In the News
Richard Stoll has stepped down as associate director
of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy to become
associate dean of social sciences. In his new position. Among his
duties will be coordinating development efforts for the school and
overseeing the Center for the Study of Institutions and Values as
well as interdisciplinary majors and Leadership Rice. Stoll, a professor
of political science, also will coordinate research, teaching, and
other collaborations with the Baker Institute.
Vicki Colvin, associate professor of chemistry,
has received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar Award for 2001.
Colvin earned the $60,000 prize for her project titled “Protein
Crystals as Scaffolds for Materials Design.” The award was
established by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to strengthen
the teaching and research careers of talented young faculty in the
chemical sciences. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar Awards
Program focuses on individual research attainment and promise, and
evidence of excellence in teaching also is expected. In general,
15 awards are made annually.
Neal Lane, university professor and former science
adviser to President Clinton, has been named to the Committee on
International Security Studies (CISS) of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1982, the committee plans and sponsors
multidisciplinary studies focusing on emerging issues with global
implications and exploring cooperative, multilateral means of providing
peace and security. Lane also holds appointments in the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at Rice and as senior fellow of Rice’s
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
The Houston Press chose Mark Ramont, director
of the Rice Players and lecturer in the English department, as the
year’s best Houston director. The Press said about Ramont
and a play, Jon Maran’s Old Wicked Songs, he produced: “It
is a delicate story, rich with the sort of nuance that requires
intelligence, patience, generosity and reserve from its director,
which is exactly what the gifted director Mark Ramont brought to
Stages this past winter.”
The groundbreaking work of Rice’s scientists was displayed
in the September issue of Scientific American. The issue,
dedicated to nanotechnology, featured a cover article by Richard
E. Smalley, the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of
Chemistry and professor of physics. But he was not alone. Six of
the nine articles in the special nanotechnology section mention
the research of Rice faculty, including Robert Curl,
the Harry C. and Olga Keith Wiess Professor of Natural Sciences;
James Tour, the Chao Professor of Chemistry, professor
of mechanical engineering and materials science, and professor of
computer science; Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of
chemistry; and Jennifer West, associate professor
of bioengineering and associate professor of chemical engineering.
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