional chemi- the process will show higher Rice was the only Texas number of new biodiesel plants cal processing, such as using yields and lower cost than can participant in RecycleMa- are under construction, but the catalytic reactions that break be obtained using common sug- nia in 2006 Johnson said industry is facing an impending glycerin into other chemicals, ar-based feedstocks like glucose the increased participation crisis over waste glycerin, the while others are focusing on bi- and xylose." statewide indicates greater visibility of environmental issues in Texas This year's participating Texas universi- "We identified the metabolic processes and conditions ties included Baylor,Southern that allow a strain of the bacterium E. coil Methodist, Texas Christian, to convert glycerin into ethanol." UT Austin, UT Dallas, UT San Antonio and UT Medical —Ramon Gonzalez Branch at Galveston • major byproduct of biodiesel ological conversion, in which a Gonzalez's report on the production. microorganism is engineered to research, co-authored by post- "The biodiesel business has eat a specific chemical feedstock doctoral research associate Syed tight margins, and until re- and excrete something useful. Shams Yazdani, appears in Cur- cently, glycerin was a valuable Many drugs are made this way, rent Opinion in Biotechnology. commodity — one that produc- and the chemical processing Graduate students Yandi Dhar- ers counted on selling to en- industry is increasingly finding madi and Abhishek Murarka sure profitability," said Ramon bioprocessing to be a "greener," assisted with the research, which Gonzalez, the William W. Akers and sometimes cheaper, alterna- is funded by the U.S. Depart- Assistant Professor in Chemical tive to chemical processing. ment of Agriculture and the and Biomolecular Engineering. Gonzalez and his colleagues National Science Foundation.• But that dynamic has might have found such a solu- changed. "One pound of glyc- tion to the glycerin glut. "We —Jade Boyd erin is produced for every 10 identified the metabolic pro-

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Michael Liebschner and Lin Zhong perform research to develop a new technology that lets mobile electronic devices communicate by sending vibrations through bones.

The Wrist Bone's Connected to the Cell Phone "We were all surprised to see these signals propagate through 20 or more joints," Liebschner Michael Liebschner and Lin Zhong make no bones about rattling cages—rib cages, said. "It worked much better than we'd anticipated that is. The two engineering faculty members are involved in joint research to de- for the power levels we used." velop a new technology that lets mobile electronic devices communicate by send- Unique Skeletal Identification ing vibrations through bones. Liebschner said one probable reason the discovery went unnoticed for so long is thevariability of human "Cell phones have vibrators in them now,and many system for diagnosing osteoporosis with low-level bone tissue. Sound vibrations are commonly used to of the newer models have sensorsthat could be used sound waves.Zhong, sitting in the audience,thought test the skeletal structures of buildings after earth- to receive our signals, so its feasible to think of the immediately of work he was doing. quakes, but no two people have exactly the same devices we are already carrying as a platform for acoustic pattern in their bones. However,Liebschner this technology," said Zhong, assistant professor Teeth Clicks said, this variability has an upside, too. of electrical and computer engineering. "Because every person has a unique acoustic This explainswhy Microsoft awarded Liebschner During a research internship just before joining Rice, signature in their bones, we believe we can develop and Zhong a grant to develop OsteoConduct, the Zhong worked with several Microsoft researchers that for security authentication," Liebschner said. technology thetwo invented lastyear. OsteoConduct who devised solutions to improve voice recognition "For example, you might grab a door handle in a transmits digital information through bones using by filtering outthe sounds created when people click secure facility, and it would only allow you inside acoustic sound patterns. The sounds can be created their teeth together during speech. if it recognized your profile. The acoustic signature by anything that vibrates. "At the time, I thought, 'This is information that of the skeleton is thought to be more secure than In the lab, the researchers use hand-held and they are throwing away,' and I wondered if there fingerprints or retina scans." bench-mounted gadgets. The vibrations can be might be another way to use it," Zhong said. After Other applications Zhong and Liebschner are imperceptible in some applications, such as health joining Rice, Zhong and graduate student Tamer considering include hands-free operation of mobile monitoring or simple data exchange, and perceived Mohamed built a hands-free method of using teeth phones and other devices,secure data transmission, in others. For example, a patient wearing a drug- clicks to control a computer. health monitoring and diagnostics, and commu- release system might benefit by sensing when drugs At the TI conference, Zhong asked Liebschner nication with implantable transducers. are administered. if his findings suggested that the sound of teeth Bioengineering graduate student Michael "Microsoft is interested in computing applications clicks might travel through a person's skeleton. Cordray and undergraduate Mimi Zhang are co- related to both health care and mobile devices, and Liebschner thought they might, and the two agreed inventors of the technology. Researchers include this hits both of those," said Liebschner, assistant to test the idea. electrical and computer engineering graduate professor of bioengineering. Liebschner said one of the most exciting dis- students Brett Kaufman and Tamer Mohamed and The idea forOsteoConductcame afterZhong heard coveries about this research has been just how bioengineering graduate students Dania El-Daye Liebschner present results from his lab at last fall's clearly sound travels through bone. In one of the and Nick Tobaoda.• Texas Instruments Innovation Fund Day,a conference earliest tests, a signal from the wrist was clearly —Jade Boyd highlighting TI-funded research at Rice. Liebschner detected at the hip, having traveled the length of described the development of a new hand-held the arm and spine.

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Genetic Flaw Starts Neurofibromatosis" Biochemical Domino Effect

Michael Stern's latest research into the formation of neurofibromatosis tumors reads something like a federal racketeer- ing indictment, except that Stern is tracing proteins instead of laundered money, and he's looking not at offshore accounts but at Opening the Doors to Asia through Language biochemical paths of cause and effect. Like many other large cities, Houston has a high demand for Neurofibromatosis is characterized by the formation of tumors of peripheral nerve cells. Scientists know the dis- well-trained Chinese language teachers for its local schools. ease is caused by defects in a gene called Nfl, but they have yet to find out precisely how the defective genes cause tumors to form. The need was heightened even more classes that aren't offered elsewhere In seeking biochemical pathways responsible for when the Texas State Board for Educa- in the South and grant them scholar- neurofibromatosis tumors in humans, Stern's research tor Certification added Chinese to the ships to pursue certification at Rice or group compiled evidence from dozens of painstak- certifications for languages other than elsewhere. ing experiments on mutant fruit ffies, each with a spe- English. In fact, a College Board survey cific genetic flaw that testified to the power of the one showed that nearly 2,400 high schools "As our lives become more global or more proteins involved. The researchers used fruit would have liked to offer the AP Chi- and China continues to be a flies for several reasons: The insect's genome has been nese course in 2006-07 but did not sequenced, it takes only two weeks to grow a new strong economic partner, our gen- have qualified teachers. eration of fruit flies, and scientists know which fruit fly young Rice has stepped in to fill the gap people need to be equipped genes are analogous to the human genes associated with with plans to establish the Institute for to collaborate across borders. neurofibromatosis. Chinese Language Teaching, an en- It is increasingly important for "Our results suggest that having a defect in Nfl begins deavor supported by a $400,000 grant people to have a rich and deep a kind of biochemical domino effect that eventually leads from the Freeman Foundation. Initially, understanding of other cultures. to tumor growth," said Stern, professor of biochemistry the ICLT will train individuals who We want to prepare teachers to and cell biology. already are proficient in speaking Chi- communicate that understanding In their experiments, the researchers created more than nese, due to heritage or education, and to their students, who could work two dozen mutant strains offruit ffies, including variet- who want to teach in middle and high with Asia in the future." ies that were either missing the genes to make one of the schools. The program eventually will four proteins or were encoded to over express, or make recruit, train and produce teachers of —Steven Lewis, director of Asian Studies extra amounts of, one of the four. Some mutants were Chinese for kindergarten through 12th designed to carry more than one defective trait. grade. No other such certificate pro- Responsibilities for launching the Nerves from each mutant strain were examined. By grams are offered in the South. ICLT will be shared by the School of comparing the mutant strains — each with a specific de- The institute builds on the priority Humanities, the Asian Studies program, fect or set of defects — the researchers built a case that set forth in the Vision for the Second the Center for the Study ofLanguages the absence of neurofibromin allows several proteins to Century to make tangible contributions and the Susanne M. Glasscock School of work in concert to inhibit a regulatory group of proteins in the K-12 area and increase interna- Continuing Studies. The project team that are key players in regulating genes responsible for tional understanding at Rice. also is working with institutions around programmed cell death and DNA repair — two common "One of the missions of Rice is to the state, including the Region IV Educa- culprits in cancer. serve the community," said Lilly Chen, tion Service Center, the national Chinese Stern says the project required an enormous amount senior lecturer at the Center for the Language Association ofSecondary—El- of work in the lab and wouldn't have been possible with- Study of Languages and director of the ementary Schools and regional and local out the dedication and motivation of research techni- ICLT."By establishing the certificate Chinese language teachers' associations. cian William Lavery. A paper on the research appeared program, we are answering that call." Also, the ICLT plans to work with local in the Journal of Neuroscience, and Stern and Lavery's Through a series of online and face- schools to implement Chinese language co-authors include research technician Michelle Wells, to-face courses, the ICLT will offer a courses beginning with the schools' 2008 postdoctoral research assistant Veronica Hall, graduate low-cost, two-year summer program summer school programs. student James Yager and undergraduate Alex Rottgers. designed to fit into teachers' schedules Find out more about the program at The research is supported by the Department of Defense and budgets. The institute will not pro- www.teachers.rice.edu.• Neurofibromatosis Research Program.• vide state certification; instead, it will —Jessica Stark prepare teachers to be certified through —Jade Boyd

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Nanodevice, Build Thyself

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures.

The fi nd ing,which was published i n the chemistlyjourna I Angewandte Chemie International Edition,could potentially lead to the development of novel nanodevices like highly sensitive optical sensors, superlenses and even "invisible" objects for use in the military. "Finding new ways to assemble nano-objects into superstructures is an important task because, at the nanoscale, the properties of those objects depend on the arrangement of individual building blocks," said principal investigator Eugene Zubarev, the Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator and assistant Quantum Dot Solar Panels professor of chemistry. Although ringlike assemblies have been observed Better, cheaper solar energy panels may soon be possible thanks to arrays of molecu- in spherical nanoparticles and other symmetrical lar specks of semiconductors called quantum dots. The idea of quantum-dot-based molecules, until now such structures had not been voltaics is not new. It's long been known that four-legged cadmium selenide quan- documented with rod-shaped nanostructures. tum dots, in particular, are effective at converting sunlight into electrical energy. The Like many nanoscale objects, gold nanorods are several billionths of a meter in size. problem has been in finding a manufacturing method that makes high-quality dots in The nanorods Zubarev used have a central core of inorganic crystal, sufficient quantities. and attached to their surfaces are thousands offlexible, chainlike organic polymer molecules. The combination That problem may have been solved by tides with missing arms or arms that are of inorganic and organic features results in a hybrid research conducted at Rice's Center for of uneven length or crooked. Even in the structure that proved to be critical to the research. Biological and Environmental Nanotech- best recipe, 30 percent of the prepared Working with Rice graduate student nology. "Our work knocks down a big particles are not tetrapods. Bishnu Khanal, Zubarev placed barrier in developing quantum-dot-based CBEN's formula, developed by Wong the nanorods in a solution photovoltaics as an alternative to the con- and graduate student Subashini Asokan of chloroform, which is an ventional, more expensive silicon-based with CBEN director Vicki Colvin and organic solvent. As the • solar cells," said principal investigator Mi- graduate student Karl Krueger, produces chloroform evaporated, chael Wong, assistant professor of chemical same-sized particles, more than 90 per- its surfacetemperature and biomolecular engineering. cent of which are tetrapods. Significantly, dropped low enough Quantum dots are megamolecules of these tetrapods are made ofcadmium to cause condensation semiconducting materials that are smaller selenide, a compound that has been very of water droplets from than living cells. They interact with light in difficult to produce in this configuration. the air, much like what 5 happens when dew forms. "Our work knocks down a big barrier in developing quantum-dot- As thousands and thousands based photovoltaics as an alternative to the conventional, more of microdroplets of water con- expensive silicon-based solar cells." —Michael Wong densed on the surface of the chloroform, the nanorods that had been suspended in the solution started to press up against the droplets and form rings unique ways — giving off different-colored The method is not only cheaper but safer around them. The polymer coating prevented the rods light or creating electrons and holes — than conventional methods because it-uses from being absorbed into the droplets because it is due partly to their tiny size, partly to their cetyltrimethylammonium bromide instead insoluble in water. After the droplets evaporated, the shape and partly to the material they're of the normally used alkylphosphonic acid nanorods remained in their ring formation. made of. Scientists have studied quantum compounds. Cetyltrimethylammonium Thousands of well-defined rings can be produced in a dots for more than a decade, with an eye bromide is used in some shampoos, and matter of seconds using this method. "It is surprisingly toward using them in medical tests, chemi- for producers looking to ramp up tetrapod simple and can be used for organizing nanocrystals of cal sensors and other devices. production, this means cheaper raw mate- various shapes, size and chemical compositions into One way to achieve cheaper solar cells is rials and fewer purification steps. circular arrays," Zubarev said. "When nanorods are to make them out of quantum dots. Prior The research was funded by the Nation- organized into a ring, significant changes occur in their research has shown that four-legged quan- al Science Foundation, 3M Corp., Ad- optical and electromagnetic properties." tum dots — called tetrapods — are many vanced Aromatics LP, the Air Force Office The research was funded by the National Science times more efficient at converting sunlight of Scientific Research and Rice University. Foundation and the Welch Foundation.• into electricity than are regular quantum It appeared online May 1 in the journal dots. But Wong said that Small. current methods —B. J. Almond of producing tetrapods lead to a lot of par- —Jade Boyd

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However, the most flexible parts four years of working the prob- The project's pieces started often are those most vital to the lem himself, with very little to fall into place last fall, but a Protein protein's fitnction — such as the progress, he assigned it to Rice huge hurdle remained: The pro- site where an enzyme catalyzes graduate student Billy Poon in tein Ma and Poon were using as Puzzle a reaction or where a signaling mid-2001. "The success of this a test case had to be "fitted" to protein docks with its partners. project," Ma said, "is really a the map that Poon's program Falls into "When proteins move, they story about Billy's perseverance had produced. This final step Place do it for a reason," said Ma. "It and determination." was like an enormous puzzle, is perhaps ironic that current Poon never lost faith in the and to solve it, students put techniques give us the fuzziest basic premise of the project, on special goggles that allowed detail in the regions where we although producing results took them to see computerized 3-D desire the most clarity." some time. "All indications representations of both the map When one of the founders of a Ma first imagined developing were that it should work," he and the protein. They would field says you've made a major a new mathematical algorithm said. "I did start to get worried then fit the parts of the protein breakthrough, you can pretty to zero in on these mobile sites in the fourth and fifth years be- within the mapped area, al- well bet you'vefound something about a decade ago, and after cause I needed to finish." though in doing so, they often important. inadvertently moved a different part of the protein out of align- The breakthrough in this case ment elsewhere. The problem is a new way to analyze the was magnified by the fact that moving parts oflarge proteins, only a small fraction of the en- which will make it easier for tire puzzle was visible on the structural biologists to clas- screen at one time. sify and scrutinize the active The task of fitting the protein sites of proteins implicated in fell to BCM student Xiaorui cancer and other diseases. The Chen, who joined Ma's group researchers used a mathemati- as part of her medical school cal algorithm to narrow down rotation. Protein fitting is an art all the possible ways a protein for which Chen has an enor- might flex and bend in conjunc- mous talent, Ma said, in part tion with information captured because she has studied proteins via X-ray crystallography, a tech- since high school. nique in which protein crystals When the problem finally was are bombarded with X-rays, to solved, Poon was overjoyed at reveal the precise three-dimen- being able to publish the results sional arrangement of every of his long years ofstudy. "If atom in the protein. anything, I was even happier," The interinstitutional research "This success is revolutionary for the field Ma said. "Nobody was sure it involved scientists from Baylor would work out before that, College of Medicine and Rice, of structure biology and is one of the and it's a rare treat when a sci- led by Jianpeng Ma, who holds largest technical leaps forwards in X-ray entist gets to witness a success joint appointments at both insti- like this one." tutions. "Increasingly," Ma said, refinement in the last two decades. It will Other co-authors of the pa- "our discipline is faced with de- per were BCM faculty members ciphering the structure oflarge, fundamentally change the way people do Florante Quiocho and Qinghua complex proteins in which some structural refinement for large and flexible Wang. Poon was supported by parts are constantly moving, the Houston Area Molecular even when the protein is locked complexes." —William Lipscomb, Harvard University Biophysics Predoctoral Train- in a crystal form." ing Program. Other funding According to Harvard Uni- agencies that contributed to the versity's William Lipscomb, a work were the National Insti- Nobel laureate who co-founded tutes of Health, the National protein crystallography, "This Science Foundation and the success is revolutionary for the Welch Foundation, as well as field of structure biology and is Hewlett Packard and Intel via one of the largest technical leaps their support of the Rice Teras- forward in X-ray refinement in cale Cluster. The research ap- the last two decades. It will fun- peared in the Proceedings of the • damentally change the way peo- National Academy of Science.• ple do structural refinement for large and flexible complexes." —Jade Boyd A protein is a chain of amino acids strung end-to-end, and Ma said current techniques are good at deciphering all but the most flexible parts of proteins.

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a gas but differ from gases in nature, the answer lies in the Deep Freezing Plasmas that they are good conductors density of the material. In a of electricity and are affected by neutron star, for example, a tea- Forget solids, liquids and gases. Plasmas are, by far, the most abun- magnetic fields. spoon of matter has a mass of dant state of matter, accounting for about 99 percent of the visible In Killian's laboratory, about 100 million metric tons. plasmas are created and cooled matter in the universe. But you're not likely to encounter plasma So a plasma there becomes solid by lasers. They exist only for due to the crushing density of here on Earth. Strongly interacting plasmas naturally occur only in about one-thousandth of a its surroundings. In the lab, Kil- very dense and energetic environments where it isn't possible to second, but that's long enough lian hopes to get the same effect set up a laboratory, such as a white dwarf star. to be photographed. By slightly by making the plasma ultracold. varying the conditions of the "People ask what applications plasma and by photographing Tom "The field sprang into exis- there are," Killian said. "It's a Rice University physicist it at various points throughout only recently, when tech- natural question, and though Killian remains unfazed. He's tence its short fifespan, Killian and one of a growing group of nology advanced to the point there are some indications of his colleagues are opening a ways we might use ultracold researchers worldwide who are where we could make exotic place window on a bizarre neutral plasmas — to improve unlocking some of the mysteries states of nature that were previ- matter behaves in where electron microscopy, for ex- of plasmas by doing something ously limited to the realm of fundamentally different ways ample — researchers in this nature never does — freezing theory," Killian said. There are than are normally observable. field are primarily inspired by a them to less than a degree fewer than a dozen laboratories Researchers already have desire to explore new realms of above absolute zero. in the world working on ultra- made liquidlike systems that nature that no one has ever seen "Our plasmas behave differ- cold neutral plasmas, but the resemble the interiors of gas before." ently because they're cold," Kil- field is growing quickly because giant planets like Jupiter. Now, lian said. "The particles inside technology is bringing previ- several research groups around Killian's team includes post- them slow down to the point ously unperformed experiments the world, including Killian's, doctoral researcher Hong Gao, that they feel one another and within reach. are racing to become the first to graduate students Jose Castro interact with their neighbors Ultracold plasmas are some- create a solid neutral plasma — and Sampad Laha and former much more strongly than stan- thing of a conundrum. To start a bizarre state of matter believed graduate students Priya Gupta dard plasmas, and we have the with, matter in a plasma state to exist in the crust of super- and Clayton Simien. Killian was technology to take pictures of doesn't exist as discrete atoms. dense neutron stars. invited by the editors of Science them while they do it." He Instead, plasma is a kind of "The concept of a solid magazine to summarize the hopes to make his cold plasmas atomic soup that contains about plasma is counterintuitive," Kil- state of the emergent discipline give up some of the secrets equal numbers of free-flowing lian said. "How can you have in a review article.• of their dense, hot, energetic electrons and ions. Plasmas this flowing mix ofions and cousins. have some of the properties of electrons in a solid form?" In —Jade Boyd

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There's More to Life Than Predator Eats Prey

Its not a good idea to put all his "real" lab is 1,500 miles empirically to find out how cade working on the population your eggs in one basket ... away, spends several months well they predict what really ecology of mutualisms, a pre- unless you're a senita moth. each year observing the moths happens." requisite for understanding the and cacti at several locations in Found in the parched Sonoran Traditional theory ofsuch larger puzzle." the Sonoran Desert, including mutualistic Desert of southern Arizona and interactions leads Now Holland is returning Organ Pipe northern Mexico, the senita Cactus National to predictions of unbounded to his earlier interests in com- Monument in southern Arizo- growth moth depends on a single plant population or instabil- munity ecology. "We want to na. But his primary research site ity doom species — the senita cactus — and eventual due to understand how the structure of for more than a decade both for its food and for a place has been one species overexploiting an- mutualistic communities influ- a desolate, 30-acre patch of des- other. to lay eggs. The senita cactus is These predictions clearly ences the stability and dynam- ert straddling three equally dependent on the moth, ranches near don't square with what Holland ics ofindividual species and of Bahia de Kino on the Gulf of the only species that pollinates and his students see happening whole networks of species," he California. Holland stu- its flowers. and his in the Sonoran Desert, where said. The results suggest that dents sometimes go weeks with- thrive. His Senita cacti and senita moths both species models the structures of mutualistic out seeing other people at the have a rare, mutually depen- suggest that one mutualist may communities complement those sites, aside from stray cowboys. dent relationship, one of only exert some control over the of predator—prey food webs, a three known dependencies in which an insect actively pollinates flowers for the purpose of assuring a food resource for its offspring. "Mutualistic relationships like this present a problem for ecological theory," said Nat Hol- land, Rice assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. Holland co-discovered the senita moth—senita cactus mutualism in 1995 and has studied it ever since. The problem is that the moths lay their eggs inside the cacti's flowers immediately af- The solitude provides valu- other's population increases, finding that presents the tanta- ter pollination, and when the able time for Holland to syn- such that neither unbounded lizing possibility of developing eggs hatch, the moth larvae eat thesize what he's learned in growth nor overexploitation an overarching scheme that in- the fruit, destroying the plant's the desert, which is important ensue. corporates elements of both. chances to produce seeds. The- because his ultimate goal is a "I've always been interested Holland's research has been ory predicts extreme ecological fundamental rethinking of eco- in the community ecology of funded by the National Science instability for this relationship: logical theory for such mutu- mutualism — the larger puzzle Foundation, the National Geo- As moth populations increase, alistic interactions. "I develop — and this moth—cactus re- graphic Society and the Nation- more fruits are destroyed and theoretical models that attempt lationship is just one piece of al Park Service.. fewer new cacti appear, and the to explain mutualistic relation- that," Holland said. "When we —Jade Boyd spiral continues until both spe- ships like the one between the discovered the relationship, I cies disappear. But in this case, moth and the cactus," he said, immediately thought of using that hasn't happened. "and I take those models into it to look at the bigger picture, Holland, who quipped that the field and examine them but I wound up spending a de-

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Before and after photos of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis

Rice Engineer Shares Insight on scores below 3 require shutting Fascinated by Bridges down a bridge immediately. Bridge Inspections The eight-lane Interstate 35W Nagarajaiah, who recently was bridge that crossed the Mis- appointed to chair the nonprofit A bridge collapse, such as the one in Minneapolis on Aug. 1, sissippi River near downtown U.S. Panel on Structural and is the last thing Satish Nagarajaiah wants to see,even though Minneapolis received an average Health Monitoring and Con- film footage of a famous bridge collapse is what sparked his score of 5 when it was inspected trol, is expanding his interest in interest in the behavioral structure of bridges. in 2005. An overall score of5 structural assessment of bridges represents fair condition and in- and buildings to aerospace sys- dicates that all primary structural tems,including the Internation- When Nagarajaiah was in high How Bridges Are elements are sound but may al Space Station. school in Bangalore, India, the Inspected have minor section loss, crack- "The backbone of the space BBC ran a series on different ing, spalling or scour (erosion of station is a large truss, similar to types of bridges that showed how Structural damage on bridges, soil around the base of the pier a bridge," he said. "NASA wants scientists study their vibrations to such as fatigue cracks and frac- that may cause the pier to tilt). us to monitor it and come up determine if they are safe. "One tures in hidden members and "Obviously there were some with a real-time assessment of program analyzed in great detail joints, are not always visible to deficiencies, but none serious the structure's condition." the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma the eye. Engineers assess struc- enough to warrant closing the Nagarajaiah said the trag- Narrows Bridge in Washington," tural integrity by monitoring the bridge," Nagarajaiah said. "It's edy in Minnesota will serve as he recalled. "That really fired my soundness of the entire bridge very rare for an entire bridge to a wake-up call for more careful imagination and made me want and then zeroing in on specific collapse. Usually only one or monitoring of bridges. Federal to know more about how struc- sections. Sensors placed on sam- two sections collapse." regulations require that most tures behave dynamically." ple areas of the bridge record He attributed the collapse bridges be inspected every two Today, the Rice professor of strains caused by vibrations and of the whole bridge to its de- years, but Nagarajaiah advocates mechanical engineering stud- movement of the bridge and sign, which, he said, is typical of more frequent and careful in- ies the structural integrity of any excessive strains or force in bridges built in the 1950s and spections using new structural bridges and monitors their structural members. These mea- 1960s. The 40-year-old I-35W monitoring techniques in addi- safety. Careful examination and surements are incorporated into bridge was built with a continu- tion to visual inspection. testing offailed structural com- a computer model developed ous truss across two supports, "The U.S. has about 590,000 ponents coupled with computer on the bridge's original design. the overhang at each end con- bridges, and 162,800 ofthem modeling might help determine If analysis reveals problem areas necting to the ramps from the have been identified as being de- the cause of the collapse in Min- that need closer inspection, the road. These overhangs created ficient," Nagarajaiah said. Struc- neapolis, Nagarajaiah said, but areas in question can be exam- negative bending forces to bal- tural deficiencies were found recreating the scenario will be a ined with ultrasonic sensors. ance the positive bending forces in 81,300 bridges, and 81,500 painstaking process that could Once the inspection of a in the center span, but the de- are functionally obsolete. "If we take months. bridge has been completed, sign did not include redundant expect bridges to last 100 years, "By eliminating certain types engineers rate the structure's spans, components or supports. the federal government needs of causes, such as the piers not overall condition on a scale es- So when one overhang failed, to spend the money to maintain failing, engineers might be able tablished by the Federal High- there was nothing left to hold them," he said. "It's not some- to estimate the possible cause of way Administration. A score of up the center span. thing we can ignore."• the collapse," Nagarajaiah said. 9 indicates excellent condition. "The failure probably started —B. J. Almond "Photos show that the two piers A rating ofzero is assigned to on the south-end spanand then of the steel three-span truss arch a failed bridge, which means it progressed to the center span and bridge are still intact, so I sus- is beyond corrective action. A north-end span," Nagarajaiah pect that fatigue fracture in one score of 1 indicates imminent said."The piers look fine, so I of the trusses is likely to have failure, and 2 indicates criti- suspect one ofthe trusses failed, been a contributing factor." cal condition. Nagarajaiah said causing the domino effect."

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Rice's Largest Class of freshmen Arrives for OA eak

The entering class of freshmen that arrived for 2007 0-Week is one for the record books.

In addition to being Rice's largestgroup of first-year students, the 742 freshmen were selected from the largest applicant pool in Rice's history — 8,972 students The incoming class represents a 4 percent increase over the 715 freshmen enrolled last year and demonstrates Rice's commitment to gradually expanding undergraduate enrollment by 30 percent as part of the Vision for the Second Century.

There are other distinguishing features of the newcomers to Rice, as well

• Underrepresented minorities account for 20 percent of the new class — a figure that has been on the rise over the pastfewyears For example,the 57 African-American freshmen represent a 50 percent increase over the 38 in last year's class • Forty-eight percent are Texans, and 45 percent are from other parts of the U.S.or are U.S. citizens living abroad Seven percent are foreign nationals The latter is a 15 percent increase over the number of first-year foreign nationals in last year's entering class and reflects the V2C goal of Rice becoming a more internationally focused university. There are 397 males and 347 females in the entering class One factor that contributed significantly to the higher number of males was an 18 percent increase in the number of students planning to major in engineering, a field traditionally dominated by men • The SAT middle 50 percent score range for the incoming class is 1,330 to 1,500, the ACT middle 50 percent score range is 29 to 34 Seventy percent of the students were in the top 5 percent of their high school class • Eighty percent of the freshmen were involved in some form of community service in high school • Forty percent speak more than one language • Thirty-three percent served as president of a club °rather organization Fifty-eight percent were varsity athletes

"The class of 2011 brings a high degree of academic achievement and intellectual vitality," said Chris Munoz, vice president for enrollment "Their contributions to school, family and community are significant We are delighted to welcome them to Rice "• —B J Almond

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According to the Department of Energy, commercial development of just 1 percent of the United States' hydrate resources would more than double the nation's proved gas reserves.

Locating "Ice That Burns"

Composed of ice crystals between sulfate and methane in marine sediments — as a that melt into a gas that .frt tr shorthand measure to effec- can ignite, methane hy- tively predict where hydrates drates have been dubbed will occur and the quantity of "ice that burns." the hydrate accumulation. "Sulfate can be measured They're formed tens to hun- more accurately than other dreds of meters below the geochemical data and may ocean floor, where tempera- be a better indicator of the tures plunge and the weight presence of gas hydrates," of the water above exerts pres- Bhatnagar said. "Moreover, sures of thousands of pounds sulfate data can be obtained per square inch. As much as from shallow cores, which also 20 trillion tons of methane are avoids the complications aris- estimated to be locked away in ing from drilling through hy- gas hydrates on the outer edg- drate layers." es ofthe Earth's continents, The importance of Bhat- and according to the Depart- nagar's work hasn't gone ment of Energy, commercial unnoticed. In 2006, he won development ofjust 1 percent the Society of Petroleum En- of the United States' hydrate gineers' Gulf Coast Regional resources would more than Student Paper Contest, the double the nation's proved SPE's International Stu- gas reserves. dent Paper Contest and an The problem is finding it. Outstanding Student Paper But that may have gotten Thanks to the award-winning research of Rice Award from the American a little easier thanks to the Geophysical Union. The re- award-winning research of University graduate student Gaurav Bhatnagar, search is supported by Rice's Rice graduate student Gaurav the search for gas hydrates just got easier Shell Center for Sustainability Bhatnagar, who works in the and by a Kobayashi Graduate lab of George Hirasaki, the Bhatnagar is a chemical engineering doctoral Fellowship. A.J. Hartsook Professor in Hirasaki, the For more information about Chemical and Biomolecular student in the lab of George Rice's gas hydrate research, Engineering. A.J. Hartsook Professor in Chemical and visit www.ruf.rice.edu/ Bhatnagar has developed -hydrates.• a way to use a single variable Biomolecular Engineering. — the depth of the interface —Jade Boyd

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learn about the culture and, in turn, learn about themselves." Leimbach, who accompa- Comnity nied the students, facilitated pretrip education and trip Service as logistics, but she gives most of the credit to the student volunteers. "It's a student-led Lifestyle trip and a student experience," she said. "These are incredible students who are helping oth- This summer,a dozen Rice Uni- ers on their own time, in the versity students left the country midst of their busy academic and their comfort zones to em- lives. I'm grateful for the op- bark on a servicetripto San Lucas portunity to go with them, Toliman, Guatemala,to work on watch them grow and see projects requested and directed what they are capable of." Under the leadership by indigenous people. Arranged of student co-coordinators Sun- throughthe International Service dermann and Karina Rad- Project program developed by ulescu, the students spent the Rice's Community Involvement spring semester learning about Center, this is the seventh trip Guatemala and raising funds to the site. for the trip by baking cook- ies, washing cars, organizing "It is not about 'us' coming a dodgeball to help 'them," said senior tournament and writing countless Jane Sundermann, one of the letters re- questing support from program's student co-coordi- friends, family and the Rice commu- nators. "It is about 'all of us' nity. For many working together to achieve ofthe students, none ofit felt like work. mutual goals. Our job there is "I've learned that service to work where we are needed really can or as the community leaders be a way to live one's life; a way to approach every see fit. I am so excited to work day. And I like that lifestyle," side by side with the members said Sundermann, a psychol- of the community and talk to ogy major from them about their lives." St. Louis. She has been involved with In the past, groups have a number ofservice projects ranging worked on developing a cen- from English trally located women's cen- as a Second Lan- guage tutoring to ter. Rice students also have orphanage outreach helped build a medical clinic, in the Dominican Republic a dental clinic, a school and to constructing class- rooms a children's park and have in Mexico. contributed to a reforestation "Service has been one of the most important project. Each project was built educational experiences I have had from the ground up, including in my time at Rice," moving boulders to clear land Sundermann said. and participating in building "It's one thing to learn construction. in the classroom, but to go out "Rice has been intimately into the community and involved in the community, apply my knowledge and skills is an incredibly and that is what makes this rewarding and educational experience." trip so unique: the long-stand- To learn ing relationship with the peo- more about the Community Involvement ple ofSan Lucas Toliman," Center, visit www.rufrice.edu/ said Christa Leimbach, as- —service. sistant director ofthe Com- • —Jessica Stark munity Involvement Center. "The opportunity to stay for two weeks in the same place really enables the students to

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materials science, who teaches Take a handful of Owls, one 1989 Alfa Romeo, a dash of ingenuity "This was our opportunity the automotive engineering and a lot of endurance. Mix thoroughly and spread across 5,000 course for the Department of miles of road. That's the Rice recipe for the Cannonball One Lap to enjoy our work and see Mechanical Engineering and of America race. Materials Science, began Rice's if, and how, it improved the One Lap tradition as an exercise for students to gain hands-on Cannonball One,instituted in days in May. Rankings are based race car. Before we even experience in working on a real 1984, is the legal successor to on the amount of time driv- race car. His many contributions the fabled Cannonball Run, an ers take to complete the given made it back to Houston, include finding donated cars, race distance. The event is foremost illegal coast-to-coast road providing car insurance, letting endurance and vehicle we were talking about how of the 1970s made famous by one of club members work in his pri- the 1980 movie of the same preparation. There are no sup- we could make the car bet- vate garage and working on the name. Rice student members of port crews, each team is allowed cars himself. the Rice chapter of the Society only one set of street tires and ter for next year." "His industry contacts and of Automotive Engineers have competitors drive nearly 24 consistent high level of involve- —Damen Hattori participated in the new ver- hours a day. ment have been some of the key sion of the event since 2005. The Rice team, known as the ing about how we could make reasons for the club's success," The goal of the club is to give Racing Owls,included David the car better for next year." Hattori said. "Without him, we students practical experience Carr '07, Damen Hattori, Kevin The hard work paid off: wouldn't even be near the level in engineering automobiles for Hirshberg, Nikolay Kostov, Lu- The team finished 54th out of we're at now." optimal performance and cre- cas Marr and Will Pryor. The 87 total competitors, up from The Racing Owls are looking ating innovative automotive students invested more than 85th out of95 entries in 2005. for more sponsors to support technologies. 2,000 hours in the car during Country Music Television was the club's efforts. Learn more Now,rather than race across the 2006-07 school year. "This so taken with the Racing Owls about them at the Rice Society of the country over public high- was our opportunity to enjoy that it featured the team in its Automotive Engineers Web site at ways, Cannonball One par- our work and see if, and how, it coverage of the race. www.rufrice.edu/-rsae/.• ticipants drive an equivalent improved the race car," Hattori Andrew Barron, the Charles —Jessica Johns Pool distance on 18 different race- said. "Before we even made it W. Duncan Jr.-Welch Professor tracks in 11 states during eight back to Houston, we were talk- of Chemistry and professor of

Fall '07 17 Competition, Collaboration and the Rise of Global Higher Education

By David W. Leebron, President, Rice University

My days,like those ofmost university global. In part because of the democ- presidents, ratization of higher education (in the tend to get filled by the everyday tasks of oper- sense of being open to all regardless of their economic means), there will ating the university, engaging with the various continue to be intense pressure against rising tuitions, even as resources are parts of our university community and keeping stretched. In addition, many (but not the implementation of our strategic plan, the all) governments will be reluctant to use tax revenues to support increasingly ex- Vision for the Second Century, on track. Little pensive research, especially research that yields uncertain returns when measured time seems available to reflect on some of the in local and national economic ben- broader trends that will affect universities in the efit. In the United States, for example, federal support of university-based re- coming decades. search is expected to decline in real dol- lars next year. This occurs at the same time that other countries are pouring One way to overcome the tendency of of the "innovation" or "idea" economy. funds, essentially, into trying to replicate the quotidian demands to push out the Nations and industrial enterprises alike the American research university at its needed time for reflection is to accept will seek to derive from universities height. occasional invitations to join other uni- a competitive advantage in the inter- These forces, as well as others, will versity presidents for meetings aimed national economy. And although this continue to drive most research univer- at discussing more far-reaching trends recognition of the central importance sities to be three things that they tra- affecting our future. For that reason, I of the research university will, in some ditionally have not been: competitive, was very pleased to be invited to two ways, be to its benefit, other societal collaborative and global. The escalating such gatherings: one in Seoul, South and global forces will cause the research competition is likely to force universi- Korea, hosted by Seoul National Uni- university to experience increasing stress ties to rationalize their operations. The versity on the occasion of the 61st an- in fulfilling its traditional missions. threat from for-profit educational en- niversary of its founding, and the other This stress will derive primarily from terprises and other parts of the educa- in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), In- two sources: escalating competition in tional establishment that do not join the dia, hosted by the Indian Institute of virtually all aspects of the education and research endeavor with the educational Technology. research enterprise and greater diffi- endeavor will cause the reduction of For the conference in Seoul, the topic culty in securing funding to support the cross subsidies that may exist between was the global vision and strategy of the rising costs of research. The competi- the research and educational parts of research university in the 21st century. tion will be for faculty, for students, for their operations. This effort to com- The next decades will see increasing funding, for intellectual property rights pete simultaneously as efficient provid- pressure on research universities as they and for recognition and visibility, and ers of higher-educational services and come to be viewed as essential drivers each aspect of this competition will be as contributors to the production of

18 Rice Sallyport "Due to our outstanding reputation, we at Rice have opportunities to build international strategic relationships that belie our size. We must continue the process of leveraging our strengths and seeking out diverse sources to fund the research endeavor." —David W. Leebron

knowledge through research will strain partnerships) and the occasional joint ties to establish the foundations of such financial resources. Collaboration with venture. However, because of the de- relationships. industry in research is likely to increase, centralized, qualitatively variable and Where does all this leave a compara- but this may lead to increased conflict intellectually diverse nature of the re- tively small research university located over intellectual property rights and a search university, we can anticipate that in Houston? Because of our small size blurring of research missions between the cooperation between parts — indi- (reflected in the correspondingly small university and industry that could be viduals, departments and schools — will size of our individual departments), detrimental to basic research. continue to dominate collaborative en- international collaboration in teaching The increase in competition in virtu- terprises between universities for some and research is even more important to ally every market in which universities our success and to our ability to remain operate (for students, for faculty, for "The increase in among the world's great universities. Due to our outstanding reputation, we research funding) will force universities competition in virtually to become more effective international at Rice have opportunities to build in- every market in which ternational strategic relationships that actors as they seek to create the best belie our size. We must continue the opportunities for both students and universities operate (for process of leveraging our strengths and faculty. In other kinds of enterprises, students,for faculty, for seeking out diverse sources to fund the the result has been a rationalization and research funding) will research endeavor. Of critical impor- consolidation of the industry (account- force universities to tance will be the development of col- ing, legal services and retailing come become more effective laborative relationships with industry, to mind). With universities, however, and these are likely to involve both the the barriers to consolidation (mergers international actors research and teaching missions and and acquisitions) and,in most cases, to as they seek to create to take place in the global context of foreign direct investment (the establish- the best opportunities both our and our partners' endeavors. ment offoreign branches) will remain for both students and But even as we pursue advancement high.(A notable exception is the es- faculty." of Rice's scientific and technological tablishment by some governments of disciplines, we must keep in mind our —David W. Leebron "education cities" such as that in Qa- distinctive commitment both to a liberal tar.) Instead, the forces of competition undergraduate education that includes and globalization will encourage the time to come. Ultimately, however, the humanistic as well as the scientific majority of research universities to build and certainly within this century, we and practical and to research that is strategic alliances and international col- can expect to see universities develop driven by curiosity and a faith that all laborations rather than establish over- much more deeply embedded rela- contributions to knowledge and under- seas branches. tionships that will cause us to look on standing have the potential to improve As we consider the models likely to today's typical, vague "Memorandum the human condition.• emerge, the most probable are the con- of Understanding" between universi- sortium model(now evident primarily ties as a quaint antecedent. Indeed, I with business schools), the global stra- think it could be said that we are now tegic alliance (along the lines of airline seeing a global scramble by universi-

Fall '07 19 WORDS OF WISDOM

Committed to transforming the world with an uncommon approach to research and education.

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Millions of National Public Radio listeners around the country heard that short phrase during its two-month run this fall. The NPR sponsorship — which generated 90 million impressions, or people contacts — is part of a comprehensive communications initiative to raise awareness of Rice and help more people understand what sets it apart.

In addition, a new 30-second public service "The new Rice brand magnified. And alongside is a stepped-up announcement appeared on Fox TV,ESPN communications campaign anchored in Un- and Rice's own Jumbotron during football strategy is designed conventional Wisdom and highlighted by games. The PSA features permeable side- Who Knew anecdotes. walks, the School of Architecture and the to differentiate the "In this competitive academic market- Shepherd School of Music using a "Who place, the need to establish a recognizable Knew" question-and-answer approach. university from other brand — one that stands out and reflects Then there's the rice.edu Web site sport- educational and the institution's unique character — has ing a vibrant new shield that pops off of never been greater," said Rice President the page and a growing number of pages research institutions David Leebron. "If we want recognition as with new looks that include official brand- a great research university, we need to coming, clean new design and sharper content. by communicating municate our strengths clearly, convincingly Publications coming from different parts of and often." the institution are clearly declaring their Rice what makes Rice "The hundreds of people we consulted in affiliation by using the new logo. Even the unique — the wisdom developing this initiative said the same thing Rice University Police Department's Tahoes again and again: Rice needs more sizzle. Un- sport the new look. that emerges from conventional Wisdom is our secret sauce," "Rice's owls look great on a tie, and I've said Linda Thrane, vice president for Public got a few hundred to prove it," said Bucky its research and Affairs. "Our positioning and marketing ini- Allshouse, chairman of the board of trustees tiative also will spice up our news media cov- Public Affairs Committee. "But the owl on teaching, embodied erage, community outreach, publications, the shield in the new Rice logo is a beautiful in the Athenian owl Web presence and other communications." statement of what we're about — our un- The initiative also includes a comprehen- conventional ways of approaching opportu- mascot — and the sive identity standards manual (www.rice. nities and problems, the wisdom that comes edu/ricebrand), the Who Knew Web site, out of our teaching and research. This is one distinctive, sometimes Web templates and an online storefront for more way to unite us as a community and to quirky, way Rice goes ordering branded stationery and business tell the world about what we stand for." cards. Topping it off is the NPR campaign, You hear it more and more often: "What's about its business. featured on more than 1,440 stations dur- going on at Rice? It seems more vibrant." ing the popular "Morning Edition" and "All Well, there's a lot going on. The Vision Together, those add Things Considered" programs, plus Rice for the Second Century is under way, and banners on npr.org. Rice is being transformed: new facilities up to Unconventional "NPR's audience of leaders in business, built, older ones renovated, the student pop- Wisdom." government and education are just the ulation expanded, international and research —David W. Leebron people we want to reach to raise awareness programming enhanced, urban outreach about Rice and its distinctive education, re-

20 Rice Sallyport search and public service," said Elisa Fink, be found by clicking on the "Who Knew" What They're Saying Rice's new director of marketing."We hope icon. that when people hear the spot, they go on- The Rice Student Association is joining "I think the single most impressive thing about line to rice.edu, where they can read about the initiative with a contest designed to col- the repositioning efforts currently going on at individuals and the work that make Rice this university isthe wonderful match between the lect student-generated "Who Knews." a unique institution." the quirkiness of Rice and the quirkiness of "The Who Knew campaign builds Rice The phrase "Unconventional Wisdom" Linda Thrane and her team. Here is a group spirit among the students by focusing on, was developed through an exhaustive se- that seems to get a kick out of discovering, ries of on- and off-campus interviews, focus and highlighting, what sets us apart," said and then telling back to us, our own great groups and surveys to help find Rice's voice. RSA President Laura Kelley. "Learning story, and that makes us want to give them The branding and marketing campaign has about these fantastic achievements produced more." been embraced by President Leebron and by the school we belong to means that stu- —Deborah Harter the Rice Board of Trustees. dents will walk out of the Sallyport not only Associate Professor of French Speaker, Faculty Senate "The board of trustees believes that ad- confident in their skills to make a difference Rice's image broadly is crucial to vancing as leaders, but also proud of the place where achieving our vision, and we're convinced they received this great foundation." the way to do this is through simple, au- "A stronger identity will help us on a global Trustee Jeff Rose '77, an executive with thentic messages that we hammer home in level. It's just important for people to know all of our communications," said chairman Wells Fargo, has been advocating for Rice to who we are before we get there." —Jeff Rose Jim Crownover. "In fact, the board believed create a stronger identity through consistent Rice Trustee in this so much that we rolled up our sleeves use of its official logo, colors, wordmarks and got in there and worked on it. That's and other brand assets. "Rice has a tremen- the measure of how important this is." dous brand, but we have to manage it well "As I told engineering alumni the other day, Hundreds of alumni, trustees, deans, fac- and make more people aware of it — that our unconventional wisdom has allowed us ulty, administrators, students and commu- can only help us in recruiting students and to succeed. And who knew that the George nity members were interviewed or surveyed faculty and raising money," he said. R. Brown School of Engineering's success is for the campaign, spearheaded by Public Af- central to American competitiveness?" Fink agreed. "At Rice, the biggest chal- fairs and OLSON,a national branding firm lenge we face — external awareness — also —Sallie Keller-McNulty based in Minneapolis. Dean, George H. Brown School of Engineering "Rice's public image ought to be as is our greatest opportunity," she said. "I distinctive as our university — classy yet look at marketing as the summation of all like Rice — mail, e-mail, quirky, smart yet cheeky — just our communication activities "Rice students pride themselves on being faculty and alumni. We are and its students, Web pages, events, word of mouth and be- different from students at other institutions delighted with the new initiatives," said As- yond. It magnifies all of our communica- across the country: We love our unique cul- Rice Alumni President Charles sociation of tions with a single and strong voice." ture, intimate atmosphere and collaborative Szalkowski '70. Fink is charged with overseeing Rice's approach to academic excellence." "Great institutions, like great people, of- Laura Kelley brand management and promotion pro- — ten spend the last bit of their energy on be- President, Rice Student Association ing who they are or doing what they do. grams and working with communicators There simply isn't time to worry about who's across campus to create and deploy messages watching or what message is getting out," that raise positive awareness of Rice and its "Last year, during my tenure as president of said Deborah Harter, associate professor of many parts. the Association of Rice Alumni, I met with French and speaker of the Faculty Senate. "I The new Rice brand initiative also can be a student from New York City presently am so grateful we now have at Rice a special a catalyst for alumni to re-establish ties with attending the Jesse H.Jones Graduate School for us — whose team to do that worrying the institution and each other, said Vicki of Management, and she lamented the fact sole purpose is to speak on behalf of the un- VVhamond Bretthauer '79, a trustee and that, while renowned in the southwest, Rice conventional wisdom that captures so well was virtually unknown in New York City. I alumni board member."By getting the word the essence of this surprising university and was pleased and excited when Linda Thrane, Out, it ultimately helps us get back in touch of the brilliant, offbeat,'who-knewing' stu- vice president for Public Affairs, advised the with our alumni all over the country and the dents and faculty who make it their home." ARA board that Rice was initiating a public The "Who Knew" marketing campaign world," she said. "As visibility goes up, we'll relations campaign and soliciting input and is designed to raise interest using clever jux- be seeing more people wanting to wear their participation from the board, alumni, faculty tapositions, dichotomies or unexpected as- Rice pins and hats and T-shirts and rekin- and administration. The members of the board sociations. Several that already have made a dling that relationship." were impressed with the 'Unconventional public appearance are: Sallie Keller-McNulty, dean of the Wisdom'theme and the'Who Knew'approach • Who knew an ocean belch could turn George R. Brown School of Engineering, to highlighting Rice's unique qualities. I firmly the Arctic green? said the messaging is based on what gives believe that this marketing campaign will be • Who knew that a happy home could an integral part of accomplishing President Rice distinction. "I do believe it is through cost less than a family car? David Leebron's objective of raising Rice's unconventional wisdom that we will suc- • Who knew that a baseball team with a profile nationally and internationally." .311 batting average would also have ceed," she said. "We're not like other —Harry Gee Jr. a 3.01 grade point average? universities in many ways. We have to be Past President, Association of Rice Alumni The rice.edu home page invites members smart, and we have to use our unconven- of the Rice community to submit "Who tional wisdom to attract the best students, Knew" ideas to a special Web site, which can faculty and resources."•

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Rice's Vision for the Second Century already exists on paper, but Facilities, FE&P has taken extra steps to keep the campus and surrounding communities informed Engineering and Planning is turning the touchstone into the tangible. Across about current and planned construction proj- campus — and even well beyond — passersby can see the signs of prog- ects, Bryson said, and its recently opened Con- struction Information Center is an example. ress in the form of new buildings, construction fences and groundbreakings. Located in a cluster of temporary buildings at the corner of College Way and Alumni Drive, this is the place to ask questions, see architec- "All the construction on campus is part of the ings, paths, fields and structured parking. tural models of planned buildings and view an implementation phase of the V2C," said Kevin "Campus plans done prior to 2002 did not informative PowerPoint presentation about Kirby, vice president for administration "There include any sort of physical engagement with the work under way all over campus. are lots of things being implemented, such as Texas Medical Center," said Barbara White Bry- "The CIC is intended to be a place where faculty initiative programs. The construction son, associate vice president ofFE&P. "We asked our campus community, as well as visitors, can just happens to be something that people can Michael Graves to show us how,instead ofturn- pop in and see what's going on," said Bryson. see and touch." ing its back on the Texas Medical Center, the uni- The center will stay on campus until current The construction is partially inspired by a versity can actually turn around and shake hands." construction projects are completed in three master plan developed in 2002 with the help of The plan has been revised several times since years. award-winning architect Michael Graves. The its initial inception, most recently to accom- "Ultimately, it will be wonderful to have study was commissioned with an eye toward modate the goals of the V2C. The V2C's as- those facilities added to the campus, and they embracing the opportunities presented by the piration to increase the undergraduate student will serve our research and teaching mission close proximity of the Texas Medical Center. It body by 30 percent has resulted in considerable very, very well," she said. "However, during delineates Fondren Library as the campus axis changes to the study by creating the need to this period, there are going to be some growing and suggests the relative placement of build- expand existing colleges and to add new ones. pains, and we want people to know where they can go when they have questions or concerns." Visitors to the CIC will have an opportunity to learn more about the sustainability features of the planned buildings, which are designed to be "green." "We've made a commitment that all new buildings will be able to be Leadership in En- ergy and Enviommental Design certified, which is the industry standard for certification related to construction," said Bryson."We like to be creative about each project and try to think in innovative and original ways so that we're really coming up with the right sustainable answer for each project." LEED certification is a nationally accepted standard for the design, construction and operation of buildings promoting sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, environmentally friendly materials selection and indoor environmental quality. For more information about FE&P's planned and current construction projects, visit the CIC or the construction update Web site at facilities. rice.edu. Updated images from construction webcams also are available online.•

—Merin Porter Taking a Bigger Byte the university as the first academic institu- group then systematically began migrating tion to use multiprotocol label-switching faculty and staff to the new network. virtual private networks. Rice was one of The 20,000-square-foot Data Center, Most of us have a hard time keeping our only 13 universities chosen for the 2007 which officially opened in July, offers plenty home computer working. Imagine what it's award out of a pool of more than 330 of room to grow for future computing like organizing and maintaining a complex nominees. needs. Its state-of-the-art cooling systems university network that serves 7,400 faculty, "When making our selections, we look and 65-foot elevation offer protection from staff and students. for true innovation — projects that involve Houston's heat and floods. That's what network administrators in not only a solid technology implementa- "Considering the scope ofthis project, it's Rice's Office of Information Technology tion, but also something more that really amazing to see what we've accomplished in the face every day. But the task has just gotten makes the school stand out," said Rhea past 18 months," said William Deigaard '93, a little easier with the opening of Rice's Kelly, managing editor of Campus Tech- director ofnetworking, telecommunications new state-of-the-art Data Center. Located nology. "Rice is being recognized for its and Data Center operations. on South Main, the Data Center is the forward-looking networking project — its The initiative has dramatically improved

Campus Technology magazine named Rice a Campus Technology Innovator and cited the university as the first academic institution to use multiprotocol label-switching virtual private networks. most recent and visible element of a holistic decision to forego traditional switched net- several areas of campus information tech- three-year project designed to create a tech- working to leverage carrier-class technology nology infrastructure by increasing network nological foundation to support teaching, and create a high-capacity, advanced virtu- stability and bandwidth and enabling wire- learning and research into the next decade. alized network, allowing students, faculty less access across campus while significantly Titled "From Megabyte to Petabyte and and researchers to do some pretty amazing decreasing the number of viruses. The Beyond: Future-Ready Network at Rice things on campus." project also consolidated servers, provided University," the project has included a IT began planning for the undertaking in centralized firewalls and reduced the risk of major, simultaneous overhaul of academic, 2004 then gathered input from faculty and data loss. administrative and research cyber-infra- students and acquired funding in spring "Improved gigabit connectivity also al- structure, said Kamran Khan, vice provost 2005. Contractors soon began installing lows our researchers to solve very large for Information Technology. "Reliability, 1,400 miles of copper wire in 63 buildings data-intensive problems and connect to security and quality of service were the big on an unusually fast timeline. Just one year national gigabyte networks," Khan said. drivers for this project. With the new infra- later, IT used itself as a guinea pig by test- "This project gives Rice the backbone it structure, the possibilities are endless." ing its own migration to the new system. needs to accomplish the goals outlined in The project's accomplishments haven't In summer 2006, residence halls were re- the Vision for the Second Century and just been noticed on campus. Campus wired, and, by move-in week, IT had set up provides additional services for our faculty, Technology magazine recently named Rice temporary help desks in each hall to help students and staff."• a Campus Technology Innovator and cited with the new network connections. The —Jessica Johns Pool •09— i

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When Rice's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, Karolina Adam, M.D. asked architect Ralph Adams Cram to design what Mr. and Mrs. Govind Agrawal is now Lovett Hall, he envisioned a passageway that Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard would inspire students to surge forth into a world Dr. and Mrs. C. Wayne Bardin of limitless opportunity. Since 1912, the Sallyport Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Brockman at Lovett Hall has served as this inspiration, uniting Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Canter past and present students in a symbolic journey from Mrs. Skip Dalton matriculation to graduation. Each year, the Sallyport Mr. and Ms. Bruce Wall Dunlevie simultaneously honors Rice's history and beckons a Ms. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans and Mr. John W. Elsenhans new era of thought and progress. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Houk Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Howard In the same tradition of honoring the past and look- Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Isgren ing forward, the Rice Annual Fund presents its Mr. and Mrs. L. Charles Landgraf newest giving society, the Sallyport Society. The fol- Dr. and Mrs. Walter Loewenstern lowing members ofthe Sallyport Society contributed Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edwin Loveless $25,000 or more last fiscal year in unrestricted gifts Ms. Susan L. Baker and Mr. Michael R. Lynch to the Annual Fund. These gifts play a special role Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Maxfield in Rice's future as the university aspires to an even Mr. and Mrs. Burt McMurtry higher level of excellence. In addition to providing Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. Miller invaluable resources to students, such as scholarships Dr. and Mrs. Niles Ransom Moseley and residential college funding, unrestricted gifts Dr. and Mrs. M. Kenneth Oshman allow the university to seize opportunities when they Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. (Ted) Richardson arise, without dipping into Rice's endowment. Rice Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Rudy University extends a special thank-you to the follow- Mrs. Kathryn Daily Segner and Mr. Edmund Peter Segner Ill ing individuals for their support. Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Shaw Jr. Ms. Janice L. Robertson and Mr. Douglas L. Williams

www.giving.rice.edu/annual 3 ALUMNI CLASS OF 1943 Mr. Frank C. Smith Jr. Rice is honored by the Mr. Al Woelfel, PE SOCIETY CLASS OF 1933 Mrs. Inez Benson Mims CLASS OF 1948 many donors who support FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Joe E. Mims Mrs Marjorie M Arsht (Meyer) Mr. Tom E. Mings B ROWN SOCIETY the Rice Annual Fund for Mr. Leslie D. Wareham Isaac Dvoretzky, Ph.D. CLASS OF 1934 ▪ ER'S SOCIETY TTT SOCIETY Mr. Stephen H. Buckley Student Life and Learning. B ROWN SOCIETY Mr. Noel Barron Mr. Bill T. Closs Mr. John P Peet *Mr. T. C. Campbell Mrs. Marion Smith Hargrove The following section recognizes many • S SOCIETY FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Curtis 0. Johnson Mr. Melvin A. Dow of our donors who gave between July 1, Mrs. Charles E. Smith (Claypool) Mrs. Barbara M. McClintock (Morrisey) Mr. Denny D. Moller *Mr. Fred B. McDonald 2006, and June 30, 2007. For a complete Mr. Daniel Andrew North CLASS OF 1935 Mr. C. Pete Sumners Mrs. Hilda Rich (Atlas) list of donors by class, please visit Mrs. Opal Smith Sumners LOVETT SOCIETY Mrs. Elaine Virginia Shalek (Chudleigh) WWW.giving.rice.edu/annual. Mr. D. Dean Weeke Every effort Mrs. Margaret Elkins Carl CLASS OF 1944

CHARTER SOCIETY was made to ensure that the information SOCIETY CLASS OF 1949 Mr. Edward Oppenheimer included is accurate and reflects the wishes Mr. Roger Wylie LOVETT SOCIETY of the individual donors. If any inadvertent CLASS OF 1936 B ROWN SOCIETY Mr. Woods Martin Mrs. Dorothy Jean Evershade (Weghorst) B ROWN SOCIETY errors or omissions have occurred, please • S SOCIETY Mr. James L. Hackney Mrs. Carolyn D. Jackson (Delhomme) contact us at [email protected] so that we may Mr. Bill Lorimer *Mr. Roland B. Stelzer CHARTER SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY correct our records. Mr. Orville D. Gaither CLASS OF 1937 Mr. Walter R. Bennett Mrs. Marjorie Bintliff Johnson Mrs. Alice Marjorie Dailey (Cobb) S SOCIETY Mr. Raleigh W. Johnson Jr. Mr. H. Craig Doennecke Mr. Ward Noble Adkins Dr. Herman J. Schultz Dr. Riki Kobayashi Mr. Howard F Gready Dr. Royal W. Randall Jr. FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Earl L. Lester Jr. Undergraduate Scholarships Ms. Patricia Thompson-Randall (Stevens) Mr. Bill Fairchild Mr. Francis Winters Mr. Thomas Hopkins III CLASS OF 1938 Mr. Vester T. Hughes Rice's policy of need-blind admission R'S SOCIETY Jr. allows Rice Mr. Herman G. Rethmeyer TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Edgar Owen Bottler to boast one of the most talented and intelligent Mr. William V. Ward Mrs. Katherine Brown (Tsanoff) Mr. Igor R. Bros enlistments of undergraduates in the world, and Mr. J. Leon Crittenden FOUNDER'S SOCIETY CLASS OF 1950 undergraduate scholarships are vital in bringing Mrs. Virginia Waters Feehan (Arnold) Mrs. Jean Blocker (Lilliott) Mr. Gray M. Gorton those students to the door. Last year, the Rice Mr. Milton E. Melton TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Ray E. Simpson Jr. Annual Fund raised approximately $1.87 million to Mr. James K. Nance *Mr. McGinnis Clark Mr. John H. Wallace Jr. Dr. Paul E. Pfeiffer Mrs. Patty Amsler Cruikshank support undergraduate scholars, graduate students Miss Bonnie Sue Wooldridge Mr. and postdoctoral fellows. This financial support is Eugene B. Sisk B ROWN SOCIETY vital to creating academic CLASS OF 1945 Mrs. Marjorie E. Chapman (Bray) a diverse community in CLASS OF 1939 Mr. Leonard N. Martin which the only demographic is scholarly promise. B ROWN SOCIETY TTTTTT SOCIETY SOCIETY Alan J. Chapman, Ph.D. Mrs. Sam R. Bethea (Flanagan) Mr. Wayne E. Derrick Mrs. Alice Cunningham Johnsen Graduate Fellowships Mr. Ray Franks Mr. Sam Rice Bethea Mr. Harvey Senturia Ms. Lee Mary Kobayashi (Parker) EEE S SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Douglas W. Maclay Gifts to the Rice Annual Fund strengthen our Mr Lee Blocker, CPA Mrs. Dorothy M. Jones (Marshall) DES'S SOCIETY graduate and postdoctoral programs by enabling Mr. J. Emerson Hirsch Mr. T. Robert Jones Mr. Gregory P Catsinas the Mrs. Martha E. Hersey Simmons Mrs. Mary Margaret Mut(Kampe) university to attract and recruit the world's Mr. Robert Eckert Dr. Henry H Rachford Jr best young researchers. By providing need-based CLASS OF 1940 John E. Eisenlohr, M.D. financial assistance to high-caliber students, FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Lawrence G. Katz SOCIETY these gifts enhance Rice's research profile and CHARTER Mrs. Virginia Thompson Elverson Mr. Vern V. McGrew Jr. Mr. Norman Newsome Mr. Hershel M. Rich Mr. John Lyndon McKnight offer graduate and postdoctoral students the John T. Smith, Ph.D. Ms. Marie A Tardo Mr. John R. Mier confidence to achieve pathbreaking research. Carl R. Woodring, Ph.D. Mr. Robert Tesoro Mr. Karl H. Oelfke Jr. Mr. Fred L. Toan Mr. Thomas F. Scully Jr. Additionally, these gifts ensure that students have FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Dr. Robert James Shalek the support and resources Mrs. Doris W. to respond to today's Graham (Weismann) CLASS OF 1946 Mr. Peter C. Sundt most pressing challenges, from issues of global Mrs. Virginia W Offutt (Williams) health to international relations. The Annual Fund LOVETT SOCIETY CLASS OF 1951 CLASS OF 1941 Mr. Robert G. Hindman, PE helps facilitate the study of these important issues SALL SOCIETY TTTTTT SOCIETY SOCIETY by providing for faculty fellow brown bag lunches, Mr. Ellis Rudy Mrs. Celeste Scott(McAshan) Mrs. Winnie Wroten Cowgill interdisciplinary research seminars and the latest Mrs. Katherine B. Dobelman SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY (Bayless) developments in library technologies. FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Joe D. Clegg Mr Earle B Reese Mr. Robert J. Cruikshank Mrs. Mary Jane Goff (Ellis) FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Gregory E. Davis Residential Mrs. Joy Joyce Kittrell College Life Mrs. Betty Spear Miller Mrs. Evelyn Williams Bailey Mrs. John W. Phenicie Jr. (Martin) Mr. Leo P Kleiber Mrs. Camille D. Simpson (Dockery) BROWN SOCIETY In 1915, President Edgar Odell Lovett set in William Mclamore, Ph.D. L. E. Westkaemper, Ph.D.

writing his desire for a self-governed community CLASS OF 1947 SOCIETY of students in fellowship with scholars: "Here they CLASS OF 1942 BROWN SOCIETY Howard Burt, M D TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. James E. Gerhardt grow in wisdom, not alone in the wisdom of books Mr. M. L. Cooper but in the wisdom of work and service ... here they Mr Ernest Musslewhite Jr Mr. Jack S. Hudgins CHARTER SOCIETY Mrs. Collette Ray McMillian SOCIETY live in unconquerable enthusiasm, the fearless Mr. John W McKee Mr. George W. Oprea Jr. Mr. Patrick Conley Mr. Stuart courage, the boundless hope of youth." Since 1957, C. Mat S SOCIETY Rice's residential colleges have been the nucleus of Mrs. Patrick Conley (Webster) Mr. Gil Tausch Mrs. Margaret Bickley Smith Dr. Kenneth A. Blenkarn social and intellectual life on campus. By supporting S SOCIETY Mr. George M. Cunyus FOUNDER'S SOCIETY college masters, resident associates and college Dr. Leslie Cookenboo Mr. G. Wren Dupuis Mr. Robert E. Houlihan Mr. Robert B. Goff Mr. James P. Jackson coordinators, the Rice Annual Fund helps ensure Mr. Burton L. Mobley Mr. Jerry M. Hamovit Mr. Gene Langworthy that the Rice college system continues to thrive. Mr. John H. Moragne Mr. Oley F. Hedrick Jr. Ms. Lois V. Perucca Mrs. Lois Lee Peden (Qualtrough) Mr. Frank A. Lawrence Mr. James L. Powell Mrs. Joyce Rowell Wylie Mr. W. Robb Nisbet Mrs. Geraldine Smith Priest

4 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning -•••40 Mrs. Gwen Garnett Thomas CHARTER SOCIETY 'S SOCIETY Mr. Jack A. Turpin Lt. Col. Elbert W. Link (Ret.) Mrs. Jolynn Archer (Hudson) Mr. Philip H. Wright Mr. Robert E. Mann Mr. Bob P Bowlin Mr. Clark Oliphint Dr. Sidney Burrus Ms. Lynne Koehler DuBose CLASS OF 1952 FOUNDERS SOCIETY Dr. Joe W. Goerner Dr. Alfred BesseII III TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Fred Goree Mr. William B. Blomberg Mrs. Margaret B. Clegg (Blau) Mr. Frank N. Hathorn Dorothy E. F Caram, Ed.D.(Farrington) Mr. Richard 0. Wilson Ms. Pamela Smith Devine (Riley) Mrs. Florence Ann Helm (Gray) EE SOCIETY Mr. Kenneth S. Gunter Mr. L. Leo Holder Mrs. Ann Coe Cruikshank Mr. Bob C. Hopkins Mr. John G. Holland Jr. Mr. Tom Cruikshank Mrs. W. F. Joplin (Lawhon) Mr. William P. Johnson Jr. Mrs. Paula Meredith Mosle Dr. Gordon F. Kellogg Mr. W. T. Knowles Jr. Mrs. Irene Mary Kellogg (Zakrzewska) Mrs. Donna Martin (Paul) '5 SOCIETY Mrs. Billye Proctor-Shaw (Littlepage) Rex Martin, Ph.D. Mr. John W Blakemore Mr. Robert J. Saldich Bennett T. McCallum, Ph.D. Mrs. Marilyn McCoy Blenkarn Barbara L Taylor, M.D.(Henrich) Mr. Tom Richard Moore Mr. W. Allen Davies Mrs. Joan C. Urquhart (Cooley) Mr. Arthur G. Nolting Judge Harold R. DeMoss Jr. John Urquhart, M.D. Mr. Wesley E. Pittman Dr. L. Stanley Eubanks Mr. James A. Whitson Jr. Mr. Gene W. Powers Mrs. Margaret Heaton (Holsopple) Mr. Frank E. Seestrom Dr. John F. Lawler CLASS OF 1956 Dr. J. Philip Shannon Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Hall Pitcock Mrs. Pauline A. Stark (Applebaum) Mr. SA TT SOCIETY Charles Ernest Thompson Jr. Mr. David C. Watkins Mrs. Betsy Wray (Belstroml Mr. A. L. Ballard Mr. Charles S. Canter Mr. Warren E. White CLASS OF 1953 Mr. Burt McMurtry Mrs. Deedee McMurtry (Meck) CLASS OF 1955 TTTTTT SOCIETY BROWN SOCIETY BALL SOCIETY Mr. Roger Bonney Nicholas A. Brown, Ph.D. Mr. Robert L. Howard Mrs. Patsy Murray McElroy Annual Giving Societies Dr. Benjamin M. Gimarc Walter Loewenstern Jr., Ph.D. *Mr. William J. Rapson Jr. Mr. Neil Havens Mr. Roy G. Shaw Jr. BROWN SOCIETY Mrs. Evelyn Weymouth (Hicks) LOVETT SOCIETY Membership in these societies is based Mrs. Ann M. Cathcart(MacLaren) CHARTER SOCIETY Mrs. Harriet Dorman Foster Mr. Richard H. Garrett on unrestricted gifts given during fiscal Mr. Roderic L. Boane Mrs. Mary Nell Schad (Jennings) Mr. Jack D. Crutchfield FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. Steve Shaper year 2006-07 Mr. John Furman Lewis Mr. Khleber V. Attwell Jr. Larry D. Whitmire, Ph.D. Mrs. Ann B. Link (Bordovsky) Mr. Russell E. Dailey Mr. Thomas L. McKittrick, FAIA BROWN SOCIETY Mr. David Johnston Devine Mr. Peter J. Volpe Jr. Mr. Edward Davis SALLYPORT SOCIETY Mrs. Barbara Howe Eubanks SOCIETY Mrs. Cille Emery (Brooks) Mr. George D. Harris •S $25,000 or more Frank E. Emery, Ph.D. Mrs. Sarah Faulkner Jackson Dr. Sally Abston Mary Lou Laubach (Hertenberger) EDGAR ODELL LOVETT SOCIETY Mr. John A. Matlage Jr. Mr. Urvine E. Atkinson, CPA Mrs. William Morrow Jr. Mr. John B. McClane Mr. Robert S. Bruce Mr. John $10,000 — $24,999 Mrs. Merleen Carstens (Arnold) Col. Charles T. Myers III (Ret.) CLASS OF 1954 Mr. Ross E. Dawson Jr. Mr. H. Russell Pitman BROWN SOCIETY Mr. James R. Lyne Jr. Mr. John J. Sisler TTTTTT SOCIETY Manley, AIA, FCSI $5,000 — $9,999 Mr. Donald W. CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Alton Clark Reid Mr. Robert Keith Johnson Mr. Charles Preston Dunlap CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Mr. Walt Silvus Hugh T. Wilson Dr. H. B. Gilmer Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilson (Kinzbach) Mr. William Cyrus Trotter $2,500 — $4,999 Dr. Ann Cook Turbeville Mr. J. Martin Grady BROWN SOCIETY Ms. Ann Page Griffin FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mrs. Barbara Madden Chapman CLASS OF 1957 Dr. Donald G. Naugle $1,000 — $2,499 Richard A. Chapman, Ph.D. Dr. Ben F. Orman SALL SOCIETY TT SOCIETY Mrs. Alice Carmichael Royalty C. Wayne Bardin, M.D. Mrs. Maureen Polk Smith Mrs. Barbara J. Moore (Kunetka) Mrs. Angela Miller (Jones) Mr. W. Allan Zama Mr. Maurice M. Patterson Mr. Hugh E. Miller 'S SOCIETY Rice Annual Fund Steering Mr. T. R. Reckling III Mr Edward R.(Ted) Richardson Mr. Richard D. Steed Mr. Vic E. Baldridge Jr. TTTTTT SOCIETY Committee 2006-2007 Mrs. Annette Bassett(LaBauve) FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Frank E. Driskill Mr. Dr. Nancy H. Bowen (Head) Mr. Richard F. Archer Dr. William Fulkerson Mrs. Carolyn S. Brewer (Satterwhite) Ms. Carole Purdy Beerbower Mr. Kenneth H. Jones Jr. We acknowledge the inspiring efforts Mr. Robert S. Burns, CPM Mr. Edwin G. Bradberry Mr. Fred G. Russell Mrs. Karlee Bradberry(Bown) Mr. William N. Sick Mr. John Breen Coleman Jr. of the following alumni leaders, whose Mrs. Claire Chamberlain (Rettig) Mr. Robert E. Cunningham BROWN SOCIETY dedication to student life and learning Mrs. E. Ernest Eutsler (Abdo) Cmdr, H. Lee Dozier Jr. Mr. Homer Borgstedte, CPCU Mrs. Mary Patricia Fox (Richey) Mrs. Eleanor M. Ebanks(Mengden) serves as an example to us all Mr. George Andrew Brightwell Jr. William James Ebanks Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Carl N. Johnson Jr. Brown Mrs. Anne Westerfield Fred Erisman, Ph.D. Mr. Joe Cooper Lochridge Mr. Ray Gorman Mr. L. Henry Gissel Jr. '62 Mrs. Ann K. Lyle (Krachy) Rev. Helen M. Havens (Morris) Mr. Richard P Wright Jr, Chairman Ms. Cody C. Greenwood (Caldwell) Mr. John H. Lyle Mrs. Dixie Leggett (Sick) Mr. W Michael Carter '66 Mr. James Greenwood III Mr. Neil J. O'Brien Mr. Waldo Leggett Jr. Ms Cathryn Rodd Selman '78 Mr. Morton A. Rudberg Mr. Hurschel Leland Mann Jr. Gilmor S. Hamill, Ph.D. Mr. Eugene A. Schwinger Mr. Nick C. Nichols Mr. Dan Hayes Ms Vicki W Bretthauer '79 Mr. C. Ed Stevens Mr. Richard M. Pollard Mr. William F. Joplin Mr. Kenneth Irvin Sill '83 Daniel H. Winship, M.D. Mr. Herbert D. Simons Mr. Marvin D. Kunkel Dr. Fred I. Stalkup Mr. Stanley W. Legro Mr. Matt Prucka '84 CLASS or 1955 Rudolph F. Weichert III, M.D. William H. Lyne IV, Ph.D. Gary W. Chiles, Ph.D.'86 Mr. William J. Mathias SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY Ms Heather Suzanne Kendall '94 Mr. Joseph M. Mayhew Sr. Mrs. Naomi Robins Cogan Mr. Bill Barnett Mrs. LaNell Mimmack (Hubbard) Mrs Manssa Gail Arreola and John P Eberts, M.D. Mrs. Peggy Barnett(Mauk) Mr. W.R. Norris Mr. Antroy Alfonso Arreola '95 Dr. Robert P. Larkins Mr. Lou Fisher Mr. Robert W. Fri Mr. Richard F. Powers Ms Sylvia V Morin '97 BROWN SOCIETY Mr. Robert Scott Griffin Mr. Fisher Reynolds Jr. Robert Lee Cargill Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Thomas V. Moore Jr. Mrs. Annita Fite Schwartz Mr. Douglas G Havlik '02 Mr. Jack W. Hawkins Mr. William S. Rolston Dilworth P. (Buz) Sellers, M.D. Mr. Robert M. Hermance Max L. Royalty, D.D.S. Mr. Marcus M. Shipley Mr. Melvin L. Hildebrandt Dr. Russell A. Smith Dr. Tim Stevens J. Bruce Laubach, M.D. Dr. Richard L. Steele Mr. Matthew Syptak

*deceased CLASS OF 1959 TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Richard W. Lilliott III Stephen Bruce Doty, Ph.D. Mr. George Martinez TTTTTT SOCIETY Linda Lorane Driskill, Ph.D. (Phillips) Mr. John W. Mullen III Mr. Ronald Hodges Mr. Ronald W. Fisher Mr. James Knox Peden III Jenkins L. Schley, M.D. Mr. Melbern G. Glasscock Dr. Clinton D. Snyder Mr. Jim Walzel Mrs. Sue Shaper (Zigenbein) Mr. W. Woodruff Tompkins Mrs. Rilda Richardson Whitmire Mr. Louis E. Smith

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Col. Francis X. Chambers Jr. Mr. H. Russell Bowers SALL SOCIETY Mrs. Jerry Dell Gimarc (Watts) Nathan Edmonson, Ph.D. Dr. Niles Ransom Moseley Mr. Bruce Irwin Hendrickson Mr. J. Rolfe Johnson Mr. Roger Knight Mrs. Martha Breedlove Kahn TTTTTT SOCIETY Mrs. Nancy Mafrige(Mauney) Mrs. Mary Jo Knight (Felder) Dr. H. Randolph Bailey Judge James A. Parker Mr. Earl A. Vanzant Mr. B. B.Hollingsworth Jr. TT SOCIETY Mrs. Wanda Waters (Phears) Mr. Albert N. Kidd Mr. Peter C. Huff CHARTER SOCIETY BROWN SOCIETY Mrs. Nancy Connor Zama Mr. Gary H. Cortes Forest Baskett, Ph.D. Mrs. Ryn Rhea Bowers S SOCIETY Mrs. Ann Ludwig (Kriegel) G. Karl Ludwig Mr. Don E. Fizer Mr. Paul Walker Allison Jr., M.D. Edward K. Massin, M.D. Mr. Ronald John Atkinson SOCIETY Mr. Lacy Boggess S SOCIETY Mr. William P Alexander III Mr. Fred D. Carstens Jr Mr. John B. Baird Mr. Michael Evan Jaffe Language: It Says More Mr. Raymond L. Chilton Jr. Mrs. Darden Lloyd Deviney-Osborne Mr. Richard Vining Reynolds Than You Think Ms. Patricia L. Erisman (Langley) Dr. Milton A. Frost III Pravin M. Shah, Ph.D. Mr. Pete Hackley Margaret Ann Goldstein, Ph.D.(McNeill) Mrs. Martha McKean Wright Margeux Clemmons '09 is trained to look beyond a Mr. Charles Hall Kirkpatrick Mr. Buddy Herz S SOCIETY Mr. Bill Landfield Jr. *Dr. Earl Morris Howells word, to hear not only its literal meaning, but its con- Mrs. Ann M. Aldridge (Marshall) Dr. Herbert A. Lesser Mr. Tom A. Kelley Mr. Michael T Alexander notations, cultural context, regional affiliation and all Mr. Louis Macey Mr. Hardee C. Kilgore III Dr. Gayle Holberg Bickers those subtle variations that can make even the sim- Mr. Al Martin III Mr. Jack Lowe Jr. Hal H. Bybee Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Michael C. McCracken plest words and phrases contentious. "Linguistics has Thomas H. McConnell, M.D. Mrs. Nancy La Motta Crabb Mr Thomas S. McIntosh Mr. Jerry L. Osborne opened my eyes to the fact that the way Mr. S. K. Djou I speak says a Mr. Harvin C. Moore Jr. Mrs. Kathryn Respess (Pulley) E. Linn Draper Jr., Ph.D. lot about who lam and who I identify with, which gives Mrs. Martha W. Munger (Willard) Mr. Chris F Seyer III Dr. Howard M. Einspahr Sklar me a chance to see my own biases and prejudices and Mr. Gary Norton Mr. Louis S. Mrs. Nancy Anne Fitzgerald (Fleming) Mrs. Judith Mr. John H. Pietri Jr. Ann Talkington (Cole) Mr. William Z. Fitzgerald dissolve those," Margeux said. "And it enables you to Talkington Dr. E. Mitchell Singleton Mr. Paul C. Robert Curtis Harriss, Ph.D. E. Wolf understand others better, and that we do judge people James A. Smelley, M.D. Dr. John Jr. Dr. Harry A. Jarvis Jr. by the way they talk." Mr. J.D. Smith Mrs. Judith G. Kilgore (Gathers) CLASS OF 1962 A student of Mandarin and Spanish languages, Mrs. Suzanne L. Syptak (Lively) Joseph Eugene Lester, Ph.D. Dr. Clarence A. Temple Margeux hopes to study abroad this spring in either SALL SOCIETY Mr. Carl Edward Letscher Jr. Mr. John C. Willett Mr. Ebb B. Mobley III M. Kenneth Oshman, Ph.D. China or South America. It would be another stop on Mr. Clyde Alfred Muchmore a long journey for the Rice junior, who moved from CLASS OF 1960 LOVETT SOCIETY Mrs. Anne d'Olier Mullen Mr. James R. Doty Dr. Paul N. Noble coast to coast as a child and eventually settled in TTTTTT SOCIETY Mrs. Susanne M. Glasscock (Morris) Mrs. Patricia Ann Seyer (Shannon) Paris, Texas. Mrs. Janice G. Doty (Cornell) Mrs. Mary Kay Smith (Manning) Dr. James T. Yardley III Mrs. Beverly Anne Koonce (Montgomery) Margeux was approached with the idea to attend BROWN SOCIETY K. Terry Koonce, Ph.D. CLASS OF 1965 Rice by her mother, who was inspired by a longtime Mrs. Susan Burton Edmonson BROWN SOCIETY friend from her small hometown in New Mexico. "My Mr. James C. Orchard LO OCIETY Mrs. Ann E. Hendrickson (Schudy) Mr. R. John Stanton Jr. mom really valued his intelligence and knew he went Mr. James W. Crownover Michael E. Kahn, Ph.D. CHARTER SOCIETY William G. Nelson IV, Ph.D. to Rice," Margeux said. That spark ignited Margeux's Mr. Lou Waters Mr. Jim Fox interest. She soon learned of Rice's unique college sys- Dr. David Clark Wooten B ROWN SOCIETY Dr. Glenn W. Howard Jr. Mr. Brad Bucher tem, its excellent academic standing and outstanding TT SOCIETY Mr. William R. Krivan Mr. Terry Cloudman scholarship opportunities. "When you decide you re- Mr. Wayne E. Hanson Mr. M. Brent Ocker Mr. Cordell H. Haymon Mr. Glenn Jarvis Mrs. Walta N. Ocker (Neuner) ally like a place, you start to get intimidated by it," she Mark Henrichs, Ph.D. Mr. Roy H. Lively Jr. Mr. John Stephenson said. "My scholarships made me feel wanted." Mr. Edwin Kirtley Nolan Mr. Robert F. Mattox Mr. Richard P Wright Jr. Mr George Jefferson Person In addition to being a source for scholarships, contri- Mrs. Barbara S. McKittrick (Scott) S SOCIETY Dr. Mary Shaw butions to the Annual Fund support Mr. Jerrold M. Paine residential college Mr. William J. Anderson Jr. Mr. Stephen B. Smith life and Mr. Harry M. Reasoner intramural sports. That support has enabled Mrs. Anne Shamblin Baillio CHARTER SOCIETY S SOCIETY Mrs. Eleanor Powers Beebe Margeux to help reinvent Will Rice College's theatre Mrs. Deborah R. Cortes (Romotsky) Mr. Robert Lee Collett program and, on a lighter note, to play Powderpuff Dr. Jack P. Aldridge III Mr. G. Gene Gray Mr. Richard N. Jekel Mrs. Glyssie N. Berberian (Mills) Terrell W. Miller, Ph.D. football. "I didn't know anything about football when I Mrs. Linda Gene Lesser (Farfel) Mr. Donald G. Blair Mr. Gerald Philip Urbach started," she said. "Now I can actually enjoy the game Dr. Karl G. Brandt Mrs. Sally Hart McCallum with my dad." Mr. Fred C. Burns Mr. William P. Pannill S SOCIETY Mr. Frederick Carl Ames, "It's really wonderful that people are willing to fund Mr. Robert N. Byrne James M. Rhodes M.D. Mrs. Myrna Davis Dozier Mrs. Melanie Smith (Maxted) John B. Boles, Ph.D. another person's education," Margeux said. "I under- Mr. Donald L. Erskine The Honorable William Rambo Burke Jr. stand not everybody's in the position to do that for Mr. Harry Gee Jr. CLASS OF 1963 Mr. Davis Bartley Guthrie II Mr. Douglas Russell Hansen Mr. Hugh Rice Kelly someone else, but when they do, it's a very valuable SALL SOCIETY Mr. Julian F. Haynes Jr. Ralph F. Schilling, Ph.D. gift. I hope I can do the same one day." Mr. Robert L. Mr. H. Wayne Hilgers Houk Dr. Charles H. Sines Mr. Robert R. Dr. Douglas B. Holmes Maxfield Mr. Val Thomas Mr. Robert Hudspeth LOVETT SOCIETY John Paul Wood Jr., M.D. Mrs. Lorita Ann Jarvis (Hoist) Mr. Michael Malcolm McCants Mrs. Ellen Cartwright May Mrs. Shirley Laughlin Roxburgh CLASS OF 1966

Dr. Clarence A. Miller Mr. Jimmy Treybig SALL SOCIETY Mr. John R. Respess BROWN SOCIETY Mrs. Lyn M. Houk (Martin) Mr Gary A. Shaner Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Vale (Branard) Mr. Jerrol W. Springer SOCIETY Wylie Walker Vale Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Garrett Boone CLASS OF 1961 S SOCIETY Mr. W. Michael Carter Mrs. Harriett H. Breihan (Hyatt) Mr. Paul Jones SALL SOCIETY Mr. Robert Walker Breihan Ms. Katherine Randall Park Mr. Carl E. lsgren Kenneth F. Crumley, M.D. Mr. E. L. Pollock Mrs. Judith Helmle Shaw Peter A. Freeman, Ph.D. Mr. Jack Vexler

6 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning BROWN SOCIETY CLASS OF 1969 Christine Ehlig-Economides, Ph.D. Mr. Gary Andrew Anderson Mr. Jack C. Faubion OOOOOO SOCIETY Mrs. Mavis Anderson (Atkinson) Dr. Terry Reimann Finkelstein Mr. John Early Mr. James R. Metzger Dr. Georgia Gatoura Foulard Mrs. Patti Everett(Lewis) Mr. John F. Sorte Dr. James Lee Gole Ho-Yi Huang, Ph.D. BROWN SOCIETY Mrs. Ann Patton Greene Mrs. Martha Kirkpatrick Smith Mr. Charles Nelson Bracht, CLU, ChFC Mr. Thomas B. Greene III Mr. Kim Layne Hanna CHARTER SOCIETY Mrs. Leslie Johnson Bucher Mr. John Jin Lee Ms. Sarah E. Campbell Diana Hartridge McSherry, Ph.D. Mr. J. Michael Stewart Keith H. Lovin, Ph.D. Dr. Richard E. Darilek Mr. Eff Warren Martin Mr. Mr. James A. Woodward William E. Hamilton Mr. Paul J. McConnell Dr. CHARTER SOCIETY Robert Charles Ladner Mr. Stewart Morris Jr. FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. James S. Brian Mrs. Mary Ann Newman (Jameson) Mr. Tom Bean Michael Joe Casey, M.D. Mr. Ben Primer Ms. Alyce McDermott Baster Mr. Stephen W. Glenn Mr. Randhir Sahni, AIA Mr. James G. Campbell Mrs. William Herrick Merriman Mr. Tony R. Seidel Mrs. Carolyn Cox Cohan (Underwood) Dr. Sidney Vaughn Suggs Dr. R. Sterling Eanes Gene Mutschler, Ph.D. Deborah Lowe Vandell, Ph.D. Mr. Robert J. Easton Mr. Charles Graham Myers Dr. Jesse Wallace Dr. Anne Ladd FOUNDERS SOCIETY Mrs. Clara K. Wentland (Kennedy) Mr. Nolan Lehmann Mrs. Millie Allen Clarke Mr. Larry E. Whaley Ms. Laney Talmage Mobley Dr. Thomas Carl Clarke Mr. Scott W. Wise Dr. Robert E. Rhoads John D. Fisher, M.D. A Tale of Two Majors: Religious Mr. Warner Steven Strang Mrs. Nancy C. Flatt (Bernhardt) CLASS OF 1972 Economics Mrs. Brenda Eleanor Tanner (Barry) Studies and Mr. Robert N. Flatt BROWN SOCIETY Dr. Susan Bonner Weir Mr. Richard H. Gomez Mr. Gregory S. Benesh Robert S. Nelson, Ph.D. Emanuel Jonas '09 was a quiet, observant child grow- 1967 Ms. Linda Jean Broocks CLASS OF Mrs. Victoria Pearson Reed years, he carried his Mrs. Melinda C. Noel (Caldwell) ing up in Missouri City, Texas. For Dr. Annette D. Reilly (Davidson) SOCIETY Mrs. Patricia Wynn Ricks(Barnes) Bible to class, even at public high school. "I wanted to Dr. Nancy Dietz Safer Mr. Charles B. McDaniel Mrs. Susan Richardson Tullis Ms. Sandra L. Tirey know what I believed in," Emanuel said. Now a junior Mr. Arthur H. Rogers III Dr. Leroy Grover Wade Jr. OO SOCIETY at Rice, he still carries a faith rooted in theological in- BROWN SOCIETY Mrs. Melinda I. M. Wolfram (McCoy) David Anderson Archer, Ph.D. trospection. A member of Life Group and a frequenter John Dahm Mrs. Jenny McCravey Cloudman Dr. Lawrence of Campus Crusade's apologetics meetings, he relish- Mr. C. Richard Everett CLASS OF 1970 Mr. David D. ltz discourse, whether CHARTER SOCIETY Mrs. Juliana Williams Itz es the opportunity for intellectual LOVETT SOCIETY Mr. Fred C. McCarty Jr. Mr. Bill Merriman it revolves around religion, economics or music. Mr. Doyle L. Arnold Mrs. Susan N. Meers (Neidert) Mr. Paul L. Robison Jr. "I love being around people who think," Emanuel Mr. Fredric Alan Weber Mr. Robert Charles Mendelson Mr. Jerry E. Rothrock Mr. George Ruhlen said, "especially as much as Rice students do — who Mr. Jeffrey D. Ryan BROWN SOCIETY Dr. Todd Scharnberg but think through them logi- Alan R. Shive, Ph.D. Robert Justin Card, M.D. don't just look at issues FOUNDER'S SOCIETY FOUNDERS SOCIETY Mr. Gregory B. Hueni cally and discuss them." Ms. Colleen Jennings Batchelor Dennis Alan Beck, M.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Emanuel, a religious studies and economics dou- Mr. John W. Benzon Mr. Davis E. Boster Jr. Mr. Joe Lee Halpain ble major, is the first male in his family to attend Mr. Cary Lamar Burnley II Lynda L. Crist, Ph.D.(Lasswell) Miriam E. John, Ph.D. Mrs. Karen Lovell Burnley (Epstein) college. As a young teenager, he was inspired when Dr. J. Michael Davis Mr. Michael Pewitt Ms. Elaine K. Butler (Kolodzie) his sister applied to Rice. He knew it was the place Mrs. Laura Henry Eanes Mr. Alan H. Raynor Mr. L. Chris Butler Mr. W. Paul Farmer Mr. Richard G. Sylvan for him. "I wanted to get a degree where I'd have Janet Hudson Caldwell, Ph.D. Dr. David 0. Findley FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Ms. Linda K. Cherrington the best resources," he said. "I wanted to be taught Dr. Gary F. Gostecnik Thomas C. Altman Mr. Michael P. Clark by the best." Milton J. Guiberteau, M.D. Mr. Wayne Bailey George C. Collins Mr. Jerome C. Hefter Mr. Jerry Dr. His mentors at the Gordon-Conwell Theological (Misner) S. Elder Mr. Paul Melvin Olstad Jr. Dr. Donna M. Collins Mr. David Seminary, where he was a student before transferring P Etherton Mr. Robert Wolfe Tanner Joseph S. Graves, Ph.D. Dr. Bradley Gleason Jr., Ph.D. to Rice, confirmed that Rice offered a great education, William Robert Wolfram, Ph.D PE Dr. Dan Craig Hilliard Robert Eugene R. High Mr. James W. Woodruff Mrs. Molly Kelly (McIntosh) Mr. J. as well as the opportunity to pursue other interests, Mr. William D. Kendall Henry H. Holcomb, M.D. such as economics. "Rather than thinking of religion Pasternack, D.V.M. Richard M. Jones CLASS OF 1968 JoAnn Weinberg Mr. religion with a Mr. Sam K. Reed Jr. Mr. Riley R. Kothmann and secular life as different, I approach LOVETT SOCIETY Dr. William R. Roberts Dr. Lela A. Lee holistic view," he said. "That includes economics." Mrs. Karen Hess Rogers Mr. Michael Ross Dr. David Mohr Scholarships provided by the Annual Fund and other Mr. John A. Watson Kerry Dean Vandell, Ph.D. Ms. Tina L. Mohr (Dorsey) sources were crucial for Emanuel to be able to at- Mark P Wentland, Ph.D. Dr. Leigh Whitton Murray Richard E. White Jr., M.D. Gary R. Nelson, Ph.D. tend Rice. "Without the scholarships, there would be BROWN SOCIETY Dr. David Irving Rosenfield a great burden on my family, considering my parents Timothy Lee Bratton, Ph.D. CLASS OF 1971 Mr. Michael Lyn Spruill are both retired," he said. Emanuel is grateful for all Mr. Terry Gene Pendleton Charles M. Stedman, M.D. LOVETT SOCIETY Richard Whittington, M.D. the opportunities made possible by gifts to the Annual CHARTER SOCIETY Dan C. Parris, Ph.D. Fund, including the option to eventually earn a law de- Mr. T. Jay Collins Ms. Virginia B. Sall (Burkett) CLASS OF 1973 gree or a graduate degree in business or theological Dr. Judith Lynne Johnston BROWN SOCIETY SALL SOCIETY studies. Mr. Kevern R. Joyce Ms. Karol Ann Kreymer Mr. Charles A. Shanor Mr. Michael R. Lynch "I love being at Rice, from the students and profes- SOCIETY TTTTTT SOCIETY sors to the intellectual environment," Emanuel said. Ms. Irma Birnbaum FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. John V. Jaggers "There's no other place I'd rather be." Ms. Jannette Elaine Boyer Ms. Rusty Campbell Jaggers Mr. Fredric J. Attermeier The Honorable Ed Emmett Ms. Kathy V. C. Parris (Van Cleave) Mr. David E. Gibson Mr. Mark W. Fowler Mr. Gary Philpy Clark Red Gregg, M.D. Ms. Sharon Parten Fowler Mrs. Jan Koenig Philpy Mr. Jim Grossman Mr. David Kent Gibbs Leighton Read, M.D. Mr. Daniel A. Hyde Mr. Ronald K. Griswold Hector Ruiz, Ph.D. Susan Jackson, Ph.D. Mr. David Klein Mr. Timothy Scott Lucas, CPA Dr. Hugh M. South BROWN SOCIETY Mr. H. Joe Nelson III Mr. Terry W. Ward Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Ballentine (Scott) Dr. William B. Russel 'S SOCIETY Mr. Jerold C. Gallagher Dr. William Wu Shang Mr. David C. McLaurin Shapiro Ms. Lucretia Knox Ahrens Mr. Gary S. Ms. Kathleen Ryan McLaurin Ms. Martha Johnson Trammell Cliff Atherton Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Stephen Wallace Bill Batchelor, Ph.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Dr. Mark Scott Webb Mr. John Warwick Caldwell Mr. Jack Blaylock Dr. Damon Wells Dr. Donald E. Castleberry Mrs. Charlotte Faye Dahm (Talbot) Mrs. Carolyn Heater Woodruff Abraham Delgado, M.D. Barbara Jenkins Gibbs, M.D.

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41 Ms. M. Elizabeth Rader S SOCIETY Mr. Jeffery 0. Rose Mrs. Linda Leigh Sylvan Ms. A. Grayson Alderman Mr. George J. Wagner Jr. S SOCIETY Mr. Montague C. Borland CHARTER SOCIETY Paul R. Eggert, Ph.D. Mr. Alan C. Ahrens Mr. Daniel Auces Jr. Mr. John Rolfe Eldridge Mr. Michael R. Alsup Mr. Gregg Ray Cannady Mr. Peter A. Fasullo Mrs. Holly Ehlig Bartlett Mr. Jeffrey A. Compton Mr. Jose G. Flores Teh-Cheng Ted Chu, Ph.D. Mrs. Karen Ostrum George Mr. Ankur R. Hajare Mrs. Deborah Harvey Delgado Ms. Kay Miller (Whitfield) Judge Randall Blair Isenberg Mr. Edward M. Dickinson Mr. Steven S. Moore Mr. Patrick Arthur Johnson Madeleine Duvic, M.D. Marc F. Siegel, M.D. Mr. Ken Lacey Ms. Denise Reineke Fischer Ms. Wendy M. Wilkinson (Nordstrom) Mrs. Jean E. May (Eros) Ms. Helen Hudspeth Flores Ms. Maria B. Zimmer Mr. Dennis Andrew Mitchell Mrs. Jane Carolyn Gole (Lampl) Mr. William D. Zimmer Donna Leah Mohr, Ph.D. Mr. John Paul Hershey David J. Monyak, M.D. S SOCIETY Mr. J. David Keating Jr. Mrs. Diane Kraft Mott Dr. Gregory Alexander Mr. Mark E. Kuebler Mr. Bruce F. Nauman Mr. James Charles Baros James L. Latimer, Ph.D. Mr. Robert S. Patterson Mrs. Susan Caryl Borland (Bark) Mr. Murphy K. Lents Mr. Charles Pau Suzanne Bruce, M.D. Mr. John A. MacPhillimy Mrs. Betty Wray Venson Ms. Dianne Reeves Carpenter Mr. John G. Mott Dr. Richard W. Verm Mr. Jeffery A. Carpenter Frank McNair Orson, M.D. Mr. Eddie Weaver Mr. Jeff Cook Mr. Thomas Frank Sartor Jr. Mr. Michael W. Dunn Mr. Tim B. Tarrillion Trusting the Vision for Rice's Future CLASS OF 1978 Ms. Janet Cherrington Fakes Mr. Mike Venson Mr. Doug Hartnett, PE Wilson BALL SOCIETY Mr. D. Reed Ms. Suzan McCorkle Hindman Rice trustee Jim Turley '77 isn't who you think he is. Karolina Adam, M.D. Mr. Henry Clay Hodges Jr. Sure, as CEO of Ernst & Young he has guided more CLASS Of 1974 Mr. Donald Edwin Loveless Mrs. Mary C. Hodges (Mullaley) Mr. Edmund Peter Segner III than 130,000 employees in 140 countries around the • SOCIETY Mr. Timothy J. Jacquet Mrs. Kathryn Daily Segner Mr. Kenneth W. Janda world with integrity and a sense of purpose. Yes, for- Mr. Matt Christiana SOCIETY Matthias C. Kurth, M.D., Ph.D. mer New York City BROWN SOCIETY Mayor Rudolph Giuliani praised Mr. C. Robert Bunch Mr. John W. McCrary Jim for his leadership and accountability following J. Gregory Ballentine, Ph.D. Ms. Rebecca G. Carazzone (Galloway) Mr. James A. McDonald the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And it is true that Jim, Mr. James Roy Dobbins Ms. Elizabeth Howard, Esq. Mc Mark Allen Menke Mc Gerard 0. Duane Jr. John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D. Ms. Janice Colgrove Muhm arguably one of the most successful graduates of the James P. Fogarty, M.D. Mr. Philip McNeill Muhm BROWN SOCIETY Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, was Ms. Paula Graves Mrs. Catherine C. Reed (Harrison) awarded the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award for Dr. Thomas Stuart Tullis Mark Raymond Bateman, Ph.D. Mr. Chris P. Reed David H. Whitney, M.D. Mr. Rex Pendley Dr. Suzanne Satterfield professional and philanthropic achievement. Denise Kay Turner, M.D.(Buchanan) SOCIETY Mr. Arthur H. Saville III Okay, he is who you think he is. Mr. J. Ward Turner Mr. Mark Thomas Scully Mr. Robert Joseph Frick, PE But he's also quite a bit more. For example, he's CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Man-Kong Tsui Mr. Ernest W. Speed Dr. Jan Reint Van Lohuizen a theater buff. While students at Rice, Jim and fel- Mr. Linton D. Stables III Mr. Chris Amandes Thomas low Lovetteer Bill Zimmer '77 played bodyguards in Mrs. Mary Pat Wilson (Darilek) Kevin Biddle, Ph.D. Ms. Jane Grant Evans CLASS OF 1978 the Rice Players' production of Friedrich Durrenmatt's FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Dr. D. Scott Miller SALL SOCIETY "The Visit." Ms. Corinne Clemons Bryan Mr. Paul Reinhardt Ms. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans "The production ran to critical acclaim," Jim re- Dr. William Jennings Bryan III Neal Tannahill, Ph.D. SOCIETY Mr. Mark Alan Buechler FOUNDERS SOCIETY membered, "no thanks to my role or Bill's." Now Weng-Kwen R. Chia, Ph.D. Ms. Elizabeth Jean Axford Mrs. Carolyn Schultz Hokanson chairman for the National Corporate Theatre Fund, Jim Mr. Frank Dumanoir Ms. Sandra Lee Brunow Chris L. Jagmin, M.D. Mr. Gary Paul Fischer suggested that "our real role was to help people enjoy Ms. Dana Adrienne Burch, Esq. Ms. Shelley Pennington Mr. James S. Gillingham themselves. We sometimes caused trouble more than Benjamin N. Conner, M.D., Ph.D. Ms. Cathryn Rodd Selman (Lankford) Ms. Bonnie C. Hoskins Mc Michael Cooper BROWN SOCIETY we contributed, but everyone enjoyed it as a result." Mrs. Linda C. Keating (Calvin) Mr. Charles W. Cope Whether Jim was testing David W. Kisker, Ph.D. Katherine A. Cowan, M.D. critics' patience on stage, Dr. Rebecca Davis Elon Mr. James Llamas Mr. Duane C. King spiking balls as a middle hitter for Rice's NCAA- Ms. Birna Petursson Foley Mr. Duane Charles Marks Mr. Stewart C. O'Dell sanctioned volleyball Mr. Dan Foley men's team or earning his B.A. Ms. Jenni Parrish Ms. Maureen Fulton Phillips Dr. Robert M. Ghrist and M.B.A., he deeply appreciated Rice's unique aca- Mr. Harold Charles Solomon Mr. John S. Wawrose Mr. Don M. Glendenning Ms. Jan Lindsay Solomon SOCIETY demic, extracurricular and athletic offerings. Mr. H. Michael Hindman "When I look back and see how I've been blessed Mr. John Malcolm Waddell Mr. David J. Hodgdon Dr. David S. Bunch Mr. James P. Wilhoit and what I've been able to do, without question, my John L. Lederer, M.D. Ms. Johnella V. Franklin Ms. Cathy Keneda Wyman Mr. Lyman R. Paden Mr. Thomas A. Hagemann time at Rice had a lot to do with that," he said. Mr. Robert Hall Parks Jr. Mr. David L. Harvey Jim's dedication to enhancing an already rich Rice CLASS OF 1975 Mr. Thomas E. Phalen Jr. Mr. Henry 0. Hernandez Jr. Mr. Clark Burton Herring experience, along with faith in Rice's Vision for the SAIL SOCIETY Clifford Raymond Pollock, Ph.D. Ms. Stephanie K. Rudd (Knight) Mr. Alex Johnson Second Century, inspired him to make several gifts to Mr. L. Charles Landgraf Mr. Donald M. Savory Ms. Shen Gen Liang the Annual Fund for Student Life and Learning, includ- TTTTTT SOCIETY Mrs. Kathy E. Savory (Goss) Mr. Peter E. Mims ing a substantial pledge for his 30th class reunion. Ms. Teveia Rose Barnes Mr. Lee A. Schmoe Dr. Charles J. Newell "In order to continue to position Rice as one of the Mr. David A. Collins Mrs. Anne Gallaher Singley Mr. Kevin Patrick Pei Mr. Robert A. Sisk Alan S. Taylor, Ph.D. leading institutions in the world," Jim said, "we have Mr. Allan Van Fleet B ROWN SOCIETY Mr. Lee W. Slade FOUNDER'S SOCIETY to attract and keep great students. As we look toward Ms. Cheryl Spector Dr. Robert Thomas Brown Jorge Albin, M.D. Mr. Joseph Spinden the second century, all of us need to reach out and do Mr. Michael J. Nicol Dr. Gregory Bruce Buck all we can to help achieve the vision that has been Robert B. Thomas, M.D. Mr. James E. Cobb Lon S. Smith, M.D. Mr. C. David Turner laid out. Mr. Martin Allen Sosland Dr. Keith Daniel Cooper Dr. Benjamin D. Cowley Jr. "It's going to take a lot of hard work by a lot of CHARTER SOCIETY CLASS OP 1977 Ms. Pam Daniels Dr. Karla Calle (Schiff people," he continued. "And we have the right people TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Thomas D. Erickson Dr. Thomas Herman CoIle Mr. Kevin C. Finch to do it." Ms. Sallie J. Calhoun Mr. Bruce L. Darlow Ms. Sara Goodman Mr. David Allan Hokanson Mrs. Katherine C. Darlow (Curlee) Ms. Theresa Ann Hall Mr. Dan C. Steiner Mr. Michael L. Hardage W. Van Harlow III, Ph.D. Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner (Cisneros) Mr. Joe King Mrs. Lynn C. Jacquet(Cherry) Mr. Paul Metzgar B ROWN SOCIETY Mr. Brian Richard James Mr. Jeff Eric Ross Ms. Melinda J. Clark Mr. Larry Johnson Mrs. Kathryn V. Smyser (Vanderbeck) Mr. Jim Davis Dr. Darlene Kwee Dr. R. Scott Thurston Joseph J. Hessel, M.D. Ms. Patricia A. Lawrence Ms. Doris A. Williams Ms. Barbara Siever O'Connor Mr. Don T. Macune Mr. B. Stephen Woods Mr. Paul G. Phillips Ms. Mary Julia Macune (Amette) 8 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning Mr. Timothy T. Masuda CLASS OF 1980 , Mr. Steven Paul Dumas Dr. Jeffrey J. Meffert II Mr. Chuck Fox LOVETT SOCIETY Ms. Janette M. More Mr. Donald H. Frey Mr. Roy A. Lilley Mr. Larry W. Nettles FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Ms. Mary Kathryn Sammons Judith Pauline Oppenheim, Ph.D. Mr. Henry Y. W. Tsang Ms. Laura Flanagan Bowen Lillian Wang Orson, M.D. Mr. Richard T. Whitney Dr. David R. Chase Mrs. Ava B. Plummer, MPH., J.D. Mr. Russell F. Coleman BROWN SOCIETY (Banfield) Dr. Steven N. Connelly Mr. Mark R. Scheevel Ms. Carmellia Boyer Mrs. Cynthia Kiest Cooper Dr. Brian D. Collins Mrs. Cherilyn Marie Schmoe (Kunzmann) Steven Corbato, Ph.D. Richard Thomas Mifflin, Ph.D. Mr. David Paxton Smith, PE Edward A. Dominguez, M.D. Roberts Mr. Duane R. Mr. Philip Easterling Mr. John S. Teutsch E. Clark Trantham, Ph.D. Ms. Antoinette D. Green Dr. Michael F. Tweedle Dr. Byron Russell Welch Dr. Claudia Anderson Verm Chul Soo Ha, M.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Jesse Wilson Ms. Diana Kay Howard Charles K. Burns Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Calvin M. Jackson Dale Anthony Charletta, M.D. Dr. Mike McCann CLASS OF 1979 Ms. Elizabeth M. Guffy (Franks) Mr. Michael E. Monarchi SALL SOCIETY Ms. Melinda Litherland Mrs. Andrea Z. Morgan (Zaricznyj) Ms. Lucy Cathcart Moore Mr. Bruce Wall Dunlevie Ms. Candice Jeanne Van Sickle Mrs. Helen Savitzky (Travis) (Woeltjen) TTTTTT SOCIETY FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. N. Blake Vernon Shuni Chu, Ph.D. Mrs. Elizabeth Susan Cobb (Chew) Mr. Newell B. Wallace III Rice 'Best of Both Worlds'for Mr. Tim T. Gritty Mr. Brian W. Cooper Benjamin William West, M.D. Prodigy Cellist Mr. Peter M. Schwab Mr. J. Andrew Galloway Ms. Linda Fox Wild Mrs. Karen Waggoner Whitney Mr. Stephen J. Jeu Ms. Wendy I. Young At age 2, Meta Weiss '09 told her parents that she BROWN SOCIETY Mr. C. J. Kan Ms. Sue-Mei Lee CLASS OF 1983 play the violin. They reacted like any normal Ms. Vicki W. Bretthauer(Whamond) wanted to Mr. Craig Joseph Litherland 11. David Maresh, M.D. TTTTTT SOCIETY parents of a toddler would, asking, "How do you even Robert Curtis Lyman, M.D. Kenneth Irvin Sill Ms. Lynn Mathre Mr. Hardie W. Morgan Mr. know what a violin is?" Mr. Javier Prado Ms. Diana L. Neff BROWN SOCIETY By age 3, Meta had been taking violin lessons for only Vicki E. Raab, M.D. Mr. Stan Leroy Ramirez Lissa King Magel, Ph.D. four months when, after listening to Bach Cello Suites Mr. R. Bruce Stewart Ms. Sara Kate Rex (Hill) CHARTER SOCIETY with her father, she turned to him and said, "Daddy, I Mr. Robert S. Winter Ms. Nancy T. Schmitt(Thurmon) Mr. Richard L. Avant want to learn to play the cello." Soon after, she met CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Donald S. Spear Mrs. Kris Thomas (Taylor) Ms. Camille Renee Comeau Yo-Yo Ma at a San Francisco Performances reception. Ms. Teresa Ann Dwan Julia Mann Garcia Dr. Linda Marie Torczon Mrs. That encounter cemented the young musician's convic- Mr. Rick Lawson Ms. Anna M. Unterberger Ms. Christianne Mays Hagemann Mr. Michael A. Miller Donna Jean Wilson, M.D.(Reed) Mr. Jay Howell Hebert tion to play cello. Since then, she has trained with some Ms. Martha Ramos Mims Mr. Thomas Edward Wilson Jr. Mr. Richard Alan Hunt of the most renowned cellists in the industry, including Ms. Lou Ann Montana Mr. Gregory Kuhn Irene Sharp, Joan Jeanrenaud and Michael Reynolds. Mr. Stan Young Mr. Paul W. Morris CLASS OF 1981 Recently, she has jammed with Garrison Keillor as the Jim Pflugrath, Ph.D. Dr. Jim Zimmerman LOVETT SOCIETY Mr. Phil Rosegrant FOUNDER'S SOCIETY featured musical guest on his radio show, "A Prairie Mr. David E. Cooper Mr. Clifford Jay Shapiro Mr. Ken Amstutz Home Companion," recorded demos with jazz guitarist Mr. Stuart A. Taylor BROWN SOCIETY Dr. Susan L. Bratton Stanley Jordan and jazz singer Tammy Brown and rou- Ms, Helen Lawrence- Toombs Mrs. Anne-Louise Collins (Haynie) Mr. Douglas George Dobbin tinely conversed about the finer points of music with Ma, Delgado Mr. Alan F. H. Wisdom Ms. Carmen Mr. John Carlton Estes Jr. now a friend and mentor. Mr. William F. Dingus Ann Estes (Stewart) FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Dr. Katherine Mr. Fred Fisher Dr. Steven Victor Foster Meta's friends wondered how she, a native of San Mr. Michael Bruce Allen Ms. Martha Proctor Gano Mr. Allen Gilmer Francisco, could pass up a full ride at the University of Mr. Charlie R. Allison Mr. Timothy Robert Haney Ms. Anne C. Hutton Southern California to join Rice's Shepherd School of Ms. Lydia A. Asselin Mr. David Edward King Walter Laun Mr. Max Music. If they knew Rice cello professor Norman Fischer, Mr. Frank Anthony Cebello Jr. Mr. Richard Parton Leach Mr. Richard K. McGee Col. Janet Wilkins Charvat Gregory A. Magel, Ph.D. Mr. David Browning Paul she insists, they would understand. Ms. Nita K. Cheung Mr. Robert Wilson Orr Kim Veronica Rodriguez, M.D. "He's the reason I came here. He's hilarious — one of Gary Merrill Coleman, M.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Dr. Leanne Brooks Scott those people you can talk to about anything," Meta said. Mr. Michael W. Cruess Mr. Sam Shea Scott Kathy Balshaw-Biddle, Ph.D. She described the small community of cellists at Rice as Mr. David Johnston Devine Jr. Ms, Ann Freudenthal Kana Mr. Jeffrey E. Spiers Mr. Cary Drott Tim Stout, M.D. Mr. Jack Tanner "a cello family, and Professor Fischer's the dad." Mr. Rodney Weldon Turner Mrs. Sharon Erskine (Ferguson) FOUNDER'S SOCIETY "You get a lot of personal attention here," she con- Mr. Chip Ferguson Chantee Vavasseur, M.D. tinued. "The professors know you, and they're really Mr. J. Kevin Bartol Mr. Brett E. Wagner Ms. Sydney Lea Free Mr. Mark W. Brown Mrs. Geraldina Interiano Wise good teachers." Mr. Abhijit Gangadhar Gadgil Mr. David James Calkins Mr. Warren Yeh, CFA Meta could not have considered Rice had she not Dr. Michael Dee Gunn Ms. Paula M. Desel Dr. Jay Anthony Hendrix Mr. George Thomas Hall received scholarship support from the Annual Fund and CLASS OF 1984 Cynthia E. Herzog, M.D. Ms. Jean Davie Hendrix (Fulton) other sources. She is grateful for all the opportunities Ms. Nita Jackson (Vandiver) Mr. Jeff Hewitt SALLYPORT SOCIETY Rice offers, including select access to Houston's arts and Ms. Carolyn Choi Louis Mrs. Tracy Dittert Janda Mr. John W Elsenhans music offerings through the Passport to Houston, which Mr. Edwin J. Jennings III Ms. Judith Ann Mattingly LOVETT SOCIETY Annual Fund. Mr. Thomas J. Kosco Mr. Keith Meehan is supported by the Mr. Griff C. Lee III Mr. Russell Meyers Ms. Kari E. Findley "Rice offers the best of both worlds: a top conserva- Dr. Sherman Shaw-Wen Lin Mr. Ralph A. Midkiff Mr. Matt Prucka tory and a fantastic university experience," Meta said. Dr. John William Riordan Roberta Mann, M.D. BROWN SOCIETY Ms. Diana V. H. Shelby (Van Hooser) "My scholarships have allowed me to learn more about Douglas Ray Merritt, M.D. Mr. James Edward Elder Robin Stern, Ph.D. everything — not just cello, but life." Mr. Michael E. Novelli Ms. Suzanne D. Hirshberg (Deetz) Ms. Gloria Meckel Tarpley, Esq. Mr. James M. Ms. Cindy Scott Obermeyer Ms. Annette Louise Tripp (Crabb) Jackson Phoebe Ann Weseley Ms. Helen Kegel Penberthy Mr. Frank Williford IV Ms. Mrs. Melissa Pollock (Switzer) Dr. Stephanie L. Woerner SOCIETY John Howard Rex, M.D. Mr. Clinton Alan Evans Mrs. Maureen Moore Scheevel CLASS OF 1982 Mr. Kenneth M. Fitzgerald Mr. Peter Marc Thaler Mr. Jay Alan Grob BROWN SOCIETY Mr. James D. Thursby Mr. John Beidleman Heist III Brunson (Hopkins) Mr. James R. Tunney Jr. Ms. Sheryl L. Ms. Jane E. McDonald Edward Westerfield, M.D. Mr. Al J. Hirshberg Mr. Henry A. Petri Jr. Mr. Lynn Alan Lednicky Mr. Richard B. Wheeler Mr. John Place Sparks Dr. Mary Judith Wilkinson CHARTER SOCIETY Daniel M. Watkins, Ph.D. Dr. Kenny Zadeck Mr. Brian Cripe Douglas B. Williams, Ph.D.

www.giving.rice.edu/annual 9 S SOCIETY Mr. Steve LaPlant Ms. Electra Westerlage Elliott Mr. Gerard Fideles Alcala Mr. Will Leven Mr. Scott P Hunicke-Smith Dr. Daniel Ray Arenson Mr. Kai Siegfried Lichtenberg Mr. Derek Fujio Iwamoto Mr. Thomas Alan Coleman Ms. Sarah Duck Loudermilk Ms. Tammany Hobbs Miracky Ms. Jeanne Elizabeth Cooper Ms. Diana M. Dowell Marek Ms. Lizzette Marie Palmer Mr. Rick Donnelly Mr. Greg Marshall Ms. Suzanne Plummer Mr. Greg Dugdale Mrs. Meeta Morrison (Awasthi) Mr. Jim P Powers Ms. JaneIle Freeman Mr. Barry W. Nicholson Ms. Anh Reiss (Nguyen) Mr. Ian Lewis Hersey Mr. Jeffrey Alden Plymell Mr. Joshua Adam Reiss Mr. Kurt F. James Mrs. Jade Camille Polk (York) Mr. Karl Joseph Schraer Mr. Brian J. Kasper Mr. Gregg Hunter Sholeen Dr. Carla Sue Smith Brian D. Loftus, M.D. Ms. Sandra Rae Tilden Ms. Holly B. Williams Mr. Brian Ray Marek Mrs. Janene Barsotti McCann CLASS OF 1987 CLASS OF 1990 Ms. Gaye L. McNutt Robert John Morrison, M.D. TTTTTT SOCIETY TTTTTT SOCIETY Mr. Brian Patterson Ms. Patricia Lipoma Kraft Ms. Deborah Daniels Dawson Ms. Julia Lynn Pepper (Boeker) BROWN SOCIETY Mr. Felix Jehl Dawson Mr. Kelly W. Perkins Mr. Tommy 0. Huie BROWN SOCIETY Mr. Jason Lee Robertson Mr. Michael J. Reed Mr. Jay Patrick Dryden Raymond R. Russell Ill. M.D. Ms. Pamela L. Williams Mr. Glenn A. Youngkin Mr. Karl William Sackinger Kenneth Gordon Sorenson, Ph.D. CHARTER SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY A Treasury of Memories Mr. Robert K. Williams Mr. Benjamin Zollinger Giele, CFA Mr. Paul J. Jordan Ms. Susan M. Kelliher(Mead) Mr. Gregory Howard Kahn CLASS OF 1985 Mr. Jeffrey Allen Wier Mrs. Julie Koelsch (Kutka) Cathryn Fiodd Selman '78 has a photographic mem- Ms. Cinda Lee Lack (Kassing) BROWN SOCIETY S SOCIETY ory. She can picture Mr. David Alan Rhodes how youthful the late Dr. Frank Ms. Rita M. Cortes Jr. Michele Yu-Mei Fang, M.D. Tristan Eckersberg Rhodes, Vandiver looked behind the podium in Sewall Hall Mr. Henry M. de la Garza M.D. Mr. Loren Keith Pieper Ann Saterbak, Ph.D. as he introduced the class to the "real Stonewall Mrs. Michele F. Vobach (Field) Narayanaswami Dharmarajan, Ph.D. Jackson." She vividly remembers a lecture by Dr. Stephen Frederick Vobach, M.D. Jill Foote, Ph.D. SOCIETY Mr. Miguel Angel Gomez III Mr. Hunter H. Armistead Allen Matusow on CHARTER SOCIETY the Vietnam War, his "poignant Byeong-Ho Gong, Ph.D. Dr Jeffrey T. Bates respect for all the parties involved and his ability to Mr. Fredrik Gustav Gradin Mrs. Hui Ping Wong Ho Mrs. Jeanette Chevalier-White critique with a sense of decency and empathy." Her Ms. Alison Kennamer Ms. Patricia Perkowski Jones Mr. Barry Ray Donovan Jeffrey Bryan Michel, M.D. father, Raymond Lankford '51, for his part, passed to Mrs. Karla Cameron Kaneb (Schrader) Mr. Michael Gordon Grubbs Dr. Hanadi Said Rifai Mr. James Andrew Kearley Mr. Courtney Ceasar Hall her the legacy of Dr. Radoslav Tsanoff, who, according Dr. Alice Parks Sartain Mr. Edward B. Loewenstein Ms. Deirdre Tiffany Kilgard to Cathryn, "inculcated in his students a deep respect Ms. Marcella D. Watkins(Dawson) Mr. K. Scott McAfee Mr. Douglas Alan Kirkpatrick for the study of religion regardless of their personal S SOCIETY Mr. Isaac S. Osaki, Esq. Ms. June M. Kobayashi Mr. Sydney Randall Polk Dr. Thomas beliefs." Now, Cathryn hopes her son, Joseph Lankford Ms. Daphne Scott Bernicker E. McHugh Dr. Tamara Ray Clancy Ms. Katherine Elaine Sugg Diane Elizabeth Overlay, D.V.M.(White) Rodd '10, eventually will look back on his time at Rice Mr. Preston Ellis Johnson II Ms. Sara Tirschwell Dr. H. Kurt Overley with the same kind of treasured retrospect. Mr. Matthew Colin Jones Mr. Brock Lawrence Wagner Mr. Tracy Wayne Shelby "As far as I'm concerned, undergraduate teaching is Mr. Jonathan S. Kessler Mrs. Christine F. Wong(Wu) Mr. Lucien Marcel Tenn Dr. Robert Eugene Murphy Mr. Jason R. Williams the sine qua non of Rice," said Cathryn, who received Hoang Quang Nguyen, Ph.D. CLASS OF 1988 B.A.s in economics and history. "What captured us Mr. Peter Graham Olson CLASS OF 1991 BROWN SOCIETY was the passion and focus of a teacher and his or her Mrs. Michelle M. Robertson (Metrailer) Ms. Ruth Ann Farrar (Woerner) BROWN SOCIETY ability to draw differing or disparate threads together Mrs. Theresa Fullan Romeo Kerry W. Russell, M.D.(Strong) Mr. Robert Timothy Koger Mr. Stephen Paul Carmichael Ms. Gervaise Wood and present a fresh analysis. Ms. Susan Virginia Sample Nix CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. Todd Nix "I wish I had the lectures on tape," she continued. Mr. Holden E. Shannon Ms. Abigail June Dawkins "I've always felt very fortunate to be here, that I'd Mr. Brian Robert Tucker CHARTER SOCIETY Bradford W. Duncan, M.D. Shawn Wong, M.D. been admitted, and that my family could afford for me Mr. Jorge L. Contreras Jr. Ms. Marta Isabel Fonseca Ana Gonzalez Gardner, M.D. Mr. Kim A. Guile to be here." CLASS OF 1986 Mr. Edward Earl Graham Mr. Michael J. Gardner As a recipient of Rice's 2007 Meritorious Service TTTTTT SOCIETY John C. Spurlino, Ph.D. Dr. Jennifer Lapp Macia Ms. Carol Keiko Sugimoto Dr. Mario Luis Macia Award, a charter member of the Sallyport Society Gary W. Chiles, Ph.D. S SOCIETY and former chairwoman of the Rice Annual Fund, Ms. Annette Bruer Tamer ▪ S SOCIETY Cathryn understands the importance of unrestricted Mr. Brent Tamer Ms. Patricia Ann Brown Mr. Edward B. "Teddy" Adams Jr Mr. Richard Madden Chapman giving. "I have a strong sense that even a modest B ROWN SOCIETY Mr. Paul Joseph Agosta, MR Mr. Michael S. Chevalier-White Mrs. Laura Dr. David Charles Dankworth Bess McDonald gift is worth making as a matter of principle," she Owen L. Dry, M.D. Mr. William Gary Mr. Terrence Marlin Gee Cox Mr. Glenn Edward Dukes Mr. Dennis said. This conviction, along with the observation Mr. David Scott Gregory Wade Fox Mr. R. Mark Fiedorek that many of her closest friends were on scholar- Ms. Julie A. Gregory Wilkinson) Mrs. Jamie A. Fox (Cox) Amy J. Figueroa, M.D.(Freshwater) ship, led her to Ms. Ann Fisher Jackson Mr. Mark Jeffrey Kilgard make her first gift only two years Timothy John Harvey, Ph.D. Mr. Philip J. Miller out of Rice, initiating 26 consecutive years of giving CHARTER SOCIETY Beth Gibbs Johnson, M.D. Mr. Douglas C. Monsour to the Annual Fund. Many of her gifts were matched Mrs. Alice H. Dorman (Lippincott) Ms. Lynn Weekes Karegeannes Ms. Lara Allen Powers Mr. Clifford E. Dorman 3:1 by her former employer, ExxonMobil, an oppor- Ms. Nancy Collier LeGros Shelley Overholt Thiesen, M.D. Dr. Keith F. Goodnight Mr. Philippe Jean Matthys Mrs. Grace Chen Trent tunity she described as "a no-brainer." Mr. Keith T. Sartain Mr. Quang V. Moulton J. Ben Worsley, M.D. "I feel fortunate to make a contribution to the uni- Ms. Wei-Ling Wang Ms. Elise Bauman Neal Mr. Kevin W. Yankowsky versity that gave me the life I have now," Cathryn said. Ms. Kay Lauer Williams Mrs. Constance Sampson (Rhodes) Ms. Margaret West Schraer "And I'm not alone ... a lot of people are stepping up DER'S SOCIETY CLASS OF 1992 Mr. Howell E. Adams III Brannan Smoot, M.D. to make financial gifts and to reconnect with TTTTTT SOCIETY friends. Mr. Theodore A. Adams III Mr. Douglas Lee Foshee Together, we're making a difference not only in aca- Mr. Douglas Roger Bain CLASS OF 1989 BROWN SOCIETY demics but in the whole Rice experience." Brent Bergen, M.D. • SOCIETY Mr. F. Scott Biddy Damla Ms. Amy L. Sutton Karsan Dryden, M.D. Lee Chilton, M.D. Mr. Bradley J. Shisler Ms. Theresa A. Coughlin B ROWN SOCIETY Stephanie Roe Shisler, M.D. Mr. Sean Emile Fee Cheryl Bosman Mifflin, Ph.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Kenneth Teopaco Figueroa, M.D. CHARTER SOCIETY Ms. Sonia Garza Ms. Mary J. Holmes (Schmidt) Mr. Richard Anthony Holmes Mr. Bradley Vaughn Husick Dr. Shi-Yuan Meng Ms. Gail Clayton Husick S SOCIETY Mr. John Nicholas Schwartz Mr. Jeffrey James Kaneb Christine Coerver Assia, M.D. S SOCIETY Ms. Susan Joan Krueger Mr. David Dunham Becker Ms. Kerry Blackburn Armistead (O'Neill) Mrs. Kathy LaPlant (Coterill) Mr. Douglas C. Elliott Mrs. Elisa Macia Donovan 10 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning Mr. J. Durham Fudge Mr. Cheng Wan Leong Ms. Melissa Chaika Mr. Charles Edwin Geer Jr. Ms. Julie Lynn Morris Mrs. Elizabeth Kuang-i Chen (To) Ms. Jennifer Lee Geer(Neumann) Ms. Oanh Thuc Ngo Ms. Tanyia Lea Chuites Mr. Brian Langston Jackson Mr. Tapash Kumar Palit Mr. F. Mason Colby David Joseph Mansfield, M.D. Mrs. Susan A. Pontefract(Hoffman) Mr. Derek Cole Mr. Robert Kevin McDonald Mr. Kevin Michael Rabbitt Ms. Eileen Connell Gregory Stewart McLauchlin, Ph.D. Ms. Leigh Straughn (Peden) Sarah Syed Connell, M.D.(Ahmed) Ms. Tracy Anne McLauchlin (Poirier) Adam K. Usadi, Ph.D. Mr. Benjamin F. Cooper Dr. S. C. Niranjan Ms. Heather E. Coyne Mr. Jason Olsen Dr. Dana Hurley Crider Mr. John B. Pontefract RECENT GRADUATES Mr. A. David Cummings Ms. Mitre Miller Roehr Caroline Plowden Daly, M.D. Mrs. Noel Marie Rork(McMahan) By giving back annually, recent Ms. Rebecca Kristine Darr Mrs. Lori Bruning Scott graduates demonstrate that Ms. Allison Claire Davis (Frazar) Mr. Brian Lee Davis Mr. Steven H. Shivers their relationship with Rice Mr. Mark Stanley Deggeller Octavio Trejo, M.D. does not end when they exit Ms. Stephanie Drescher Yankowsky Mr. Taivas DeGroff through the Sallyport. They Mr. Carlos Alberto DeJuana a precedent their CLASS OF 1993 establish Carolyn Anne Delaney, M.D. senior year by donating funds to Mr. Jesse Daniel DeMartino BROWN SOCIETY the university that helped shape Ms. Caryn B. Dietrich Mr. Ernesto Bautista III their futures, and they continue Mr. Jeremy S. Dilbeck Mr. Scott William Dodson SOCIETY to give back after graduation. Mr. Jonathan Logan Donnel Taylor Gifts from recent graduates Passion for Art. Compassion Mr. Jeffrey Wayne Cara Boyles Doughty, M.D. fund study abroad programs, for Hearts • 5 SOCIETY Mr. Michael Allen Dowling graduate fellowships, intern- Mr. Bernard Theodore Barcio Mr. Matthew Dumm Mr. Raymond E. Brizendine ships, career services and much Mr. Robert Travis Dunbar Some would say Brandi Braud '07 is of two minds, but Ms. Claudia Adriana [drop Cox more. By giving consistently Mark Edward Alexander Escort, M.D. to be fair, it is more like four or five. Part Shakespeare to the Rice Annual Fund, young Mr. Cameron Etezadi Ms. Erika A. Harding scholar, part medical student, part teacher and part Mr. Christopher K. Hearn alumni demonstrate loyalty to Ms. Teshia N. Fetzer (Judkins) Mr. Ian Jaranson their alma mater and pave the Mr. Clayton Owens Finney humanitarian, she hopes to follow in the tradition of William Harry Forney III Mr. Douglas Alan Jones way for current students to suc- Mr. physician and poet William Carlos Williams, famous Mr. Jay Foulkrod Ms. Quyen Tran Jones ceed. In appreciation of their for bridging the fields of medicine and literature. Dr. Jonathan Lee Ms. Lisa Fouguette (Pulliam) support, we recognize recent of Ms. Michele Kaminski Miller Mr. Michel Adrien Fuller Brandi is in her first year at Baylor College graduates of all giving levels Ms. Jamie Anne Nelson Mr. Jay Fundling Medicine as part of the Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars Mr. Mark William Schoppe from the Class of 1996 to the Ms. Christine Garcia collaboration, an eight-year bachelor's/M.D. program Class of 2006. Ms. Julia Gargallo Mr. Patrick Levi Scott allowing undergraduates to fulfill premed require- Mr. Bradley P. Taylor Mr. Jason Arthur Gayman Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas(Jacob) Mr. Matthew Paul Gillingham ments while pursuing other areas of study. She took Ann C. Trevino-Mears, M.D. Mr. Peter Adel Girgis this opportunity to study abroad at St. Anne's College CLASS OF 1996 Mr. Richard Mansfield Graves II Greenslade at Oxford University. After what she calls a "life- CLASS OF 1994 SNOWS SOCIETY Mr. Robert K. Mr. Michael Gregory Grinshtein defining" experience in England, she returned to Rice Mrs. Mary Katherine Impelman (Schatte) TTTTTT SOCIETY Meg Grulee, M.D. Skura, who, Ms. Allison Kendrick Thacker to work closely with Professor Meredith Joe Grinstein Dr. Charlotte Mason Gruner (Kruger) Mr. Mr. Scott Charles Weidenfeller Brandi recalled, remained in an otherwise deserted of- Vile Guo, Ph.D. SNOWS SOCIETY CHARTER SOCIETY Dr. Mark Scott Hargrove fice Friday afternoons to advise Brandi on her senior Ms. Carla A. Kneipp Mr. Shawn Hayden Foster Mr. Adrian Harris Crowne thesis exploring John Milton's debt to Shakespeare. TTTTT EN SOCIETY Ms. Heather Forsyth Harris 5 SOCIETY Thanks to scholarship support from the Annual Fund Ms. Abigail Daniels Mrs. Elaine Yonker Hauschel Ms. Jila Bakker and other sources, such as endowments, Brandi has Michael Charles Ecklund Jr. Karl A. Haushalter, Ph.D. Mr. Mr. Alejandro Cestero Patrick M. Good Mr. David Warren Hayes benefited and continues to benefit from key mentor- Mr. Mr. Andrew Weikeen Chu Heather Suzanne Kendall Mr. Gary Herd to go above Ms. Mr. Brendan Duran Gnu, CFA ships. "The professors at Rice are willing Bryan Woodbury Mr. Michael Lawrence Herman Mr. Michael Martha Ocker Gau and beyond to help you accomplish what you want to Mrs. Mr. Aaron Phillip Hertzmann FOONDEN•S SOCIETY David Milam Jones Mr. Mr. H. Hugh Ho do, or even what you had no idea you wanted to do Campbell Leslie, M.D. Mr. Dennis Alan Beck Jr. Virginia Mr. Brian C. Hoblit because you didn't think it possible," Brandi said. Li Mr. Robert Wesley Blair Dr. Wenying Corey William Hochman, M.D. Ting-Chi Lu While interning at Texas Children's Hospital through Mrs. Arisa S. Boit (Miller) Ms. Mr. Keith Craig Hoffman Simon Ogier Mr. J. Kent Campbell Mr. Robert E. Hogan, Ph.D. the DeBakey Surgery Program, Brandi collaborated Emily Alice Palit (Velz) Mr. Chad Carson Mrs. Ms. Dara Lynelle Hogue with other mentors, including surgeons like Dr. David Mr. David Rhodes Mr. Scott Michael Crowder Ms. Amara Holstein Mr. David Aaron Sissman Morales. Together, Brandi and Dr. Morales continue to Mr. Robert Joseph Fredericks Judson Robert Holt, Ph.D. Jeremy Paul Welch conduct clinical research on congenital heart surgery, Mr. James William Murdock Mr. Dr. Amina Noor Husain John Edward Neal, Ph.D. L FUND Ms. Jenna Lyn Hutchins which has led to several published manuscripts in Mr. Jason T. Perlioni Francesca Delgado Adriano, M.D. Mr. Khodabakhsh Irani prominent medical journals. Ms. Emily Massad Babbitt Naoko Akiya, Ph.D. Ms. Judith Joy Isaacson "It's so easy to get involved with research on or near Mr. Jason Robert Richardson (Beal) Mr. Lawrence Alexander lus Mrs. Laura Anne Ambler Brandi, praising Rice's relationship with Ms. Laura Richardson (Bolwerk) Ms. Brannon Fontaine Andrews Ms. Nicole Michelle Jamison (Garza) campus," said Ms. Cheryl A. Scott Ryan Ms. Viji Annamalai Mr. William H. Jamison Jr. the Texas Medical Center. "You don't have to bang Mr. Troy Lane Williams Mr. Anthony E. Baer Ms. Lura Murdoch Johnson-Lee down doors or sleep in hallways. You don't even have Mr. John C. Bagwell Ms. Tricia Rae Jostlein (Giesbrecht) to get on the bus. You just have to walk across the CLASS OF 1995 Mr. Justus Nathan Baird IV Ms. Thea Kachoris-Flores -Seeman P. street to get to world-class hospitals. TTT OCIETY Mr. David Barnes Ms. Nandita Kalyan Ms. Leta Margaret Barry Mr. Matthew H. Kane "If you would have told me four years ago that I'd be Nipali Anil Bharani, M.D. Ryan Parker Bates, Ph.D. Mr. Shoney Katz Veeraraghavan published in medical journals, I wouldn't have thought Mr. Venkatesh Kelly Dr. Joby R. Bell Ms. Jennifer Zimmerman it possible." BROWN SOCIETY Mr. Bradley Jason Benoit Linda Jane Kim, M.D. Mr. Troy W. Thacker Gann Alexander Bierner, Ph.D. Mr. Troy O'Neal Kiper For her latest project, Brandi is developing a medical Renee Kirksey SOCIETY Ms. Sonya Hill Bishop Ms. Heather humanities program at her former high school, where Mr. Eric Kristopher Bjork Dr. Michelle Lee Klem Mr. Benjamin Barrett Mull she will co-teach a course exploring the relationship Ms. Ann Elizabeth Bragg Krista Diane Koch, M.D. Mr. Gene Paige Mrs. Elizabeth Bernice Braun (Tan) Mr. James H. Koh between creative writing and medicine. Ms. Claudia Margaret Zettner Ms. Drahomira Brejchova Ms. Stephanie Smith Koh ▪ S SOCIETY Mr. Mark John Brofka Mr. Chad Nicholas Kopp Mr. Antroy Alfonso Arreola Mr. Scott William Buckleair Ms. Shin-Wen Kuo Mrs. Marissa Gail Arreola (Wenner) Dr. Melinda Sue Burnett(Bass) Courtney Camille Lane, Ph.D. Dr. Michelle G. Bards (Garcia) Mr. Robert Maurice Caine Ms. Aileen Mei-Hwa Langston Mr. Joshua Isaac Bergman Ms. Julie Diane Capehart Ms. Kathleen Clare Lendvay (Gilpin) Mr. Eugene Yoonsug Byon Mr. Mark Dwayne Carlisle Mr. lestyn Rhys Lewis Mrs. Candace Fredericks (Lessmeister) Pamela E. Carlson, 0.0. Ms. Suzanne Scott Lewis www.giving.rice.edu/annual 11 Mrs. Michelle Renee Li (Parks) Mrs. Allison Claire Williamson (Walters) Mr. Timothy M. Grogean Mrs. Bayard Bell Linbeck Mr. Matthew Bryce Williamson Dr. Daniel J. Grossman Dr. Gang Liu Mr. Earnest Bryan Wilson Mr. David A. Grossman Shirley Liu, M.D. Ms. Joy Elizabeth Winkler Ms. Shelley J. Hagen Mrs. Elizabeth Graves Love Ms. Shermay Michelle Wong (Yang) Mr. Jun Han Karen Lozano, Ph.D.(Lozano Gonzalez) Mr. Garrett Webster Wotkyns Ms. Caroline Harris Crowne Mr. James C. Marrow Ms, Tennessee J. Yoder Mr. James M. Harris Ms. Claire Nicole Matese Ivan Petrov Yotov, Ph.D. Mr George E. Hatoun Kristin Bond McCabe-Kline, M.D. Dr. A. Musa Zamah Ms. Kim Zalewski Huelsman Mr. Joel Thomas McFarland Mr. Eric Zapata Susan L. lshaug-Riley, Ph.D. Mr. Shannon Nicholas McGarr Mr. George Austin Zener Mr. Thomas W. Jens Mr. David Spencer Mebane Ms. Jennifer Lynn Zucker Ms. Colleen B. Johnson Mr. Jeffrey W. Millard Ms. M. Emily Johnson-Liu Mr. Timothy Paul Miller CLASS OF 1997 Mrs. Kara Lee Jones (Schaefer) Mr. Christopher Edward Moore Ms. Michelle Eubanks Juden BROWN SOCIETY Mr. Harry J. Moren Mr. Paul H. Jung Mrs. Jennifer Ruland Morlock Mr. Ryan W. Impelman Mr. Brian K. Kaku Mr. Chad Aaron Morse Ms. Katherine Densmore Weidenfeller Ms. Christina C. Kao Dr. Stephen Calvin Moss CHARTER SOCIETY Ja-Hong Kim, M.D. Mrs. Theodora Dina Mucher (Jacomides) Ms. Anna M. Culpepper Ms. Allison Fine Kingsley Mr. Craig M. Muirhead Mrs. Michol L. Ecklund (McMillian) Mr. Brandon S. Kirby Braitmayer '81 with daughter, Anita Mrs. Barbara Ann Mullins (Brown) Mr. Charles A. Klein S SOCIETY Ms. Barbara Anne Myers Mr. Todd R. Konkel On Set with Ty Mr. Thomas J. Nabielec Mr. Timothy J. Carlson Dr. Pao-Ding Albert Ku Ms. Nisha Nayak Ms. Maryana F. Iskander Mr. Shaheen Ladhani Mr. Ba Nguyen Ms. Dionne E. Jobe Mr. Kevin R. Lafferty When architect Karen Braitmayer '81 agreed to Mr. Tom C. Nguyen Mr. Alexander J. Pasadyn Mr. Ronald D. Lafond serve as a consultant for ABC's hit show, "Extreme Ms. Jane L V. Nichols (Varela) Ms. Teran C. Smith Mr. Adam C. Lasics Makeover: Home Edition," she had no idea what Mr. Matthew Thomas Nichols Dr. Annette C. Spychalski Mr. Ritesh B. Laud Or. Jennifer Rene Nimerick Ms. Alexis Brown Stokes she was in for. Ty Pennington, the energetic host Mr. John D. Lawrence of Dr. Shoyab Abdulrahim Panchbhaya Mr. Peter A. Stokes Ms. Pei-Chih Lee the series, had never spazzed out on her television Ms. Anjali Tripathi Pant FUND Ms. Susan K. Lee screen; she had never witnessed a television seg- Ms. Eva Pao Ms. Alicia M. Adams Mr. C. Allen Lewis Jr. ment in which the show's large crew of designers and Mr. Gary Wayne Patterson Jr. Dr. Jennifer D. Adamson Mr. Gregory L Lewis Mr. Lee William Patterson Ms. Stella Shih-Ying Lin workers rebuilt a house in seven days. What she was Mr. Seth R. Ahrens Ge Peng, Ph.D. Mr. Waqas Akram Mr. Todd A. Lockwood familiar with was the genetic disorder affecting a six- Mr. John Travis Perez Mr. Laurence Albert Mr. Agustin Lopez year-old boy named Ben: osteogenesis imperfecta, a Dr. Mark Adrian Peterman Dr. Karen D. Alfrey Ms. Deborah L. Lyons Mrs. Carly A. Petrzelka condition that causes bones to break easily. Because (Snyder) Mr. Mark A. Anderson Mr. Christopher J. MacKelvey Mr. Jason Lee Phillips Ms. Laura Black Arrazolo Mr. Brian J. Maguire Karen lives with the same disability, she was able to Mr. Christopher W. Pickett Ms. Allison R. Bahme Mr. Daniel Paul Manchester offer Ty and his crew valuable guidance on building a Mr. Steve A. Quance Mr Eamon Adnan Baqui Brenda K. Mann, Ph.D. home for Ben and his family. Dr. Michael Joseph Quinn Mrs. L Kim Beasley (Ross) Ms. Christina Martin (Crawford) Ms. Sonia Quinonez Mr. Jeremy B. Martin "I love what I do," Karen said of her career Mrs. Miranda G. Bennett(Henry) as archi- Mr. Dave Ralston Dr. David M. Bortz Mr. Michael V. Marziani tect and consultant. "It's morally right and practically Ms. Valli Latha Ramesh (Subramanian) Ms. Katherine A. Bottom Mr. David J. McCann important to make communities accessible. I get a lot Mr. Trevor Randolph Mr. Jason W. Brandt Maeve Lewis McCarthy, Ph.D. Cesar Jon Rebellon of satisfaction from that." Mr. Ms. Amy B. Calcote Dr. Derek Ray McDowell Mr. Matthew Reichenbach Mr. Indranil Chakrabarti Mr. Jamie S. McGovern When Karen was deciding to attend graduate school Mr. Christopher Paul Rider Mr. Jimmy Cheng Mr. John Joseph McNamara for architecture, she benefited from the valuable men- Ms. Amy Ritchie (Reneau) Mui Cheung, Ph.D. Ms. Elizabeth Nylin McNeil torship and guidance offered by her professors at Mrs. Natalie Rodgers (Goodliffe) Ms. Carolyn H. Chi Mr. Robert L. Mendoza Dr. Gabriel Eli Rosenberg Mrs. Adrienne Meredith Rice. A year out of school, Mr. Adam M. Cohen she was surprised that her Mr. Darryl Stephen Roy Ann Z. Collier, M.D.(Zondlo) Dr. Tara D. Miller professors would write recommendations for her, let Ms. Susan L. S. Salituro (Schneider) Mr. Evan Cone Kara J. Mitchell, M.D.(Miller) alone meet with her one-on-one to converse about her Ms. Jennifer Ann Salomon Jenni Sommers Cooper, M.D. Ms. Sylvia V. Morin Mr. Joel M. interests and goals. Sandgathe Ms. Brenna C. Copeland Mrs. Karen Branstetter Moritz Ms. Colleen Mary Savoie Mr. Michael M. Corbett Ms. Celine Mouawad "They spoke with me personally about my work," Ms. Amy Jean Schumacher Mrs. Shelaswau Bushnell Crier Ms. Meredith L. Nelson she said. "I've realized since then what a great advan- Mr. Damian Donte Scott Darcy C. Cruikshank, D.M.D. Vuong D. Nguyen, M.D. tage and how unusual that was." Mr. Scott Simeon Ms. Katherine Calkins Cunningham Dr. Vernon S. Pankratz Dr. Shawn Emerson Simmons Ms. Tracy J. Park Karen Mr. Richard M. Davis chose Rice partly for its wheelchair acces- Ms. Emily Elizabeth Sing Ricardo E. Dent, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Chee Penrod sibility, but also, she jokes, for the climate. It was an Melissa Lynn Sistrunk, Ph.D.(Whitley) Ms. Jennifer L. Denton (Miller) Aaron Thomas Pierce, Ph.D. unorthodox decision for the Connecticut native, who Dr. Lisa Ann Slappey Ms. Alicia E. Derbez (Derbez Aranda) Mr. Frank X. Placencia Mr John Richard Smiljanic bypassed Princeton to attend Rice, but it is a deci- Mr. Joshua S. Devore Mr. Matthew L. Potoff Dr. Benjamin David Smith Mr. Ron 0. Dror Mr. Nathan C. Pritchard sion she never regretted. "My experience at Rice was Ms. Cambria Anne Smith Mr. James M. Duke Mr. James Thomas Pyke priceless," she said. "What a difference the four years Dr. Thomas Wakefield Smith Ms. Erin Newman Durant Mr. David A. Ramirez have had for me as a person." Mr. Wayne Chan Soontiraratn Ms. Emily H. DuVal Ms. Nellie L. Reid Mrs. Courtney Cook Spearman Mr. Sean D. Edmison Ms. Amy McKay Reifler Following a family tradition of supporting educa- Ms. Jeanette Kirsten Stan (DeHart) Mr. Brad J. Eixmann Ms. Catharine Kelly Rentzel tion, Karen has contributed to the Rice Annual Fund for Ms. Mary Elizabeth Stearns Ms. Meghan Elizabeth Elliott (Palochak) Mr. John T. Richard 25 consecutive years, including a multiyear pledge for Dr. Stacy L. Strehlow Ms. Ginger L. Elliott-Teague Mr. Marco J. Rimassa Mrs. Sharon Cutcher Sykes her 25th reunion in 2006. "I hope to give other students Mr. Kenneth C. Ensdorf Ms. Christa Anne Robbins Dr. Alyssa Terk Mr. Gerald S. Falchook Mr Noah A. Rosenberg the opportunity to have the same great experience I Ms, Elena Lucia Tetreault (Garcia) Mr. Luis I. Fernandez Dr. Susan L. Rusnack had at Rice," she said. Mr. Justin Wade Thomas Mr. William Blair Focke Ms. Stephanie Arevalo Saldana Ms. They T. Tran Mrs. Swanelle L. Fowler (French) Dr. Tauseef Salma Ms. Elsa Yadira Trujillo, Esq. Mr. Erik R. Fraker Christopher B. Sankey, M.D. Mrs. Alice E. Walker (Armintor) Mr. John S. Fredland Mr. Lasse T. Savola Mr. Raymond Floyd Walker Stephen J. Friedfeld, Ph.D. Mr. Jason B. Scarcella Mr. Edward Tsiyuan Wang Mackenzie S. Frost, M.D. Dr. David B. Serafini Mr. Joshua John Warren Mr Geoffrey A. Gannaway Mr. Sean Seton-Rogers Ms. Helen Wei Mr. Francisco J. Garcia Michael H. Shannon, M.D. Mr. Lewis Reid Weinger Ms. Anna S. Gardberg Mr. Noah M. Shapiro Ms. Holly L. Welch Mr. Andrew H. Gee Dr Aaron C. Shaver Ms. Rebecca Jean Wentland Darren M. Glass, Ph.D. Mr. Robert R. Sheh Heather Fraser West, M.D. Mr. Benjamin C. Glassman Miss Angela Sorrentino Ms. Olga Garcia West Mr. Bruce J. Godzina Mrs. Holly E. Sterrett Mr. Harry Eugene White Mr. Alejandro Gonzalez Mr. John D. Stiefel Jr. Dr. Lara Jeannette Williams Mr. David M. Gordon Mr. Brent N. Stolle Ms. Sally Ann Williams Mrs. Anshula Greene (Grover) Dr. William S. Story

12 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning Mr. Marc T. Swackhamer Ms. Ming-Ye Ruth Han (Kuo) FUND Dr. Virginia E. Thompson Mr. Jay Hanssen Ms. Azure Marie Abuirmeileh Mr. William R. Thompson Brian David Harms, Ph.D. Dr. Ann Arendell Adams Mrs. Emily M. Thurman (Felling) Ms. Tilly SueMac Fox Hatcher Mrs. Dawn Adkins(Bennett) Mr. Walter R. Tijmes Dr. Kay Helen Heath Mr. Joel Stephen Allan Ms. Jasmin A. Tiro-Richard Ms. Rebecca Austin Herman (Lewis) Ms. Victoria Arbizu-Sabater Mr. Karey L. Tsang Stella E. Hines, M.D. Mr. David Michael Baker Mr. Jason B. Tumlinson Ms. Rosita Angelita Hogan Mr. David A. Barry Mrs. Megan K. Uerling (Richie) Mr. Gregory Joseph Holloran Dr. Jennifer Kara Barry Mrs. Chelsea Marseille H. Valdes-Pierce Mrs. Amy M. Hudenko (Harrison) Mr. Scott MacPhie Becker Mr. Charles B. Varnell Ms. Julia K. Huff Ms. Amy Elizabeth Bender Mr. Tyndall Wakeham Mr. Shion Chen Hung Mrs. Tanya Stern Bernotas Mr. Frederick Wen Mr. Adam Robert Hunter Ms. Patricia Ann Besselman Mr. Jason Winship Mrs. Marisa Cruz Hurd Ms. Virginia Kathleen Boster Mr. Gabriel Wolosin Dr. Billy John Kim Ms. Amy Elizabeth Brock Ms. Amanda Maxson Woodall Edward Rowe Koehl, M.D. Dr. Mara Bryan Ms. Allyson Kristina Woods Mr. Subba Rao V. Kondubhatla Ms. Heather Lynn Caliri (Hawley) Mr. Bernard Byoung-Hoh Yoo Mr. Nam Kwok Mr. Christopher Adam Callicott Mrs. Philippa K. Zimmerman Ms. Brooke Lasics (Cooper) Ms. Hannah Katharine Ruth Campbell Mr. Erich Andrew Latchford Mr. Carlos Mauricio Chacon CLASS OF 1999 Ms. Jenny Nahyoung Lee Ms. Sabrina Szying Chan Mr. Benjamin W. Li Mr. Jonathan Sher Cherry S SOCIETY Ms. Sharyn Lie Dr. Jaime Dawn Choi (Beers) Mr. John Curtis Caffey Ms. Genevieve A. Logie (Gatmaitan) Mr. Christopher Giorgio Ciompi Forging Connections to Alma Mater Mrs. Erin M. Cestero (Kellam) Mrs. Tanya Lynn Lopez (Moffett) Mr. John Cloudman Gregory Laurence Davis, Ph.D. Ms. Martha Ann Lovato Mr. Michael L. Considine Kathy Segner '76 have lived in Mr. Christopher Scott Gouge Mr. Jason Lyons Mr. Eric Dal For 30 years, Ed and Ms. Amanda Kristin Jeffers Ms. Gina Manning (Cafagna) Ms. Jill Rebecca Daugherty West University, rooting for Owls athletics, attend- Mr. Mark Stuart Knoke Mr. Jon R. Marinelli Ms. Marcela Infante Davis ing music events and sharing their appreciation of Mrs. Donna Goggin Patel Mr. Matthew Charles Marlay Ms. Darcy Lanier Dement Rice with their sons, Peter and Christian. "We've Mrs. Lori Rudge Whitten Mr. Peter Marmo Ms. Melissa Susan Devore (Fiumara) FUND Ms. Angela M. Marroy-Boerger Ms. Karolena Johnson Diaz stayed very connected to Rice," Kathy said. "It is Bryce Corban Allen, M.D. Jeannette Huczko Martinez, Ph.D. Ms. Lesley D. Doll (Dalrymple) part of our lives." Mr. David Peter Amdur Ms. Ashley S. McNeeley (Elsey) Mr. Jason Michael Duke The former president and chief of staff of EOG Duryea Mr. John C. Ashton Ms. Anna Karolina Mitros Mr. Andrew Douglas Jr. Resources, Inc., an oil and gas company known for Mr. Andrew Slade Bagley Ms. Tara Mohr Mr. John Martin Edwards Erickson Dr. Philip J. Bart Ms. Mara A. Monoski Mr. Stefan A. innovative horizontal drilling strategies, Ed taught Mr. Christopher Daniel Belfi Ms. Laura Catherine Moodey Ms. Laura Virginia Feist courses in Rice's civil and environmental engineering Feldmann Ms. Caroline Reed Benton Mr. Paul B. Moore Mr. Jonathan Patrick department for over a decade and serves as chairman Ms. Tonyamas Charnsangavej Moore Mr. Gerald Patrick Flanagan II Mr. Scott Steven Betton of Rice's Center for Education. Recently retired, he is Ms. Julie Kathleen Birch Mrs. Jennifer Moss(Goldman) Mr. Brandon Fleet William Ford Mr. Nathan Thomas Blair Ms. Aradhana Mudambi Mr. Michael now a full-time professor in the practice at Rice. Kathy Ford Mr. Timothy Michael Boerger Mr. Jeffrey Oakman Ms. Rachel Colongeli worked for 17 years as a CPA and now volunteers for Ms. Kathryn Page Gandy Ms. Allison M. Bradley Mrs. Mira Stone Olson several projects, including an art history apprecia- Mr Andrew David Brown Mr. Timothy Steven Olson David Keith Geller, Ph.D. Mr. Blair Barnett Brown Ms. Karen Park Mr. David Carl Gibbons tion program called Art a la Carte, which she recently Miss Jennifer Nell Brown Ms. Amy Marisa Pita Mrs. Allison Marble Gilmore chaired for her son's school. Mr. H. Kevin Byun Carolina Duran Placencia, M.D. Mr. Adit Arun Ginde With a sincere dedication to all levels of education Ms. Carol Shanks Price Mr. Michael Shen Glass Mr. Christian Gabriel Caballero, Esq. and involvement both and outside the hedges, Ms. Amy Lynn Chlapowski Callicott Mr. Douglas Walter Ramsey Ms. Lori Michelle Gonzales inside Mr. Scott Calvert Dr. Luise Elizabeth Rogg Ms. Susana Calderon Gonzalez the Segners have the perfect vantage point to iden- Mrs. Teresa C. Calvert(Cutter) Ms. Sharon Beth Rosenberg Mr. Britton Gregory tify what is required to achieve Rice's Vision for the Mr. Ben Allen Gumpert Mr. Jeffrey David Cantin Ms. Aimee Kathryn Rox Second Century. Ms. Katie E. Cantu-Reichel Mrs. Lara Reddy Sandora Dr. James Henry Henderson Ms. Catherine Amy Carvelli Mr. Derek Sheridan Sarley Mr. Alejandro Hernandez The couple, who met in a calculus class their sec- Mr. Joseph Patrick Cathey Sarah Engler Seton-Rogers, Ph.D. Ms. Andrea Katherine Hilkovitz ond week at Rice, recently made a significant gift to Jeremy Hillson Betsey M. Chambers, M.D. Mr. Christopher Clark Smith Mr. Nathan the Rice Engineering Design Kitchen (RED K) Project, Mrs. Grace Li Smith Ms. Grace Shieh-Nung Ho Mr. Kwang Kyun Chang kitchen into a Ms. Laura Elizabeth Chap Dr. Jay Scott Smitherman Ms. Elizabeth Litton Hogan which will convert the central (Hick's) Dr. Bing-Hung Chen Ms. Sheila Madigan Smitherman Mr. James Richard Horn design facility for undergraduate engineers. They also Jim Chih-Ming Chiang, M.D. Ms. Hemmy Won So Ms. Heather Nicole Howard have endowed a music scholarship in Kathy's name Christy Stepp Dr. Charles Alan Israel Ms. Sandi Choi Mrs. Anna for a student who plays the organ. Still, they agreed, Ms. Maisie Min-hsin Chou Ms. Naoko Nakamura Stromberg Mr. Jameson Anthony Eynon James Mr. Brent Thomas Christensen Bryan David Szalwinski, M.D. Dr. Wayne R. Keith gifts to the Annual Fund are most crucial in enhanc- Mrs. Mindy Anderson Cohen Mr. David Michael Tagge Mr. Steven Michael Kellogg ing the Rice experience, specifically through support of Ms. Vanessa Claire Kellogg (Cobb) Mr. Bryan Austin Cook Miss Merritt Ann Thomas scholarships, residential college life and undergradu- Dr. Anthony Wayne Crider Jane Vy Trinh, M.D. Ms. Kirsten Lee Kinzer Mrs. Shannon Cronin (Moore) Mrs. Valerie Liu Tsang Mrs. Cathy Koplovitz (Lin) ate teaching. As members of the Sallyport Society for Mr. Jason Don Crowley Mrs. Heather Dawn Tsihlis (Haiges) Mr. Kurt William Krukenberg giving, Mr. and Mrs. Segner have made an immediate Mr. Jeffrey Malcolm Dawson Mr. Michael Selig Tuckman Mr. Wilson W. Lam impact on student life and learning. F. Turner (Frandsen) Ms. Christine M. Lindsey (Laskowski) Dr. Donna Lynn Dempsey Mrs. Gabrielle "Unrestricted gifts give the university flexibility Mr. John M. Doll Mr. John P Tustin Mr. Michael Edward Lindsey Mrs. Aimee M. Donnel (Marchand) Mr. Jason M. Underwood Ms. Yen Liu and allow it to expand in areas we haven't thought of Mr. Matthew James Dorfman Mrs. Molly Marie Urbani (Hooks) Ms. Jennifer Lynette Look yet as givers," Ed said, adding that he hopes contin- Mr. Christopher Lund Mr. Mark Daniel Drew Ms. Heather N. Varnell (Griffin) Clayton ued support of the Annual Fund and other initiatives Ms. Jennifer Drummond Mr. Kevin Paul Weimer Mrs. Summer Marrow (Durham) Ms. Deborah Williams English Dr. Sarah Linda Westcott Clara G. Martin Shaver, Ph.D., M.D. will enable more students to utilize their Rice educa- Mrs. Crystal Marie Fleet (Fontenot) Mr. Eric Warren Wheeler Ms. Angela B. Martindill tion to become leaders in whatever field, or fields, Dr. Michael Galaganov Ms. Ellie P. Wilkinson Ms. Meghan A. Marty they choose. Dr. Ueno Garrett Linda Reavis Williams, Ph.D. Ms. Rachel Elizabeth McCaffrey Jordan Mitchell Gerton, Ph.D. Mr. Scott Mason Williams Ms. Erin Maureen McCauley Mr. Ellis Robinson Giles Ms. Elizabeth Anne Wilson Ms. Laurie L. Meister Ms. Sara Jean Gilliland Chao Yang, Ph.D. Dr. Edward Thomas Mickelson Mr. Shay Aaron Gilmore Mr. Fulong Zhang Mr. David K. Murgatroyd Mr. George Fermin Gonzalez Jr. Mr. Kevin P. Murphy Mrs. Sylvia Cantu Gonzalez CLASS OF 1999 Mrs. Melanie Musgrove (Demo) Mr. Sebastian Erich Good Mr. Jose A. Narbona SOCIETY Dr. Priya Kadambi Gopalan s Dr. Amber Naresh Dr. Catherine Mary Gordon Ms. Karoline D. Carlson (Duessel) Mr. Brooke Hayward Nelson Ms. Joyce Palumbo Gordon Mr. J. C. Kneale II Dr. Randy W. Nelson Ms. Elizabeth Ridley Gosse Lt. Joseph Allen Rozelle Ms. Beth Nguyen Mr. Thomas Edward Greene Mr. Brian Patrick Treat Mr. Chris Anh Quoc Nguyen Ms. Sandra Lee Griffin (Henson) Mr. Anthony Charles Whitten Mr. James Edward Nicholson

www.giving.rice.edu/annual 13 Mr. Christopher Michael Palmer Ms. Cara Marie Wennergren Frisbie Mr. Eric John Stewart Ms. Briana Cary Patterson Ms. Alida Tallman Gallardo Ms. Jane G. Stewart (Goodwin) Dr. Stephanie Lee Shirley Post Mrs. Kathryn Hollingsworth Ganske Mr. Paul Jonathan Stewart Ms. Mara E. Prandi-Abrams Mr. Rodney Joseph Ganske Suzanne Webb Strom, M.D. Ms. Amanda Lee Price Dr. Erica Cristina Garcia-Pittman Mr. Sandheep Kumar Surendran Mr. Robert Steven Priske Ms. Elizabeth Clarke Glennon Mr. Hadi Tabbaa Dr. Jianliang Qian Ms. Amanda Chloe Goad Pok Chun Jennifer To, Ph.D. Mr. Kevin Boyd Rennie Ms. Jeannie Weddle Greiner Mr. James Chung-Tien Tsai Ms. Morgan Deveaux Robinson Mr. Scott Phillip Griffin Mr. Lance Kenji Uyeda Mr. Joaquin Alonso Salas Mr. Boyce Eugene Griffith Ms. Wendy Laura Van de Kerckhove Mr. Daniel Robert Sandler Ms. Kristina Elaine Guillen Ms. Saumya Sivaram VanderWyst Ms. Erin Sandler (Makulski) Mr. Roshan K. Gummattira Ms. Harsha Mohan Vaswani Dr. Alicia Jannette Schade Mr. Douglas G. Havlik Steven Fredrick Vaughan, D.D.S. Dr. Otto William Schwalb Ms. Jean Marie Healey Ms. Maureen F.H. Voosen (Hull) Mr. Jian Guang Shi Mr. Daniel Alan Heller Mrs. Parrish Hirasaki Walsh Ms. Angelique Siy Mr. Christopher Hopeman Mr. Malcolm Ian Wardlaw Mrs. Susan Hickman Skoe Ms. Naomi R. Weiss Horowitz Ms. Mary Watrous Mr. George Mario Smayling Mr. Matthew Steven Horwitz-Lee Ms. Anjali Deanne Wig Ms. Katherine Jozefa Solon Ms. Lisa Van Hsieh Mr. H. Marshall Wolfe Dr. Haitao Song Mr. Jerry J. Huang Shih-Yi Yang, Ph.D. Ms. Margo Kristin Sorum (Carlson) Ms. Kristina Elizabeth Hyland Dr. Alisha Y. Young Mr. Benjamin Andrew Stamets Dr. Ana Lucia Iltis (Smith) Mr. Nicholas Zdeblick Mrs. Kari Anne Steele (Sellers) Ms. Elizabeth Erin Jackson Scholarships Help Student to Reach Ms. Virginia H. Steil David Charles Jedlicka, Ph.D. CLASS OF 2001 Mr. Marcin J. Szajda Mr. Sean Patrick Joyce for FOUNDER'S SOCIETY the Stars Y. Jane Tavyev, M.D. Mr. Clayton L. Juckett Mrs. Dennise C. Templeton (Rooriguez) John Ernest Kacher, D.D.S. Li Pan, Ph.D. Rice sophomore Austin Belknap grew up in what he Jeremy Alan Templeton, Ph.D. Mr. Alexander Charles Kahn L FUND calls "a giant evaporative cooler," where, after one Mr. Nick Dimitrios Tsihlis Jennifer Leigh Larsen Kalisvaart, M.D. Ms. Ashley Nicole Agerson Dr. Rachel Tuuri Dr. Jonathan F. Kalisvaart especially heavy rainfall, arroyos doubled and tripled Mr. Phillip Andrew Alexander Mr. Michael Theodore Unton Mr. Kristopher Ghassan Karam Mr. Clarke Kent Anderson in size and the sand-dry air whooshed away, offering Ms. Alexandra Maria Vaikhman Ms. Emily Katherine Kennedy Ms. Barbara Marie Anthony a cool respite to the sun-battered residents of El Paso. Mrs. Suzanne M. Vanlandingham (Brock) Mr. Jamie Matthew Kerr Mr. Roman Aranda IV Mrs. Claudia Sue Gee Vassar Considering the border city's unusual climate and its Mr. Christopher Row Klick Mr. Jeffrey Alexander Arthur Ms. Jennifer Clarkson Vaughan Mr. Shawn Patrick Koch Mr. Daniel Marcus Attaway history as a frontier city, it might not be surprising that Mr. John William Vest Ms. Anita Vijay Kusnoor Mr. Charles Hoffman Baker Gene Rodenberry, the creator of "Star Trek," was born Mr. Robinson Vu Tammy Su-Ping Lai, Ph.D. Ms. Jennifer Fletcher Baker there. But for Austin, an astrophysics major and life- Ms. Stacey Neumann Vu Mr. Robert Martin Lawrence Mrs. Krista Mills Barnes (Brookhart) Mr. Brian Michael Wahlert Ms. Judy Han Le long fan of the science fiction series, this is relatively Mrs. Lakeisha Monique Batts (Robertson) Ms. J Davis Wakeham Eric Ted Lee, M.D. Ms. Rebecca Anne Baumann (Noack) recent news. David William Wang, M.D. Mr. Shin-Yueh Anderson Lee Mr. Jonathan Michael Beach "I was interested in space long before I found out Emily Julia Wang, M.D. Casey C. Leonetti, Ph.D. Mr. Chad Michael Benedict Mrs. Lisa H. Wang (Hwang) about that," Austin said. Instead, his fascination for Ms. Elizabeth Pearl Liao Ms. Renata Hughes Benjamin Mr. Nicholas William Weller Mr. John D. Lakin Ms. Erin Kathleen Bennett space was inspired by his grandfather, who introduced Mr. Donald Craig Williams Ms. Melinda L. Lukin (Graves) Mr. Jason M. Bigelow Austin to Einstein's theory of relativity. Matthew Sing Wong, Ph.D. Mr. Anderson Burton MacKay Ms. Amanda Marie Blankenship Ms. Angelique Vanetta Woods Austin recalls taking a trip to the Johnson Space Ms. Emily A. Mankin Mr. Edward Joseph Blocher Ms. Jean Zhou Ms. June Leah Marshall Center when he was younger and driving past a uni- Ms. Claire Elizabeth Bocchini Mn. A. Posey Martinez Ms. Marisa Bono versity surrounded by hedges. He quickly learned CLASS OF 2000 Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Matthews (Hamilton) Ms. Joan Katherine Bosworth Mr. John Taylor Matthews about Rice's ties to NASA and its renowned physics 'S SOCIETY Mr. Nawaf Mohammed Bou-Rabee Mr. Daniel E. McCallum Ms. Dana Rachael Breed (Pilaski) programs and emphasis on undergraduate teaching. "I Mrs. Jennifer Lisabeth RazeIle (West) Mrs. Kimberly A. McDougall Koehn Ms. Rachel Lauren Bren was hooked on coming to Rice," he said. OTHER L FUND Ms. Sara Elizabeth McFadden Ms. Royce Gigi Brooks Without scholarship support from the Annual Fund Mr. Michael Antoine Ackal III Ms. Melinda Louise McLellan Ms. Christa Brown-Sanford and other financial aid, Austin never would have Ms. File Lewis Anderson Kelly Edith McMullen, M.D. Ms. Alyson Lindsy Butcher(Tom) Dr. Stewart John Becker Mrs. Jenny Miller (Dale) Mr. Fletcher Hatch Carron had the chance to study astrophysics at Rice. With Dr. Arthur James Bergman Amit Shashi Mistry, Ph.D. Ms. Star B. Chacko a younger sister preparing for college, Austin under- Mrs. Michelle Glassman Bock Mr. William Shahram Moore Mr. Albert Minkung Chang stands how meaningful scholarships have been for Camille Vidal Boon, M.D. Ms. Anne Marjorie Mortland Ms. June Young Chang him and his family. Mr. Jonathan C. Borck Ms. Veda Murthy Ms. Sheila Sal Chang Mr. Zvi Boshernitzan Mr. Kwok-on Ng Mr. Alex Chen "These scholarships have made a big difference," Mr. Daniel Robert Boutz Mr. Khoa Bao Nguyen Mr. Quincy S.K. Chen he said. "I don't have to worry about student loans Mr. David Eugene Brice Ms. Quynhmai Le Nguyen Wiriya Chiranand, Ph.D. after I graduate, which is especially beneficial consid- Mr. John Philip Brinkmann Ms. Christina Andrea Noble Mr. Joon Ki Choe Mr. Thomas Michael Burnett Ms. Adrienne Eve O'Donnell Mr. James Blair Christian ering graduate school is next. I would like to give my Mrs. Dana Ziker Buschmann Mr. Vernon Scott Perry Mrs. Carina Mechyl Valerie Coel (Dullum) donors an emphatic 'Thank you!" Mr. Alberto Carrero Jason Kyle Phillips, Ph.D. Mr. Michael Benjamin Cohen Ms. Erin Tao Chang Mr. John Scott Pittman Ms. Maria C. Collins Dr. Henry Haipei Chen Ms. Heidi Pomerantz Mr. Erik Luke Cooper Ms. Cindi Choi Miss Sumona Pramanik Mrs. Kimberly Maher Correa Dr. Dane Tipton Christensen Mr. Robert W. Prentice Dr. Boxy D. Cramer Ms. Elizabeth Ruth Corneliuson Ms. Tonya La'Shuan Ray Ms. Sarah Jeanne Czarnota Mr. Juan Roza Correa Ms. Felisa Vergara Reynolds Mr. Michael J. Dailey Ms. Anne Elizabeth Countiss Mr. Jay Lawrence Reynolds Andrew David Daniels, Ph.D. Mr. Mark Alan Covey Pierre Antoine Riviere, Ph.D. Mr. Timothy Lee Danner Ms. Anne Louise Dalgish Mr. Daniel Alan Rodney Ms. Corrinn K. Davis Mrs. Amy Rebecca D'Angelo(Chambers) Bridget Colette Rogers, M.D. Mr. Jose Josue De La Pena Ms. Lucy Grace Delacruz Dearce Mr. Eric Michael Ryan Ms. Alisa De Luna Mrs. Simi Denson (Blair) Mrs. Cristina Self (Martinez) Ms. Susan Dalton Derrick Ms. Mary Katherine Derr Ms. Melissa Ann Selik Mr. Bryan Char-Hoa Ding Ms. Jessica Florence Dirks Mr. David Sha Mr. Raymond Kenneth Doman Mr. Mark Steven Doughty Ms. Brooke Erin Shader Ms. Christine Cavalier Durney Ms. Kelley Riddle Edwards Mr. Will Shen Ms. Kristen Elizabeth Dybala Mr. Michael A. Edwards Mr. Konstantinos Sideris Ms. Sarah Evelyn Louise Edwards(Coppin) Mr. James Jordan Emerson Mr. Alexander S. Silver Dr. Richard Neal Engstrom Ms. Jessica Marie Esparta Mr. Anders Christopher Skoe Ms. Maria Theresa Morato Fadri Ms. Kimberly A. Firestone Ms. Lisa Ann Smith Dr. C. Elmer Ferro Ms. Elizabeth M. Fisher Mr. Justin Anthony Stackawitz Ms. Hilary Scott Files Ms. Julia Joanna Fisher Dr. Carrie Latrelle Stallings(Smith) Mr. Rudolph Fink Mrs. Jonna Lynn Flores (Treble) Mr. Ryan Crosby Stallings Mr. Jared Shawn Fisher Mr. Roland Alexander Flores Ms. Lindsay Ann Stevens Mrs. Juliana Fisher (Edwards) Mr. Jace Randal Frey Ms. Michelle Clam Stevenson Mr. Kevin Edward Fisher

14 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning Mrs. Antje Barbara Focke (Klaer) Mr. Ricardo Anthony Radaelli-Sanchez Mr. Brooks Buchanan Bohn Dr. Dorothy Ann Blair Fontaine Mr. David Corbett Redden Lindsay K. Botsford, M.D. Miss Jennifer Frazer Ms. Deepa R. Reddy Ms. Beth Michelle Boulden Mr. Matthew R. Frost Mr. Nathaniel Timothy Richards Mr. Matthew Lee Braby Mr. Phil Hok-chi Fang Ms. Julia Elizabeth Robinson Ms. Tiffany Elyse Braby (DeShazo) Ms. Tullika Garg Mr. Paul Stuart Roslyn Mr. Daniel James Brasier Mr. Marcus Andrew Gavin Ms. Kimberly Faun Ryser Ms. Ilana Bromberg Ms. Sonja Mei Gee Mr. Adrian Lawrence Sadler Ms. Sandra Jean Brown Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Geneser Mr. Carlos Alberto Salaverria Mr. Robert Donald Bryan Dr. Lullit Getachew Trushar Mahesh Sarang, M.D. Mr. Eric Clark Carlson Ms. Paige Morrow Gilbreath Mr. Robert Walter Schroeter Ms. Rosemary Lynn Casler Ms. Alicia Marie Giuffrida Mr. Michael Andrew Schwartz Mr. Taylor Michael Cavanah Ms. Joyee Goswami Mr. Samuel Robert Scott Mr. Edward C. Cazier III Ms. Laura Galyn Grable Ms. Betty Wingyi Seto Mr. Peter Jordan Taylor Chaivre Mr. Ben David Graf Mr. Michael Raymond Sew Hoy Ms. Emmie Yung-Ming Chang Ms. Katie Lynn Grysen Mrs. Molly Elizabeth Shah (Heinz) Ms. Ginger Chao Ms. Lisa Renee Grysen Mr. Brett Justin Shobe Ms. Tiffany Michelle Churchwell Ms. Tanya Charlene Hanway Mr. Jason Joseph Simmons Ms. Christa Lucille Clark Mr. Kevin Lamar Hargrove Mr. Sameer Anand Siruguri Julia Teresa Conlon, M.D. Mr Bradley Michael Harris Mr. John Paul Slavinsky Mr. Matthew Williams Connolly Christopher Allen Harrison, Ph.D. Mr. Bryan David Sleeper Ms. Leslie Nicole Contreras ME Scott Anthony Harrison Ms. Deanna Marie Smith Ms. Suzanne M. Cox Mr. Timothy Jones Harville Ms. Skye K. Smith Mr. Patrick Cresap Mr. Bryan Guido Hassin Ms. Whitney Elaine Smith Mr. Clint David Crisp "If You're Not Ahead, You're Behind" Mr. Michael Andrew Hauenstein Ms. Eunice Shin Song Ms. Erin Leigh Criste Ms. Sheila Ann Herman Mr. Sloan G. Speck Mr. James Gerard Beebe Dallal Ms. Erica NoeIle Hernandez Ms. Giselle Everett Sperber Ms. Christina Marie Dalton Attending Monash University in Australia via Rice's Ms. Morela Hernandez Ms. Susan Hillary Stein Mr. Douglas Stephen Daniels study abroad program, Tiffany Abdul lahi '08 would not Ms. Ellen Claire Hickman Mr. Ricardo Gustavo Sutton Ms. Rebecca Blount Davis have been blamed if she just casually observed the Mr. Daniel Nicholas DeHanas Ms. Laila Laurice Blass Ms. Mariel Malin Tam-Ray controversy in Jena, La. Instead, she took action and Mr. Daniel James Hosier Ms. Lynlee Renee Tanner Ms. Allison Marie Dennis Mr. Jefferson David Hoye Ms. Huntley Mary Tarrant Mr. Rick Denson did what she thought was right. From halfway around Dr. Yanmei Huang Mr. Mehul Navin Tejani Ms. Laura Elisabeth Derr the world and several times zones away, she called on Ms. Tina Huang-Tsai Tojo Thomas, M.D. Lai Ding, Ph.D. one person after another: her peers at Rice, the Black Mr. Christopher Neal Huff Ms. Jill M. Thompson Mr. Vineet Dubey Dr. Pui Yee Hung Mr. Richard C. Thrapp Ms. Sabina Dugal Law Students Association, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Ms. Alessandra Warren Jennings Mr. Brian Edward Tson Mr. Brandon Joseph Essigmann Blanco and even Oprah. Ms. Patricia Tereese Jimenez Ms. Elizabeth Anne Tobin Ms. Audrey Iffiok Ette Well before 40,000 people flooded Jena on Sept. Yang Jin Ms. Celina Eunice Fang Ms. Mr. Christopher Henry Tracy 20, 2007, rallying for civil rights, Tiffany was on a mis- Prasanna Krishna Jog, Ph.D. Ms. Jennifer Denise Trub Mrs. Shannon Elizabeth Frost (Scott) Mr. Mackale Ramone Joyner Ms. Isabel Valdez Mr. Kimball Christopher P. Gallagher sion for public awareness. But it was nothing out of Mr. John Benton Jura Mr. Richard Anthony Valdez Mr. Joshua Adam Ginsberg the ordinary for a future strategic consultant whose Ms. Hanna Christy Kim Ms. Margaret Elizabeth Van Meter Timothy Ward Glover, Ph.D. motto, "If you're not ahead, you're behind," tells us Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D. Mr. Anton James VanderWyst Mr. Glenn Andrew Goodrich Eden Benedetto King, Ph.D. Mr. Enrique Vargas Jr. Mr. Jesse Gracia something about her approach to life and learning. Ms. Natalia Anna Ksiezyk Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez Ms. Katherine A. Greenwell Tiffany, a mathematical economic analysis and Mr. Paul Matthew Laszlo Mr. Thomas W. Vertrees Ms. Simi Kewalkrishan Gupta managerial studies double major, credited scholar- Catherine Lee Ms. Eun-Hwa Anna Ha Ms. Mr. Aamir Sirajali Virani ships provided in part by the Annual Fund for Ms. Lennette W. Lee Mr. Kyle Richard Voosen Mr. Nam Quoc Ha making Ms. Allegra Nicole LeGrande Ms. Ellen Yu-I Wan Mr. Michael John Haag her education possible and lessening the financial bur- Mr. Paolo Patdu Lim Ms. Agnes J. Wang Ms. Judith Carolin Hagedorn den on her family. While Tiffany has been earning a Daniel Joseph Livorsi, M.D. Ms. ShanShan Tanya Wang Ms. Kate Reed Hauenstein 3.98 GPA at Rice, her mother attended nursing school Mrs. Sofia Livorsi (Westblom) Ms. Jennifer Denise Ward Ms. Linling Yi-Wen Hsu Jennifer E. Lohmann-Bigelow, M.D. Ms. Erin Ann Waters Ms. Sidhya Jayakumar and is now a registered nurse. Without scholarship Ms. Ashley L. Lowe Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Welch Ms. Erin Patricia Keating support for Tiffany's education, her mother might not Mr. Dennis Lu Ms. Delia Duong Ba Wendel Mr. Alexander L. Lang have been able to pursue her own education. Mr. Kevin Joseph Lynch Mrs. Courtney Katherine Lang (Rubin) Mr. Timothy Daniel Werner "I feel privileged to understand the importance of Mrs. Juliette Lynn MacKay (Guarriello) Ms. Brooke Ellen Wheeler Christine Huang Lee, M.D. Ms. Alma Delia Maldonado Mr. Phillip Whited Mr. Marcus Christian Lessing education," Tiffany said. "It's not a reality to a lot of Ms. Lisa Solberg Mallon Mr. Adam Navarra Williams Mr. Paul W. Lea people. They're worried about,'How am I going to pay James Liang Mr. Christopher Frederick Martin Ms. Allison Nichole Winnike Mr. the bills?' or 'Where is my next meal coming from?' Mr. Michael Andrew McNertney Anna Marie Witt, M.D. Mr. Andrew Sean Lin Ms. Jennifer Marie McNiece Mr. Bryan Matthew Wong Mr. Neil H. Little not,'What college will I go to?' One of my missions is Dr. Luis Adolfo Melara Ms. Yufang Wu Ms. Cynthia Ann Lu to help people understand they can change their cir- Ms. Mary McDowell Messick Ms. Rongrong Yu Mrs. Rebecca M. Lu cumstances with education." Michelle Margaret Meyer, Ph.D. Mr. Marc Nathan Zubick Mr. Alistair C. Lucks Anna Noel Miller, M.D. Mr. Matthew Wheeler Ludwig Tiffany put her words into action by founding a Rice Mr Thomas Edward Miller CLASS OF 2002 Ms. Kelly Elizabeth McCann tutoring program for the Houston Scholars Program, a Mr. Matthew Stephen Mitchell Ms. Katherine Lynn McCarthy local boarding initiative for disadvantaged high school BROWN SOCIETY Mr. William Wallace Ms. Kelly Anne Moore McCullough Jr. students striving toward higher education. Ms. Sarah Knight Morgan Mr. Christopher Alan Powers Mr. James Michael McDade Ms. Julia Valentinovna Naumenko Mrs. Heather B. Powers(Dore) Ms. Joslyn Edelstein Meier "Eventually, I hope to be in a position to give back Ms. Kristin Nicole Necessary S SOCIETY Ms. Lydia Baldridge Meier and fund another student's education," Tiffany said. Ms. Jessica Ruth Nelson Mr. Steven William Meier Mr. Carlos Alvarez Mr. Rifian Shanu Newaz Lauren Frances Melcher, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Rigg Kneale Mr. Jeffrey K. Ngo Mr. Craig T. Meyer Mr. Brian Thomas O'Malley FUND Ms. Kristen-Leigh Myles Mr. Colin Stauss Owen Mr. Steven Matthew Abel Mr. Freddy T Nguyen Mr. Ajeet Pundalika Pai Ms. Aderemi Olubunmi Aderohunmu Mrs. Stacy Durbin Nieuwoudt Ms. Christina Hodge Painter Ms. Lauren M. Alexander Ms. Saramae Busbey Nilsson Dr. J. Clint Parker Mrs. Stephanie Farrell Allen Lindsey Ellen O'Neal, M.D. Mr. Rajan Sharad Patel Mrs. lzamara Anderson (Gamez) Ms. Anisha B. Patel Mr. Michael Scott Perkins Mr. David William Archibald Mr. Andrew Lucas Petter Mrs. Catherine Malone Peterson Mr. Kevin Michael Askew Ms. Erin Lynne Plettenberg Ms. Linh Nguyen Pham Mr. Brian Gregory Athos Mr. Jerrel Keith Richards Ms. Amber Rochelle Pickett Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ballis (Buckman) Thomas Milleret Ring, M.D. Mrs. Danielle Gipson Picozzi Mr. Reed Addison Ballis Ms. Casey Austin Roberts Ms. Sarah E. Pitre Mrs. Lauren Christy Barker (Farr) Ms. Alison Lynn Rogers Ms. Alejandra Posada Mr. Torey DeJohn Batts Ms. Myrna Jane! Salinas Ms. Jamil Prentice-Joyner Mr. Jonathan Robert Behr Ms. Jenessa Rachel Shapiro Ms. Susanne Ashley Pringle Ms. Viola Benavidez Mr. Jared Lee Singer Ms. Jane Puthaaroon Ms. Steffenie Elizabeth Birkeland Mr. Nicolas D. Spicer Mr. Patrick Wayne Quayle Mrs. Jessica Alsobrook Block Dr. Richard Swartz www.giving.rice.edu/annual 15 Mrs. Sue Dimenn Deigaard Dr. Dave M. McStravick Mr. Wotao Yin Mr. William Soren Deigaard Dr. John A. Meixner Ms. Jeanette Zey Ms. Francine Di Mr. Nicolo Messana Ms. Frances Zientek Ms. Debbie Sue Diamond Dr. Clarence A. Miller George R. Zodrow, Ph.D. Ms. Weiqun Ding Dr. Julia K. Morgan Mr. George Zombakis Mr. Garrett Dolan Ms. Colleen F. Morimoto Linda Lorane Driskill, Ph.D. Ms. Jennifer L Murray PARENTS Ms. Jennifer Drummond Mr. Jose A. Narbona Dr. Leonardo A. Duenas-Osorio Ms. Ginger Crandall Nash From phone calls and care Ms. Kathy Duplessis Ms. Claire Dwyer Nelson packages to financial gifts that Ahmad J. Durrani, Ph.D. Mrs. Amanda Leonor Nevin Ms. Colleen Dutton Jim Newman, Ph.D. continue to enhance life and Mr. Allen W. Eggert Dr. Charles J. Newell learning, support from parents Mr. Elmer Eisner Ms. Quynhmai Le Nguyen keeps students going from one Michael 0. Emerson, Ph.D. John S. Olson, Ph.D. year to the next. Their gifts Geary VV. Eppley, Ph.D. Barbara Ostdiek, Ph.D. to the Rice Annual Fund help Mrs. Janet Feng Dr. Don Ostdiek ensure that students receive the Mr. Robert N. Flatt Dr. Jon Kimura Parker Ms. Kaaren Fleisher Mr. Richard L. Parr Jr. best education possible, one Mr. Robert S. Flumach Or. Deborah Ann Pearson that offers personal attention Jill Foote, Ph.D. Ms. Nicole Marie Peralta and engages students in and Ms. Kathryn M. Fosdick Mr. Larry P Perez Jr. out of the classroom. In the Mr. Kevin J. Foyle Ms. Gale A. Peterson classroom, parents' gifts to the Renewing Legacies through Annual Ms. Ute M. Franklin Dr. Paul E. Pfeiffer Mrs. Venora Frazier Mr. H. Russell Pitman Annual Fund expose students Fund Support Ms. Suzanne W. Friend Ms. Julie C. Platek to new perspectives through Mr. Daniel Heng-Min Fu Dr. Stephanie Lee Shirley Post visiting faculty professorships. For Allison '96 and Troy Thacker '95, memories make Ms. Wendy Gage Mr. Calvin N. Preece Beyond the classroom, parents' all the difference. Take, for instance, the time Allison Ms. Joyce L. Galiette Nanxiu Dian, Ph.D. gifts fund residential college Mr. Carlos Garcia Or. David C. Queller programs and provide free hoisted up a 40-foot Christmas tree in Baker Commons Mrs. Patsy L. Garcia Dr. Henry H. Rachford Jr. with the help of senior physics students and their elab- Ms. Jennifer M. George Mrs. Marilyn C. Rambow access to Houston's premier orate pulley system; or getting to know each other at S. Malcolm Gillis, Ph.D. Mrs. Linda Rassinier art and music offerings. With William E. Gordon, Ph.D. Or. Carl Rau warm thanks, Rice recognizes Chuy's restaurant after meeting during a campuswide Dr. Narendra Kumar Gosain Mrs. Joan G. Reid supportive parents for their party or hanging out at Willy's Pub before the notorious Arthur W. Gottschalk, Ph.D. Patricia H. Reiff, Ph.D. contributions to a holistic Mr. John D. Greiner Mrs. Brenda Roberts Robey Pub Fire of 1995. educational experience. "The stories, legacies, wittiness and sense of Mr. R. Mac Griswold Mr. David J. Rodd Ms. Suzanne Sutphin Gschwind Dr. Javier Rojo humor permeate the school," said Troy, who named Dr. Michael Gustin Mrs. Karen Rubinsky SALL SOCIETY his dog "Chaucer" after the street on which he lived Mr. James T. Hackett Ms. Charlene Marie Sadberry Mr. and Mrs. Govind Agrawal while a student at Rice. He graduated with a B.S. Ms. Laurie Guinn Hammons Mr. Mark Sakowitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Brockman Ms. Ingrid Hansz Dr. Paula Sanders in chemical engineering and later earned an M.B.A. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Houk Timothy John Harvey, Ph.D. Ann Saterbak, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Howard from Harvard. "The people are eclectic, and the Mr. Neil Havens Ms. Carroll W. Scherer Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edwin Loveless Dr. Mikki Hebl Mr. Matthew Allen Schlief teaching methods are unconventional, forcing you to LOVETT SOCIETY go beyond the surface and dig into substance in a Ms. Geneva Henry Or. Anne Schnoebelen Janice L. Hewitt, Ph.D. Dr. David W. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rice Bethea more granular level of detail." Mr. Marion 0. Hicks Mr. Edmund Peter Segner III Mr. and Mrs. John Bookout Jr. Troy and Allison are grateful for the financial sup- Thomas W. Hill, Ph.D. Ms. Tamara Lynette Suer Mrs. Katherine Brown Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Canter port they received. Mr. David Allan Hokanson Dr. James R. Sims Dr. Huey W. Huang Dr. J. Bartlett Sinclair Mrs. Margaret Elkins Carl "We're both from middle-class families, and we re- Dr. J. Dennis Huston Dr. Lisa Ann Slappey Mrs. Anne S. Chao ceived small scholarships," said Allison, who earned Mr. Eric C. Johnson Dr. Roland B. Smith Jr. and Mr. Albert Y. Chao Ms. Juanita Jones Ms. Amy Noelani Spiegel Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Clegg her B.A. in economics and her M.B.A. from Harvard. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Davis "Not just need-based but merit-based scholarships are Or. Yury A. Kamensky Mrs. Linda Spiro Mr. Robert Lane Kauffmann Dr. Charles R. Stewart Dr. Linda Lorane Driskill important, especially because education is a large in- Ms. Erin Patricia Keating Ms. Evelyn Stewart, CPA and Mr. Frank E. Driskill vestment for some families to make. One of the special Mrs. Linda C. Keating Richard J. Stoll, Ph.D. Mrs. Carolyn Schultz Hokanson and Mr. David Allan Hokanson things about Rice is its relative affordability. You don't Suzanne E. Kemmer, Ph.D. Dr. Diana L. Strassmann Kamran M. Khan Mrs. Linda Leigh Sylvan Ms. Elizabeth Howard, Esq. exit with tremendous debt." Mr. Doug Killgore Ms. E. Julia Tang John and Rusty Jaggers The couple believes in giving to Rice, just as Rice Mrs. Gaylen Mahoney Kimbell Mrs. Jo Ann Timmins Mrs. Shirley Laughlin Roxburgh Ms. Cathryn Rodd Selman gave to them. "When we give to Rice, we feel like Ms. Alemka Kisic Mary Tobin, Ph.D. Mr. Michael Klaveness Ms, Helen Lawrence- Toombs and Mr. Douglas M. Selman we're fulfilling our duty," Troy added. "There were Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sorte Ms. Denise Maureen Klein Dr. Linda Marie Torczon Mr. and Mrs. Henry Y. \N. Tsang people ahead of us who made it possible for us, and Dr. Riki Kobayashi Dr. James M. Tour Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner now it's our turn to make it happen for others." Mr. Anatoly Kolomeisky Ms. Karen Marie Turney and John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D. Mrs. William Joseph Korinek Dr. Peter R. Vail In addition to volunteering on their reunion class Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vexler Ms. Natalia Anna Ksiezyk John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard 0. Wilson committees, Troy and Allison have made several Dr. Siva Kumari Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zeglin gifts to the Annual Fund, including significant reunion Mr. Shaheen Ladhani Dr. Moshe Y. Vardi pledges and others earmarked for the Rice Annual Ms. Lily Lam Mr. V. Richard Viebig Jr. BROWN SOCIETY Fund Scholars program. Dr. Neal F. Lane Dr. Kristine Gilmartin Wallace Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Ballentine Kenneth R. Laughery, Ph.D. G. King Walters, Ph.D. and Dr. J. Gregory Ballentine "When I read student profiles in Sallyport or online," Mr. Brian L. Lavigne Dr. C. Herb Ward Mr. and Mrs. John H. Broocks Allison said, "it makes me feel hopeful and excited Mr. Francisco Layton Jr. Dr. Michael F. Webster *Mr. T. C. Campbell about the future — that students' dreams and aspira- Mr. Hung M. Le Ms. Diana L. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F Cathcart President David W. Leebron Mr. George A. Wells Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Chapman tions are taking shape in meaningful ways." William Prescott Leeman, Ph.D. Ms. Janet M. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cloudman Ms. Nancy L. Letness Dr. Kenton H. Whitmire Mr. Edward Davis Mrs. Sue-Jean Li Mrs. Joan C. Whitney Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Dvoretzky Ms, Lauren Linn Peggy Annette Whitson, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Edmonson Dr. Thad (Jill) Logan Ms. Mary C. Widner Dr. and Mrs. James P Fogarty Mr. Ron Long Dr. James C. Wilhoit Jr. Ms. Paula Graves Ms. Rita B. Loucks Mr. Gregory Steven Williams Rev, Helen Havens & Mr. Neil Havens Mr. Jason Lyons Ms. Angela D. Williams-Njenga Ms. Suzanne D. Hirshberg Mr. Greg Marshall Dr. Joseph B. Wilson and Mr. Al J. Hirshberg Patricia S. Martin, Ph.D. Mr. William K. Wilson Mrs. Carolyn D. Jackson William C. Martin, Ph.D. Dr. Duane Windsor Mr. Leonard N. Martin Mr. Richard P Massey Mr. Scott W. Wise Mr. Robert A. Moomaw Mr. Robert B. McAshan III Ms, Denell S. Wiseman Ms. Barbara Siever O'Connor Ms. Elise Ernst McCutchen Dr. Richard A. Wolf and Mr. Thomas Ireland O'Connor

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as c Address Mr. E _c30W.) (-7, 8 (.11), i n and Mrs. Robert T. Brockman Do, in cp o Mrs. Skip Dalton El_ I— 0 0 LLLLLL SOCIETY G. El D El O < Name Billing Mr. and Mrs. Alfredo Brener Mrs. Bettie W. Clark Mr. James R. Goins Mr. and Ms. Steven L. Miller IVII. COW IVIJO. 11,110IU I. •wgrn Ms. Sue Lee Mr. and Ms. Marc J. Shapiro William and Roo Zimmer and Mr. C. J. Kao BROWN SOCIETY 'S SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. John D. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Simmons Ms. A. Grayson Alderman Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Lesser Mrs. Betty Y. Stelzer and Mr. Ken Lacey Dr. Sherman Shaw-Wen Lin CHARTER Mr. and Mrs ,JohnAllahand Mr. Bill Lorimer SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Byron Allen Mr. and Ms. Timothy Scott Lucas Mr. and Mrs. James A. Elkins Ill Dr. Madeleine Duvic Mr. Al Martin Ill Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff and Mr. Michael R. Alsup Dr. and Mrs. Rex Martin FOUNDER'S SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Urvine E. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mason Mr. and Mrs. David W. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Khleber V. Attwell Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Masuda Mr. Marvy Finger Ms. Colleen Jennings Batchelor Mrs. Barbara M. McClintock Mr. and Mrs. Eric Smith and Bill Batchelor, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Alan Beck Ms. Tina L. Mohr Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bentley and Dr. David Mohr Mr. and Mrs. David Berberian Sr. Mrs. Diane Kraft Mott Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Blair and Mr. John G. Mott Dr. and Mrs. John B. Boles Mr. Clyde Alfred Muchmore Mr. and Ms. Davis E. Boster Jr. Dr. Tina Narayan Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Bradberry Mr. Arthur G. Nolting Mr. and Ms. Robert N. Byrne Mr. Gary Norton Dr. Janet Hudson Caldwell Ms. Cindy Scott Obermeyer

*deceased Mrs. Sue Dimenn Deigaard Dr. Dave M. McStravick Mr. Wotao Yin Mr. William Soren Deigaard Dr. John A. Meixner Ms. Jeanette Zey Ms. Francine Di Mr. Nicolo Messana Ms. Frances Zientek Ms. Debbie Sue Diamond Dr. Clarence A. Miller George R. Zodrow, Ph.D. Ms. Weiqun Ding Dr. Julia K. Morgan Mr. George Zombakis Mr. Garrett Dolan Ms. Colleen F. Morimoto Linda Lorane Driskill, Ph.D. Ms. Jennifer L. Murray PARENTS Ms. Jennifer Drummond Mr. Jose A. Narbona Dr. Leonardo A. Duenas-Osorio Ms. Ginger Crandall Nash From phone calls and care Ms. Kathy Duplessis Ms. Claire Dwyer Nelson packages Ahmad J. Durrani, Ph.D. Mrs. Amanda Lessor Nevin to financial gifts that Ms. Colleen Dutton Jim Newman, Ph.D. continue to enhance life and Mr. Allen W. Eggert Or. Charles J. Newell learning, support from parents Mr. Elmer Eisner Ms. Quynhmai Le Nguyen keeps students going from one Michael 0. Emerson, Ph.D. John S. Olson, Ph.D. year to the next. Their gifts Geary W. Eppley, Ph.D. Barbara Ostdiek. Ph.D. • 111. I • • Mrs. Janet Feng Mr. Robert N. Flatt Ms. Kaaren Fleisher Mr. Robert S. Flumach Jill Foote, Ph.D. Ms. Kathryn M. Fosdick Mr. Kevin J. Foyle Renewing Legacies through Annual Ms. Ute M. Franklin Mrs. Venora Frazier Fund Support Ms. Suzanne W. Friend Mr. Daniel Heng-Min Fu C IT7JOX

For Allison '96 and Troy Thacker '95, memories make Ms. Wendy Gage O05 m POSTAGE all the difference. Take, for instance, the time Allison Ms. Joyce L. Galiette c: co rn =2 rn Mr. Carlos Garcia C T.0 c: m hoisted up a 40-foot Christmas tree in Baker Commons Mrs. Patsy L. Garcia O e,z_z with the help of senior physics students and their elab- Ms. Jennifer M. George orate pulley system; or getting to know each other at S. Malcolm Gillis, Ph.D. H(omODmc WILL Chuy's restaurant after meeting during a campuswide William E. Gordon, Ph.D. x rQxo-

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K ADDRESSEE his dog "Chaucer" after the street on which he lived Mr. James T. Hackett while a student at Rice. He graduated with a B.S. Ms. Laurie Guinn Hammons in chemical engineering Ms. Ingrid Hansz and later earned an M.B.A. Timothy John Harvey, Ph.D. A from Harvard. "The people are eclectic, and the Mr. Neil Havens teaching methods are unconventional, forcing you to Dr. Mikki Hebl go beyond the surface and dig into substance in a Ms. Geneva Henry Janice L. Hewitt, Ph.D. more granular level of detail." Mr. Marion 0. Hicks Troy and Allison are grateful for the financial sup- Thomas W. Hill, Ph.D. port they received. Mr. David Allan Hokanson Dr. Huey W. Huang "We're both from middle-class families, and we re- Dr. J. Dennis Huston ceived small scholarships," said Allison, who earned Mr. Eric C. Johnson her B.A. in economics and her M.B.A. from Harvard. Ms. Juanita Jones "Not just need-based but merit-based scholarships are Dr. Yury A. Kamensky Mr. Robert Lane Kauffmann important, especially because education is a large in- Ms. Erin Patricia Keating vestment for some families to make. One of the special Mrs. Linda C. Keating things about Rice is its relative affordability. You don't Suzanne E. Kemmer, Ph.D. Kamran M. Khan exit with tremendous debt." Mr. Doug Killgore The couple believes in giving to Rice, just as Rice Mrs. Gaylen Mahoney Kimbell •z z • 1 gave to them. "When we give to Rice, we feel like Ms. Alemka Kisic m 2_01:1 O 5..rtiO we're fulfilling our duty," Troy added. "There were Mr. Michael Klaveness —1> Ms. Denise Maureen Klein Cl) F CI) people ahead of us who made it possible for us, and M rn' D 7 Dr. Riki Kobayashi o now it's our turn to make it happen for others." Mr. Anatoly Kolomeisky ▪ In addition to volunteering on their reunion class Mrs. William Joseph Korinek Ms. Natalia Anna Ksiezyk J1 committees, Troy and Allison have made several Dr. Siva Kumari gifts to the Annual Fund, including significant reunion Mr. Shaheen Ladhani Dr. Moshe Y. Verdi W dilu iviis, ivviiiuui Leg1111 pledges and others earmarked for the Rice Annual Ms. Lily Lam Mr. V. Richard Viebig Jr. BROWN SOCIETY Fund Scholars program. Dr. Neal F. Lane Dr. Kristine Gilmartin Wallace Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Ballentine Kenneth R. Laughery, Ph.D. G. King Walters, Ph.D. "When I read and Dr. J. Gregory Ballentine student profiles in Sallyport or online," Mr. Brian L. Lavigne Dr. C. Herb Ward Mr. and Mrs. John FL Broocks Allison said, "it makes me feel hopeful and excited Mr. Francisco Layton Jr. Dr Michael F. Webster *Mr. T. C. Campbell about the future — that students' dreams and aspira- Mr. Hung M. Le Ms. Diana L. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F Cathcart President David W. Leebron tions are taking shape in meaningful ways." Mr. George A. Wells Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Chapman William Prescott Leeman, Ph.D. Ms. Janet M. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cloudman Ms. Nancy L. Letness Dr. Kenton H. Whitmire Mr. Edward Davis Mrs. Sue-Jean Li Mrs. Joan C. Whitney Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Dvoretzky Ms. Lauren Linn Peggy Annette Whitson, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Edmonton Dr. Thad (Jill) Logan Ms. Mary C. Widner Dr. and Mrs. James P. Fogarty Mr. Ron Long Dr. James C. Wilhoit Jr. Ms. Paula Graves Ms. Rita B. Loucks Mr. Gregory Steven Williams Rev. Helen Havens & Mr. Neil Havens Mr. Jason Lyons Ms. Angela D. Williams-Njenga Ms. Suzanne D. Hirshberg Mr Greg Marshall Dr. Joseph B. Wilson and Mr. Al J. Hirshberg Patricia S. Martin, Ph.D. Mr. William K. Wilson Mrs. Carolyn D. Jackson William C. Martin, Ph.D. Dr. Duane Windsor Mr. Leonard N. Martin Mr. Richard P Massey Mr Scott W. Wise Mr. Robert A. Moomaw Mr. Robert B. McAshan III Ms. Denell S. Wiseman Ms. Barbara Siever O'Connor Ms. Elise Ernst McCutchen Dr. Richard A. Wolf and Mr Thomas Ireland O'Connor

18 Rice Annual Fund For Student Life and Learning Mr. and Ms. James C. Orchard and Mr. John W. Caldwell and Mr. Paul R. Obermeyer Ms. Maureen Fulton Phillips Dorothy E. F. Caram, Ed.D. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. O'Connor and Mr. Paul G. Phillips Drs. Li-Li and Weng-Kwen Chia Mr. Paul Melvin Olstad Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Senturia Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Chilton Jr. Dr. Florence Cheung Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Smith Mr. John Breen Coleman Jr. and Dr. Alwin Pang Mr. and Mrs. Martin Allen Sosland Dr. Donna M. Collins Ms. Patricia Mol Dr. and Mrs. Fred I. Stalkup and Dr. George C. Collins and Mr. Robert Hall Parks Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Earl Taylor Ms. Sandra Lee Brunow Mrs. Pamela Woods Dr. and Mrs. Wylie Walker Vale and Mr. Michael Cooper and Mr. Kirk Pasich Mr. and Mrs. Wolfram Vedder Mr. and Mrs. Nance G. Creager Mr. and Mrs. Hemant Patel Mr. and Mrs. Lou Waters Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Cruess Mr. James Knox Peden III Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Westkaemper Mr. George M. Cunyus Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Pfeiffer Mrs Evelyn Weymouth Mrs. Deborah Harvey Delgado Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Phalen Jr. Delgado, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Dac Tat Pham CHARTER SOCIETY and Abraham Mr. and Mrs. William Der Garry Mrs. Catherine C. Reed Ms. Nalwa Bushnaq David J. and Pamela Smith Devine and Mr. Chris P Reed and Albinali Mr. Samir A. Kim Veronica Rodriguez, M.D. Mr. Fisher Reynolds Jr. Mr. and Michael Bahorich Mrs. and Mr. Douglas George Dobbin Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rhodes Mr and Mrs. Noel Barron Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Dow Mr. and Mrs. Hershel M. Rich Mr. and Walter Bratic Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. John Watson Downing Ms. Judith Herr Ms. Sarah E. Campbell Cmdr. and Mrs. H. Lee Dozier Jr. and Mr. Robert Samuelson Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Ray Cannady Drs. Neelofer and Ahmad Durrani Mrs. Maureen Moore Scheevel Ms. Laura Weir Clarke Ms. Melinda Snell and Mr. Mark R. Scheevel and Mr. Fred W. Clarke III and Mr. David S. Elder Mr. Thomas F. Scully Jr. Dr. Karla Colle Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Ellsworth Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Simpson Jr. and Dr. Thomas Colle Dr. and Mrs. Fred Erisman Dr. E. Mitchell Singleton Drs. Charles and Rosemary Conlon Mrs. Sharon Erskine Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Roger Skebba Mrs. Shirley Wells Cooper and Mr. Donald L. Erskine Mr. and Mrs. James P. Steffensen Mr. and Mrs. Gary H. Cortes Mr. and Mrs. W. Paul Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolfe Tanner Mrs. Charlotte Faye Dahm Dr. Terry Reimann Findelstein Mr. and Mrs. James W. Taylor and Or, Lawrence John Dahm and Dr. Robert Finkelstein Mrs. Kris Thomas Mrs. Katherine B. Dobelman Ms. Denise Reineke Fischer and Mr. Neil Thomas Mr. and Ms. Bert Duplessis and Mr. Gary Paul Fischer Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Thomas The Honorable and Mrs. Ed Emmett Mrs. Christie Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fox Tobert and Dr. John Fisher Dr. Jonathan A. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Hanson Ashcraft Mr. and Mrs. William Z. Fitzgerald Ms. Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Huff Tu Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Flatt and Mr. Lawrence Mrs. Juliana Williams ltz A. Turpin Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gee Jr. Mr. Jack and Mr. David D. Iti Lowe Vandell Mr. and Mrs. Amar Gill Dr. Deborah Neal and Joni Lane Dr. Kerry Dean Vandell Ms. Henrietta Drewry Gores and Mr. and Mrs. William F. Leahy Mrs. Betty Wray Venson and Mr. George Howard Warrington Ms. Anne K. Leary and Mr. Mike Venson Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Graves and Mr. Paul F. Charnetzki Mrs. J. Douglas Walker Mr. Howard F. Gready Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mann Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Wallace Drs. Susan and Clark Gregg Mr. and Mrs. Clark A. McCollough Mrs. Clara K. Wantland Mr. and Ms. Jim Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L McKittrick, FAIA and Mark P. Wentland, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gwilliam Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mehlman Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Whaley Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hampton Mrs. Shirley Siu Mr. and Ms. Richard B. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Kim Layne Hanna and Mr. Paul Metzgar Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. White Mrs. Marion Smith Hargrove Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Mims Mr. and Ms. D. Reed Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Herz m••••••°_,..0 Mr. Tom E. Mings Or. Carl R. Wischmeyer Ms. Suzan McCorkle Hindman Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Minyard Mr. Al Woelfel, PE ..••••••••# and Mr. H. Michael Hindman Mr. and Mrs. Rene Mouledoux Dr. and Mrs. William Robert Wolfram ..••••••" Mr. Bob C. Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Mut Ms. Lynne Woods .••••••_,•••00 Mrs. Evelyn E. Howell ..••••••"" Mr. and Mrs. M. Brent Ocker Mrs. Betsy Wray Ms. Lisa Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O'Malley Mrs. Joyce Rowell Wylie and Dr. J. Dennis Huston Mr. and Mrs. John P. Peet Dr. and Mrs. James T Yardley Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. James Ms. Melinda Litherland Mrs. Tracy °inert Janda and Mr. Kevin Patrick Pei and Mr. Kenneth W. Janda Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rolston Mr. Curtis 0. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Max L Royalty FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. William P. Johnson Jr. Dr. J. Schultz Herman Dr. and Mrs. John F Kazmierski Pravin M. Shah, Ph.D. Mrs. Linda C. Keating SALLYPONT SOCIETY Dr. and Mrs. Marc F. Siegel and Mr. J. David Keating Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Brockman Dr. and Mrs. John T. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kerr Mrs. Skip Dalton Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swingle Judith G. Kilgore Mrs. SOCIETY Mrs. Linda Leigh Sylvan and Mr. Hardee C. Kilgore III and Mr. Richard G. Sylvan Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Kittrell Mr. and Mrs. Alfredo Brener Mr. and Mrs. Gil Tausch Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Kuhlken Mrs. Bettie W. Clark Ms. Annette S. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Peter Augustus Lamy Mr. James R. Gains Kelly Jr. and and Mr Daniel G. Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Landry Mr. Ms. Steven L. Miller Richard P Wright Jr. Mr. and Ms. Mr. and Mrs. Ms. Sue Lee Marc J. Shapiro William and Roo Zimmer and Mr. C. J. Kao BROWN SOCIETY POUNDERS SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. John D. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Simmons Ms. A. Grayson Alderman Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Lesser Mrs. Betty Y. Stelzer Dr. Sherman Shaw-Wen Lin and Mr. Ken Lacey CHARTER SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs.John Allahand Mr. Bill Lorimer Mr. and Mrs. James A. Elkins III Mr. and Mrs. Byron Allen Mr. and Ms. Timothy Scott Lucas Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Dr. Madeleine Duvic Mr. Al Martin III and Mr. Michael R. Alsup Dr. and Mrs. Rex Martin 'S SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Urvine E. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mason Mr. and Mrs. David W. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Khleber V. Attwell Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Masuda Mr. Marvy Finger Ms. Colleen Jennings Batchelor Mrs. Barbara M. McClintock Mr. and Mrs. Eric Smith and Bill Batchelor, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Alan Beck Ms. Tina L. Mohr Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bentley and Dr. David Mohr Mr. and Mrs. David Berberian Sr. Mrs. Diane Kraft Mott Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Blair and Mr. John G. Mott Dr. and Mrs. John B. Boles Mr Clyde Alfred Muchmore Mr. and Ms. Davis E. Boster Jr. Dr. Tina Narayan Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Bradberry Mr. Arthur G. Nolting Mr. and Ms. Robert N. Byrne Mr. Gary Norton Dr. Janet Hudson Caldwell Ms. Cindy Scott Obermeyer

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Plans for New Duncan the design, construction and operation of back to Rice and to the city." site devel- The Duncans have a long-standing inter- College Has Students buildings promoting sustainable opment, water savings, energy efficiency, est in preserving the environment. Charles Seeing "Green" environmentally friendly materials selection was U.S. Secretary of Energy under Presi- and indoor environmental quality. A gold dent Jimmy Carter and chaired the Business Rice has unveiled plans for its 11th residen- rating is second only to platinum as the Coalition for Clean Air. Anne serves on the tial college to be named in honor of Anne highest level of LEED certification. To date, board of the Nature Conservancy of Texas. and Charles Duncan in recognition of their no building in Houston has achieved the A 1947 graduate of Rice, Charles served $30 million gift to support Rice's unique platinum level. many years as a Rice trustee, including chair- residential college system and their long- Duncan College will feature environmen- ing the Board of Trustees from 1982 to standing commitment to both Rice and tally friendly building materials, and Rice is 1996, when he became chairman emeritus. environmental conservation. It will be built making a special effort to use materials that Last year, Rice's James A. Baker III Insti- near the northeast corner of campus and is are extracted and manufactured in the sur- tute for Public Policy awarded him its first scheduled to open to students in fall 2009. rounding region. James A. Baker III Prize for Excellence in "Anne and Charles have been important Among Duncan College's other sustain- Leadership — a tribute to his achievements forces in Rice's history," said Rice President able features are reduced energy consump- in education, philanthropy, government David Leebron. "Their support in helping tion by at least 25 percent and reduced and business. Duncan also served as deputy Rice nourish a dynamic, expanding and en- water consumption by at least 30 percent, secretary of defense under President Carter. vironmentally sustainable residential college compared with similar buildings simply built He was president of Duncan Foods and system is yet another example of their vision- to code. A green roof with low-maintenance The Coca-Cola Company, was chairman of ary commitment to Rice, to Houston and to plants will reduce energy needs for heating Rotan Mosle Financial Corp., and currently the environment." and cooling, and smart controls will shut is chairman of Duncan Interests. He has

"The fact that two buildings on the campus will bear the Duncans' name shows that Anne and Charles' longtime support of Rice is as sustainable as the green features of the new residential college." —Jim Crownover

The five-story, 324-bed college will be off air conditioners when the windows are received the Distinguished Alumni Award, built concurrently with McMurtry College. opened. Prefabricated bathrooms will reduce the Distinguished Owl Club Award and the Both colleges figure prominently in the uni- the generation of on-site construction waste, Gold Medal from Rice. versity's plan to expand its student body by and there will be a classroom finished with Anne has been an active supporter of the 30 percent, which is one of 10 objectives of green materials and furnishings for Rice stu- Shepherd School of Music. She served as a Rice's strategic plan for its second century. dents interested in sustainable living. member of the Shepherd Society Govern- "Anne and I believe that residential Anne and Charles Duncan College will ing Council and Advisory Board, notably as colleges are an important centerpiece be the second major building on campus to its chairwoman and secretary, and as chair- of the Rice undergraduate experience," bear the couple's name. The first is Anne woman of the dedication committee for said Charles Duncan."We are pleased to and Charles Duncan Hall, built in 1996 and Alice Pratt Brown Hall. She co-chaired the participate." home to the George R. Brown School of Shepherd School of Music 30th Anniversary Duncan College will be one of the most Engineering. Gala last year. The event raised a record $2.3 environmentally sustainable buildings ever "The fact that two buildings on the cam- million for merit-based endowed scholar- built in Houston and will be the first build- pus will bear the Duncans' name shows ships, including the Anne and Charles Dun- ing at Rice — and among the first in Hous- that Anne and Charles' longtime support of can Concertmaster Chair. —B. J. Almond ton — to receive gold-level certification Rice is as sustainable as the green features from the U.S. Green Building Council's of the new residential college," said Jim Leadership in Energy and Environmental Crownover, chairman of the Rice Board of Design standards program. LEED certifi- Trustees. "They are distinguished role mod- cation is a nationally accepted standard for els for leadership, imagination and giving

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As Rice University plans its Mexico-based architect Antoine plant," said Rice director of Possible elements for the centennial celebration for 2012, Predock, the south plant will be sustainability Richard Johnson. future include a stack cladded construction crews already located on Main Street about a "There are some design features with photovoltaic solar panels have begun work on one of the quarter mile north of University we can incorporate with the to generate power that would cornerstones of the university's Boulevard. "Our options were initial construction and several feed directly into the Rice grid, limited as to where we could others that we'll be able to ambitious expansion plan for its add using fuel cells to supplement site the new plant," Bryson said. in the future." energy production or provide second century: a new physi- "Building new steam tunnels is The plant is being con- uninterrupted power to nearby cal plant that will simultane- very expensive, so the new facil- structed of energy-efficient buildings and installing wind ously open Rice's undeveloped ity must be tied to our existing building materials. The roof, turbines that take advantage southwest campus to future steam tunnels and water pipes. for example, most likely will be of air currents near the plant's construction while preserving If we'd built this on the far edge either a high-albedo "cool roof" cooling towers or created by the the only remaining example of of campus, the costs would have or vegetated, which will save "canyon effect" winds from the native biosphere in the Texas been prohibitive." energy on heating and cooling nearby Texas Medical Center. Medical Center. Another possibility is arraying a large number ofelevated pho- "Construction of new facili- "Predock's design shatters a lot of tovoltaic panels over parking ties is the most tangible sign of lots to provide shade as well as progress on any university cam- preconceptions that people might have gather clean electrical power. pus, and in many ways Rice's The south plant design al- South Utility Plant embod- when they think of a physical plant. For ready exceeds goals for federal ies the principles that underlie and regional air emission reduc- Rice's Vision for the Second one thing, it's beautiful. It'll also be tion, but Rice will continue to Century," said Barbara White relatively quiet, and, in many ways, work with the city of Houston Bryson, associate vice president it and with industry to pursue and for Facilities, Engineering and will be among the most environmentally test innovative technologies to Planning. "We're on the cusp further reduce emissions, Bry- of a building boom unlike any sensitive buildings on Rice's campus." son said. in Rice's history. By midsum- The plant also will serve as a mer, more than $500 million —David Rodd learning environment for Rice in construction projects were students, who will be able to see under way." The unique facility costs. not only The plant incorporates into the control room where Most of the campus growth embodies state-of-the-art a power number of state-of-the-art state-of-the-art energy model- during the coming century will generation technology will but power generation features such ing and monitoring software take place along the north— be aesthetically pleasing. "Pre- as condensate harvesting, in will reduce building energy use. south axis, a move that reflects dock's design shatters a lot of which condensate from air- In addition, the site is adjacent Rice's increasingly close relation- preconceptions people handling units at that the nearby to the Harris Gully Natural ship with sister institutions in might have when they think of Collaborative Research Center Area, a favorite teaching venue the Texas MedicalCenter. The a physical plant," will be said David piped back in for use in for faculty in Rice's Department South Utility Plant will set the Rodd, university the cooling towers architect. "For rather than of Ecology and Evolutionary stage for that growth, Bryson one thing, it's beautiful. It'll being discharged into city storm Biology. Bryson said Predock said, and its innovative design also be relatively quiet, and in sewers. Conditioned spaces in recognized the design challenge will enhance education and re- many ways, it will be among the the plant will be cooled and as an opportunity to preserve search at Rice while preserving most environmentally sensitive heated by a geothermal heat the area for future generations one of Houston's historic natu- buildings on Rice's campus." pump, which transfers heat ofstudents and Houstonians. ral areas. Rice's existing physical Measuring about 220 feet by from the building to the soil on The $54.5 million plant is plant already is operating near 70 feet, the building hot days will screen and from the soil to slated to begin operations next capacity and cannot be expanded most of the transformers and the building on cold days. The summer.• to supply the amount of chilled other heavy external equipment plant will be integrated into water and steam required to heat behind walls and an earthen Rice's world-class system for —Jade Boyd and cool the new buildings. berm. "Sustainability is incorpo- modeling and monitoring en- Designed by renowned New rated at every level in the south ergy consumption.

26 Rice Sallyport Covering the Canopy

Despite all the campus construction that will take place over the next few years, one thing will stay the same: the number of trees on campus. In fact, the campus will have more trees Shakespeare Graduate Apartments than before as well as more total trunk girth as more mature trees are planted. "We will have no net loss of trees," affirmed Barbara White Bryson, associate vice president for Facilities, Engineering and Planning."One of the distinguishing features of the Rice campus is the presence of more than 4,000 trees of various species, many planted nearly 100 years ago. It is important to us to preserve as much of this natural endowment as possible." Fulfi Ilment of this commitment requires positioning buildings to preserve and protect as many existing trees as possible, moving some trees and planting new ones to replace those that are impossible to save. Director of sustainability Richard Johnson, grounds superintendent Ron Smith and university architect David Rodd are collaborating with project managers on this effort. Each potentially impacted tree is assessed by an urban forester, Stephen Anderson. The teams also consult with members of the Lynn Lowrey Arboretum Committee, which includes faculty from Rice's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, to determine opportunities to plant trees native to Texas as well as the traditional live oaks. While the live oak symbolizes Rice to many,the presence of other species will increase biodiversity in the tree canopy on campus.

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By Christopher Dow

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BAKER COLLEGE

Named for: Capt. James A. Baker, attorney for William Marsh Rice and founding chairman of the Rice Board (1891-1941) Built/Established: 1914/1957(One of the five original colleges; built as East Hall. Baker Commons built in 1912.) First master: Carl R. Wischmeyer (electrical engineering) Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1973. Along with Hanszen, the first of the colleges to go coed. The first named college. BakerShake is an annual Shakespeare performance produced by the residents of Baker College. The college is known for Baker 13, a monthly event anticipated by members of all residential colleges. The college opens its halls for an annual crawfish broil. Famous for: Baker Commons served as the university's central dining hall for 43 years. It is a primary stop on most campus tours because of its beautiful, high-vaulted ceilings and Elizabethan design.

BROWN COLLEGE

Named for: Margarett Root Brown, wife of Rice benefactor Herman Brown Established: 1965 First master: Frank Vandiver (history) "What's your college?" That's the question Traditions: Originally housed women. Coed conversion: 1987. Rice The last female-only college. alumni ask when they first meet, not "When did you The college residents consistently demonstrate their athletic ability by winning the President's Cup. graduate?" or "What was your major?" Brown's College Night tradition is a daylong event in which residents attend classes in outrageous costumes and return to The question often is asked in present tense their quad for an evening celebration. Brown Day is a Saturday cookout complete with sports and because time doesn't seem to matter when it other competitions all day long. comes to college affiliation. Once a member The walkway connecting the Jones and Brown colleges to the of any rest of the campus is known as Virgin's Walk. Legend has it that of the nine — soon to be 11 — residential colleges, any person who kicks out every light along Virgin's Walk will meet a companion before the evening's end. always a member. It is just one indication of how Famous for: Originally the smallest college, Brown is now the powerfully the college system, which turns 50 largest. this The first floor showcases a wide variety of paintings and year, has affected undergraduate student life at Rice. antique furniture donated by the George R. Brown family as a tribute to Margarett Root Brown's love of the arts. Celebrations for the college system's semicentennial began in March and ran through homecoming.

Fall '07 29 BRIDGES

DUNCAN COLLEGE "The residential colleges provide a unique bridge between living and learning for Rice University Named for: Charles Duncan, former member and chairman of undergraduates," said Robin Forman, dean of undergraduates. "For half a the Rice Board (1975-77,1981-96), and his wife, Anne, both Rice century,the colleges have successfully fostered and reinforced,in unique and lasting ways, benefactors the same values that Rice hopes to instill in students through teaching and research — independence, integrity, initiative, collaboration and creativity — as well as those values Announced: 2007. Construction projected to be completed in late that we prize 2008 or early 2009. most in our neighbors and fellow citizens — self-governance, tolerance, loyalty, volunteerism and consideration for others." First master: TBN Rice's residential college system originally was envisioned by the university's found- Famous for: The first building at Rice — and among the first in ing president, Edgar Odell Lovett, who was impressed by a similar system developed Houston — to be built to the gold level of the U.S. Green Building by his mentor, Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson. Unlike the English Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. residential college system that was Wilson's model, the American system did not have any fundamental educational responsibility. Instead, it offered informal learning opportunities, intellectual stimulation, fellowship, social and athletic activities and democratic self-government. Wilson's system remained unrealized at Princeton until after Rice adopted its own system, but several other examples did exist, notably the systems at Harvard, Yale and the California Institute ofTechnology. Rather than choosing simply to emulate a system used by one of those institutions, the committee that had been formed to develop the Rice system adapted appropriate elements from among them, creating a unique blend offeatures. The formula worked,and today, Rice's college system stands not only as the most persistent and distinguishing feature ofthe Rice undergraduate experience, but also as the most widely admired and copied college system in the United States. The three oldest dormitories on campus — East, South and West Halls — were re- named Baker College, Will Rice College and Hanszen College, respectively, and newly built Wiess Hall became Wiess College. Although Baker is the oldest named college, the HANSZEN COLLEGE college system at Rice officially began on March 27, 1957, when the members of Will Named for: Harry Clay Hanszen, member and chairman of the Rice Rice College moved into their rooms and ate their first meal together. Later that year, Board of Governors (1946-50) the first campus housing for women,Jones College, was constructed, becoming the first residence hall built under the college system. Built/established: 1916/1957(One of the five original colleges; built as West Hall.) The introduction ofthe college system brought about a political revolution on campus. "Until 1957student affairs had been handled by the class organizations," Fredericka Mein- First master: William H. Masterson (history) ers wrote in her book,"A History of Rice University: The Institute Years, 1907-1963," Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1973. Along "but the classes clearly had little place in the colleges. When the 'Campanile' announced with Baker, the first of the colleges to go coed. in February 1958, during the first full year of the system, that students' pictures would Crane Day is an annual event commemorating the morning a appear with their colleges instead of their classes, protest resulted in a referendum in construction team nearly dropped a crane on the dorm, forcing the which the college arrangement won by a slim margin." evacuation of more than 100 residents. The conflict continued when the newly created Inter-College Council came into con- Hanszen hosts a yearly Mardi Gras party, in which students flict with the already existing Student Council. "After a fierce campaign," Meiners wrote, compete in a dance contest for a cash prize. "students passed a new constitution Known as the "family college." for the Student Association that created a Student Senate composed mostly of college officers." Famous for: Its original building, now called the Old Section, is Since then, student self-government has been a powerful component of the Rice considered by many to be the most beautiful of Rice's original three undergraduate experience. By placing responsibility for initiating activities, develop- dormitories. ing traditions and enforcing discipline on the students The first college to develop a college crest. themselves, the college system encourages Hanszen students created the "Corner for the Dreaming Monkey" a sense of social and personal responsibility. Each college has its own court coffeehouse in the attic of Hanszen's Old Section in 1967. Named to handle minor infractions, and the University Court, whichevolved from the Inter- for a statue of a daydreaming monkey that resided there, it served College Court,is the judicial system ofstudent peers that enforces the Code ofStudent students until Willy's Pub opened in 1975. Conduct and the Honor System. Hanszen students founded the predecessor of KTRU in 1967 using the wiring of a defunct buzzer system connected to all the rooms as an antenna. The next year, they were given space in Rice Memorial KEY TO SUCCESS Center, and KOWL went on the air using antennas attached to Jones and Brown Colleges. The real key to the success of Rice's residential college system, however, may be that it truly is a home away from home. A college isn't a dorm filled with strangers — it's a large extended family. At the top is the college master or, more often, masters. The position is filled by a faculty member or married faculty members who reside in a house adjacent to the college. In the beginning, the responsibilities of a master were vague. "When President [William V.] Houston asked William H. Masterson to become [the first] master of Hanszen," Meiners wrote, "the professor asked what a master did. 'I don't really know,' Houston replied,'whatever you find useful.'" If the masters are, in a sense, the parents of a college's extended family, its associates are like its aunts and uncles. Resident associates, who live in the colleges, most often are faculty, and nonresident associates are drawn from faculty and even staff. Associates of both types lend further stability and share their valuable knowledge and life experiences with students. Associates generally serve only for a few years, but professor of political science Gilbert Cuthbertson, affectionately known as "Doc C," has set a record that few, if any, will break: He's been a resident associate of Will Rice College for more than 40 years.

30 Rice Sallyport JONES COLLEGE

Named for: Mary Gibbs Jones, wife of Jesse H. Jones, founder of the Houston Endowment Inc. Established: 1957(One of the five original colleges.) First master: Calvin M. Class (physics) Traditions: Originally housed women. Coed conversion: 1980, integrating with then all-male Lovett College. An annual "Birthday Bash" is held to honor the college's namesake. Past celebrations have included a petting zoo and a college-sized crawfish boil. Every fall, Jones residents conduct a Turkey Drive to raise money for a local food bank. Floors compete against each other, and the one that raises the most receives an all-you-can-eat pizza party. Jones residents are tossed into the "Fairy Fountain" on their birthdays.

Famous for: First on-campus housing for female students and first residence hall built specifically as a college. The building went almost completely unfurnished for its first six weeks. In the early days, the culture was quite conservative since the college was all female. Women were expected to maintain ladylike manners, and the college's house mothers enforced strict rules during visits by men from the south colleges. In 2001, an addition connecting Jones North and Jones South on four levels was added, creating a new Jones Commons. A new kitchen and servery now serve Jones, Brown and Martel.

LOVETT COLLEGE

Named for: Edgar Odell Lovett, founding president of the Rice Institute (1908-46) Established: 1969 First masters: Robert Curl (chemistry) and Jonel Curl Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1980, integrating with then all-female Jones College. The Casino Party is an annual event featuring an elaborate themed outdoor facade. Residents play traditional casino games with fake money that is converted to raffle tickets and prizes. Lovett residents like to show their spirit by bleaching their hair yellow-orange during Willy Week and spray painting it blue and yellow for Beer Bike.

Famous for: Designed in the 1960s during the time of riots, Lovett has a brick-and-wire grating enclosing the outside hallways. It is rumored that the architects took the country's political climate into account in creating the design, and Lovett is considered "riot proof." Residents affectionately call the building "The Toaster" due to the unusual exterior.

Fall '07 31 "The presence of faculty in the college as masters and associates adds an academic component to the college," said John Hutchinson, a former master of Wiess College and current master of Brown College. "But more than that, the interaction of faculty and students in the college elevates the experiences of both, who can learn from and understand each other in contexts outside of academics." Another key to the success of Rice's college system is the random selection process that populates each college with a demographic cross section of the student body. Phi- MARTEL COLLEGE losophy majors rub shoulders with bioengineering students, athletes with nonathletes Named for: Marian and Speros Martel, Rice benefactors and freshmen with seniors, all in a mutually supportive environment that blends students Established: 2002 from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Hutchinson emphasized the value ofstudents from different class years living side by First masters: Arthur Few (physics and astronomy) and Joan Few side. "This provides a natural system for mentoring by the upperclassmen that includes Traditions: Originally coed. academic assistance, academic advising, social and cultural orientation, self-governance A birthday celebration is held each year on Jan. 28, honoring the and role modeling," he said. "By not separating our students in the residences accord- day the college's first residents moved in. ing to their class year, we create leadership opportunities for our upperclassmen and In addition to marching through the Sallyport in Lovett Hall individual support for our new students." during formal matriculation ceremonies, incoming Martel freshmen promenade through the college's own sallyport. Oktoberfest is held annually in the college's quad, featuring traditional German food and an oompah band. Activities include a EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES pie-eating contest, the strongest man competition (participants hold buckets filled with sauerkraut) and the strongest waiter/waitress com- The college system, created in part to accommodate a growing student population, petition, in which contestants hold trays of steins filled with water. has evolved into the hub of student life at Rice. Bernard Aresu, professor of French studies, master of Lovett College and former master Famous for: Volunteers from the other eight colleges joined incom- of Brown, pointed to a number of ing freshmen to make up Martel's original student population. student-planned activities for which the colleges are best-known, including academic Martel is the only college that features a sallyport. advising, theater and cultural, sporting and social events of all sorts. He also noted that Heavy flooding from Tropical Storm Allison delayed construction the colleges sponsor college courses that provide educational opportunities not found by two months, and the first residents lived off campus during the in regular academic offerings. college's first semester. "What do Saul Bellow, Vice Admiral James Stockdale, Allen Ginsberg, John Irving, Julian Bond and Tom Stoppard have in common?" he asked. "They and many other famous people have informally mingled, over the years, in commons or masters' houses for the sole and unimpeded benefit of Rice students. That is a unique feature of our MCMURTRY COLLEGE college system." Named for: Burton McMurtry, former member of the Rice Board (1988-2004), and his wife, Deedee, both Rice benefactors TRADITIONS. COMPETITION AND JACKS Announced: 2006. Construction projected to be completed in late 2008 or early 2009. By 1961,the personalities, identities and traditions of the original colleges already were First master: TBN emerging. Because it is the first-named ofthe colleges, Baker considers itselfto be the classic residential college. Its oldest building, Baker Commons, was originally called the Institute Commons and was the central dining facility for more than 40 years. Wiess College's first master, Roy Talmadge, instituted mandatory Wiess blazers — complete with crests — for formal Sunday dinners. Freshmen served upperclassmen while sporting the green beanies that indicated their status as "slime," as freshmen were called back then. Hanszen's first master, William Masterson, went Talmadge one better. Hanszen became known as the "gentlemen's college," and members were required to wear ties to SID RICHARDSON COLLEGE dinner every evening. It was a tradition that proved to be transitional: By the mid-'60s, many members fulfilled the requirement by tying a piece of string around their necks Named for: Sidney Williams Richardson, Rice benefactor over their T-shirts. The rule finally was abolished after one Hanszenite appeared at din- Established: 1971 ner wearing only a tie. First master: J. Venn Leeds (electrical engineering) The first intercollege competition was Beer Bike, held in May 1957. Hanszen — the "gentlemen's college" moniker notwithstanding — was disqualified for taking illegal Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1987. shortcuts as the riders circled the Every Friday at 3 p.m., residents officially kick off the weekend course around the interior campus roads. Baker Col- with the rock song "Back in Black" blaring from Sid Rich's speaker lege emerged the winner. The fiercely competitive race continues today, and other in- system. This song begins the three hours of music known around tercollege rivalries have included basketball, tug-of-war, and even a neatness and good campus as Radio Free Sid. maintenance contest. The residents play balcony ball, a game in which competitors at- Inevitably, sanctioned competitions weren't enough, and other intercollege rivalries tempt to throw a tennis ball from the ground floor to each consecu- developed, beginning with the burning of Hanszen's Christmas tree late in 1957 by an tive floor above. If the ball reaches the top, it is dropped through a unnamed rival college. Even though Rice undergraduates are randomly assigned to the six-story arm tunnel. colleges, it doesn't take them long to develop a strong sense of community, including Tailgate parties are a Sid tradition to help students relax after a which colleges are rivals and which are allies. "As freshmen, we were just kind of taught long week of studying. Activities are held in the "Sid Country Club," that Wiess sucks and smells and is bad," commented Hanszen alumna Catherine Arthur where students grill burgers, eat snacks and play beach volleyball. Noble '99. Meanwhile, freshmen at Wiess received an equally unflattering description Famous for: At 14 floors, Sid Richardson is the tallest building on of Hanszen. campus and is affectionately known as the "Tower of Power." The more intense rivalries tend to arise out of competitive events such as Beer Bike Although the building is 14 floors tall, it only has seven "stories." and intramural athletics, but they also can be determined by location: You're apt to The creative architects cleverly designed the college to have only plot against the college you see out your window. Pranks, seven elevator stops. referred to as "jacks," have

32 Rice Sallyport included stealing Beer Bike bikes, bombardments of slingshot-launched water balloons and "takeovers" of other colleges. One year, Baker President Steve Graham drew the other college presidents to a bogus meeting during which Baker freshmen duct taped the other presidents beneath a sign that read "IV Baker." And in a series of"noise wars" in the early 1960s, members of Will Rice placed huge loudspeakers on their balconies and played loud music or sound effects in an attempt to "blast out" Hanszen and Baker. One ofthe most notorious jacks in Rice history wasn't directed at another college but of Wiessmen turned the statue of William Marsh WIESS at the university itself. In 1988, a team COLLEGE Rice in the Academic Quad around to face Fondren Library, just to demonstrate that the 180-degree turn was possible. An expensive crane and a whole day were required WIESS COLLEGE to reverse what the ingenious Wiess students had accomplished in a few hours with a Named for: Harry Carothers Wiess, member and chairman of the simple A-frame. Although the culprits had to pay for the contractor, they did so by sell- Rice Board (1944-48)and Rice donor ing T-shirts printed with the blueprint of the A-frame and the slogan,"Where there's a Willy, there's a way!" Built/Established: 1950/1957(One of the five original colleges; built as Wiess Hall.) First master: Roy Talmadge (biology) RECAST COLLEGES NEW AND Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1983. The Ubangee tradition is Wiess residents' creative take on the Baker and Hanszen Colleges went coed in 1973, and within 15 years, all the colleges modern "dog pile." had a mixture of male and female students. But aside from that, no major organizational In 1964, an ambitious resident "composed" a musical titled "Hello changes took place in the college system until April 4,2002, when Rice officially welcomed Hamlet." Residents perform the Shakespearean spoof once every Martel College as its ninth college and the first new college since 1971. four years. Named for Rice donors Marian and Speros Martel, the new college added much- Each Halloween, Wiess elects a "college idiot," who wins the needed residential space, and the construction project was combined with updates and honor to serve as the "Great Pumpkin." Then, with candles and lyrics in hand, residents campus singing Halloween expansions to Jones and Brown Colleges. Professor of physics and astronomy Arthur parade around songs. Few and his wife, Joan, who formerly served as masters of Baker College, were named Martel's founding masters. Famous for: Until Brown was built, Wiess was the smallest college Also in 2002, the original Wiess College building was demolished, and a new Wiess — only 100 rooms and a small commons. building was constructed next to Hanszen College, which received its own updates, The first, and to-date only, college to be completely rebuilt. Identified as the most spirited college on campus. including a new commons. Wiess became home to the most notorious jackers in Rice history announced the addition ofRice's 10th residential college: Mc- In 2006,the university when a team of Wiessmen turned the statue of William Marsh Rice and Burton McMurtry. Burton not Murtry College, named for Rice benefactors Deedee in the Academic Quad to face Fondren Library just to demonstrate only served on the Rice board but, as a student in 1956, was on the original committee that the 180-degree turn was possible. that set out the mission and basic organizational design of the college system. And this year, Rice's 11th college — Duncan College — was made possible thanks to former Rice board chairman Charles Duncan and his wife, Anne. McMurtry and Duncan Colleges will be built adjacent to one another and will be among the most environmentally conscious buildings on campus. (See story on Page 25.) Their location at the north side of campus will help create a better sense of balance with the colleges grouped on the south side.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

During its 50-year life, the Rice residential college system has expanded from an idea WILL RICE into the central social structure of the university's undergraduate population, provid- COLLEGE ing a strong and vigorous way of life. While the rivalries and competitions build bonds among the college residents, it is the diversity of personalities, ages and life experiences WILL RICE COLLEGE into which students are immersed that makes the greatest impact. "On the eve of Rice's second century, the residential colleges remain the most Named for: William Marsh Rice Jr., nephew of William Marsh Rice prominent and distinctive element ofthe Rice undergraduate experience," Forman said. and member of the Rice Board (1899-1944) "Continually evolving to better support our students, while remaining forever focused Built/established: 191 2/1 957(One of the five original colleges; on the original vision ofPresident Lovett,the colleges reflect Rice's true commitment to built as South Hall.) and rewarding experience for all of providing a challenging, exciting our students."• First master: James Street Fulton (philosophy) Traditions: Originally housed men. Coed conversion: 1977. Will Rice is well known for its hard-core dodgeball, kickball and Jade Boyd, Franz Brotzen, Nancy Burch '61 and Jennifer Evans contributed to this story. four-square tournaments. The Will Rice Quad is home to the college's grueling nine-month Wiffie Ball season. Home to the longest-serving resident associate on campus: Doc C, who has logged more than 40 years in the college. Doc C's experiences and stories are legendary and are an integral part of Rice and Will Rice's history. For more information, visit Rice's Residential Colleges Web Site: Famous for: The first residence hall built on campus. The college of gods and goddesses, Will Rice is the only college www.futureowlssice.edulfutureowls/Residential_Collegestasp ever to have swept Beer Bike three times.

Fall '07 33 By Kevin Markey

For a kid who grew up in the tiny town of Ilion, Miss (population 300), the teeming streets of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) might seem a long way from home. But Michael Owen '73 has never let cultural differences slow him down. Todi, as the U.S. consul general for western India, Owen oversees American diplomatic interests in or of the most dynamic — and dynamically evolving places on Earth. lifithin India, the world's largest democracy, he is the State Department's principal officer for a region whose population, NO million, is exceeded by only three countries

The first member of his family to attend Sallyport: Were you already another route. This was a real life-altering college, Owen, 55, went on from Rice to thinking of a career in the Foreign experience. It convinced me that I wanted earn graduate degrees at Princeton and Service as an undergrad at Rice? an international career. I knew a couple of Iowa State University. His Foreign Service people who already were in the Foreign Owen: That didn't happen until the mid- career has taken him to Europe, Asia and Service, and they convinced me to apply. 1980s. At Rice, I had a double major in civil Africa. Prior to being appointed general engineering and economics. Three courses consul for western India in 2005, he served Sallyport: What was your first and professors in particular still stand out. overseas post? as deputy chief of mission and chargé There was an upper-level civil engineering d'affaires in Tanzania. An economic spe- course taught by Nat Krahl, who instilled an Owen: Dublin. Adjusting to life in cialist with a flair for languages, he's amply aesthetic sense that encouraged me to look Ireland was remarkably easy. I have red gifted with the paramount skill of a Foreign beyond the pure efficiencies of design and hair and a red beard (nowadays there's Service officer: He genuinely likes meeting insist on elegance. Another great class was more than a bit of gray as well), so many people. He knows how to ask questions, 20th-century literature taught by Terrence people assumed I was Irish. The biggest whether of high-ranking officials or rural Doody, which awakened an enthusiasm for adjustment was learning to drive on the villagers; he knows how to listen to answers literature. And Charles McClure taught a left side of the road. and he has the technical insight to turn as- course in public affairs that got me inter- After Ireland, I served in Mauritania, pirations into effective policy. ested in public service. Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Tanzania and Owen and his wife, Annerieke, a native After graduating, I went on to receive now here in Mumbai. In between, I've a master's in public affairs from Princeton of the Netherlands and a naturalized Amer- had two assignments at the State Depart- and a master's in creative writing from ican citizen, have two children: son Bren- ment in Washington, D.C. Iowa State University. dan, a student at Princeton, and daughter I've enjoyed every one of my tours and But I always had a great interest in for- found plenty that was fascinating in every Sigrid, who recently graduated from the eign travel and cultures — I took several place. Even a country like Mauritania, American School in Bombay."Much to our backpacking trips to Europe and North Af- which is one of the world's poorest and is delight," Owen reports, "Sigrid entered rica in the 1970s and took a year off work essentially all desert, has a fascinating his- Rice this August as a member of the Class as a journalist in 1980-81 to trek across tory and culture. I think that's one of the of 2011." Africa. Over a period of six months, I lessons of foreign travel: No matter where We recently caught up with Owen to talk drove with a group (among whom was my you are, if you take the time and effort about life in Tanzania, the current state of future wife) from London to Cape Town to look and listen carefully, you will find U.S.—India relations — and baseball. and then hitchhiked back to Europe via something fascinating.

34 Rice Sallyport Diplomat IV ichael Owen Has Made a Career of Representing U.S. Interests Abroad

Sallyport: What is Tanzania like? Owen: Whenever the ambassador leaves, The capital, Dar es Salaam, has the DCM becomes the chargé d'affaires, such a storybook-sounding name. which means he is chief of the mission but not ambassador, because the Senate hasn't Owen: Yes, Dar es Salaam means "haven confirmed him. We had a 20-month vacan- of peace" in Arabic, and it is a very peaceful cy without an ambassador in Tanzania, so I place. The city is laid out along a beautiful was chargé for that period. Essentially, my stretch of the Indian Ocean coastline — role was to manage the day-to-day opera- there are gorgeous white sand beaches right tions of the embassy. The most important next to the center of town. part of the job is to coordinate the work Dar es Salaam has an interesting melange of the various sections and agencies that of African, Arabic and South Asian cultures are part of the mission to ensure there is as a result of centuries of seafaring trade no duplication of effort and no working at among countries ranging from India to the cross-purposes. In Tanzania, for example, Arabian Peninsula and down to Tanzania. the United States Agency for International And just offshore is the island of Zanzibar, Development, the U.S. Centers for Disease which was the entre* for trade in ivory, Control and the Peace Corps were all do- spices and slaves through the 18th and 19th ing HIV/AIDS counseling. I had to ensure centuries. It was from here that Henry Stan- they were all working in a consistent, com- ley launched his inland expedition to track plementary manner. down David Livingstone in the mid-1800s. The Tanzanian landscape is absolutely Sallyport: How severe is the AIDS spectacular. There is nothing quite like "I've enjoyed crisis in Tanzania? seeing tens of thousands of wildebeest every one of my galloping across the Serengeti in the an- Owen: This is the most important chal- nual migration. And, of course, lions and tours and found lenge facing Tanzania. As in most countries cheetahs are lying in wait for the weak and in eastern and southern Africa, Tanzania the slow — if you watch the migration just plenty that was has a very high HIV prevalence rate. Best you're sure to see a chase. You for a while, estimates are about 10 percent for preva- also can see hundreds of elephants, always fascinating in lence. Prevalence is equally high among encircling and protecting their young, and every place. I women and men, and there is serious con- thousands of pink flamingos in the lakes cern that AIDS could spread rapidly in the of northern Tanzania. The remote Mahale think that's one next few years. Tanzania already has several Mountain National Park has the largest hundred thousand AIDS orphans. population of chimpanzees in Africa. of the lessons of The United States has launched the Unique as they are, all these parks are President's Emergency Plan for AIDS threatened by human encroachment. As foreign travel: No Relief in 12 countries in Africa, including the human population of Tanzania grows, matter where you Tanzania. This program focuses on preven- the demand for grazing and farmland con- and treatment and is the single tinues to increase, creating more pressures. are, if you take the tion, care assistance program we When elephants trample crops or leopards largest development agencies chow down on livestock, you have a major time and effort have in Tanzania. Five different conffict. Our work with the African Wild- to look and listen are involved in this effort: the State Depart- life Foundation was focused on mitigating ment, USAID, the Defense Department, these conflicts and helping local popula- carefully, you will the Peace Corps and the Centers for Dis- tions have a stake in preservation of the ease Control. Managing the efforts of these parks through responsible ecotourism. find something five agencies was a major challenge, but we are starting to see results. Tanzanian blood Sallyport: What were your duties fascinating." banks now have safe blood, millions of chief of mission, the people have access to voluntary counseling as deputy —Michael Owen State Department's No. 2 man in and testing, and antiretroviral medicines are Tanzania? available for people who are HIV positive.

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Sallyport: How does your current Sallyport: Where is our relation- has become a real two-way street. In- position in western India — consul ship with India headed? dian companies are investing significant general — differ from your previ- amounts in the U.S. economy in a wide ous post? Owen: Relations between the United variety of sectors, from hotels to alumi- States and India are at an all-time high. num production to food and beverages. Owen: Every U.S. embassy around the After years of suspicion and distance Just a few months ago, we issued visas world is headed by an ambassador — who during the Cold War, we've grown dra- to senior officials of an Indian company is chief of mission — and a deputy chief matically closer, particularly in the last that had bought a U.S. glass manufac- few years. Our of mission. In India, both the ambassa- two governments now turing company in Chapter 11. The cooperate in virtually every sector you dor and DCM are at our embassy in New Indian investment kept the company can imagine. Delhi, but the United States also has three solvent and saved more than 200 jobs. I We have a new trade policy dialogue constituent posts in the country: consulate think the recognition of these two-way to promote bilateral trade, an Agricul- Mumbai, consulate Chennai and consulate flows is very important, and to maintain tural Knowledge Initiative to help boost Calcutta. And we will soon open a fourth these flows, we Indian agricultural productivity, an have to keep both our consulate in Hyderabad. A consul general, markets open. also referred to as a principal officer, heads energy dialogue to promote clean and each of these constituent posts. renewable energy sources and a program Sallyport: So a dynamic Indian I am the U.S. consul general for western to cooperate in space exploration. Our economy is in the best interest India, based in Mumbai. We represent the two militaries are holding joint training exercises, and we also are now cooperat- of the United States? United States and U.S. interests in five ing closely on counterterrorism. states of western India — Goa, Maharash- We've seen dramatic growth in trade Owen: India is home to almost one- tra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chhat- and visiting trade delegations in both fifth of the world's population, and it is tisgarh — which have a combined popula- directions, and there are more students a very young nation, with more than 50 tion of some 260 million people. from India in the United States than percent of its population under the age We have to establish and maintain a from any other country. The number of of 25. Its economy is growing impres- good working relationship with the gov- visas we issue to Indian citizens to travel ernments of all five states in our district. sively, with recent real growth rates in to the United States this year will almost We follow economic and the 7 to 10 percent range, and it is rap- financial devel- double over last year. opments very closely, particularly because idly becoming one of the larger econo- Mumbai is India's financial center, and mies in the world. Sallyport: We've heard a lot late- Our exports to India are growing at the Indian Central Bank, the Securi- ly about the outsourcing of jobs double-digit rates. They have the po- ties and Exchange Board and the two to India, particularly in the soft- tential to continue growing very rapidly national stock markets and commodities ware/IT sectors, but also in ac- for years to come since our bilateral exchanges are all located here. Most of counting and other professional trade is still relatively modest. So a India's nuclear establishment — includ- fields. Should we be worried? ing the Department of Atomic Energy, healthy Indian economy is important to our the Nuclear Power Corporation and the Owen: Actually, most academic stud- own economy as a source of trade Atomic Research Center — are all located ies have shown outsourcing to produce and investment. here, too, so we need to establish a good a net benefit for the United States. As But even more important, you have relationship on this front as well. We host U.S. companies become more profit- to keep in mind that some 700 mil- a large number of U.S. trade delegations, able, their share prices and dividends lion people in India still live in poverty, we watch out for the interests ofsome rise, and they are able to increase in- with incomes of less than $2 per day. 40,000 American citizens living in western vestment levels. A strong Indian economy with steady India, and this year, we will issue about But I think even more important is growth is vital to lifting these people 200,000 visas to Indian citizens who want the fact that investment and outsourc- out of poverty, and that's an objective to visit the United States. ing between India and the United States we all should favor.

36 Rice Sallyport "No matter how downtrodden people are, most still have aspirations for the future." —Michael Owen

Sallyport: Between Tanzania and Sallyport: Is economic develop- India, you've lived amid poverty ment the most challenging part of that most of us can't really com- your job? prehend. Owen: Explaining American society and Owen: It's important to look beyond values to Indians who have only a lim- the physical manifestations of poverty and ited exposure to the United States is the look at individual people. No matter how most challenging aspect. A vast number downtrodden people are, most still have of Indians formulate their opinions pri- aspirations for the future. marily from popular culture sources such One of the most jarring things about as American TV programs or rap music is the India, and Mumbai in particular, and, consequently, often view Americans extreme contrast between rich and poor. as a bunch of sex-crazed, gun-toting In south Mumbai, there are some of the materialists. glitziest buildings and wealthiest people In addition to reaching out to Indian in the world, and right outside, people audiences, particularly outside urban are sleeping on the sidewalk. No matter areas, we send a significant number of In- how often you see this, you never really life to the United get used to it. On the other hand, I'm dians from all walks of constantly amazed by the creativity of the States each year for three- to four-week poorest of the poor, who find some very intensive study tours in which they meet innovative ways to make a living. Americans with similar interests. These Mumbai has the largest slum in Asia "A vast number of typically are people who never have been — Dharavi — which is home to more Indians formulate to the United States. It's gratifying that than 1 million people. I've visited there almost all return with a vastly different, several times, and it's endlessly fasci- their opinions more positive, view. nating to see the tiny enterprises that I think it's important here to distin- people begin in order to eke out a living. primarily from guish between U.S. policies and U.S. It's amazing to see how people manage popular culture values. Many Indians may disagree with to save tiny amounts on a regular basis some U.S. policies, but they generally that allow them eventually to pay their sources such as embrace American values such as personal kids' school expenses, invest in a bicycle freedom, democracy and opportunity, or expand their business. This is why American TV once they are aware of them. microlending is so vitally important in programs or poverty reduction. Sallyport: Living abroad for such in India, I've seen so many instances rap music and, long stretches, there must be Ghana in which poor wom- Tanzania and things you really miss. en get a small loan — say $50 — that al- consequently, often lows them to start a microbusiness. This Owen: Baseball! I'm a long-suffering might be sewing clothes, making fruit view Americans Houston Astros fan and try to follow juice or growing and selling spices. The as a bunch of sex- their season much easier women work hard, get the business go- closely. That's ing, repay the loan, save and expand the crazed, gun-toting with the Internet, but I still miss actually business and, thus, are able to help their going to games. And, of course, Owls' families. Microfinance is so important — materialists." baseball — last spring and summer, I was and the role of women is, absolutely — in up in the middle of the night trying to poverty reduction. —Michael Owen follow the College World Series.•

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Li Enduring Reflection: ErE0 Ili By Christopher Dow S

A.. In wore than a quarter of a century of collecting information about Houston and the people who live here, Stephen Klineberg has tracked the growth and development of one of America's most extraordinary cities and, in the process, become a leading authority on urban development.

Klineberg, a professor of sociology at Rice since 1972, is the driving controls on development of any city in the Western world. Houstonians force behind the Houston Area Survey, the longest-running collection proclaimed themselves to be the epitome of what Americans could of data ever amassed about an American city. He knows Houston as achieve when left unfettered by zoning, taxes and government regula- few others do and easily rattles off the numbers — the racial demo- tion. "It was a chance to survey attitudes among Houstonians about the graphics, say, or the median income, the unemployment rate or the ton- 'social costs' of this remarkable growth," Klineberg said, "and to col- nage entering the port. Just as often, he talks about Houston and the lect information on public concerns about issues such as traffic, crime changes it has gone through as if the city is an old and valued friend. and pollution." The survey covers environmental issues, economic outlooks, immigration, ethnic communities, women's rights, attitudes toward re- From Syllabus to Shaper ligious diversity and much more. "It is an incredibly rich set of data," Klineberg said, the chair he's sitting in barely able to contain the move- Klineberg never intended the survey to go beyond that first semester, ment of his energetic enthusiasm. "When we step back, we see a city but two months after the interviews were completed, the oil boom that underwent a total collapse of the economy and then a recovery crashed. Practically overnight, Houston became a very different city, into a restructured economy, all the while going through remarkable and Klineberg realized he would have to do the survey again the fol- demographic changes." lowing year. The Houston Post offered financial support in exchange for exclusive worldwide first-publication rights, and this made it possible A Survey Is Born to conduct the surveys on a regular basis. "It became clear after five or six years that we were going to have Klineberg started the survey in 1982 after being called on to teach a re- to continue," Klineberg said. "People were waiting each year to hear search methods class. He wanted to offer the best and most interesting what we found. The surveys were providing objective and reliable in- material he could, and a survey of Houston seemed like an appropriate formation gathered by people without an ax to grind and conducted way to give his students real-world, hands-on experience. with the highest level of professional expertise." "That first class was a group of extraordinary undergraduates," The survey has become the basis for a pair of courses. In one, stu- Klineberg said. "They helped create the questionnaire from scratch, dents develop the questionnaire and analyze the survey data; in the and together, we did all the telephoning. They worked hard, and I am other, they assess how well the city is addressing the challenges it enormously grateful to them, as I am to all the survey classes that fol- faces. A postdoctoral fellowship, funded by Houston Endowment Inc., lowed." aids in publishing the results in professional journals. Graduate stu- Using a list of random phone numbers provided by a local research dents and faculty from across the social sciences at Rice are making company, the students in that spring 1982 class called until they had use of the surveys, and the HAS Summer Fellowship Program encour- completed 412 systematic interviews. "In the beginning," Klineberg ages graduate students around the country to employ the data in their said, "we defined our 'sample universe' as anywhere we could call own research. In addition, the Inter-University Consortium of Political from Rice without having to pay long distance." Today, the survey offi- and Social Research, the world's largest archivist of digital data, now cially covers Harris County and reaches an average of 650 respondents includes the survey and makes its findings universally available. every year. The HAS finds, perhaps, its widest range of use outside academia. At the time of the first survey, Houston was booming. "One mil- "It has become a valuable resource of reliable information on public lion people had moved into Harris County between 1970 and 1982," attitudes and demographic trends," Klineberg said. "I know that many Klineberg said. "Eighty-two percent of all the primary-sector jobs in the nonprofits seeking grant support use the survey data as a background city were tied to the oil business, and the price of oil increased tenfold for why the work they're doing is important." during those years." Klineberg gives innumerable presentations every year on the survey Houston was world-famous for having imposed the least amount of findings, including an annual report to the Greater Houston Partnership.

Fall '07 39 Every couple of years, he presents the data to the Harris County del- but on the growth of bio-nano-info-envirotech," Klineberg said. "Here, egation of the Texas Legislature. Recently, he gave a talk to the Hearst you can see the principal challenge of the new economy. If Houston is Foundation in New York City, using Houston as a microcosm of the new to experience continuing prosperity in the 21st century, it will have to America of the 21st century. develop into an urban destination that attracts the best and brightest The HAS has produced unexpected benefits for Rice as well. When in America — people who can live anywhere. And Rice is central to the the Houston community was queried about what it knows about Rice, growth of the knowledge economy in Houston." the Houston Area Survey was one of the most frequently mentioned projects. "The surveys have enhanced Rice's visibility in the community," Changes and Challenges Klineberg said, "and that helps to expand public recognition of Rice's commitment to doing work that is of value to the city." Klineberg is struck by how much Houstonians seem to appreciate their city. "People consistently rate Houston more highly than other metro- A Unique View for a Unique City politan areas," he said. "They like the low cost of living, the diversity of restaurants and festivals and the fact that Houston is one of the The survey currently is funded by a consortium of contributors that in- few cities with world-class symphony, ballet, opera and repertory the- cludes the AT&T Foundation, Gallery Furniture, Vinson & Elkins, the atre. United Way and the Houston Chronicle. About one-third of the ques- In addition, the past few years have witnessed an increasing inter- tions are identical each year, another third are questions rotated every est in urban life. "After 2004, we picked up a shift in the numbers of two or three years, and the final third are questions on newly emerging Anglos in the suburbs saying they would be very interested in someday issues or concerns. moving to the city," Klineberg said. "And there has been a decline in According to Klineberg, no other metropolitan area has been the fo- the proportion of Anglos living in the inner city who say they want to cus of a long-term survey of this sort. "There used to be a project called move to the suburbs." the Detroit Area Study, but it's no longer active," he said. "And there's a At the same time, the surveys have documented growing anxieties Los Angeles County Survey every year, but it's conducted with different about crime, health care, immigration, traffic congestion and pollution investigators who come in with different ideas of what they want to common to all Americans. The public is increasingly worried that the study, so it doesn't track many of the long-term trends." country itself is headed for "more difficult times" rather than "better Nor, apparently, is there another comparable demographic area in times." A major issue, Klineberg said, is the need for vast improve- the United States. "Houston is often thought of as Los Angeles' little ments in public education. brother because it's the same kind of spread-out city at the forefront "We live in a world where the 'blue-collar path' to financial security of the new ethnic diversity," Klineberg said. "But although Los Angeles has largely disappeared, where having only a high school diploma can and New York City together have one-third of all the foreign-born resi- lock you in poverty," he said. "We have to get this generation of young dents in this country, no city has been changed as dramatically by the people through high school and into at least two years of community new immigration as Houston." college, yet almost 50 percent of all Latino and African-American males are dropping out of high school. That spells disaster for any city in the Tracking Trends knowledge economy, where a highly skilled work force is critical for economic prosperity." The demographic trends are a principal focus of the survey. During the A second challenge is managing growth. "It is predicted that another oil boom, Houston's population growth was primarily composed of Ang- 1 million people will move into Harris County in the next 20 years," los. In sharp contrast, virtually all the growth in the last quarter-century Klineberg said. "If we don't take steps now to guide that growth in has been from Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. "This enlightened ways, much of this region's remaining green space will traditionally biracial Southern city, dominated and controlled by white disappear into subdivisions and parking lots, traffic congestion as well men, has suddenly become one of the most ethnically and culturally as air and water pollution will worsen, and the overall quality of life diverse metropolitan areas in the country," Klineberg said. in the Houston area may well deteriorate in irretrievable ways. And if No other city in America has a long-running record of this sort or has that occurs, can anyone doubt that the region's prospects for sustained experienced such profound transformations. "You can see in Houston, economic prosperity will deteriorate along with it? The key is to come more clearly than in any other city in the country, the economic and together in a shared vision of the city we want to build, and then find demographic contours of the new America," Klineberg said. "What ways to encourage the kind of development that can make it happen." happens in Houston — how we manage that transition and how we succeed in building a truly inclusive, multiethnic society — will have The Bottom Line enormous implications not just for Houston's future, but for the Ameri- can future." Every city in America is facing comparable challenges, and Houston is The survey data also reveal the parameters of the new economy. a microcosm of America in these respects. Without originally intending "Houston was riding the resources of the industrial age," Klineberg to, the HAS has captured and encapsulated Houston's primary chal- said. "We made money out of exploiting natural resources, such as lenges and made them easier to grasp, especially in a city that is so cotton, timber, cattle and oil." It wasn't until the oil bust that Houston diversified and spread out. "The surveys show clearly how the city has went through the same deindustrialization process as the rest of the changed, and they help to clarify what we need to do to go forward," country. Now, the city is in the midst of a global, high-tech economy, Klineberg said. "At Rice, the Houston Area Survey has become one of where the source of wealth has more to do with human resources and our best sociological teaching tools, and at the same time, it has ben- with access to cutting-edge knowledge. efited the wider community." "Houston's long-term future is not going to be based on oil and gas,

40 Rice Sallyport When Stilkey paints over the ominous intent. Mike Stilkey is a librarian's nightmare. He's long been a zealous stacks, as in his enormous at- The other animals, at first reasons. He's not into collector of old books,but notfor conventional tenuated portrait of a woman, glance, seemed more playful. volumes because they are rare or first editions. He isn't a voracious the horizontal spines of the A stork sported a top hat of reader, plowing through anything and everything. In fact, Stilkey books undulate slightly and the sort worn while delivering create a mosaic-like feeling. babies in 1950s admitted that he judges books entirely by their covers. cartoons. But Because all the paintings are its eye looked strangely human executed in grisaille (black, and quite sad, perhaps because gray and white), the myriad its long beak was reduced to a "I might be attracted by the Some stacks started on the hues of the book spines provide tiny stub. An elephant seemed title," he said, "or more by the floor and soared to a height of the only color, like walls built gleeful as it crushed a building look of the book — its anti- 15 feet, some stacks were only from multicolored bricks. The under its rump. A kangaroo queness or the wear and tear. a couple of books across and combination of the vividly col- raised its front paws, clad in I have these books I'll never others were more than 10 feet ored bindings and his film noir red boxing gloves, ready to read, and I wanted them for wide. A few seemed to sit on approach to painting presents fight, but the expression on its some reason, but I never knew invisible shelves, as if they were an appealingly skewed view of face, painted over an old green- why until I started drawing on levitating against the Wedg- the world that is as alluring as colored copy of"The Adven- them." wood blue wall. it is unsettling. tures of Tom Sawyer," was Clothbound books are Stilkey's own thrift store and Stilkey sometimes opens world-weary. Depicted along a Stilkey's canvas. He uses yard sale finds weren't numer- a book flat to give himself a floating row of vertical books, only hardcover books, whose ous enough to execute his vi- larger painting surface. Toward a white cat appeared caught various colors of bindings lend sion. Unwanted and duplicate the center of the display, the in the act of slinking across a visual presence; tattered paper- books were donated for the bright red cover of the "LIFE bookshelf. back romance novels and spy installation by the Friends of Pictorial Atlas of the World" While most installations thrillers need not apply. He Fondren Library, Half Price was splayed against the wall, are short-lived affairs, the life stacks up the books and creates Books, Friends of the Hous- and Stilkey painted the face of span of"When the Animals his own world ofjaded -looking ton Public Library, Goodwill a man on it. The man's body Rebel" has been extended. humans and cavorting, anthro- Industries of Houston, The extended down over a tower Parts of the installation have, pomorphic animals across their Guild Shop, The Menil Collec- of books, frozen in mid stride fittingly, been relocated to spines and covers. tion and Quarter Price Books. as he nonchalantly smoked a Fondren Library following the Stilkey's installation at Rice In the end, Stilkey wound up cigarette while seemingly being exhibition's close. Fondren's Gallery,"When the Animals with around 5,000 volumes. pursued by the black silhou- unwanted books have returned Rebel," was part of the gal- He and the installation staff ettes of Hitchcock-like birds. home, transformed, and lery's annual Summer Window then went through all the Above, in the installation's Stilkey may yet gain some fans Series. He used a wall built just books, removing the plastic "sky," flattened books painted among librarians.. behind the gallery's window library covers and checking to with more birds were stuck to —Kelly Klaasmeyer as a backdrop and support for make sure there were no rare the wall at wonky angles to cre- stacks and stacks of old books. books in the mix. ate a ragtag flock with possibly

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As a professional violinist, Gillian Clements'02 started playing the violin at age need if! was going to have a 6. When she was 11 and living in career as a violinist." has had her share of performances, but Melbourne, Australia, she joined Clements refers to Luca's none the Junior Strings of Melbourne, training as "violinist boot more surprising than one she played in a kid's chamber orchestra that camp." "By the time you finish October 2006. toured Europe for three weeks. studying with him," she said, "After that, I was hooked on "you know not just the entire violin," she said. "I loved being repertoire, but a new way of an- It wasn't the size of the audi- Transformations part ofa high-quality ensemble alyzing music. Luca teaches you ence that was daunting. Cle- that was internationally rec- how to think about a musical ognized. From that point on, ments often had played for Clements had arrived in Nyeri, piece so you can make decisions I knew I would have my life's about how to play it and why much larger crowds, especially located in the Kenyan high- work in music, though as I've you want to play it that way." during lands, the previous August to her year with the Hous- gotten older, my career path has start a strings program for the While at Rice, Clements ton Grand Opera. But among turned toward education." started Mount Kenya Academy, and her a music preparatory pro- the 500 people packed into the gram called String Fling with performance demonstrated that church in Nyeri, Kenya, only a Violinist Boot Camp fellow students Ginger Neff '03, culture shock works in both handful recognized that she was Valdine Ritchie '03 and Joanne directions. But if the people of holding Clements studied violin at the Wojtowicz'03, and the endeavor a musical instrument. Nyeri didn't know what a vio- North Carolina School for the reminded her how important her The program read,"Mount Ke- lin was before she arrived, they Arts before placing second in own youthful experience with the nya Academy: Solo Violin," and know now: Clements has 85 Boston Classical Orchestra's Junior Strings of Melbourne had thinking there was a typo, the violin, viola and cello students Concerto Competition. The been. "After that, I really knew I minister introduced Clements ages 6 through 19. "I've got- prize was a full scholarship to wanted to teach kids," she said. as, "Violet,from the Mount Ke- ten the opportunity to create Boston University. In her se- "I love designing programs to get nya Academy." an experience through music nior year at BU,she met Sergiu kids inspired through music." "I played the 'Hungarian for students who will forever Luca, the Dorothy Richard Clements earned her master's Dance' by Brahms," Clements remember learning violin and Starling Professor of Violin at in violin performance in 2002 said. "The audience almost fell playing together and people en- Rice's Shepherd School of Mu- and played with the Houston joying their performances," she over, and the jaw dropping was sic, who was in Boston to visit a Grand Opera for a year before said. "It builds their confidence former student. moving back pretty amazing — not from to Boston to teach and does something nice for the "I played some Bach for at BU and the Duncan Hall being impressed, but just with whole community." him," Clements said, "and he School in Wellesley, Mass., and confusion. It was like,'Who's Clements can appreciate the suggested I audition at Rice. I to work on a doctorate in music this white girl from outer space transformative value of such wanted to study with him no education at BU. To help make playing at our church? And an experience. Born in Dur- matter where he taught. I knew ends meet,she founded the Iris what the heck is she doing up ham, N.C., she spent her early he'd ensure I had the proper Ensemble, an all-female string there? Is that an instrument?'" years in nearby Chapel Hill and technique and all the tools I'd quartet.

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From Dissertation to stringed instruments are so rare robi that she had many students Orchestra and started a small Occupation in Kenya that even the main who needed instruments, and string orchestra at her school. music shop in Nairobi had only the shop managed to ship in a This past spring, she spent a lot While Clements was looking two violins, which, Clements batch of violins from India so of time preparing her students for a project for her disserta- said, "were horrible by Ameri- the students could buy them. to take Grade 1 of the Associ- tion, fellow String Fling founder can standards." Violas and cel- ated Board of the British Royal Neff, who had moved to South los are even scarcer. "As far as Rewards Schools of Music exams. There Africa, put her in touch with I can tell," she said, "there are was no sheet music for the ex- an outreach music program in probably 10 cellos, if that, in all All the effort was worthwhile. ams in Kenya,so copies had to Johannesburg. As Clements of Kenya." "The kids are intrigued and ex- be faxed from England. "The prepared to visit there, her That meant Clements would cited about playing violin, viola kids who pass will have a cer- uncle mentioned that a friend have to bring instruments with and cello," Clements said. "In tificate for the rest of their lives of his, Scott Hawkins, was at her. With help from Hawkins Kenya, only the best schools in that is recognized all over Eu- the Mount Kenya Academy. "I rope and Africa as a huge musi- made a detour to Kenya and fell cal accomplishment," Clements in love with the school," she said. "They will be able to get said. "It was the perfect fit for "My ideal job would be to start a music better jobs and more money both me and the school." just on the basis of having a In exchange for starting the program for kids at a university, such simple music certificate because string program, Clements is as the Shepherd School Preparatory it sets them apart." given time to conduct research Clements will leave Kenya her for her dissertation — a case Program." —Gillian Clements late this fall to complete study on the differences in how doctorate in Boston, but she children learn both Western isn't done passing on her love classical and traditional Kenyan of music."My ideal job would music within the same institu- and the school's director, Chari- Nairobi could even dream of of- be to start a music program for tion. But creating a strings pro- ty Mwangi, Clements organized fering stringed instruments. The kids at a university, such as the gram from scratch isn't simple, funding to buy instruments. fact that these kids can learn Shepherd School Preparatory even with students who know Then she went to a musical in- all three instruments out in Program," she said. "I thrive on what a violin is. "The kids learn strument warehouse in Boston, the highlands of Kenya is a real the conversations and ideas that traditional Kenyan songs and where she played about 50 or novelty. The kids are fantastic — spring from being surrounded dance on an informal basis," 60 violins and violas. "I picked they do their absolute best and by colleagues and students in a Clements said, "and the school the best 30 to send over," she are just tickled to death when vibrant university campus like offers piano lessons, but before said,"so I'd have something to they get to perform for their Rice."• I arrived, teaching strings wasn't work with." A professor at BU peers and their parents." even considered." also donated five cellos. After Clements has taken her The school owned a few Clements arrived, she told the students to Nairobi to see violins in poor condition, but owner of the music shop in Nai- performances by the Nairobi

Fall '07 43 ! ARTS

Is There an Art History Art Curator Adds Outreach Component to Campus Art Doctor in the House? Campus tour guides will have a few more things Houston's art world recently grew a little healthier thanks to a new art history doctoral to point out now that the Rice University Art program at Rice.Supported by a $10 million Committee grant from the Brown Foundation that will is in place and Jenny Strayer has been be used to fund graduate fellowships and named university art curator. foster a permanent collaborative research partnership with the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ills the only such program in Houston. Houston is an amazing ity at the forefront of "This wonderful grantfrom the Brown Foun- dation will enable Houston and Rice to take ontemporary art." an important step toward the shared goal of assuring that our city is a great center for the arts and humanities," said Rice President David Leebron. "It will enable the university to continue to foster deep collaborative relationships with our neighboring cultural institutions, especially the outstanding art museums of the city." Students in the new doctoral program will pp study under scholar curators from the Menil Collection and the MFAH as well as with faculty in Rice's Department of Art History. Collaborative research between the department and the museums will help make the program among the most competitive in the nation. The funding also enhances the Museum- Collaborative Partnership, which began Strayerandthecommitteewill be respon- cational components and activities for as a pilot project in 2005 with the help of sibleforacguiringandmaintaining pieces children were built into the artwork. Suzanne Deal Booth '77. The partnership of art that will be displayed throughout "It was wonderful to see so many has facilitated the appointment of fellows campus to create a more vibrant and people from so many backgrounds expe- to teach in the Department of Visual Arts, a dynamic environment. rience the art," Strayer said. "There were postdoctoral fellowship in art history and two highly sophisticated art scholars, chil- Strayer comes to Rice from Carnegie new positions in the Rice Gallery. It also has dren and passersby all drawn together by Mellon University, where she served jointly sponsored lectures and publications the work. To know I helped create this with the Menil as the director of the Regina Gouger Collection. experience that transcended social roles The Ph.D. program, Miller Gallery. In her time there, she in conjunction with was an incredible feeling." the partnership, reinforces Houston as a greatly increased outreach efforts and Strayer hopes to forge the same sorts destination for serious art history scholarship engaged the community in gallery of bonds across social and cultural lines and will expand the city's reputation as an exhibitions. at Rice, where outreach is a top prior- artistic hub as graduates go on to become "Houston is an amazing city at the ity. She plans to involve students, faculty, teachers and curators across the country forefront ofcontemporary art," Strayer staff and other interested parties in proj- and expose others to the depth of Houston's said. "In addition to a rich culture, ects by actively seeking their ideas, and offerings. Other graduates may choose to it has a remarkable excitement and she hopes to develop strong relation- put down roots and become part of Hous- spark. Rice has a fantastic reputation ships with the Houston art community ton's vibrant community of gallery owners, and people I really want to work with. and beyond. museum educators, donors, independent I consider it a great gift to be around scholars and faculty. "Collaboration is so important in cre- people who are visionaries with the tal- The doctoral program will benefit the ating meaningful pieces and encourag- mu- ent and energy to see their ideas evolve seums by providing them with scholars ing each other to work in nontraditional and into reality." research to help supportthe development of ways," Strayer said."We are going to While serving as the public art man- their collections. The scholars also will chal- have many projects, and we want to give ager for Arts in Transit in St. Louis, lenge the museums to continue to rethink everyone a voice."• Strayer helped orchestrate a summer emerging areas of importance in photography, —Jessica Stark Latin American art and American art.• art festival that featured a large tent with translucent images of insects. It —Jessica Stark was an unusual departure from the festival's previous installations, and edu-

44 Rice Sallyport —Justin Cronin

A Toothsome Deal little different from his other Cronin said. "Writing doesn't writings, the impulses that have to be a solitary act. You drove him to write this story can connect with people and It's hard to imagine English professor Justin Cronin are identical to those that have find out what's on their minds. with fangs, but his next novel has a lot of bite. driven him in the past. That's what happened with "I simply wrote the book I 'The Passage.' The manuscript wanted to write, the one that hit a nerve, and editors re- Cronin recently inked a deal The idea for the trilogy wanted to be written," Cronin sponded to it." with powerhouse publisher was born from a request by said. "Really, the whole thing One caveat he'll offer young Ballantine Books for the North Cronin's 10-year-old daughter, has been an act of complete writers: "Don't attempt some- American rights to a trilogy of Iris, who asked him to write a stubbornness from the start. thing with such a big canvas post-apocalyptic vampire nov- book about a girl who saves the When my wife asked me what until you're pretty seasoned. I els set 100 years in the future. world. The story chronicles the would happen if no one took have a solid two decades of real New York magazine reported journey of an orphan girl who the book, I told her I would writing experience under my the deal with Ballantine, a di- struggles to save humankind have written it for free. That's belt, and it's still a challenge vision of Random House, to with her unusual powers to how much I'm enjoying telling for me." be worth $3.75 million. The combat the viral epidemic. this story." Cronin, whose collection first novel of the trilogy, "The "It is rare to find a novel With the kind of recent suc- "Mary and O'Neil" won the Passage," is scheduled for pub- that delivers so many things cess Cronin has enjoyed, many PEN/Hemingway and the lication in summer 2009, with we look for in a book: intense writers would pack up their Stephen Crane prizes for best books two and three to follow plotting, exquisite writing, offices and quit their day jobs, debut fiction, also is the author in 2011 and 2013. memorable characters and a but Cronin doesn't see it that of the novel "The Summer The vampires in Cronin's tremendous vision and imagi- way. He intends to return to Guest," which was a Boolcsense novels aren't the gothic crea- nation," said Mark Tavani, the classroom, where he teach- national best seller. Other tures of traditional vampire Cronin's editor at Ballantine. es fiction writing. honors he's received include a stories, but ordinary men and "We're very excited about "I've been a teacher of one Whiting Writers' Award, fel- women transformed by a virus publishing this trilogy, which kind or another since I gradu- lowships from the National spawned by a botched govern- we know will appeal to a wide ated from college, and I don't Endowment for the Arts and ment experiment to lengthen mainstream audience." see any reason to stop now," the Pew Foundation, the Na- human life span. Though the Though the trilogy's first Cronin said. "Teaching keeps tional Novella Award and an trilogy might be classified as installment won't debut until me grounded. It's satisfying to Individual Artists Fellowship science fiction, Cronin insists summer 2009, it already is be able to help young writers, from the Pennsylvania Council his work will find a home in being hailed as a page-turner and it's good to be in touch on the Arts.• many different genres. that combines the imaginative with faculty colleagues." "People will call this what power of Stephen King's "The Cronin is not sure yet how —Jessica Stark they want — science fiction, Stand" and the headlong sto- he will use this experience in speculative fiction, even vam- rytelling of Michael Crichton's the classroom, but he wants his pire fiction — and that's fine," early novels. students to know that this kind Cronin said. "This is ultimately A vampire trilogy may seem of deal is extraordinary and a story about the most basic like a departure from Cronin's hard to come by. More impor- questions we face as a society past works, but familiar themes, tantly, he wants to make sure and a species — what it means such as love, friendship and sac- his students know that success to be a human being and who rifice, emerge. Cronin said that is possible. gets to be one." although the books will feel a "You can find readers,"

Fall '07 45 The Owls sent something of a shock wave through college swimming circles last season, posting their best league finish in 25 years of competition at the Division I level and taking second place at the C-USA meet Now, head coach Seth Huston is preparing for an encore. The good news is that the Owls have lost only one senior from last year's elite team, and the squad welcomes back 16 experienced letter winners and brings in it4i some talented newcomers.

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Coach Seth Huston, now in his seventh year at the helm of the program, likes the team's potential for 2007-08.

"We have a fantastic group of young women and the most depth since I've been here. Hopefully that will help our versatility in dual meets and our ability to score big in the finals at the C-USA Championships."

—Seth Huston

Here's a look at the Owls event by event: and provided an even heavier scor- INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY ing punch. Four Owls finished among Of all the events, the individual med- the top nine in the 100-back, and ley may be the most unpredictable. FREESTYLE champion in the 200-butterfly, the four placed in the top six of the 200. Standout Jennifer Hill had the Owls' Owls have a wealth of talented fly- From the 50 meter to the mile, the Craig won the C-USA silver medal in top time in both the 200 and 400 last ers returning to the blocks. Mattson Owls will be very competitive. With the 100 with the team's top time of season, but she will undergo a redshirt became the Owls' first individual the veteran duo of senior Brittany the year (56.95), and she took fourth season due to injury. Kirchhoff and champion at a conference meet since Massengale and junior Caitlin War- in the 200. Hyde was fourth in the Eberhardt improved over the course 2003 with one of the best times in the ner leading the way, the Owls are league in the 100 and fifth in the 200. of the year and helped the team, 200 (2:01.94) in school history. She particularly tough in the distance Sophomore Justine Lin was third in but Huston may look to freshmen also is a steady performer in the 100, events. Both swimmers have quali- the 200 with the fourth-best time in Ackerman, Chura and Korell is to fill but it was Craig who had the team's fied to compete in the U.S. World school history, and she was fifth in in the ranks. Open Water Championship Trials, top mark in that event to take third the C-USA 100. Wo won the C-USA's eye with a chance to make the U.S.team at the C-USA meet. Also keep an consolation finals in the 100 as a who RELAYS for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Mas- on Angela Wo, a sophomore freshman last season. Newcomers It's sengale is the Rice record holder in missed the first half of last season to watch are Kait Chura and Sarah pretty obvious that great individual both talent the 500, the 1,000 and the mile and with an injury but still scored in Korell is. Rice will be without senior can make for some eye-opening conference is the first swimmer in Rice history butterfly events at the relays, and that is sure to be the case this to make Team USA(in 2006). Warner season. In the 200-medley, the has improved every year and proved team of Hyde, Zelnick, Craig and Gu to be a big scorer for the team at the shattered the previous school record annual C-USA meet. Freshman Karen with a new time of 1:43.70. Miller Gerken is an all-state honoree who replaced Gu in the 400-medley, and can contribute in the distance events, that foursome went on to win the particularly in the 500. first conference relay championship If that's not enough for dual meet in school history. The three freestyle opponents to think about, the Owls relay teams—each among the best also have the reliable sprinting duo in Rice history—are all backtogether of juniors Carlyann Miller and Diane again with the same personnel. Rice's Brittany Massengale Caitlin Warner Gu. Gu won the silver medal in the 50 400-free relay has a great chance at the C-USA Championships with the to move from second to first in the meet. Now back to full health, she speedster Amy Halsey, who is out Owls' best mark of the year. Miller record books, and the 800 team of should be an even bigger factor in due to an injury. proved to be the team's top performer Mattson, Massengale, Miller and her second season at the Division I in the 100 for the second year in a Warner may be on a mission to crack level. Juniors Natalie Kirchhoff and BREASTSTROKE row, and her 1:49.91 in the 200 is the the school record set more than 10 Hyde can be expected to continue fourth-fastest time in school history. A year ago,the freshman trio of Eber- years ago. scoring in the butterfly as they have Versatile veterans like Skylar Craig, hardt, Allyson Lemay and Zelnick made done the previous two seasons, and Ken i Hyde, Megan Land, Erin Mattson, strides in the breaststroke events. The NCAA Championships are at newcomer DeWitt could help the Pam Zelnick and Stephanie Eberhardt There's every reason to expect more Ohio State University in Columbus team here, too. will contribute inthefreestyle events. improvements from the group this in March. "I know we have the tal- A few of the newcomers, like fresh- season.Zelnick posted the team's top ent to score at the championships," man Sally DeWitt, may get some BACKSTROKE time in both events, and her 1:05.24 Huston said. "We just have to do work here as well. The Owls may have had five differ- in the 100 is one of the top marks in what it takes as a team to achieve ent swimmers score in each C-USA Rice history. Mix in freshman Ashten this goal: Be confident and consistent, and stay healthy."• BUTTERFLY butterfly event, but backstroke is Ackerman, and Rice will be solid in —John Sullivan where they made the biggest strides the breaststroke category. Led by Mattson, the 2007 C-USA

Fall '07 47 ON THE BOOKSHELF

"My highest aspiration is that one of my stories inspires someone to think about the universe (Efferently. That kind of thinking can bring hope — hope that can help someone get through a bad night."

—Alexis Glynn Latner

come almost unlivable due to tion, in which either party could political and ecological prob- sweep the presidency and leg- lems. The Aeon Foundation islature or be swept aside. The launches a starship with a crew result, according to the Blacks, and passengers to find a new is a type of uneasy equilibrium home and a clean slate. that accentuates the influence of The journey takes more specific geographic regions on than a thousand years, while FEIOCIOUS ST11116111 ik AMEIICLII POLITICS the Democrats and Republicans the characters remain in EMIL PLACE aiNEILE PUCE and fuels greater ideological suspended animation. On fervor. awakening, Catharin Gault, The book employs survey the heroine and starship's data over the last half century to physician, discovers that the analyze the latest trends. Those lengthy stasis has damaged the trends include the dramatic genetic structure of the hu- shift of the South from being mans aboard. It is up to Gault solidly Democratic to being the to find a way to repair the most reliable Republican politi- Journey of Discovery "Divided America" Looks at genes before the new colony cal base, and the correspond- Political Polarization in U.S. perishes. ing change in the Northeast Though her first novel, "Hur- Lamer said the novel started — once Republican-dominated ricane Moon," debuted only Rice University out as a short story that grew political sci- and now a Democratic strong- last summer, it is not the first in the telling. She described ence professor Earl Black and hold. The Pacific Coast has time Fondren Library circulation the 10-year writing process as his brother Merle, a professor of evolved into Democratic terri- assistant Alexis Glynn Lanier'80 an adventure and a journey of politics and government at Emory tory in recent years, while the has been published. In fact, in discovery."My highest aspira- University, have written a new Mountains and Plains regions 2005,she was recognized asthe tion is that one of my stories book that analyzes the polariza- remain, for the most part, Re- seventh most-published female inspires someone to think tion that characterizes politics in publican. That leaves the Mid- fiction writer in the 75-year his- about the universe differently," the United States today. west as the battleground where tory of Analog Science Fiction Lamer said. "That kind of the two parties wage a continu- Titled "Divided America: The and Fact Magazine. thinking can bring hope — ing struggle for supremacy. Ferocious Power Struggle in hope that can help someone "Divided America" is the In all her writings, she aims American Politics,"(Simon get through a bad night."• fourth book the Black broth- to provide people with food & Schuster, 2007), the book ers have co-authored. They also for thought, and "Hurricane —Jessica Stark describes how the regional collaborated on "The Rise of Moon" is no different. The strengths of the two main parties Southern Republicans," "The novel is set in the late 21st cen- have split the electorate evenly Vital South" and "Politics and tury, a time when Earth has be- and produced the current situa- Society in the South."•

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ow in his 54th year of teaching, NProfessor Emeritus Franz Brotzen credits Rice University for greatly expanding his perspective and ranks it alongside such life-shaping experiences as living in Brazil, serving as an intelligence officer during World War II and traveling abroad with his wife, Frances.

In order to provide Rice students with similar opportunities for discovery here and abroad, the Brotzens have made numerous contributions to the Rice Annual Fund for Student Life and Learning. They also established the Brotzen Summer Travel Award several years ago. In addition to making these generous contributions, the Brotzens have included in their will a bequest for a permanent endowed fund, thus ensuring that future generations of students will benefit from their Rice gift.

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