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Summer 2007 nization The Magazine of Rice University The City and the University Vintage Rice Diversity' That lien, This Is No Baseball Back in Omaha RICE SALLYPORT • THE MAGAZINE OF RICE UNIVERSITY • SUMMER 2007 2 Foreword Thinking • 3 Letters • 5 Through the Sallyport 20 Students • 40 Arts • 46 On the Bookshelf • 48 Scoreboard 17 Feel like you're communicating 24/7 during a time ofchange but not getting the message across? Maybe you're neglecting a critical communication strategy. A graduate student's 20maneuver saves fuel for the International Space Station. Peter Yenne is saving 42South America's photographic heritage. Why do women,who Arsenic contaminated 7 generally report poorer drinking water may health than men,usually have met its match in a live longer? That's the revolutionary, low-cost morbidity paradox. technology. treatment to prevent the buildup ofdeadly scar tissue. "‘Ip and the Uni ntage Rice Is for Succes at do a geologist, a corporate s and great univer attorney, a chemical engineer and an nd, and today the bonds are architect have in common? The art and and more necessary—than ever. craft of the vineyard. W. Leebron By Laura Taxel y: That Was Then, 36 The Sky's Not the Limit OW Imagine flying a rocket through a three- Your Opinion rsity at Rice began within living dimensional racetrack in the sky. Jim ut the university has come a long Bridenstine can't wait. Matters hen. By Christopher Dow pher Dow As work to improve Rice Sallyport, your feedback is important. minuteA...- Please take a few s to let us know what you think of the magazine by filling out our readership survey. The questionnaire is at the back of the magazine and also is available online at www.rice.edu/survey. The survey is anonymous, and any information you provide will remain confidential Thank you for helping Rice Sallyport better reflect the distinctive educational community it represents UNIVERSITY Rtce 2007 AUG 4 21 The City and the Uni ersity: ntage Rice Essentials for Succes LIBRARY 30 at do a geologist, a corporate Great cities and great univer attorney, a chemical engineer and an hand-in-hand, and today the bonds are architect have in common? The art and stronger—and more necessary—than ever. craft ofthe vineyard. Features By David W. Leebron By Laura Tavel 24 Diversity: That Was Then, 36 The Sky's Not the Limit This is Now Imagine flying a rocket through a three- Racial diversity at Rice began within living dimensional racetrack in the sky. Jim memory, but the university has come a long Bridenstine can't wait. way since then. By Christopher Dow By Christopher Dow , Rice Sallyport Summer 2007, Vol. 63, No. 3 Starting with this issue, President David W. Leebron will inaugurate a regular column in which Published by the Office major topics ofthe day and Rice's role in shaping them. The column will be featured of Public Affairs he explores Linda Thrane, vice president in the heart of the magazine with other major features and news stories — the first, "The City Suzanne Gschwind, director of and the University: Essentials for Success," can be found on Page 21. This piece was derived Communications Services from Leebron's April 17 keynote address to the Center for Houston's Future, a speech that truly Editor captured Rice's intimate relationship with its home city and our mutual aspirations for the future. Christopher Dow As editor of Rice's flagship publication, I will use this space Editorial Director to let you know what to expect in this and future issues. And Tracey Rhoades you can expect a lot. A great deal will be happening at Rice in the next few years, and it's all propelled by the Vision for the Creative Director Jeff Cox Second Century(V2C), the roadmap for Rice's future develop- ment. V2C addresses everything from academics and research Art Director Th LI r mon to campus development, the vibrancy of student life and the Chuck depth of Rice's interaction with its home city, the nation and Editorial Staff the world. The complete 10-point plan can be found at www. Sarah Williams, assistant editor rice.edu/vision, and an abbreviated version is printed on Page 29 of this issue. Design Staff Certainly one of the most visible manifestations of V2C will be Tommy LaVergne, photographer serve our academic Jeff Fitlow, assistant photographer the construction of new facilities to house and "A great deal will enterprise, and we'll be bringing you regular updates, beginning The Rice University Board with a report in this issue on the new Collaborative Research be happening at of Trustees James W. Crownover, chairman; J.D. Center. This incredible state-of-the-art biomedical research facility Rice in Bucky Allshouse; D. Kent Anderson; will team Rice with premier Texas Medical Center institutions to the next Teveia Rose Barnes;Alfredo Brener;Vicki discover medical breakthroughs that will improve health worldwide. VVhamond Bretthauer, Robert T. Brockman; few years, and it's Albert Y. Chao; Robert L. Clarke; Bruce And Rice already is contributing to better health, as you will see W. Dunlevie; Lynn Laverty Elsenhans; from several stories in this issue. One is about a potential cure for all propelled by Douglas Lee Foshee; Susanne Morris fibrotic diseases, which account for an estimated 45 percent of U.S. Glasscock; Carl E. Isgren; K. Terry the Vision for the Koonce; Robert R. Maxfield; Steven L. deaths each year; another is about a simple, cost-effective method Miller; M. Kenneth Oshman; Jeffery to remove arsenic contamination from public drinking water. Century 0. Rose; Hector Ruiz; Marc Shapiro; Second L. E. Simmons; Robert B. Tudor III; There's much more to V2C than new and renovated facilities. James Turley V2C is a whole new way of thinking about what Rice is, where (V2C),the roadmap it's going and its impact on the world. Make no mistake: Rice Administrative Officers for Rice's future David W. Leebron, president; Eugene may be small compared with its peers, but it packs a heavy- Levy, provost; Kathy Collins, vice weight punch. development." president for Finance; Darrow It's not enough to be a great university, however. We have to Zeidenstein, vice presidentfor Resource Development, Kevin Kirby, vice president make that excellence known. So, something else you'll want to for Administration; Chris Munoz, vice look for is the way Rice showcases itself. In fact, you're going to be seeing more of Rice than presidentfor Enrollment; Linda Thrane, new plan to substantially elevate vice presidentfor Public Affairs;Scott W. ever before as we implement a dynamic public awareness of Wise, vice presidentfor Investments and Rice's outsized contributions to education, research and public service. We pursue and apply treasurer, Richard A. Zansitis, general wisdom in an unconventional way, and we're getting ready to help more people appreciate what counsel. that means. Keep an eye out for it in an upcoming issue. It is the policy of Sallyport to run letters And speaking ofshowcasing the university, please help us make Rice Sallyport a magazine that that respond to a particular article only truly represents all that Rice is by filling out our readership survey. It's a self mailer, so when within one year following the article's publication. All submissions to Sallyport you're done,just fold it in half, seal it with a piece of tape and drop it in the mail. Or, better yet, are subject to editing for length, clarity, you can fill out the survey online at rice.edu/survey. accuracy, appropriateness and fairness to Thanks in advance for your participation, and enjoy the issue. third parties. Sallyport is published by the Office of Public Affairs ofRice University and is sent to university alumni,faculty, staff, graduate students, parents of undergraduates and CHRISTOPHER Dow friends of the university. Editorial Offices Communications Services—MS 95 P.O. Box 1892 Houston,TX 77251-1892 Fax 713-348-6751 E-mail: [email protected] Postmaster Send address changes to: Rice University Development Services—MS 80 P.O. Box 1892 Houston,TX 77251-1892 °JULY 2007 RICE UNIVERSITY 2 Rice Sallyport LETTERS Letters A new sciolistic triumph in the fall in 1960 also had on-site mainframe enough; he managed to approve also debate, at once candid and civil, is the 2006 issue of Sallyport. computers at that time. the kidnapping of people off the streets lifeblood of the university. That none of foreign countries, followed by what of us succeeded in converting others Though the strangely headlined Patsy S. Chappelear '53 article "Does Education Help Breed Houston is known as "extraordinary rendition" to our own perspective will surprise no Segregation" fails to answer its own to countries that are known to practice one. What one hopes for is insight into question (but will certainly have an Indeed, Rice's own R1 computer was torture. As attorney general, he has our common humanity and clarification impact on fundraising), it does ap- developed in 1961. continued to believe that his position of the issues that divide us. pear to try to prop up the hypothesis Editor is still that of the chief White House I note that none of my critics, not that more "laws requiring desegre- lawyer rather than the chief legal of- even Glen Hoffing '74, makes an ex- gation" are somehow a good thing. Gonzales ficer of the United States. plicit case in favor of torture. I find Bussing worked out really well, don't As one who lived through the that reassuring. I'm confident that Editor's note: It is the policy of Rice you know.

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