People, papers and presentations for Feb. 14, 2022
February 14, 2022
John Fierst, assistant director of academic advising, received the 2022 Texas Association of Advisors for the Health Professions Advisor of the Year Award at the group's recent annual conference in San Antonio.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 20, 2021
December 20, 2021
A paper co-authored by Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, was named a finalist for the American Marketing Association-EBSCO-Responsible Research for Business Management Award for Responsible Research in Marketing.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 6, 2021
December 6, 2021
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has appointed Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, to its Houston Branch board of directors, and assistant professor of chemistry Julian West has won a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award for early career synthetic chemists.
People, papers and presentations for Nov. 1, 2021
November 1, 2021
The Georgia Tech Alumni Association names Rice Provost Reginald DesRoches an honorary alumnus for his service and contributions to the community, and a paper about local activation time mapping of cardiac chambers led by Rice's Jennifer Hellar places second in major student competition.
People, papers and presentations for Oct. 25, 2021
October 25, 2021
A study led by Laura Kabiri, an assistant teaching professor of kinesiology, suggests that mentoring by college students can improve physical activity among elementary school students.
People, papers and presentations for Sept. 20, 2021
September 20, 2021
Rice Space Institute Director David Alexander, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been named by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to the board of the Houston Spaceport Development Corporation.
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 16, 2021
August 16, 2021
The Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Kelsey Norman, fellow for the Middle East and director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize
People, papers and presentations for Aug. 2, 2021
August 2, 2021
Rice Architecture alumnus Cohen Hudson '21 won a Texas Society of Architects/AIA 2021 Studio Award for his master's thesis project USPS+, a proposal for a new post office in San Antonio that leverages mass timber technologies "to expand the United States Postal Service's functions and define a system for the construction of a new type of post office."