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