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Awards and Honors

2007
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2005
2004

Dec-05 Shepherd School graduate students win gold medals
Dec-05 Freeman named director of Rice MLS program
Dec-05 Former Rice Development Director Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Dec-05 Faculty elected AAAS fellows
Dec-05 Continuing Studies to be named for Glasscock
Nov-05 Architecture dean Lerup wins award
Nov-05 Rice names Tapia ‘University Professor’
Oct-05 David Rodd Named First Official University Architect
Oct-05 Will Rice’s ‘Doc C’ Marks 40 Years As A Resident Associate
Oct-05 Sociology’s Martin Given Emeritus Status
Oct-05 Bioengineering’s Drezek Wins Inaugural Coulter Award
Oct-05 English’s Fultz Wins Award For Book On Toni Morrison
Sept-05 History’s Haverkamp named Radcliffe fellow
Sept-05 Cynthia Wilson named new assistant to the board
Sept-05 Rice receives $1.1M for Web lessons
Sept-05 Nanophotonics lab earns $3M training grant
Sept-05 Three young engineering profs invited to coveted symposium
Aug-05 Psychology chair named journal editor
Aug-05 Astrophysics’ Alexander earns White House honor
Aug-05 Small Times gives nano at Rice top marks
Aug-05 Jones School building named for McNairs
July-05 Levy Named Chair Of NASA Committee
July-05 Athanasiou Honored For His Pioneering Work In Cartilage Engineering
July-05 Kennedy Honored By AAAS
July-05 Wagoner Gives Students Opportunity To Study Choice Topics
July-05 Three Students Receive Fulbright Opportunities
July-05 Hanszen Junior Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
July-05 Zeff Winner To Research Various Treatments For Autism
July-05 Jones School Program Ranked Among Top
July-05 International Politics Program Ranked In Top 20
July-05 Rice Wins Grant To Continue Education Outreach Program
July-05 Glick Named New Dean Of Jones School
June-05 Baseball’s Savery Invited To National Team Trials
June-05 Five Recognized For Their Meritorious Service To Rice
June-05 Alumni Honored For Distinguished Achievements
June-05 Barnett, Whitaker Named 2005 Gold Medalists
June-05 More Than $200K Awarded At Rice’s Annual Business Competition
June-05 Three Faculty Rewarded For Service To Grad Students
June-05 Biochemistry’s Bartel Receives Duncan Award
June-05 Humanities’ Yeh, Shen Win Sarofim Award
June-05 Salgo Award Goes To Biochemistry’s Gustin
June-05 Jones School’s Dharan Earns Award For Excellence
June-05 Sociology’s Gorman, Earth Science’s Lenardic Honored By Phi Beta Kappa
June-05 Six Faculty Honored With Superior Teaching Awards
July-05 Levy Named Chair Of NASA Committee
July-05 Athanasiou Honored For His Pioneering Work In Cartilage Engineering
July-05 Kennedy Honored By AAAS
July-05 Wagoner Gives Students Opportunity To Study Choice Topics
July-05 Three Students Receive Fulbright Opportunities
July-05 Hanszen Junior Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
July-05 Zeff Winner To Research Various Treatments For Autism
July-05 Jones School Program Ranked Among Top
July-05 International Politics Program Ranked In Top 20
July-05 Rice Wins Grant To Continue Education Outreach Program
July-05 Glick Named New Dean Of Jones School
June-05 Baseball’s Savery Invited To National Team Trials
June-05 Five Recognized For Their Meritorious Service To Rice
June-05 Alumni Honored For Distinguished Achievements
June-05 Barnett, Whitaker Named 2005 Gold Medalists
June-05 More Than $200K Awarded At Rice’s Annual Business Competition
June-05 Three Faculty Rewarded For Service To Grad Students
June-05 Biochemistry’s Bartel Receives Duncan Award
June-05 Humanities’ Yeh, Shen Win Sarofim Award
June-05 Salgo Award Goes To Biochemistry’s Gustin
June-05 Jones School’s Dharan Earns Award For Excellence
June-05 Sociology’s Gorman, Earth Science’s Lenardic Honored By Phi Beta Kappa
June-05 Six Faculty Honored With Superior Teaching Awards
June-05 Engineering’s Bayazitoglu Receives Mentoring Award
June-05 French Studies’ Lynne Huffer Earns Top Teaching Prize
June-05 Wellness Center Receives Support For Alcohol Education
June-05 Awards Support Developing Careers Of Young Engineers
June-05 Rice Invited To Join Prestigious New Media Consortium
June-05 Bioengineer Drezek Wins Aami Award
June-05 Rice Seniors Selected As Beckman Scholars
June-05 Bioengineering’s Team Cobra Strikes Down Its Competition
June-05 NASA Awards Rice $11M For Nanotube Researc
h June-05 Collins Named VP For Finance
June-05 Faculty’s Ossman, Wiender, Vardi Win Guggenheim Fellowships
May-05 Former President Gillis Named To Board Of U.S. Federal Agency
May-05 Impact Awards Honor Outreach, Service
May-05 Business Information Center 's Shaw Earns Shapiro Award
May-05 Bioengineer Athanasiou Among Biomedical Society's First Fellows
May-05 Geologist Peter Vail Awarded Franklin Medal
May-05 Richard Tapia Named One Of Tech's '50 Most Important Hispanics'
May-05 Engineering's Rebekah Drezek Among Nation's Top Young Researchers
May-05 Rice MBA Students Win At Investment Competition
May-05 Keller-McNulty Named New Dean Of Engineering
April-05 Engineering Alumni To Give Out Scholarships
April-05 Composer Shih-Hui Chen Awarded Commission
April-05 Jennifer West Tapped To Head IBB
April-05 Pol Spanos Earns Top Engineering Distinction
April-05 Rice Takes Second Place In MBA Minority Case Competition
April-05 Gift Funds New Literary Studies Lecture Series
Mar-05 Graham Inducted Into Texas Sports Hall Of Fame
Mar-05 Faculty Club’s Clark Becomes Certified Executive Chef
Mar-05 Adria Baker Honored For Service
Mar-05 Kean Named Rice’s First University Historian
Mar-05 Neal Lane Earns Gillis Professorship
Mar-05 Bioengineer Deem Recognized For Research Excellence
Mar-05 Three Win Smalley/Curl Innovation Funds
Mar-05 Three Faculty Win NSF Grants
Mar-05 Rice MBA Team Wins First Place At Marketing Competition
Mar-05 Financial Times Ranks Jones School Best In Texas And Southwest
Feb-05 Rice Scientist Recognized As Pioneer In Tissue Engineering
Feb-05 Grad Student Wins Award For New MRI Research
Feb-05 Architecture School Ranks Third In U.S.
Feb-05 Robin Forman Named First Dean Of Undergraduates
Jan-05 Bayazitoglu Earns High Honor From ASME
Jan-05 Engineering’s Clark Elected IEEE Fellow
Jan-05 Rice’s Halas, West Recognized For Nanoshell-Based Cancer Therapy
Jan-05 Jones School Ranked No. 1 In Texas By Financial Times
Jan-05 Students Honored For Giving Money To Charity
Jan-05 Computer Science Receives Luce Grant To Fund New Female Graduate Fellowships
Jan-05 CTTL Receives Grant For Web-Based Adventure Series
Jan-05 Psychology’s Hebl Named Commencement Speaker

Dec-04 Dupont Leads Four Owls With Academic Honors
Dec-04 Humanities' Quenemoen, Grandy Named CSC Fellows
Dec-04 Rice Biologists Strassmann, Queller Elected AAAS Fellows
Dec-04 NEH Recognizes The Papers Of Jefferson Davis
Dec-04 Rice Alliance Earns Honors As Model Business Program
Dec-04 The Economist Names Jones School Among Tops
Dec-04 Debate Team Wins In Tourneys
Dec-04 Rice Alum Nominated To Be U.S. Attorney General
Nov-04 R.A.D. Couple Is Empowering Houston's Women, Children
Nov-04 Four At Shepherd School Receive National Award
Nov-04 English's Patten Named Couper Scholar
Nov-04 Bioengineer Drezek Named To List Of Top Young Innovators
Nov-04 Rice Receives $2M Grant For Supercomputer
Nov-04 Houston City Council Recognizes Rice President
Nov-04 Jones School Ranks Among Best Biz Schools
Nov-04 Leebron Installed As Rice's Seventh President
Oct-04 Engineering's Ann Lugg Honored For Professionalism, Dedication
Oct-04 Mentor , Scholar Tapia Honored For Service, Contributions
Oct-04 Vardi Named AAAI Fellow
Oct-04 English's Cronin Earns Praise For His Most Recent Novel
Oct-04 Trustee Teveia Barnes Recognized With Prestigious Award
Oct-04 Rice Gets $1.1 From DOD To Study Neurofibromatosis
Oct-04 Connexions Wins $1.25M From Hewlett Foundation
Oct-04 Shepherd School 's Clara Shin Wins Silver
Oct-04 Two Rice Undergrads Selected As Beckman Scholars
Sept-04 Athletes Named To Academic All-America Teams
Sept-04 Treasury Department Names El-Gamal First Islamic Finance Scholar
Sept-04 Research Associate In Chemistry Wins Ford Fellowship
Sept-04 F&E's Elba Lopez Distinguishes Herself With Customer-First Attitude
Aug-04 Shooting For The Stars: Rice Alumna Prepares For Space Travel
Aug-04 Rice Alumna Wins Miss Texas 2004
Aug-04 Rice Wins Commissioner's Cup As WAC's Top All-Around Program
Aug-04 Colvin, Jaffe Recognized For Energy Contributions
Aug-04 Engineering's Wiesner Earns Research Honors
Aug-04 Rice Exceeds Campaign Go
Aug-04 Gillis Receives Many Parting Honors
Aug-04 Leebron Takes The Helm
July-04 Track And Field's Harlan Wins NCAA Decathlon
July-04 Rice Athletes Earn WAC Accolades
July-04 Professors Currall And Zhou Awarded NSF Grant
July-04 Zeff Winner To Retrace Explorer Da Gama's Path
July-04 Three Receive Watsons To Travel, Study Abroad
July-04 Four Accept Fulbright Scholar Opportunities
July-04 2004 Student Honors
July-04 Jones School Students Take Honors At Conference, Competition
July-04 Rice Gets Part Of $10M Nano Research Funds
June-04 Drezek, Boles Receive Gsa Teaching Award
June-04 Rice Baseball Team Wins Eighth Straight Wac Title
June-04 Boothe, Brochstein, Isgren, Kidd Honored
June-04 Distinguished Alumni Recognized
June-04 Impact Awards Honor Those Who Have Made Their Mark On Rice
June-04 Professors Emeriti
June-04 Jones School 's Ostdiek Earns Second Award For Excellence
June-04 Phi Beta Kappa Recognizes Caam's Mark Embree
June-04 Duncan Award Goes To Computer Science's Kavraki
June-04 Earth Science's Anderson Receives Presidential Mentoring Award
June-04 Alumni Recognize Six With Superior Teaching Award
June-04 Fondren's Oster Honored For Exemplary Service
June-04 Psychology's Hebl Selected As 2004 Piper Professor
June-04 Chemistry's Hartgerink Earns Coveted Searle Grant
June-04 Professors Receive Grants For Projects To Improve Course Instruction
June-04 Elizabeth And Malcolm Gillis Named 2004 Gold Medalists
June-04 Two Earn Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships
June-04 Hutchinson Earns Top Teaching Prize
May-04 Men's Tennis Team Wins Wac Championship
May-04 Rice Athletes Receive Awards At Spring Presentation
May-04 Association Of Rice Alumni Honors 2004 Laureates
May-04 Continuing Studies' Hsu, Carlson, Kumari Named Associate Deans
May-04 Engineering's Kavraki Elected Aimbe Fellow
May-04 Baker Institute's Tarlov Receives Education Advocacy Award
May-04 Engineering's O'Malley Wins Young Investigator Award
May-04 Physics And Astronomy's Natelson Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
May-04 HiPerSoft Honored For Its Development Leadership
May-04 Halas Group Wins $5m Award From DOD
April-04 Basketball Coach Wilson Named District Coach Of The Year
April-04 Provost Levy Elected To NSBRI Board
April-04 Architecture Dean Lerup Named 2004 Swedish-American Of The Year
April-04 Kolomeisky Named Sloan Fellow
April-04 Continuing Studies Receives Statewide Award
April-04 Grant Funds Journal's Look At Gender, Wealth Inequalities
April-04 Bioengineer Liebschner Wins Grand Prize At International Design Contest
April-04 Senior Earns Top Honors In Usa Today Competition
April-04 Halas, West Awarded 'Best Discovery Of 2003'
Mar-04 Maynard Named To Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team
Mar-04 Owl Baseball Players Receive National Championship Rings
Mar-04 Engineering's Letness Receives Elizabeth Gillis Award
Mar-04 Rice Employees Honored For Their Years Of Service
Mar-04 Bioengineering's Jianpeng Ma Earns Hackerman Award
Mar-04 Financial Times Ranks Jones School Among Top 50 In World
Feb-04 Mathematician Tapia Earns Honors For Distinguished Public Service
Feb-04 Graduate Student Receives Award For Excellence In Nano Research
Feb-04 Kamran Khan Named New Vice Provost For Information Technology
Feb-04 Rice Becomes Member Of Texas Medical Center
Jan-04 Earth Science's Vail Recognized With Geology's Highest Honor
Jan-04 Nobel Laureate Smalley Receives Small Times' Lifetime Achievement Award
Jan-04 Rice Awarded More Than $2.4 Million In State Grants
Jan-04 Kiplinger Names Rice Among Best Buys