Speakers

City of Houston

• Mayor Bill White

Rice University

• Wade Adams—Director, Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Katherine E. Collins—Vice President for Finance
• Marjorie D. Corcoran—Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian—Founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
• Michael Emerson—Radoslav A. Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and Founding Director of CORRUL
• Larry R. Faulkner—President of Houston Endowment
• Robin Forman—Dean of Undergraduates
• Stephen Fox—Adjunct Lecturer, School of Architecture
• William H. Glick—Dean and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
• Deborah Harter—Associate Professor of French Studies, Deputy Speaker of Rice Faculty Senate
• Geneva Henry—Executive Director, Digital Library Initiative
• Eric C. Johnson— Vice President, Resource Development
• Sallie Keller-McNulty—Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, Professor of Statistics
• Kevin E. Kirby—Vice President, Administration
• Jordan Konisky—Vice Provost, Research and Graduate Studies
• Neal Lane—Malcolm Gillis University Professor
• Clover Lee—Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
• Caroline Levander—Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Research Center
• Eugene H. Levy—Howard R. Hughes Provost, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Steven W. Lewis—Director of Asian Studies, Research Fellow, Baker Institute, Professor in the Practice in Humanities
• Kathleen S. Matthews—Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences
• Rebecca Rae Richards-Kortum—Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering
• Linda Thrane—Vice President, Public Affairs
• James M. Tour—Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory
• Robert Alan Yekovich—Dean, Shepherd School of Music
• Jing Zhou—Associate Professor of Management, Director of Asian Management Research and Education, Jones Graduate School of Management

University of Houston

• Tom Ehardt—Executive Director, Budget
• Donald Foss—Provost
• Jay Gogue—President
• Craig Ness—Executive Director, Academic Budgets and Administration
• Michael Rierson— Vice President, University Advancement 
• Jerald Strickland— Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Studies & Programs, Director of SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation
• Terrie Sultan—Director, Blaffer Gallery
• John Warren—Associate Vice Chancellor, Intellectual Property
• David A. White —Director, Moores School of Music
• Yali Zou—Professor and Director, Asian American Studies Center

Texas A&M University

• Dick Chilcoat—Dean, George Bush School of Government and Public Service
• Luis Cifuentes—Executive Associate Dean of Geosciences
• Eddie Davis—Interim President
• Charles Johnson—Dean of Liberal Arts
• H. Joseph Newton—Dean of Science
• John Niedzwecki—Executive Associate Dean of Engineering
• Douglas Palmer—Dean of College of Education and Human Development
• Edwin Price—Associate Vice Chancellor for International Agriculture and Federal Relations
• David B. Prior—Executive Vice President and Provost
• J. Thomas Regan—Dean of Architecture