Lovett College freshman Akin Bruce is one of 39 students nationwide who were awarded a 2015 Actuarial Diversity Scholarship from the Actuarial Foundation. The scholarship recognizes the academic achievements of full-time undergraduate students pursuing a degree that may lead to a career in the actuarial profession. Bruce is majoring in statistics and sociology.
A groundbreaking study led by Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer
Walter Chapman is listed as one of the
“All-Time Greats and Contemporary Favorites” among papers published by the American Chemical Society journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. The journal, founded under a different name in 1909, published in August an online issue of its most-cited papers. The Chapman paper, “
New Reference Equation of State for Associating Liquids,” established a first-order model called
SAFT to calculate the effect of molecular size, shape and association on the phase behavior and properties of fluid mixtures, critical information in chemical and polymer process design and in oil and gas production. The paper is No. 7 on the top 15 all-time highest-cited list. Chapman said two other papers on the list are variations on his work. He is the William W. Akers Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and associate dean of engineering for energy research.
Kim Davenport, director of the Rice University Art Gallery, has been appointed to serve on the University of Houston Systemwide Art Acquisition Committee. The committee serves in an advisory capacity to the University of Houston system campus presidents, chancellor and board of regents to aid in building a distinguished collection of 20th- and 21st-century art for all universities in the University of Houston system. Her term will run through Aug. 31, 2018.
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