Close Up 2012

2012 CENTENNIAL EDITION

CLOSEUP Eye on People

THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY

A legacy of learning at the School of Social Sciences

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Dear Friends of the Social Sciences:

CLOSEUP

In a world limiting thoughts to 140 characters, the most highly influential academic books are still often long and ponderous. The very design of the university based on departments and the 11th century. So, a 100-year time frame suits the university setting very well. Some might consider it even a bit short to truly understand the nature of thinking, knowledge, and research innovations and findings.

The Rice centennial offers us an opportunity to look back over the transformations that have occurred since the doors of the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art opened. But it is an equally important moment to look

forward and reflect on how things will

change at Rice University

over the ensuing decades. Rice’s first

100 years have told a truly The story began with just

Social Sciences: The Early Years

two economics courses offered in 1914. science faculty member was not hired until

1927—Frederick Lovell

Bixby, assistant professor of psychology.

Today with nearly 80

faculty, we offer 225 undergraduate and

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130 graduate courses across a full menu of social science disciplines among Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Economics, Managerial Studies, Policy Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More undergraduate students major in the social sciences than they do in engineering, humanities and natural science. And since the mid-1990s, Rice has graduated more students with bachelor’s degrees in economics than in any other degree program. Rice social scientists have received millions of dollars of research grants, won numerous teaching awards and served as advisers to governments and world organizations.

But, still this is truly just the start of Rice’s development in the social sciences. In 1912, Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice’s first president, urged that the university would address “problems pressing for resolution in a new and rapidly developing country.”

While today the United States is no longer considered “new,” pressing problems in a rapidly developing country and world

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surely remain. And at the heart of those problems is human behavior, which Rice social scientists study at the forefront.

Over Rice’s next century, social science researchers will consider why some people willingly act as suicide bombers to further a political cause and how genetics determine people’s political views. There will be collaborations between Rice social scientists and medical doctors to address obesity and to help the recovery of stroke victims. There will be joint studies between Rice economists and computer scientists on whether the internet has increased industrial productivity or slowed it down. To be a top university in the 21st century, Rice will meld the social sciences with science, medicine, statistics, business, philosophy and other disciplines. 100 years may seem like a long time, but is merely the beginning.

Students Through the Decades

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Globalization and Developing Economies

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HISTORICAL TIMELINE

16 Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?

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Close Up is produced by the School of Social Sciences at Rice University.

In 2012, the Close Up magazine series received a Silver Award from CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District IV in the category of Magazines-Four Colors Throughout in the CASE Accolades competition.

Correspondence School of Social Sciences, MS-27 Rice University PO Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 socialsciences@rice.edu Http://socialsciences.rice.edu Editor Lisa Birenbaum

Celebrating 30Years of theKinder Houston Area Survey Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science HISTORICAL TIMELINE

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Rice Receives $25 Million Naming Gift from Robert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building

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Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology

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remarkable story for the social sciences.

The first full-time social

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Psychology Political Science Economics

faculty specialization has changed little since monks devised the first European universities in

E D I T I O N

THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY

Sociology

information, academic research ideas—the truly best ones—often take years to explore.

Anthropology

Universities are notorious for moving slowly. Even today when people expect instantaneous

C E N T E N N I A L

Contributors B. J. Almond Lisa Birenbaum Dominic Boyer Dawn Dorsey Jennifer Gucwa Julie Platek Erik Tanner Rick K. Wilson Copy Editor Jennifer Gucwa Photography Lisa Birenbaum Tommy LaVergne Ipek Martinez Erik Tanner Woodson Research Center Design and Art Direction Sulewski Design

Partner With Us

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Special Thanks To: Ron Soligo, Amanda Focke, John Boles, Melissa Kean and the Woodson Research Center On the Cover: Marie Chatfield, Mingming Jiang, Rebecca Satterfield, Satoshi Mizutani, Devin Glick, Navi Dhaliwal, Jasmine Elliott, Izzy Spanswick, Chris Keller, Lauren Theis, Graham Johnson, Sherry Lin, Danny Cohen, Kelsey Wooddell and Marc Sabbagh

2 0 1 2

Dear Friends of the Social Sciences:

CLOSEUP

In a world limiting thoughts to 140 characters, the most highly influential academic books are still often long and ponderous. The very design of the university based on departments and the 11th century. So, a 100-year time frame suits the university setting very well. Some might consider it even a bit short to truly understand the nature of thinking, knowledge, and research innovations and findings.

The Rice centennial offers us an opportunity to look back over the transformations that have occurred since the doors of the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art opened. But it is an equally important moment to look

forward and reflect on how things will

change at Rice University

over the ensuing decades. Rice’s first

100 years have told a truly The story began with just

Social Sciences: The Early Years

two economics courses offered in 1914. science faculty member was not hired until

1927—Frederick Lovell

Bixby, assistant professor of psychology.

Today with nearly 80

faculty, we offer 225 undergraduate and

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

12

130 graduate courses across a full menu of social science disciplines among Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Economics, Managerial Studies, Policy Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More undergraduate students major in the social sciences than they do in engineering, humanities and natural science. And since the mid-1990s, Rice has graduated more students with bachelor’s degrees in economics than in any other degree program. Rice social scientists have received millions of dollars of research grants, won numerous teaching awards and served as advisers to governments and world organizations.

But, still this is truly just the start of Rice’s development in the social sciences. In 1912, Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice’s first president, urged that the university would address “problems pressing for resolution in a new and rapidly developing country.”

While today the United States is no longer considered “new,” pressing problems in a rapidly developing country and world

Human Error is Not Just About Humans

14

surely remain. And at the heart of those problems is human behavior, which Rice social scientists study at the forefront.

Over Rice’s next century, social science researchers will consider why some people willingly act as suicide bombers to further a political cause and how genetics determine people’s political views. There will be collaborations between Rice social scientists and medical doctors to address obesity and to help the recovery of stroke victims. There will be joint studies between Rice economists and computer scientists on whether the internet has increased industrial productivity or slowed it down. To be a top university in the 21st century, Rice will meld the social sciences with science, medicine, statistics, business, philosophy and other disciplines. 100 years may seem like a long time, but is merely the beginning.

Students Through the Decades

24 Lyn Ragsdale Dean

4

Globalization and Developing Economies

6

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

16 Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?

18

8

10

Close Up is produced by the School of Social Sciences at Rice University.

In 2012, the Close Up magazine series received a Silver Award from CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District IV in the category of Magazines-Four Colors Throughout in the CASE Accolades competition.

Correspondence School of Social Sciences, MS-27 Rice University PO Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 socialsciences@rice.edu Http://socialsciences.rice.edu Editor Lisa Birenbaum

Celebrating 30Years of theKinder Houston Area Survey Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science HISTORICAL TIMELINE

20 12

22

Rice Receives $25 Million Naming Gift from Robert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building

26

Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

2

remarkable story for the social sciences.

The first full-time social

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Psychology Political Science Economics

faculty specialization has changed little since monks devised the first European universities in

E D I T I O N

THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY

Sociology

information, academic research ideas—the truly best ones—often take years to explore.

Anthropology

Universities are notorious for moving slowly. Even today when people expect instantaneous

C E N T E N N I A L

Contributors B. J. Almond Lisa Birenbaum Dominic Boyer Dawn Dorsey Jennifer Gucwa Julie Platek Erik Tanner Rick K. Wilson Copy Editor Jennifer Gucwa Photography Lisa Birenbaum Tommy LaVergne Ipek Martinez Erik Tanner Woodson Research Center Design and Art Direction Sulewski Design

Partner With Us

29

Special Thanks To: Ron Soligo, Amanda Focke, John Boles, Melissa Kean and the Woodson Research Center On the Cover: Marie Chatfield, Mingming Jiang, Rebecca Satterfield, Satoshi Mizutani, Devin Glick, Navi Dhaliwal, Jasmine Elliott, Izzy Spanswick, Chris Keller, Lauren Theis, Graham Johnson, Sherry Lin, Danny Cohen, Kelsey Wooddell and Marc Sabbagh

Social Sciences: The EarlyYears By: Rick K. Wilson

It is commonly thought that the Rice Institute was founded as an engineering and science college with a nod to humanities. However, from the beginning the social sciences played a role in Rice’s development.

1912

At the inauguration in 1912, the renowned historian, Rafael Altamira y Crevea, delivered three lectures that might resonate with the social sciences today. The first dealt with issues of methodology in the study of humans; the second dealt with a general theory of civilization touching on the importance of economics and political institutions; and the third dealt with general laws of the diffusion of knowledge across nations. While the attendees may have struggled to keep awake following the turgid prose, the ideas were as grand as the aspirations of the new institute.

1915

By 1915, Dr. Robert Granville Caldwell was hired as an assistant professor of history to teach courses in economics and political economy. In many ways this was the start of the social sciences at Rice, with History 200 focusing on constitutional political systems.

By all accounts Dr. Caldwell was a popular teacher, and students flocked to his Economics 310 course entitled Social Economics.

This course focused on problems associated with social conditions in the United States, particularly in urban areas. Houston was the laboratory and students celebrated the course in this 1918 Campanille drawing. Dr. Caldwell can be seen introducing students to the plentiful vices available in the big city. Dr. Caldwell quickly became dean of the institute and left Rice to become ambassador to Portugal in 1933.

1920s

The early days of the social sciences were not without controversy. Lyford Paterson Edwards, a sociologist, was hired in 1918. While teaching an adult Sunday school class in 1919, he touched on the Russian revolution, noting that in 100 years Lenin would be given the same regard as George Washington and added that Lenin was perhaps a greater idealist than Washington. A member of the class objected to this line of reasoning. Houston’s press, followed by the mayor, entered the fray. This led the board of trustees to demand that Edwards be fired. The faculty strongly objected, but in the end President Lovett acceded to the board and fired Edwards. Sociology was put on the back burner for many decades and courses offered in the 1920s focused more on social psychology and citizenship.

1940/50s 1960s Into the 1940s economics and psychology constituted the social sciences. However, early in the 1950s political science was finally listed as a separate area of study.

By the early 1960s, all of the social science programs existed on paper. Economics included business administration – a precursor to the Jones Graduate School of Business. Psychology was a stand-alone major. The Department of Anthropology and Sociology was established and political science was housed in the History Department. With the appointment of Kenneth S. Pitzer as Rice’s 3rd president, the institute changed. With the change in name to Rice University, Pitzer had a vision for creating a first-rate research and teaching university. He could not imagine moving forward without the full participation of the social sciences.

His 5-year plan focused on building up psychology and political science.

The 10-year plan was to enhance each of the social science programs, create separate departments and establish a School of Social Sciences. It took only a little longer than the 10 years for this to happen.

C.M. (Hank) Hudspeth began teaching as a lecturer in government, offering the perennial favorite, Political Science 210, American Government.

1979

In 1979, the social science departments separated from the School of Humanities to establish the School of Social Sciences.

1931

In 1931, the economics program (with a grand total of three faculty) graduated its first major. By 1932, a separate program in psychology appeared with the addition of Dr. Frank Pattie.

Psychology 200 required Biology 100 and covered the physiology of the nervous system, sense and perception, memory and “intelligent behavior.” At the end of the course, two branches were offered – either animal psychology or abnormal psychology.

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Economics Department Faculty, 1979 Anthropology Department Faculty, 1979

Psychology Departmen t Faculty, 1979

Political Science Department Faculty, 1979

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Social Sciences: The EarlyYears By: Rick K. Wilson

It is commonly thought that the Rice Institute was founded as an engineering and science college with a nod to humanities. However, from the beginning the social sciences played a role in Rice’s development.

1912

At the inauguration in 1912, the renowned historian, Rafael Altamira y Crevea, delivered three lectures that might resonate with the social sciences today. The first dealt with issues of methodology in the study of humans; the second dealt with a general theory of civilization touching on the importance of economics and political institutions; and the third dealt with general laws of the diffusion of knowledge across nations. While the attendees may have struggled to keep awake following the turgid prose, the ideas were as grand as the aspirations of the new institute.

1915

By 1915, Dr. Robert Granville Caldwell was hired as an assistant professor of history to teach courses in economics and political economy. In many ways this was the start of the social sciences at Rice, with History 200 focusing on constitutional political systems.

By all accounts Dr. Caldwell was a popular teacher, and students flocked to his Economics 310 course entitled Social Economics.

This course focused on problems associated with social conditions in the United States, particularly in urban areas. Houston was the laboratory and students celebrated the course in this 1918 Campanille drawing. Dr. Caldwell can be seen introducing students to the plentiful vices available in the big city. Dr. Caldwell quickly became dean of the institute and left Rice to become ambassador to Portugal in 1933.

1920s

The early days of the social sciences were not without controversy. Lyford Paterson Edwards, a sociologist, was hired in 1918. While teaching an adult Sunday school class in 1919, he touched on the Russian revolution, noting that in 100 years Lenin would be given the same regard as George Washington and added that Lenin was perhaps a greater idealist than Washington. A member of the class objected to this line of reasoning. Houston’s press, followed by the mayor, entered the fray. This led the board of trustees to demand that Edwards be fired. The faculty strongly objected, but in the end President Lovett acceded to the board and fired Edwards. Sociology was put on the back burner for many decades and courses offered in the 1920s focused more on social psychology and citizenship.

1940/50s 1960s Into the 1940s economics and psychology constituted the social sciences. However, early in the 1950s political science was finally listed as a separate area of study.

By the early 1960s, all of the social science programs existed on paper. Economics included business administration – a precursor to the Jones Graduate School of Business. Psychology was a stand-alone major. The Department of Anthropology and Sociology was established and political science was housed in the History Department. With the appointment of Kenneth S. Pitzer as Rice’s 3rd president, the institute changed. With the change in name to Rice University, Pitzer had a vision for creating a first-rate research and teaching university. He could not imagine moving forward without the full participation of the social sciences.

His 5-year plan focused on building up psychology and political science.

The 10-year plan was to enhance each of the social science programs, create separate departments and establish a School of Social Sciences. It took only a little longer than the 10 years for this to happen.

C.M. (Hank) Hudspeth began teaching as a lecturer in government, offering the perennial favorite, Political Science 210, American Government.

1979

In 1979, the social science departments separated from the School of Humanities to establish the School of Social Sciences.

1931

In 1931, the economics program (with a grand total of three faculty) graduated its first major. By 1932, a separate program in psychology appeared with the addition of Dr. Frank Pattie.

Psychology 200 required Biology 100 and covered the physiology of the nervous system, sense and perception, memory and “intelligent behavior.” At the end of the course, two branches were offered – either animal psychology or abnormal psychology.

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Economics Department Faculty, 1979 Anthropology Department Faculty, 1979

Psychology Departmen t Faculty, 1979

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1950s

1960s

1970s

1931 1950 1960 FIRST 1958 F I R S T 1961 The first economics major, Col. Thurman Ward, graduates.

1947

Business Administration and Economics is listed in the General Announcements as an academic major and is established as a department. Courses in economics have been offered since 1914.

The Department of Business Administration and Economics houses Sociology.

The department becomes the Department of Economics and Business Administration as Sociology joins the newly formed Department of Anthropology.

The Reginald Henry Hargrove Chair of Economics is established in memory of Mr. Hargrove by Mrs. R. H. Hargrove and the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation.

Professor Edgar O. Edwards holds the first chair.

F I R S T 1970 The Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics is established under a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman Martel in honor of her father, founder and president of Houston National Bank until his death in 1912.

Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger holds the first chair.

1963

The first Ph.D.s in Economics are awarded to Emiel Veendorp and Henderikus Werkema. These are also the first Ph.D.s awarded in the Social Sciences.

FIRST The economics faculty and course offerings, as well as the social sciences in general, significantly expand under the presidency of Kenneth Pitzer, 1961-1968.

The Ph.D. program in Economics is established. This is the first Ph.D. program in the Social Sciences.

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1964

The Department of Economics and Business Administration begins a five-year program in accounting.

F I R S T 1969 1962 Professor Edgar O. Edwards is appointed by President Pitzer to join the newly created Academic Planning Committee. In 1964, the committee publishes a Ten-Year Plan which calls for the expansion of Rice University including the social sciences.

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The Program of Development Studies is created. The program looks at the problems of developing countries in their efforts to achieve economic, political and social growth.

The program is initially funded by a grant from Mr. and Mrs. John de Menil to set up one of the first interdisciplinary social science centers at Rice.

Professor Jim Land is its director.

Participating faculty come from Economics, Political Science and Anthropology.

The department is renamed the Department of Economics and Accounting.

The Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professorship in Economics and Finance is created by the estate of Gladys M. Cline to encourage outstanding instruction in economics and finance, the professional fields in which she and her brother were engaged for many years. Professor Charles McLure holds the first chair.

1980-1990s

2000s

The department takes on its current name of the Department of Economics when Accounting becomes part of the Jones School of Business. Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger is department chair.

F I R S T 1979

Professor Richard A. Butler receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.

1981

1976

The George A. Peterkin Chair of Political Economy is established by Mrs. George A. Peterkin, George A. Peterkin, Jr., and Patricia Peterkin Pryor in memory of George A. Peterkin. Its purpose is to promote teaching and scholarship in the field of economics. In addition to establishing an endowed chair, the gift enables the department to create a lecture series, to bring in Nobel prize winner Douglass North as a visiting professor, and to invite Nobel prize winners James Mirrlees and Robert Solow to lecture. Professor Dagobert Brito holds the first chair.

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2010s

1996

The endowed Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management is established.

Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal holds the first chair.

FIRST Economics faculty play a major role in creating the energy program at the James A. Baker III Institute.

2002 The Rice chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Economics, is installed.

1983

Professor Hervé Moulin is elected as a fellow in the Econometric Society.

1984

2009

Professor James Brown receives the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Peter Mieszkowski receives the National Tax Association’s Daniel Holland Medal. It is awarded for outstanding contributions to the study and practice of public finance.

2010 Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2006, 2007 and the first Sarah A. Burnett Teaching Prize in 2011.

Professor George Zodrow receives the National Tax Association’s Stephen Gold Award. It is awarded annually to professionals who have made “significant contributions to state and local fiscal policy and whose work reflects Steve Gold’s remarkable ability The Department of Economics to span the interests of ranks 6th in the nation in public scholars, practitioners, policyeconomics and 19th nationally in makers and advocates with mathematical and quantitative integrity and evenhandedness,” economics, Rankings of Economics according to the NTA’s Web site.

Departments by Fields, The Journal of Economic Literature.

The George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowed Chair in Sustainable Development is established.

Professor Peter Hartley holds the first chair.

FIRST

2008

6th

Professor Peter Hartley receives the U.S. Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) Senior Fellow Award.

A gift from Purvez Captain ’93 creates the Graduate Economics Alumni Lecture Series under the direction of Professor Robin Sickles.

2012

The Department of Economics Currently the department has 20 full-time faculty members and over 40 graduate students who specialize in microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, applied economics and econometrics. Over the years, faculty members have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Treasury.

The mathematical economics analysis major is added.

1993

Economist Malcolm Gillis becomes Rice's sixth president.

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1950s

1960s

1970s

1931 1950 1960 FIRST 1958 F I R S T 1961 The first economics major, Col. Thurman Ward, graduates.

1947

Business Administration and Economics is listed in the General Announcements as an academic major and is established as a department. Courses in economics have been offered since 1914.

The Department of Business Administration and Economics houses Sociology.

The department becomes the Department of Economics and Business Administration as Sociology joins the newly formed Department of Anthropology.

The Reginald Henry Hargrove Chair of Economics is established in memory of Mr. Hargrove by Mrs. R. H. Hargrove and the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation.

Professor Edgar O. Edwards holds the first chair.

F I R S T 1970 The Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics is established under a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman Martel in honor of her father, founder and president of Houston National Bank until his death in 1912.

Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger holds the first chair.

1963

The first Ph.D.s in Economics are awarded to Emiel Veendorp and Henderikus Werkema. These are also the first Ph.D.s awarded in the Social Sciences.

FIRST The economics faculty and course offerings, as well as the social sciences in general, significantly expand under the presidency of Kenneth Pitzer, 1961-1968.

The Ph.D. program in Economics is established. This is the first Ph.D. program in the Social Sciences.

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1964

The Department of Economics and Business Administration begins a five-year program in accounting.

F I R S T 1969 1962 Professor Edgar O. Edwards is appointed by President Pitzer to join the newly created Academic Planning Committee. In 1964, the committee publishes a Ten-Year Plan which calls for the expansion of Rice University including the social sciences.

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The Program of Development Studies is created. The program looks at the problems of developing countries in their efforts to achieve economic, political and social growth.

The program is initially funded by a grant from Mr. and Mrs. John de Menil to set up one of the first interdisciplinary social science centers at Rice.

Professor Jim Land is its director.

Participating faculty come from Economics, Political Science and Anthropology.

The department is renamed the Department of Economics and Accounting.

The Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professorship in Economics and Finance is created by the estate of Gladys M. Cline to encourage outstanding instruction in economics and finance, the professional fields in which she and her brother were engaged for many years. Professor Charles McLure holds the first chair.

1980-1990s

2000s

The department takes on its current name of the Department of Economics when Accounting becomes part of the Jones School of Business. Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger is department chair.

F I R S T 1979

Professor Richard A. Butler receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.

1981

1976

The George A. Peterkin Chair of Political Economy is established by Mrs. George A. Peterkin, George A. Peterkin, Jr., and Patricia Peterkin Pryor in memory of George A. Peterkin. Its purpose is to promote teaching and scholarship in the field of economics. In addition to establishing an endowed chair, the gift enables the department to create a lecture series, to bring in Nobel prize winner Douglass North as a visiting professor, and to invite Nobel prize winners James Mirrlees and Robert Solow to lecture. Professor Dagobert Brito holds the first chair.

FIRST

2010s

1996

The endowed Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management is established.

Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal holds the first chair.

FIRST Economics faculty play a major role in creating the energy program at the James A. Baker III Institute.

2002 The Rice chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Economics, is installed.

1983

Professor Hervé Moulin is elected as a fellow in the Econometric Society.

1984

2009

Professor James Brown receives the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Peter Mieszkowski receives the National Tax Association’s Daniel Holland Medal. It is awarded for outstanding contributions to the study and practice of public finance.

2010 Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2006, 2007 and the first Sarah A. Burnett Teaching Prize in 2011.

Professor George Zodrow receives the National Tax Association’s Stephen Gold Award. It is awarded annually to professionals who have made “significant contributions to state and local fiscal policy and whose work reflects Steve Gold’s remarkable ability The Department of Economics to span the interests of ranks 6th in the nation in public scholars, practitioners, policyeconomics and 19th nationally in makers and advocates with mathematical and quantitative integrity and evenhandedness,” economics, Rankings of Economics according to the NTA’s Web site.

Departments by Fields, The Journal of Economic Literature.

The George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowed Chair in Sustainable Development is established.

Professor Peter Hartley holds the first chair.

FIRST

2008

6th

Professor Peter Hartley receives the U.S. Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) Senior Fellow Award.

A gift from Purvez Captain ’93 creates the Graduate Economics Alumni Lecture Series under the direction of Professor Robin Sickles.

2012

The Department of Economics Currently the department has 20 full-time faculty members and over 40 graduate students who specialize in microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, applied economics and econometrics. Over the years, faculty members have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Treasury.

The mathematical economics analysis major is added.

1993

Economist Malcolm Gillis becomes Rice's sixth president.

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Globalization and Developing Economies

RIMLINGER AND EL-GAMAL NOT ONLY EXPLORED THE NATURE OF GLOBAL MARKETS BUT, OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, UNDERSTOOD HOW COUNTRIES’ INTERNAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GROWTH AND STABILITY ARE INFLUENCED BY GLOBALIZATION.

The overland Silk Road, a historic interconnection of trade routes across Asia, Africa and Europe begun in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), is one of the earliest examples of globalization—as various regions of the world became interconnected around trading of silk. et, the term “globalization” only came into common use in the 1980s as more and more of the world’s cultural, political and economic activities grew interdependent. Today, as the entire world depends on Chinese growth and worries about the economic fault lines of Europe, the interdependency of the world’s big and small, developed and developing economies is striking.

Far ahead of his time, Gaston V. Rimlinger, first holder of the Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics, studied the importance of developing economies in Africa and their relations to global markets. Rimlinger joined the Rice economics faculty in 1960 and in 1969 became program director for the Ford Foundation’s efforts in western Africa. Rimlinger completed extensive research on the effects of globalization on the internal economic development

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and planning of African countries, especially Nigeria, Senegal and Lebanon. Specifically, he considered how governments’ internal investments and expenditures directly affected these countries’efforts to minimize imports and, as a result, have stronger domestic production.

Focusing on the importance of the Middle East in global markets, Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal, Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management, who joined the Rice economics faculty in 1998, has examined how the economies of resource-rich Middle East countries affect and are affected by the global economy. In a critically-acclaimed book, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises, El-Gamal (with co-author Amy Jaffe) offered a complex picture in which

transfers of wealth to and from the Middle East result in the perfect storm of global asset and financial market bubbles; additional domestic unrest, terrorism and geopolitical conflicts; and, eventually, rising costs for energy. He examined the implications of these global exchanges for the domestic stability of Middle Eastern nations and concluded that there has been a basic failure of Middle Eastern governments and economies to diversify and adequately invest in their populations.

The book had prescient understanding about many of the problems that produced the Arab Spring.

Thus, Rimlinger and El-Gamal not only explored the nature of global markets but, of equal importance, understood how countries’ internal economic and political growth and stability are influenced by globalization.

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Globalization and Developing Economies

RIMLINGER AND EL-GAMAL NOT ONLY EXPLORED THE NATURE OF GLOBAL MARKETS BUT, OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, UNDERSTOOD HOW COUNTRIES’ INTERNAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GROWTH AND STABILITY ARE INFLUENCED BY GLOBALIZATION.

The overland Silk Road, a historic interconnection of trade routes across Asia, Africa and Europe begun in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), is one of the earliest examples of globalization—as various regions of the world became interconnected around trading of silk. et, the term “globalization” only came into common use in the 1980s as more and more of the world’s cultural, political and economic activities grew interdependent. Today, as the entire world depends on Chinese growth and worries about the economic fault lines of Europe, the interdependency of the world’s big and small, developed and developing economies is striking.

Far ahead of his time, Gaston V. Rimlinger, first holder of the Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics, studied the importance of developing economies in Africa and their relations to global markets. Rimlinger joined the Rice economics faculty in 1960 and in 1969 became program director for the Ford Foundation’s efforts in western Africa. Rimlinger completed extensive research on the effects of globalization on the internal economic development

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and planning of African countries, especially Nigeria, Senegal and Lebanon. Specifically, he considered how governments’ internal investments and expenditures directly affected these countries’efforts to minimize imports and, as a result, have stronger domestic production.

Focusing on the importance of the Middle East in global markets, Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal, Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management, who joined the Rice economics faculty in 1998, has examined how the economies of resource-rich Middle East countries affect and are affected by the global economy. In a critically-acclaimed book, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises, El-Gamal (with co-author Amy Jaffe) offered a complex picture in which

transfers of wealth to and from the Middle East result in the perfect storm of global asset and financial market bubbles; additional domestic unrest, terrorism and geopolitical conflicts; and, eventually, rising costs for energy. He examined the implications of these global exchanges for the domestic stability of Middle Eastern nations and concluded that there has been a basic failure of Middle Eastern governments and economies to diversify and adequately invest in their populations.

The book had prescient understanding about many of the problems that produced the Arab Spring.

Thus, Rimlinger and El-Gamal not only explored the nature of global markets but, of equal importance, understood how countries’ internal economic and political growth and stability are influenced by globalization.

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1980s

1960 1966 FIRST The Department of Anthopology and Sociology is created with one full-time faculty member, anthropologist Edward Norbeck.

"The Study of Personality" conference, organized by Professor Edward Norbeck is held at Rice.

Margaret Mead gives a keynote lecture and attendance is estimated at over 2,000.

1980

A new Ph.D. program in Anthropology is founded to replace a previous program in Behavioral Sciences.

Specializations include social/cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology.

Professor George Marcus becomes chair of the department and serves for 25 years, 1980-2005. Marcus is the longest serving chair in the Social Sciences.

1963 FIRST

Rice hires its first archaeologist, Dr. Frank Hole, a specialist on Iran.

1970

The departments of Anthropology and Sociology separate.

1982 FIRSTFIRST

The separation agreement is formalized in 1971.

The new Anthropology Department has six faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Stephen Tyler.

1965

The first Ph.D. in Anthropology is awarded to Deborah Harvey Delgado. Delgado went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a special trial attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.

1990s

1983

The Department of Anthropology establishes the Rice Circle. The Rice Circle offers participants from Anthropology, History, Sociology, modern languages, Philosophy and other departments the opportunity to discuss such topics as theories of aesthetics, postmodernism in literature, ethnography in anthropology and critical discourse in literary theory.

Professor George Marcus founds the journal Cultural Anthropology, currently the journal with the highest impact factor in anthropology.

Together, the two volumes galvanize a discipline-wide discussion of the modes and ends of anthropological inquiry and bring Rice into the limelight as among the most distinguished small programs nationally and internationally.

1994

Professor Eugenia Georges receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.

2010s

Lingua Franca's Real Guide to Grad School ranks the Rice program in cultural anthropology seventh in the nation.

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1998 1987

1986

Professor George Marcus and Professor Michael Fischer publish Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Social Sciences. In the same year, Marcus co-edits with James Clifford of the University of California at Santa Cruz the collection Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.

2000s

She receives the award again in 1997, 1998, and 2010 and the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award in 2002.

1995 The Center for Cultural Studies is established with Professor Michael Fischer as its first director. The center later becomes the Humanities Research Center.

1990

Professor Roderick McIntosh is named a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Professor Susan McIntosh is named to a U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Cultural Property and serves two terms until 2003.

Professor James Faubion edits the first of two volumes of the influential Essential Works of Michel Foucault series on “Aesthetics, Methodology and Epistemology.”

2010 The Anthropology Department works in conjunction with the Yates Community Archaeology Project (YCAP), sponsored by the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, to excavate a historic African-American neighborhood known as Freedman's Town in Houston's Fourth Ward.

2009

Professor Susan McIntosh becomes speaker of the Rice Faculty Senate.

2012 The Department of Anthropology

2006

Professor Susan McIntosh establishes the Rice University Archaeology Field School in the small island town of Gorée, located off the coast of Senegal.

Professor Dominic Boyer founds the book series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge with Cornell University Press.

Professor Jeffrey Fleisherestablishes the Rice University Archaeological Field School in Songo Mnara, located on a small island just off the southern Tanzanian coast.

Currently the Department has 8 full-time faculty members and over 25 graduate students who specialize in social and cultural anthropology and archaeology. Faculty members have received several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

1997

Rice archaeologists embark on the Mali Interactive Project, an interactive project that links Rice archaeologists in the field in the Mali Inland Niger Delta with middle school students in the Conroe Independent School District in Texas.

2008

Professor Eugenia Georges receives the Norman and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the Best Project in the Area of Medicine for her book Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece.

Professor Mary Ellen Goodman becomes the first tenured female faculty member in the Social Sciences at Rice.

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1980s

1960 1966 FIRST The Department of Anthopology and Sociology is created with one full-time faculty member, anthropologist Edward Norbeck.

"The Study of Personality" conference, organized by Professor Edward Norbeck is held at Rice.

Margaret Mead gives a keynote lecture and attendance is estimated at over 2,000.

1980

A new Ph.D. program in Anthropology is founded to replace a previous program in Behavioral Sciences.

Specializations include social/cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology.

Professor George Marcus becomes chair of the department and serves for 25 years, 1980-2005. Marcus is the longest serving chair in the Social Sciences.

1963 FIRST

Rice hires its first archaeologist, Dr. Frank Hole, a specialist on Iran.

1970

The departments of Anthropology and Sociology separate.

1982 FIRSTFIRST

The separation agreement is formalized in 1971.

The new Anthropology Department has six faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Stephen Tyler.

1965

The first Ph.D. in Anthropology is awarded to Deborah Harvey Delgado. Delgado went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a special trial attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.

1990s

1983

The Department of Anthropology establishes the Rice Circle. The Rice Circle offers participants from Anthropology, History, Sociology, modern languages, Philosophy and other departments the opportunity to discuss such topics as theories of aesthetics, postmodernism in literature, ethnography in anthropology and critical discourse in literary theory.

Professor George Marcus founds the journal Cultural Anthropology, currently the journal with the highest impact factor in anthropology.

Together, the two volumes galvanize a discipline-wide discussion of the modes and ends of anthropological inquiry and bring Rice into the limelight as among the most distinguished small programs nationally and internationally.

1994

Professor Eugenia Georges receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.

2010s

Lingua Franca's Real Guide to Grad School ranks the Rice program in cultural anthropology seventh in the nation.

7th

1998 1987

1986

Professor George Marcus and Professor Michael Fischer publish Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Social Sciences. In the same year, Marcus co-edits with James Clifford of the University of California at Santa Cruz the collection Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.

2000s

She receives the award again in 1997, 1998, and 2010 and the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award in 2002.

1995 The Center for Cultural Studies is established with Professor Michael Fischer as its first director. The center later becomes the Humanities Research Center.

1990

Professor Roderick McIntosh is named a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Professor Susan McIntosh is named to a U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Cultural Property and serves two terms until 2003.

Professor James Faubion edits the first of two volumes of the influential Essential Works of Michel Foucault series on “Aesthetics, Methodology and Epistemology.”

2010 The Anthropology Department works in conjunction with the Yates Community Archaeology Project (YCAP), sponsored by the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, to excavate a historic African-American neighborhood known as Freedman's Town in Houston's Fourth Ward.

2009

Professor Susan McIntosh becomes speaker of the Rice Faculty Senate.

2012 The Department of Anthropology

2006

Professor Susan McIntosh establishes the Rice University Archaeology Field School in the small island town of Gorée, located off the coast of Senegal.

Professor Dominic Boyer founds the book series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge with Cornell University Press.

Professor Jeffrey Fleisherestablishes the Rice University Archaeological Field School in Songo Mnara, located on a small island just off the southern Tanzanian coast.

Currently the Department has 8 full-time faculty members and over 25 graduate students who specialize in social and cultural anthropology and archaeology. Faculty members have received several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

1997

Rice archaeologists embark on the Mali Interactive Project, an interactive project that links Rice archaeologists in the field in the Mali Inland Niger Delta with middle school students in the Conroe Independent School District in Texas.

2008

Professor Eugenia Georges receives the Norman and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the Best Project in the Area of Medicine for her book Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece.

Professor Mary Ellen Goodman becomes the first tenured female faculty member in the Social Sciences at Rice.

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...WE “SHOULD NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT KINSHIP RELATIONS AND KINSHIP CATEGORIES ARE ASCRIBED AT BIRTH.”

Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology With the explosion of information available on the internet, many people have taken up studies of their family trees—their ancestors, families and kinships. o trace family roots, people who once relied on the hazy memory of Great Aunt Betsy turn to computer databases with the capacity to trace families back for centuries. In everyday terms, these kinships are typically viewed as biological—how you are related to family members in generations past and how far back you can trace this lineage. Yet two luminary Rice anthropologists have argued that pivotal parts of kinship have little or nothing to do with biology.

Stephen Tyler, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, and James Faubion, professor of anthropology, writing in different contexts, have asserted that kinship is economics (you loan kin money at no interest when you would never dream of doing that with a stranger); kinship is linguistic (you speak in patterns with kin that you would not use with others); and kinship is normative (there is an overarching code of behavior among kin and either you do what is expected or you may find yourself deemed the “black sheep.”)

This important work on kinship is part of a revolution in anthropology

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that began among Rice anthropologists who stepped into the limelight to challenge the discipline’s traditional research approach—ethnography or fieldwork—with a post-modern critique which maintained that the researcher’s biases and outlooks are inextricably linked to the research process and the research products. For his part, Tyler wrote a bold essay that was deeply skeptical of the capacity of language to accurately mirror the world. In the essay, he questioned how anthropologists went about studying language. He argued that fieldwork was neither as scientific nor as effective a research method as had typically been assumed, but instead involved the outlooks and assumptions of the investigators. This allowed Tyler to focus his research on the

meaning of words in contemporary India.

In earlier work on language in Indian kinships, Tyler understood that kinships create normative rules of how words are chosen and spoken.

At the time Tyler’s essay was published, Faubion was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. He read Tyler’s essay as a call to question the neat divide between the scientific and the literary. That challenge has informed much of his writing and research since his own arrival at Rice in 1993. In his seminal work on kinship, Faubion continues the questioning begun by Tyler on the meaning of kinship. He explores kinship as a social system which has more to do with people you associate with than your DNA. He argues that we “should not take for granted that kinship relations and kinship categories are ascribed at birth.” Although representing two different generations of Rice anthropologists, Tyler’s and Faubion’s post-modern research methodology has revolutionized not just the study of kinship but the way all subjects in anthropology are examined today.

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...WE “SHOULD NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT KINSHIP RELATIONS AND KINSHIP CATEGORIES ARE ASCRIBED AT BIRTH.”

Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology With the explosion of information available on the internet, many people have taken up studies of their family trees—their ancestors, families and kinships. o trace family roots, people who once relied on the hazy memory of Great Aunt Betsy turn to computer databases with the capacity to trace families back for centuries. In everyday terms, these kinships are typically viewed as biological—how you are related to family members in generations past and how far back you can trace this lineage. Yet two luminary Rice anthropologists have argued that pivotal parts of kinship have little or nothing to do with biology.

Stephen Tyler, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, and James Faubion, professor of anthropology, writing in different contexts, have asserted that kinship is economics (you loan kin money at no interest when you would never dream of doing that with a stranger); kinship is linguistic (you speak in patterns with kin that you would not use with others); and kinship is normative (there is an overarching code of behavior among kin and either you do what is expected or you may find yourself deemed the “black sheep.”)

This important work on kinship is part of a revolution in anthropology

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that began among Rice anthropologists who stepped into the limelight to challenge the discipline’s traditional research approach—ethnography or fieldwork—with a post-modern critique which maintained that the researcher’s biases and outlooks are inextricably linked to the research process and the research products. For his part, Tyler wrote a bold essay that was deeply skeptical of the capacity of language to accurately mirror the world. In the essay, he questioned how anthropologists went about studying language. He argued that fieldwork was neither as scientific nor as effective a research method as had typically been assumed, but instead involved the outlooks and assumptions of the investigators. This allowed Tyler to focus his research on the

meaning of words in contemporary India.

In earlier work on language in Indian kinships, Tyler understood that kinships create normative rules of how words are chosen and spoken.

At the time Tyler’s essay was published, Faubion was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. He read Tyler’s essay as a call to question the neat divide between the scientific and the literary. That challenge has informed much of his writing and research since his own arrival at Rice in 1993. In his seminal work on kinship, Faubion continues the questioning begun by Tyler on the meaning of kinship. He explores kinship as a social system which has more to do with people you associate with than your DNA. He argues that we “should not take for granted that kinship relations and kinship categories are ascribed at birth.” Although representing two different generations of Rice anthropologists, Tyler’s and Faubion’s post-modern research methodology has revolutionized not just the study of kinship but the way all subjects in anthropology are examined today.

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1970s

1980s-1990s

1963 1970 FIRST The Department of Psychology is created with four full-time faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Bert Kaplan.

Professor William C. Howell becomes chair of the department and serves for 17 years, 1970-1987.

2000s

1984

Professor William C. Howell is elected as president of the divisions of Experimental Psychology and Engineering Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

1988

Professor James Pomerantz is appointed as dean of social sciences and the Elma W. Schneider Professor of Psychology.

2010s

2001

Professor Randi Martin is elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest federation of scientists, for outstanding contributions to the study of short-term memory and language processing and to the understanding of the brain organization supporting these cognitive functions.

1971 Previously, it was part of the Philosophy, Psychology and Education Department.

Courses have been offered in psychology since 1927.

1966

The Psychology Department awards its first Ph.D. to Blair Justice, as part of an interdepartmental Ethnopsychology graduate program with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Justice is currently professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Texas School of Public Health.

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1967

Cleveland Sewall Hall opens.

It houses the Psychology Department, along with other social sciences departments and the fine arts program.

no color

1989 FIRST

Professor Sarah Burnett becomes the first dean of students since 1974.

At the time, Burnett is only one of two women deans at Rice. She remains in the position until 1996.

1972

The Psychology Department initiates its own Ph.D. program.

Three specialty areas in the Ph.D. program are initially established in 1976: cognitiveexperimental psychology, industrial/organizational psychology and social psychology. Engineering psychology is added in 1985.

2003

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Professor Mikki Hebl presents the commencement address to Rice graduates at the 92nd commencement with a speech titled “Class Rings and Backpacks.” Hebl welcomed this class when they matriculated four years earlier, in the 2001 Orientation Week faculty address.

2008

Professor Mikki Hebl receives the Charles W. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty as a standout in teaching and scholarship.

2009

The Psychology Department hosts the 2009 Southwest Cognition Conference, also known as ARMADILLO (Association for Research in Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization). The Department had previously hosted ARMADILLO in 1992 and 1998.

2011

2010

2012

Professor James Dannemiller is elected as an Association for Psychological Science Fellow.

Fellow status is awarded to APS members who make sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, and/or application. He joins Professors Randi Martin and James Pomerantz with this honor.

Professor Randi Martin delivers the Broadbent Keynote Lecture at the 17th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. This is a high honor that recognizes her significant and substantial contributions to the understanding of language processing and working memory.

The American Psychological Association honors Dr.William C. Howell posthumously with the Raymond D. Fowler Award for Outstanding Member Contributions.

They also establish the William C. Howell Scholarship in his memory.

The Psychology Department establishes the Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology in his memory and dedicates the William C. Howell Conference Room in Sewall Hall.

The Department of Psychology

Professor Fred Oswald is elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Fellow status is bestowed upon industrial and organizational psychologists who have made unusual and outstanding contributions to the field. He joins Professors Mikki Hebl and Stephan Motowidlo with this honor.

Currently the department has 14 full-time faculty members and over 35 graduate students who specialize in the fields of industrial/organizational psychology, human factors/ human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, systems and cognitive neuroscience and training. The faculty have received numerous grants and awards over the years, including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Teagle foundation, the Moody Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the U.S. Navy, College Board and ExxonMobil.

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2005

Professor Randi Martin is elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists, making her one of only two SEP members in Texas. She joins Professor James Pomerantz, who was elected in 2001. Founded in 1904, the society admits six members per year from among the leading experimentalists in North America. Its mission is “to advance psychology by arranging informal conferences on experimental psychology.”

Professor James Pomerantz delivers the 14th annual Irvin Rock Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lecturers are chosen for the excellence of their research on visual perception topics related to perceptual organization and attention.

Professor Randi Martin is named the first woman editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.

Professor Trenton W. Wann is awarded one of the first George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching. He receives it again in 1972 and 1973.

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2006

Professor James Pomerantz is elected president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

The Rice chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology, is installed.

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The American Psychological Association ranks the Psychology Department's industrial/organizational program as 3rd in the nation in productivity and 11th in the nation overall, compared to other industrial/ organizational programs.

Professor Mikki Hebl receives Rice's highest teaching award, the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which she receives again in 2010.

Other Rice teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2002, 2004, 2005; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 2000, 2008.

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1980s-1990s

1963 1970 FIRST The Department of Psychology is created with four full-time faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Bert Kaplan.

Professor William C. Howell becomes chair of the department and serves for 17 years, 1970-1987.

2000s

1984

Professor William C. Howell is elected as president of the divisions of Experimental Psychology and Engineering Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

1988

Professor James Pomerantz is appointed as dean of social sciences and the Elma W. Schneider Professor of Psychology.

2010s

2001

Professor Randi Martin is elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest federation of scientists, for outstanding contributions to the study of short-term memory and language processing and to the understanding of the brain organization supporting these cognitive functions.

1971 Previously, it was part of the Philosophy, Psychology and Education Department.

Courses have been offered in psychology since 1927.

1966

The Psychology Department awards its first Ph.D. to Blair Justice, as part of an interdepartmental Ethnopsychology graduate program with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Justice is currently professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Texas School of Public Health.

FIRST

1967

Cleveland Sewall Hall opens.

It houses the Psychology Department, along with other social sciences departments and the fine arts program.

no color

1989 FIRST

Professor Sarah Burnett becomes the first dean of students since 1974.

At the time, Burnett is only one of two women deans at Rice. She remains in the position until 1996.

1972

The Psychology Department initiates its own Ph.D. program.

Three specialty areas in the Ph.D. program are initially established in 1976: cognitiveexperimental psychology, industrial/organizational psychology and social psychology. Engineering psychology is added in 1985.

2003

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Professor Mikki Hebl presents the commencement address to Rice graduates at the 92nd commencement with a speech titled “Class Rings and Backpacks.” Hebl welcomed this class when they matriculated four years earlier, in the 2001 Orientation Week faculty address.

2008

Professor Mikki Hebl receives the Charles W. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty as a standout in teaching and scholarship.

2009

The Psychology Department hosts the 2009 Southwest Cognition Conference, also known as ARMADILLO (Association for Research in Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization). The Department had previously hosted ARMADILLO in 1992 and 1998.

2011

2010

2012

Professor James Dannemiller is elected as an Association for Psychological Science Fellow.

Fellow status is awarded to APS members who make sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, and/or application. He joins Professors Randi Martin and James Pomerantz with this honor.

Professor Randi Martin delivers the Broadbent Keynote Lecture at the 17th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. This is a high honor that recognizes her significant and substantial contributions to the understanding of language processing and working memory.

The American Psychological Association honors Dr.William C. Howell posthumously with the Raymond D. Fowler Award for Outstanding Member Contributions.

They also establish the William C. Howell Scholarship in his memory.

The Psychology Department establishes the Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology in his memory and dedicates the William C. Howell Conference Room in Sewall Hall.

The Department of Psychology

Professor Fred Oswald is elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Fellow status is bestowed upon industrial and organizational psychologists who have made unusual and outstanding contributions to the field. He joins Professors Mikki Hebl and Stephan Motowidlo with this honor.

Currently the department has 14 full-time faculty members and over 35 graduate students who specialize in the fields of industrial/organizational psychology, human factors/ human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, systems and cognitive neuroscience and training. The faculty have received numerous grants and awards over the years, including from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Teagle foundation, the Moody Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the U.S. Navy, College Board and ExxonMobil.

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2005

Professor Randi Martin is elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists, making her one of only two SEP members in Texas. She joins Professor James Pomerantz, who was elected in 2001. Founded in 1904, the society admits six members per year from among the leading experimentalists in North America. Its mission is “to advance psychology by arranging informal conferences on experimental psychology.”

Professor James Pomerantz delivers the 14th annual Irvin Rock Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lecturers are chosen for the excellence of their research on visual perception topics related to perceptual organization and attention.

Professor Randi Martin is named the first woman editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.

Professor Trenton W. Wann is awarded one of the first George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching. He receives it again in 1972 and 1973.

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2006

Professor James Pomerantz is elected president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

The Rice chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology, is installed.

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The American Psychological Association ranks the Psychology Department's industrial/organizational program as 3rd in the nation in productivity and 11th in the nation overall, compared to other industrial/ organizational programs.

Professor Mikki Hebl receives Rice's highest teaching award, the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which she receives again in 2010.

Other Rice teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2002, 2004, 2005; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 2000, 2008.

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Human Error is Not Just about Humans

TOGETHER, HOWELL AND BYRNE ANCHOR OVER THREE DECADES OF RESEARCH AT RICE ON HUMAN FACTORS. WHILE HUMAN MISTAKES WILL NEVER BE ELIMINATED, THEY CAN BE ANALYZED AND MINIMIZED.

George Bernard Shaw observed that “a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” People are notorious for making mistakes. ome are minor—locking yourself out of the house or forgetting to pay a bill. But some are major—human error is responsible for airplane crashes, friendlyfire on the combat field, fatal surgical choices in the operating room and life-threatening accidents in the workplace. The notoriety of making mistakes is balanced with the promise of learning from them. And psychologists at Rice have helped people learn a great deal about human errors and how to avoid them in military, corporate and government settings.

William C. Howell, who arrived at Rice in 1968 and was chair of the Psychology Department for 17 years, was an early leader in the field of human factors, which applies principles of psychology to design products and work environments that boost productivity and minimize safety issues. For instance, during the Persian Gulf War, Howell’s lab worked with the U.S. Air Force to develop procedures to calibrate night-vision goggles because pilots had previously not known how to calibrate them to work as well as they could. More broadly, Howell worked to devise methods of training people to make effective decisions. He learned that general principles of decision making were ineffective in ensuring successful outcomes, but

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individualized approaches that focused on the specific task, goal and decision-maker were much more successful.

Coming to Rice thirty-one years after Howell, Michael Byrne, professor of psychology, focuses his work in human factors research on the growing interdependence of human decisions and computers. While computers were new, large and housed in remote sites in Howell’s day, they are ubiquitous and a part of all aspects of life as Byrne conducts his research. While Howell devised training manuals and processes, Byrne devises sophisticated computer models of how to make the best possible decisions.

In breakthrough research, he maintains that human error is not necessarily “a property of the human,” but is a combination of cognitive limitations and environmental factors. In a recent study, Byrne found that the best way to resolve airport taxiway errors is to adopt two simple heuristics—make turns toward the gate or turn in the direction that minimizes the distance between the plane’s current location and the gates.

Together, Howell and Byrne anchor over three decades of research at Rice on human factors. While human mistakes will never be eliminated, they can be analyzed and minimized.

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P S Y C H O L O G Y

Human Error is Not Just about Humans

TOGETHER, HOWELL AND BYRNE ANCHOR OVER THREE DECADES OF RESEARCH AT RICE ON HUMAN FACTORS. WHILE HUMAN MISTAKES WILL NEVER BE ELIMINATED, THEY CAN BE ANALYZED AND MINIMIZED.

George Bernard Shaw observed that “a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” People are notorious for making mistakes. ome are minor—locking yourself out of the house or forgetting to pay a bill. But some are major—human error is responsible for airplane crashes, friendlyfire on the combat field, fatal surgical choices in the operating room and life-threatening accidents in the workplace. The notoriety of making mistakes is balanced with the promise of learning from them. And psychologists at Rice have helped people learn a great deal about human errors and how to avoid them in military, corporate and government settings.

William C. Howell, who arrived at Rice in 1968 and was chair of the Psychology Department for 17 years, was an early leader in the field of human factors, which applies principles of psychology to design products and work environments that boost productivity and minimize safety issues. For instance, during the Persian Gulf War, Howell’s lab worked with the U.S. Air Force to develop procedures to calibrate night-vision goggles because pilots had previously not known how to calibrate them to work as well as they could. More broadly, Howell worked to devise methods of training people to make effective decisions. He learned that general principles of decision making were ineffective in ensuring successful outcomes, but

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individualized approaches that focused on the specific task, goal and decision-maker were much more successful.

Coming to Rice thirty-one years after Howell, Michael Byrne, professor of psychology, focuses his work in human factors research on the growing interdependence of human decisions and computers. While computers were new, large and housed in remote sites in Howell’s day, they are ubiquitous and a part of all aspects of life as Byrne conducts his research. While Howell devised training manuals and processes, Byrne devises sophisticated computer models of how to make the best possible decisions.

In breakthrough research, he maintains that human error is not necessarily “a property of the human,” but is a combination of cognitive limitations and environmental factors. In a recent study, Byrne found that the best way to resolve airport taxiway errors is to adopt two simple heuristics—make turns toward the gate or turn in the direction that minimizes the distance between the plane’s current location and the gates.

Together, Howell and Byrne anchor over three decades of research at Rice on human factors. While human mistakes will never be eliminated, they can be analyzed and minimized.

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1964

A major is first offered in political science.

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1965

The Albert Thomas Chair of Political Science is established with a $500,000 gift from the Brown Foundation —honoring U. S. Congressman Albert Thomas of Houston. The gift, creating the first endowed professorship in political science, makes it possible for Rice to bring an eminent political science scholar to campus. Professor Fred von der Mehden holds the first chair.

1970

The Ph.D program, offering the three fields of comparative politics, American politics and international relations, is inaugurated with an entering class of five.

1980s

1981

The Rice Institute for Policy Analysis is formed to study public policy. It becomes part of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in 1993.

1974

The first Ph.D. in Political Science is awarded to Kim Quaile Hill. Hill is currently the CullenMcFadden Professor of Political Science and an Eppright Professor in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University.

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1978

The Lena Gohlman Fox Endowed Chair in Political Science is established. Professor Joseph Cooper holds its first chair.

The Thomas Cooke & Mary Elizabeth Edwards Chair in American Government and Democracy is established.

In 2005, Professor Keith Hamm becomes the first chair holder.

The Department of Political Science is created with six full-time faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Joseph Cooper. Prior to 1967, political science was part of the History department.

1979

Professor Joseph Cooper is appointed as the first dean of social sciences. Besides having been the first chair of the Department of Political Science, 1967-1972, he served as acting provost, 1973-1974.

Professor Robert Stein receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. He receives it again in 1998.

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1990

Professor Richard Stoll receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1990. Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1987, 1988, 1995, 2000, 2006; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 1982.

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F I R S T 1987

1967

1990s

Professor Earl Black receives a Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and a V.O. Key Book Award from the Southern Political Science Association for his book with co-author Merle Black, Politics and Society in the South.

Professor Robert Stein receives a special book award from the Urban Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book Urban Alternatives: Public and Private Markets in the Provision of Local Services.

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The Clarence L. Carter Professorship is established.

Professor Paul Brace holds the first chair.

1992

Professor Earl Black receives an award for best book in government and political science from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers for his book with co-author Merle Black, The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected.

2000s

1993

Professor Gilbert Cuthbertson, the longest serving faculty member in the Social Sciences, is awarded the George R. Brown

Certificate of Highest Merit.

The award is given to professors only once in their careers at Rice, signifying a level of teaching excellence so high over the years that they are retired from the competition for the George R. Brown awards.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1977, 1993; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1990.

Professor Paul Brace receives a Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book with co-author Barbara Hinkley, Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents.

1994

1996

Professor Robert Stein is appointed as the dean of social sciences.

Professor Cliff Morgan receives the Best Book Award for best book on conflict processes and peace studies from the Conflict Processes section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book Untying the Knot of War: A Bargaining Theory of International Crises.

2000

2010s

2006

Political scientist Lyn Ragsdale is appointed the first woman dean of social sciences and the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs.

The department establishes the Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. Thirty-seven charter members are initiated.

2010

Rice’s Political Science Department is ranked among the top 20 political science departments by the National Research Council.

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2007

The Harlan Program in State Elections, Campaigns and Politics is founded with a $1.3 million gift by Douglas S. Harlan ‘64. The program is directed

by Professor Keith Hamm.

Professor Ashley Leeds receives the Charles W. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty as a standout in both the areas of teaching and scholarship.

Professor Rick K. Wilson opens the Behavioral Research Lab (BRL).

The BRL facilitates faculty and Professor Ashley Leeds receives student research on individual and the Karl Deutsch Award. The award group decision making. is presented annually by the Professor Melissa Marschall International Studies Association receives the Policy Studies to a scholar Organization’s who is judged Aaron Wildavsky to have made Award for the most her book with significant co-authors contribution Mark Schneider to the study and Paul Teske, of international relations and peace Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice research. Professor Cliff Morgan and the Quality of American Schools. received the award in 1994.

2008

Professor Randolph Stevenson receives the Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics from the Comparative Politics section of the American Political ScienceAssociation (APSA) for his book with co-author Raymond Duch, The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results.

Lyn Ragsdale, the Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs and dean of social sciences, is awarded the Richard E.Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book Vital Statistics on the American Presidency.

2012

Professor Lanny Martin receives the Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative politics published in 2011 from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book with co-author Georg Vanberg, Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance.

The Department of PoliticalScience Currently the department has 17 full-time faculty members and over 30 graduate students specializing in the fields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Over the years, faculty have received numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) including a CAREER grant and the Pew Foundation.

They have also received several fellowships from organizations such as the Hoover Institution, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.

2003

Professor John Ambler receives the George R. Brown Award for Professor Earl Black receives a Excellence in Teaching. Other V. O. Key Award from the Southern university Political Science teaching Association for awards his book with he has co-author Merle received: Black,The Rise George of Southern R. Brown Republicans.

Award for Superior Teaching 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001.

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1960s

1970s

1964

A major is first offered in political science.

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1965

The Albert Thomas Chair of Political Science is established with a $500,000 gift from the Brown Foundation —honoring U. S. Congressman Albert Thomas of Houston. The gift, creating the first endowed professorship in political science, makes it possible for Rice to bring an eminent political science scholar to campus. Professor Fred von der Mehden holds the first chair.

1970

The Ph.D program, offering the three fields of comparative politics, American politics and international relations, is inaugurated with an entering class of five.

1980s

1981

The Rice Institute for Policy Analysis is formed to study public policy. It becomes part of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in 1993.

1974

The first Ph.D. in Political Science is awarded to Kim Quaile Hill. Hill is currently the CullenMcFadden Professor of Political Science and an Eppright Professor in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University.

FIRST FIRST

1978

The Lena Gohlman Fox Endowed Chair in Political Science is established. Professor Joseph Cooper holds its first chair.

The Thomas Cooke & Mary Elizabeth Edwards Chair in American Government and Democracy is established.

In 2005, Professor Keith Hamm becomes the first chair holder.

The Department of Political Science is created with six full-time faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Joseph Cooper. Prior to 1967, political science was part of the History department.

1979

Professor Joseph Cooper is appointed as the first dean of social sciences. Besides having been the first chair of the Department of Political Science, 1967-1972, he served as acting provost, 1973-1974.

Professor Robert Stein receives the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. He receives it again in 1998.

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1990

Professor Richard Stoll receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1990. Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1987, 1988, 1995, 2000, 2006; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 1982.

F I R S T 1991

F I R S T 1987

1967

1990s

Professor Earl Black receives a Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and a V.O. Key Book Award from the Southern Political Science Association for his book with co-author Merle Black, Politics and Society in the South.

Professor Robert Stein receives a special book award from the Urban Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book Urban Alternatives: Public and Private Markets in the Provision of Local Services.

FIRST

The Clarence L. Carter Professorship is established.

Professor Paul Brace holds the first chair.

1992

Professor Earl Black receives an award for best book in government and political science from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers for his book with co-author Merle Black, The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected.

2000s

1993

Professor Gilbert Cuthbertson, the longest serving faculty member in the Social Sciences, is awarded the George R. Brown

Certificate of Highest Merit.

The award is given to professors only once in their careers at Rice, signifying a level of teaching excellence so high over the years that they are retired from the competition for the George R. Brown awards.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1977, 1993; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1990.

Professor Paul Brace receives a Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book with co-author Barbara Hinkley, Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents.

1994

1996

Professor Robert Stein is appointed as the dean of social sciences.

Professor Cliff Morgan receives the Best Book Award for best book on conflict processes and peace studies from the Conflict Processes section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book Untying the Knot of War: A Bargaining Theory of International Crises.

2000

2010s

2006

Political scientist Lyn Ragsdale is appointed the first woman dean of social sciences and the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs.

The department establishes the Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. Thirty-seven charter members are initiated.

2010

Rice’s Political Science Department is ranked among the top 20 political science departments by the National Research Council.

F I R S T TOP20

2007

The Harlan Program in State Elections, Campaigns and Politics is founded with a $1.3 million gift by Douglas S. Harlan ‘64. The program is directed

by Professor Keith Hamm.

Professor Ashley Leeds receives the Charles W. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty as a standout in both the areas of teaching and scholarship.

Professor Rick K. Wilson opens the Behavioral Research Lab (BRL).

The BRL facilitates faculty and Professor Ashley Leeds receives student research on individual and the Karl Deutsch Award. The award group decision making. is presented annually by the Professor Melissa Marschall International Studies Association receives the Policy Studies to a scholar Organization’s who is judged Aaron Wildavsky to have made Award for the most her book with significant co-authors contribution Mark Schneider to the study and Paul Teske, of international relations and peace Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice research. Professor Cliff Morgan and the Quality of American Schools. received the award in 1994.

2008

Professor Randolph Stevenson receives the Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics from the Comparative Politics section of the American Political ScienceAssociation (APSA) for his book with co-author Raymond Duch, The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results.

Lyn Ragsdale, the Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs and dean of social sciences, is awarded the Richard E.Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book Vital Statistics on the American Presidency.

2012

Professor Lanny Martin receives the Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative politics published in 2011 from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book with co-author Georg Vanberg, Parliaments and Coalitions: The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance.

The Department of PoliticalScience Currently the department has 17 full-time faculty members and over 30 graduate students specializing in the fields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Over the years, faculty have received numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) including a CAREER grant and the Pew Foundation.

They have also received several fellowships from organizations such as the Hoover Institution, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.

2003

Professor John Ambler receives the George R. Brown Award for Professor Earl Black receives a Excellence in Teaching. Other V. O. Key Award from the Southern university Political Science teaching Association for awards his book with he has co-author Merle received: Black,The Rise George of Southern R. Brown Republicans.

Award for Superior Teaching 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001.

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S C I E N C E

Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?

Many Americans believe that the United States is unique in its adoption of presidential government, as numerous presidents have struggled to get what they want out of an independent and often cantankerous Congress.

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residential government is a form of government which expressly separates the election for president from the election of the legislature and differs from parliamentary government, in which the executive is chosen from within the legislature. Yet, many countries besides the U.S. have presidential governments and face the inherent challenges of separating the business of the executive from the business of the legislature. Political scientists at Rice have examined presidential governments in Europe and Latin America.

John Ambler, one of the founding members of the Political Science Department, who arrived at Rice in 1964, spent his career studying European political institutions, most notably the French political system and its relationship to the French education system. Ambler offered a compelling assessment of the difficulties newly-elected French presidents have in reforming key, long-standing education policies and practices. This was especially ironic in 1981, when Francois Mitterand won the presidency of France with a majority of seats in the French Parliament. Under the rules of party government, the new president should have had the votes sufficient to pass education reform. Instead, Ambler documented the difficulties Mitterand and the Socialist Party in parliament confronted when attempting to adopt even modest changes. Ambler suggested that in policy areas where numerous people have various

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stakes, both large and small, the government, no matter how many seats it holds, may be unable to make wholesale changes.

Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, who joined the Rice political science faculty in 2004, is a leading expert on the politics of Latin America, particularly in the effect of electoral laws and other institutions on governance, representation and voting. In one line of research, Jones has documented how presidential government unfolds in Argentina and has uncovered that provincial party bosses, notably provincial governors, are the key to facilitating the passage of legislation sought by the Argentine president in the Chamber of Deputies. Unlike the situation that Ambler saw in France, this mid-level, regional locus of power in Argentina permits greater coordination of policy from the national government, led by the president, to local concerns. The governors have direct access to the president and so provide the president a set of eyes and ears about what will and will not “sell� at the local and regional levels.

Together Ambler and Jones have shown the challenges that occur in passing national legislation in presidential forms of government.

While Americans often think that the U.S. faces unique difficulties in getting legislation passed in our own presidential system, there is in fact nothing exceptional about these problems at all.

TOGETHER AMBLER AND JONES HAVE SHOWN THE CHALLENGES THAT OCCUR IN PASSING NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN PRESIDENTIAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT. WHILE AMERICANS OFTEN THINK THAT THE U.S. FACES UNIQUE DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING LEGISLATION PASSED IN OUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM, THERE IS IN FACT NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS AT ALL.

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P O L I T I C A L

S C I E N C E

Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?

Many Americans believe that the United States is unique in its adoption of presidential government, as numerous presidents have struggled to get what they want out of an independent and often cantankerous Congress.

P

residential government is a form of government which expressly separates the election for president from the election of the legislature and differs from parliamentary government, in which the executive is chosen from within the legislature. Yet, many countries besides the U.S. have presidential governments and face the inherent challenges of separating the business of the executive from the business of the legislature. Political scientists at Rice have examined presidential governments in Europe and Latin America.

John Ambler, one of the founding members of the Political Science Department, who arrived at Rice in 1964, spent his career studying European political institutions, most notably the French political system and its relationship to the French education system. Ambler offered a compelling assessment of the difficulties newly-elected French presidents have in reforming key, long-standing education policies and practices. This was especially ironic in 1981, when Francois Mitterand won the presidency of France with a majority of seats in the French Parliament. Under the rules of party government, the new president should have had the votes sufficient to pass education reform. Instead, Ambler documented the difficulties Mitterand and the Socialist Party in parliament confronted when attempting to adopt even modest changes. Ambler suggested that in policy areas where numerous people have various

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stakes, both large and small, the government, no matter how many seats it holds, may be unable to make wholesale changes.

Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, who joined the Rice political science faculty in 2004, is a leading expert on the politics of Latin America, particularly in the effect of electoral laws and other institutions on governance, representation and voting. In one line of research, Jones has documented how presidential government unfolds in Argentina and has uncovered that provincial party bosses, notably provincial governors, are the key to facilitating the passage of legislation sought by the Argentine president in the Chamber of Deputies. Unlike the situation that Ambler saw in France, this mid-level, regional locus of power in Argentina permits greater coordination of policy from the national government, led by the president, to local concerns. The governors have direct access to the president and so provide the president a set of eyes and ears about what will and will not “sell� at the local and regional levels.

Together Ambler and Jones have shown the challenges that occur in passing national legislation in presidential forms of government.

While Americans often think that the U.S. faces unique difficulties in getting legislation passed in our own presidential system, there is in fact nothing exceptional about these problems at all.

TOGETHER AMBLER AND JONES HAVE SHOWN THE CHALLENGES THAT OCCUR IN PASSING NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN PRESIDENTIAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT. WHILE AMERICANS OFTEN THINK THAT THE U.S. FACES UNIQUE DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING LEGISLATION PASSED IN OUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM, THERE IS IN FACT NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS AT ALL.

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1980s

1950

Sociology is housed in the Department of Business Administration and Economics.

1960

The Department of Anthopology and Sociology is created.

1962

The Lena Gohlman Fox Chair in Sociology is established under a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman Martel in honor of her late mother.

Professor William McCord holds the first chair. Initially, it was used to fund Visiting Professor Hugh Duncan.

1982

Professor Stephen Klineberg conducts the first Kinder Houston Area Survey as an undergraduate class assignment on a budget of $3,000. The survey is the nation's longest running study for a single metropolitan area's changing demographics and public attitudes.

The Walter and Helen Hall Lecture Series is founded. Through the years it has brought to Rice prominent scholars and public figures, including H. Ross Perot, Molly Ivins, James Q. Wilson, William Julius Wilson, and the late U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.

F I R S T 1986 1970 FIRST The Department of Sociology separates from the Department of Anthropology. The separation agreement is formalized in 1971. At the time, the department has four fulltime faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Chad Gordon.

1978

Walter G. Hall '28 gives East Texas timber land to Rice with the instructions that the proceeds from the sale of the land be divided between the Department of Sociology and the Jones School of Business. The Walter G. Hall Endowment in Sociology is established in 1985 with the sale of the land "in the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding of the increasingly complex nature of our society.”

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Professor William Martin receives one of the first George R. Brown Certificates of Highest Merit Award. The award is given to professors only once in their careers at Rice, signifying a level of teaching excellence so high over the years that they are retired from the competition for the George R. Brown awards. Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1975, 1982; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1974, 1976, 1977, 1984; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher award 1971, 1993.

FIRST

1990s

1992

Professor William Martin receives the Critic's Choice Award for best book in the History/Biography category from Christianity Today for his book A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story. The book is also voted as one of the “Ten Best Biographies of Religious Figures in the 20th Century” by Christian Reader Magazine in 2000.

1996

Professor William Martin writes the book With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America.

Published as the companion to the award winning PBS series of the same name for which he was chief consultant, the book documents Christian fundamentalism in the last 50 years and how it has shaped public policy. Revised editions of both the book and the video series appear in the summer of 2005.

1998

Professor Chandler Davidson receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1999, 2000, 2002.

2000s

2000

Professor Elizabeth Long receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1993, 1994, 1997, 2004.

2001

2010s

2006

Professor Michael Emerson receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2003, 2007, 2008; Sarah A. Burnett Teaching Prize 2012.

The Department of Sociology initiates a postdoctoral fellowship program.

F I R S T 2007

Professor Michael Emerson receives the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his book Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.

2004

Professor Elizabeth Long receives an award from the American Sociological Association, Culture Section for Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life.

2005

Professor Chandler Davidson is chosen as one of eight members of the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The primary author of the Commission's report, Davidson also testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject in 2006.

Professor Michael Emerson receives the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the American Sociological Association, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section for his book People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States.

2008

A $6.4 million gift from the Houston Endowment to Rice University is given to fund the establishment of the first Ph.D. program in sociology in Houston. The first class is admitted in fall of 2011.

FIRST

Professor Stephen Klineberg is awarded the George R.Brown Certificate of Highest Merit.

Other university teaching awards he received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1996; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2008.

Professor Bridget Gorman receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2009, 2012; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 2007.

Professor Michael Lindsay receives the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action for his book Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite. In addition, the book receives the Christianity Today Book Award in the Christianity and Culture category and is named “Best Book of 2007”

by Publishers Weekly.

2010

The Hobby Center for the Study of Texas is formed. The center seeks to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic, economic, geographic, social and environmental conditions impacting the current conditions in, and future of, Texas and other areas in the nation and is directed by Professor Steve Murdock.

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is established with a $15 million gift to Rice from the Kinder Foundation.

The institute provides a permanent home to the Kinder Houston Area Survey and conducts research that advances the understanding of pressing urban issues and fosters the development of more humane and sustainable cities. Professors Stephen Klineberg and Michael Emerson are co-directors.

The Religion and Public Life program is created. The program works to provide institutions, social groups and individuals with religious scholarship and an academic environment that is conducive to positive dialogue about the role of religion in our lives today. Professor Elaine Howard Ecklund is the director.

The Race Scholars program is created.

The program is dedicated to advancing the intellectual community of scholars and students whose work examines the relevance of race in all its dimensions.

Professor Jenifer Bratter is the director.

2011

The Houston Education Research Consortium is established with a $1.3 million gift from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

The aim of the consortium is to close socioeconomic achievement gaps in Houston elementary and secondary education.

Professor Ruth López Turley is the director.

The Urban Health Program is launched. The program is dedicated to fostering community and academic partnerships surrounding issues of health, health care, education and community planning by highlighting how urban areas can create barriers as well as opportunities for the health of their citizens.

Professor Rachel Kimbro is the director and Professor Justin Denney is the associate director.

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Professor Michael Lindsay receives the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award.

2012

The film "Interesting Times" is released. The film features Professor Stephen Klineberg and provides a vivid depiction of the findings from 30 years of systematic research tracking the economic and demographic transformations of the Houston region.

The Department of Sociology Currently, the department has 12 full-time faculty members who specialize in race and ethnic stratification, gender, religion, health and demographic change.

The faculty have received numerous grants and fellowships over the years, including from the Houston Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Foundation for Child Development Young Scholars Program, the Lilly Endowment, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Meadows Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Greater Texas Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation and UT Health Science Center.

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1980s

1950

Sociology is housed in the Department of Business Administration and Economics.

1960

The Department of Anthopology and Sociology is created.

1962

The Lena Gohlman Fox Chair in Sociology is established under a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman Martel in honor of her late mother.

Professor William McCord holds the first chair. Initially, it was used to fund Visiting Professor Hugh Duncan.

1982

Professor Stephen Klineberg conducts the first Kinder Houston Area Survey as an undergraduate class assignment on a budget of $3,000. The survey is the nation's longest running study for a single metropolitan area's changing demographics and public attitudes.

The Walter and Helen Hall Lecture Series is founded. Through the years it has brought to Rice prominent scholars and public figures, including H. Ross Perot, Molly Ivins, James Q. Wilson, William Julius Wilson, and the late U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.

F I R S T 1986 1970 FIRST The Department of Sociology separates from the Department of Anthropology. The separation agreement is formalized in 1971. At the time, the department has four fulltime faculty members and its first department chair is Professor Chad Gordon.

1978

Walter G. Hall '28 gives East Texas timber land to Rice with the instructions that the proceeds from the sale of the land be divided between the Department of Sociology and the Jones School of Business. The Walter G. Hall Endowment in Sociology is established in 1985 with the sale of the land "in the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding of the increasingly complex nature of our society.”

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Professor William Martin receives one of the first George R. Brown Certificates of Highest Merit Award. The award is given to professors only once in their careers at Rice, signifying a level of teaching excellence so high over the years that they are retired from the competition for the George R. Brown awards. Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1975, 1982; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1974, 1976, 1977, 1984; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher award 1971, 1993.

FIRST

1990s

1992

Professor William Martin receives the Critic's Choice Award for best book in the History/Biography category from Christianity Today for his book A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story. The book is also voted as one of the “Ten Best Biographies of Religious Figures in the 20th Century” by Christian Reader Magazine in 2000.

1996

Professor William Martin writes the book With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America.

Published as the companion to the award winning PBS series of the same name for which he was chief consultant, the book documents Christian fundamentalism in the last 50 years and how it has shaped public policy. Revised editions of both the book and the video series appear in the summer of 2005.

1998

Professor Chandler Davidson receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1999, 2000, 2002.

2000s

2000

Professor Elizabeth Long receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1993, 1994, 1997, 2004.

2001

2010s

2006

Professor Michael Emerson receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards he has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2003, 2007, 2008; Sarah A. Burnett Teaching Prize 2012.

The Department of Sociology initiates a postdoctoral fellowship program.

F I R S T 2007

Professor Michael Emerson receives the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his book Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.

2004

Professor Elizabeth Long receives an award from the American Sociological Association, Culture Section for Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life.

2005

Professor Chandler Davidson is chosen as one of eight members of the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The primary author of the Commission's report, Davidson also testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject in 2006.

Professor Michael Emerson receives the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the American Sociological Association, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section for his book People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States.

2008

A $6.4 million gift from the Houston Endowment to Rice University is given to fund the establishment of the first Ph.D. program in sociology in Houston. The first class is admitted in fall of 2011.

FIRST

Professor Stephen Klineberg is awarded the George R.Brown Certificate of Highest Merit.

Other university teaching awards he received: George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 1996; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2008.

Professor Bridget Gorman receives the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Other university teaching awards she has received: George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching 2009, 2012; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award 2007.

Professor Michael Lindsay receives the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action for his book Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite. In addition, the book receives the Christianity Today Book Award in the Christianity and Culture category and is named “Best Book of 2007”

by Publishers Weekly.

2010

The Hobby Center for the Study of Texas is formed. The center seeks to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic, economic, geographic, social and environmental conditions impacting the current conditions in, and future of, Texas and other areas in the nation and is directed by Professor Steve Murdock.

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is established with a $15 million gift to Rice from the Kinder Foundation.

The institute provides a permanent home to the Kinder Houston Area Survey and conducts research that advances the understanding of pressing urban issues and fosters the development of more humane and sustainable cities. Professors Stephen Klineberg and Michael Emerson are co-directors.

The Religion and Public Life program is created. The program works to provide institutions, social groups and individuals with religious scholarship and an academic environment that is conducive to positive dialogue about the role of religion in our lives today. Professor Elaine Howard Ecklund is the director.

The Race Scholars program is created.

The program is dedicated to advancing the intellectual community of scholars and students whose work examines the relevance of race in all its dimensions.

Professor Jenifer Bratter is the director.

2011

The Houston Education Research Consortium is established with a $1.3 million gift from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

The aim of the consortium is to close socioeconomic achievement gaps in Houston elementary and secondary education.

Professor Ruth López Turley is the director.

The Urban Health Program is launched. The program is dedicated to fostering community and academic partnerships surrounding issues of health, health care, education and community planning by highlighting how urban areas can create barriers as well as opportunities for the health of their citizens.

Professor Rachel Kimbro is the director and Professor Justin Denney is the associate director.

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The film "Interesting Times" is released. The film features Professor Stephen Klineberg and provides a vivid depiction of the findings from 30 years of systematic research tracking the economic and demographic transformations of the Houston region.

The Department of Sociology Currently, the department has 12 full-time faculty members who specialize in race and ethnic stratification, gender, religion, health and demographic change.

The faculty have received numerous grants and fellowships over the years, including from the Houston Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Foundation for Child Development Young Scholars Program, the Lilly Endowment, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Meadows Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Greater Texas Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation and UT Health Science Center.

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Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science

TOGETHER, MARTIN AND ECKLUND HAVE ADDED TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOUNDARIES AND INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS AND SCIENCE AND MADE RICE ONE OF THE MOST VISIBLE UNIVERSITIES TODAY STUDYING THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON SOCIETY.

Since the earliest pre-historic civilizations, three words—religion, politics and science—have defined much of human action. Yet, during all of this time, the appropriate relationships between religion and politics and religion and science remain under intense debate. hile the separation of church and state, adopted in many countries including the U.S., suggests that politics should not dictate religion and religion should not dictate politics, many religious leaders and practitioners have nevertheless attempted to direct political and policy decisions. Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and one of the architects of the religious right in America, proclaimed,“This alliance between religion and politics didn’t just happen. I have been working on this for years.”

Equally, the scientific method involves a search for observed, tested relationships which should not be influenced by religious beliefs or political ideology.

Yet, even if religion does not have a direct place in science, it does not mean that scientists have no religious beliefs.

Two Rice sociologists have tackled these complex questions. William Martin, the Chavanne Emeritus Professor of Sociology, who arrived at Rice in 1968, has studied the intersection of religion and politics. Elaine Howard Ecklund, associate professor of sociology, who joined the department forty years later in 2008, focuses her research on scientists’ religious beliefs. Martin wrote a seminal work, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, analyzing white Evangelical Protestants who are predominantly members of the Republican Party and conservative in outlook. Beginning in the late 1970s, they used their churches as organizational units for political campaigns — raising considerable campaign money, mobilizing voters

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and attacking candidates who did not agree with their views on issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to education and taxes. Martin maintained that religious groups on any end of the political spectrum needed to be mindful that they were not the “true” religion, singularly aware of how the country should move forward. He concluded, “We cannot separate religion from politics. The question is how they are to be related in such a way as to maintain the pluralism that has served this country so well.”

Ecklund has examined a different aspect of the role of religion in public life. In her book Science vs Religion: What Scientists Really Think, Ecklund considered approaches to religion and spirituality among academic natural and social scientists in the U.S. She uncovered that while scientists are much less likely to express a belief in God than the general American population, many scientists do hold religious or spiritual beliefs. In general, religious scientists reported that their religious beliefs affected the way they thought about the moral implications of their work, but not the way they practiced science. As Ecklund concluded, “The ‘insurmountable hostility’ between science and religion is a caricature, a thought-cliché…but hardly representative of reality.” With $3 million in external funding, Ecklund is currently working on a project that examines scientists from around the world and their views of religion.

Together, Martin and Ecklund have added to our understanding of the boundaries and intersections between religion and politics and science and made Rice one of the most visible universities today studying the impact of religion on society.

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Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science

TOGETHER, MARTIN AND ECKLUND HAVE ADDED TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOUNDARIES AND INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS AND SCIENCE AND MADE RICE ONE OF THE MOST VISIBLE UNIVERSITIES TODAY STUDYING THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON SOCIETY.

Since the earliest pre-historic civilizations, three words—religion, politics and science—have defined much of human action. Yet, during all of this time, the appropriate relationships between religion and politics and religion and science remain under intense debate. hile the separation of church and state, adopted in many countries including the U.S., suggests that politics should not dictate religion and religion should not dictate politics, many religious leaders and practitioners have nevertheless attempted to direct political and policy decisions. Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and one of the architects of the religious right in America, proclaimed,“This alliance between religion and politics didn’t just happen. I have been working on this for years.”

Equally, the scientific method involves a search for observed, tested relationships which should not be influenced by religious beliefs or political ideology.

Yet, even if religion does not have a direct place in science, it does not mean that scientists have no religious beliefs.

Two Rice sociologists have tackled these complex questions. William Martin, the Chavanne Emeritus Professor of Sociology, who arrived at Rice in 1968, has studied the intersection of religion and politics. Elaine Howard Ecklund, associate professor of sociology, who joined the department forty years later in 2008, focuses her research on scientists’ religious beliefs. Martin wrote a seminal work, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, analyzing white Evangelical Protestants who are predominantly members of the Republican Party and conservative in outlook. Beginning in the late 1970s, they used their churches as organizational units for political campaigns — raising considerable campaign money, mobilizing voters

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and attacking candidates who did not agree with their views on issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to education and taxes. Martin maintained that religious groups on any end of the political spectrum needed to be mindful that they were not the “true” religion, singularly aware of how the country should move forward. He concluded, “We cannot separate religion from politics. The question is how they are to be related in such a way as to maintain the pluralism that has served this country so well.”

Ecklund has examined a different aspect of the role of religion in public life. In her book Science vs Religion: What Scientists Really Think, Ecklund considered approaches to religion and spirituality among academic natural and social scientists in the U.S. She uncovered that while scientists are much less likely to express a belief in God than the general American population, many scientists do hold religious or spiritual beliefs. In general, religious scientists reported that their religious beliefs affected the way they thought about the moral implications of their work, but not the way they practiced science. As Ecklund concluded, “The ‘insurmountable hostility’ between science and religion is a caricature, a thought-cliché…but hardly representative of reality.” With $3 million in external funding, Ecklund is currently working on a project that examines scientists from around the world and their views of religion.

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Students Through the Decades C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40 I B.A., Pre-law

Don C. Des Jarlais ’67 I B.A., Behavioral Science

Mine Yucel ’84 I Ph.D., Economics

Brenda Arredondo ’05 I B.A., Political Science

When Hank Hudspeth began his studies in pre-law at Rice University 75 years ago, little did he imagine his association with Rice would continue to the university’s centennial year in 2012. Along the way, he has served in such capacities as member of the School of Social Sciences faculty, member of the Rice Board of Trustees and president of the Association of Rice Alumni.

A Rice trustee emeritus since 1989, Hank says his only time not heavily involved with his alma mater was during his years in law school at the University of Texas at Austin and the four years he served in the U.S. Navy. In 1947, he returned to Houston to practice law at the firm now known as DeLange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets LLP and where he continues to be “of counsel” today.

Hank also made time to teach generations of grateful Rice students courses in Law and Society and American Government but the highlight of being part of Rice, Hank says, was meeting his wife, Demaris DeLange Hudspeth ’42. He and Demaris also have been among Rice’s most generous philanthropic supporters. There is little doubt, Hank says, “Rice is clearly our most important institutional relationship.”

Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D. says his undergraduate years at Rice University taught him how to study, conduct research in multiple scientific disciplines, learn to empathize with people who have drug use issues and prepared him for his research career.

Now director of research for the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center and a guest investigator at Rockefeller University in New York, Don is a leader in the fields of HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use. He has published extensively on these topics in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the journals Science and Nature, and has collaborated on studies in 25 different countries.

He serves as a consultant to various institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is a former commissioner for the U.S. National Commission on AIDS and is currently a Core Group Member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Injecting Drug Use and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

Don and his wife, Sharon, have a son, Robert, and a long history of supporting Rice University.

Rice gave Mine an excellent foundation on which to build her remarkable career and she is grateful her thesis advisor and Rice Professor Emeritus of Economics Peter Mieszkowski has continued to be a “great sounding board and mentor.”

Formerly an assistant economics professor at Louisiana State University, Mine joined the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as an energy economist in 1989. Currently, she is vice president and senior economist in the research department. She leads the Regional/Micro/Energy group and also serves as director of publications and has authored numerous articles on energy and the Texas economy. Mine has served as president of the U.S. Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) in 2004 and as president of its parent organization, the International Association of Energy Economics, an institution with more than 4000 members in 102 countries, in 2011. She received the “Key Women in Energy—Global” award in 2006, the USAEE Senior Fellow award in 2007, and the Energy Journal Best Paper award in 2009.

Mine and her husband, Adnan Yucel ’82, reside in Dallas and have two children, Emre Yucel ’08, and Elif Yucel, a student at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Brenda credits Rice’s outstanding reputation with launching her career in national politics. Her decision was greatly influenced when she combined the political science theory she learned in the classroom with practical experience during a Rice Baker Institute summer internship on Washington’s Capitol Hill.

The El Paso native’s first job after graduation from Rice was working for a Texas member of Congress. Brenda has now spent the last seven years working for various U.S. representatives and senators in Washington, D.C. She also worked for a presidential candidate during the 2008 presidential race. The exposure she had during the internship to influential people allowed her to jump right into her career on Capitol Hill by preparing her for meetings later with some of these same leaders.

Brenda has called Washington, D.C. her home since 2006 and currently works in Congress as press secretary for a joint congressional committee.

The Wiess College alumna supports Rice through contributions to the Rice Annual Fund.

Morton Rudberg ’54 I B.A., Accounting and Economics Morty has a treasure trove of Rice memories, both old and new. He remembers photographing beautiful Lovett Hall as a young undergraduate and still thinks about the political science and business law courses he took from Rice faculty member C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40.

More recently, the longtime Dallas lawyer and his wife, Peachy, have enjoyed attending the Shepherd School of Music summer event in Aspen, Colorado, class reunions during Homecoming at Rice, and Dallas-area alumni events.

Morty and Peachy, having made a provision for Rice in their estate plans, also are members of the Captain James Addison Baker Legacy Society at Rice.

After graduating from Rice in 1954, Morty received his law degree from the University of Texas (UT) School of Law, taught business law to UT undergraduates, served in the U.S. Army and joined a law firm in Dallas where he practiced for 42 years.

For the past 12 years, he has had a solo law practice in Dallas.

Morty says his decision to apply and come to Rice was certainly a fortunate one. Staying so close to the university over the years has been a choice and commitment he made.

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Yvonne Marcuse ’70 I B.A., Anthropology Now an accomplished attorney at Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, N.J., Yvonne says Rice helped her pursue her true passion for anthropology. When she studied at Rice, there was only an introductory class in physical anthropology, her specific area of interest. However, Yvonne credits several faculty mentors, including cultural anthropologists Edward Norbeck and Frederick Gamst and archeologist Frank Hole, with creatively encouraging her academic ambitions. They allowed her to take graduate-level seminars and work as a research assistant in the anthropology department. They also introduced her to prominent physical anthropologists visiting Rice, guided her in independent study and advised her on taking related courses in biology, geology, statistics, chemistry and human anatomy.

“With this background, I was well prepared for graduate school at the University of Colorado and postdoctoral research in genetics at Columbia University,” says Yvonne. “I’m an attorney now, but Rice helped me follow my undergraduate dream and develop research skills I still use today.”

Jay Lamy ’95 I B.A., Managerial Studies Jay Lamy is busy being a husband, father, and founder and president of AQUILA Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm. However, Jay says Rice University continues to be an integral part of his life through his service on the Austin chapter of the Rice Alliance, Owl Club regional board, Centennial Campaign regional committee and Austin chapter of the Rice Real Estate Group, and as he seeks out employees and vendors with a Rice pedigree.

After graduating from Rice, Jay joined CIBC Oppenheimer’s investment banking group in New York as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group focusing on merger and acquisition transactions. Jay then worked with Bariston Partners, a merchant bank/venture capital group in Boston focused on new company acquisitions and financial advisory work for existing portfolio companies. He joined The Staubach Company, first working in their Dallas office and later opening their Austin office. During his tenure at The Staubach Company, Jay was honored for his outstanding work on some of Austin's most highly visible real estate transactions. In January of 2007, Jay founded AQUILA Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm.

Jay, a Rice donor and football letterman, is married to Kelley Carson and they have two young children, Matthew and Camille.

Cheta Ozougwu ’11 I B.A., Economics Cheta Ozougwu brings his very best to everything he does. He was an outstanding student leader and star athlete at Houston’s Alief Taylor High School.

During his time at Rice, he was a top economics student, campus leader and volunteer, as well as an outstanding football player. Cheta earned All C-USA honors where as one of Rice’s best defensive players he amassed 197 total tackles and 11 sacks during his career.

Cheta’s experience at Rice went well beyond the football field. A devout Christian, he joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, volunteered at numerous community organizations, mentored children and held campus leadership positions, all while maintaining a 3.41 grade point average. He also participated in the School of Social Sciences Gateway program with an internship at AON Risk Services in Houston.

Initially drafted in the 2011 draft by the Houston Texans, Cheta recently started the next chapter of his life by signing with the National Football League’s Chicago Bears.

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Students Through the Decades C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40 I B.A., Pre-law

Don C. Des Jarlais ’67 I B.A., Behavioral Science

Mine Yucel ’84 I Ph.D., Economics

Brenda Arredondo ’05 I B.A., Political Science

When Hank Hudspeth began his studies in pre-law at Rice University 75 years ago, little did he imagine his association with Rice would continue to the university’s centennial year in 2012. Along the way, he has served in such capacities as member of the School of Social Sciences faculty, member of the Rice Board of Trustees and president of the Association of Rice Alumni.

A Rice trustee emeritus since 1989, Hank says his only time not heavily involved with his alma mater was during his years in law school at the University of Texas at Austin and the four years he served in the U.S. Navy. In 1947, he returned to Houston to practice law at the firm now known as DeLange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets LLP and where he continues to be “of counsel” today.

Hank also made time to teach generations of grateful Rice students courses in Law and Society and American Government but the highlight of being part of Rice, Hank says, was meeting his wife, Demaris DeLange Hudspeth ’42. He and Demaris also have been among Rice’s most generous philanthropic supporters. There is little doubt, Hank says, “Rice is clearly our most important institutional relationship.”

Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D. says his undergraduate years at Rice University taught him how to study, conduct research in multiple scientific disciplines, learn to empathize with people who have drug use issues and prepared him for his research career.

Now director of research for the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center and a guest investigator at Rockefeller University in New York, Don is a leader in the fields of HIV/AIDS and injecting drug use. He has published extensively on these topics in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the journals Science and Nature, and has collaborated on studies in 25 different countries.

He serves as a consultant to various institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is a former commissioner for the U.S. National Commission on AIDS and is currently a Core Group Member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Injecting Drug Use and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

Don and his wife, Sharon, have a son, Robert, and a long history of supporting Rice University.

Rice gave Mine an excellent foundation on which to build her remarkable career and she is grateful her thesis advisor and Rice Professor Emeritus of Economics Peter Mieszkowski has continued to be a “great sounding board and mentor.”

Formerly an assistant economics professor at Louisiana State University, Mine joined the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as an energy economist in 1989. Currently, she is vice president and senior economist in the research department. She leads the Regional/Micro/Energy group and also serves as director of publications and has authored numerous articles on energy and the Texas economy. Mine has served as president of the U.S. Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) in 2004 and as president of its parent organization, the International Association of Energy Economics, an institution with more than 4000 members in 102 countries, in 2011. She received the “Key Women in Energy—Global” award in 2006, the USAEE Senior Fellow award in 2007, and the Energy Journal Best Paper award in 2009.

Mine and her husband, Adnan Yucel ’82, reside in Dallas and have two children, Emre Yucel ’08, and Elif Yucel, a student at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Brenda credits Rice’s outstanding reputation with launching her career in national politics. Her decision was greatly influenced when she combined the political science theory she learned in the classroom with practical experience during a Rice Baker Institute summer internship on Washington’s Capitol Hill.

The El Paso native’s first job after graduation from Rice was working for a Texas member of Congress. Brenda has now spent the last seven years working for various U.S. representatives and senators in Washington, D.C. She also worked for a presidential candidate during the 2008 presidential race. The exposure she had during the internship to influential people allowed her to jump right into her career on Capitol Hill by preparing her for meetings later with some of these same leaders.

Brenda has called Washington, D.C. her home since 2006 and currently works in Congress as press secretary for a joint congressional committee.

The Wiess College alumna supports Rice through contributions to the Rice Annual Fund.

Morton Rudberg ’54 I B.A., Accounting and Economics Morty has a treasure trove of Rice memories, both old and new. He remembers photographing beautiful Lovett Hall as a young undergraduate and still thinks about the political science and business law courses he took from Rice faculty member C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40.

More recently, the longtime Dallas lawyer and his wife, Peachy, have enjoyed attending the Shepherd School of Music summer event in Aspen, Colorado, class reunions during Homecoming at Rice, and Dallas-area alumni events.

Morty and Peachy, having made a provision for Rice in their estate plans, also are members of the Captain James Addison Baker Legacy Society at Rice.

After graduating from Rice in 1954, Morty received his law degree from the University of Texas (UT) School of Law, taught business law to UT undergraduates, served in the U.S. Army and joined a law firm in Dallas where he practiced for 42 years.

For the past 12 years, he has had a solo law practice in Dallas.

Morty says his decision to apply and come to Rice was certainly a fortunate one. Staying so close to the university over the years has been a choice and commitment he made.

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Yvonne Marcuse ’70 I B.A., Anthropology Now an accomplished attorney at Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, N.J., Yvonne says Rice helped her pursue her true passion for anthropology. When she studied at Rice, there was only an introductory class in physical anthropology, her specific area of interest. However, Yvonne credits several faculty mentors, including cultural anthropologists Edward Norbeck and Frederick Gamst and archeologist Frank Hole, with creatively encouraging her academic ambitions. They allowed her to take graduate-level seminars and work as a research assistant in the anthropology department. They also introduced her to prominent physical anthropologists visiting Rice, guided her in independent study and advised her on taking related courses in biology, geology, statistics, chemistry and human anatomy.

“With this background, I was well prepared for graduate school at the University of Colorado and postdoctoral research in genetics at Columbia University,” says Yvonne. “I’m an attorney now, but Rice helped me follow my undergraduate dream and develop research skills I still use today.”

Jay Lamy ’95 I B.A., Managerial Studies Jay Lamy is busy being a husband, father, and founder and president of AQUILA Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm. However, Jay says Rice University continues to be an integral part of his life through his service on the Austin chapter of the Rice Alliance, Owl Club regional board, Centennial Campaign regional committee and Austin chapter of the Rice Real Estate Group, and as he seeks out employees and vendors with a Rice pedigree.

After graduating from Rice, Jay joined CIBC Oppenheimer’s investment banking group in New York as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group focusing on merger and acquisition transactions. Jay then worked with Bariston Partners, a merchant bank/venture capital group in Boston focused on new company acquisitions and financial advisory work for existing portfolio companies. He joined The Staubach Company, first working in their Dallas office and later opening their Austin office. During his tenure at The Staubach Company, Jay was honored for his outstanding work on some of Austin's most highly visible real estate transactions. In January of 2007, Jay founded AQUILA Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm.

Jay, a Rice donor and football letterman, is married to Kelley Carson and they have two young children, Matthew and Camille.

Cheta Ozougwu ’11 I B.A., Economics Cheta Ozougwu brings his very best to everything he does. He was an outstanding student leader and star athlete at Houston’s Alief Taylor High School.

During his time at Rice, he was a top economics student, campus leader and volunteer, as well as an outstanding football player. Cheta earned All C-USA honors where as one of Rice’s best defensive players he amassed 197 total tackles and 11 sacks during his career.

Cheta’s experience at Rice went well beyond the football field. A devout Christian, he joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, volunteered at numerous community organizations, mentored children and held campus leadership positions, all while maintaining a 3.41 grade point average. He also participated in the School of Social Sciences Gateway program with an internship at AON Risk Services in Houston.

Initially drafted in the 2011 draft by the Houston Texans, Cheta recently started the next chapter of his life by signing with the National Football League’s Chicago Bears.

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RiceReceives$25 Million NamingGiftfromAlumnus RobertKlein for a New Social Sciences Building ice University has received a $25 million gift from alumnus Robert Klein to name a new School of Social Sciences building. The Rice Board of Trustees approved the proposal at its March 22 meeting.

The Robert A. Klein Hall for Social Sciences will house the majority of the school’s current academic departments, institutes and centers.

It will be built on campus near the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Jesse H. Jones School of Graduate Business.

“We are tremendously grateful to Bob Klein for such a visionary and generous gift at time when the social sciences are growing rapidly in importance both at Rice and in the world,” Rice President David Leebron said. “With a location in close

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proximity to the Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Jones Graduate School of Business, this new addition to our campus will facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary study and create a policy-oriented corridor at Rice that will further contribute to solutions for the pressing problems of our city, our nation and our planet.”

Klein has a Master of Arts (1975) and a doctorate (1976), summa cum laude, both in economics, from Rice. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree with highest honors in chemical engineering (1969) from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He is currently a director of the renewable energy firm Riverbank Power, which develops, constructs and operates hydropower facilities in North and South America. The company’s run-of-river and pumped storage hydropower projects represent the world’s largest hydropower development pipeline.

Since beginning his career in 1969 as a research engineer and later a senior economist with Shell Oil Company in Texas, Klein has held senior management positions in the energy, risk-management and energy-trading industries, including petrochemicals general manager of Vista Chemicals in Houston, senior vice president of commercial and trading for PacifiCorp in Portland, Ore., and group energy risk director for Scottish Power in Glasgow, Scotland.

Before joining Riverbank in October 2010, Klein served as chief financial officer and chief commercial officer for Symbiotics Energy LLC, a hydropower developer later acquired by Riverbank.

“I’ve been blessed with good fortune in business and wanted to share that with Rice,” Klein said. His years at Rice were “the richest part of my education,” he said, and he added that he has fond memories of rigorous political and social discussions with his

fellow students over coffee at Sammy’s undergraduate degrees at Rice during the Lounge in the student center. “At Rice past 10 years. It offers interdisciplinary I learned how to realize George Bernard programs in cognitive sciences, managerial Shaw’s philosophy – ‘Imagine what studies and policy studies and houses you desire, will what you imagine and five research institutes and centers: create what you will.’” the Douglas S. Harlan Program in State For the past two years, Klein has Elections, Campaigns and Politics; the served on the School of Social Sciences Hobby Center for the Study of Texas; Dean’s Advisory Board. He said the new the Kinder Institute for Urban Research; building will the Shell Center help “foster for Sustainability; ...THE NEW BUILDING WILL HELP interaction and the Social “FOSTER INTERACTION AMONG among faculty FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS Sciences Research and graduate Institute.

AND ENRICH BOTH.” students and Ragsdale, the enrich both.”

Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs “I am thrilled to have one of our very and a professor of political science, said own Social Sciences graduates’ names on three of the top five majors at Rice are in this building,” said Lyn Ragsdale, dean economics (No. 1), psychology (No. 2) and of the School of Social Sciences. “The political science (No. 5). As Rice began the building will be a testament to Bob Klein’s 30 percent expansion of its undergraduate remarkable talent and success as well as student body in 2006, the number of underhis courage and unflagging determination graduate student majors in the School of in life. He has been an extremely valuable Social Sciences began to expandas well – member of our advisory board and from 642 in 2006 to 1,044 in 2012 – a 63 understands that Rice cannot be a truly percent increase, Ragsdale said. top university without a distinctive Planning for the new building’s facility to accommodate the growth and design is in progress, and the importance of the social sciences.” dates for construction will More than one-third of Rice be determined in the undergraduates choose a major in near future. one of the social science departments, which include anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology, all of which also offer Ph.D. programs, and the school has conferred the most

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RiceReceives$25 Million NamingGiftfromAlumnus RobertKlein for a New Social Sciences Building ice University has received a $25 million gift from alumnus Robert Klein to name a new School of Social Sciences building. The Rice Board of Trustees approved the proposal at its March 22 meeting.

The Robert A. Klein Hall for Social Sciences will house the majority of the school’s current academic departments, institutes and centers.

It will be built on campus near the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Jesse H. Jones School of Graduate Business.

“We are tremendously grateful to Bob Klein for such a visionary and generous gift at time when the social sciences are growing rapidly in importance both at Rice and in the world,” Rice President David Leebron said. “With a location in close

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proximity to the Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Jones Graduate School of Business, this new addition to our campus will facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary study and create a policy-oriented corridor at Rice that will further contribute to solutions for the pressing problems of our city, our nation and our planet.”

Klein has a Master of Arts (1975) and a doctorate (1976), summa cum laude, both in economics, from Rice. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree with highest honors in chemical engineering (1969) from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He is currently a director of the renewable energy firm Riverbank Power, which develops, constructs and operates hydropower facilities in North and South America. The company’s run-of-river and pumped storage hydropower projects represent the world’s largest hydropower development pipeline.

Since beginning his career in 1969 as a research engineer and later a senior economist with Shell Oil Company in Texas, Klein has held senior management positions in the energy, risk-management and energy-trading industries, including petrochemicals general manager of Vista Chemicals in Houston, senior vice president of commercial and trading for PacifiCorp in Portland, Ore., and group energy risk director for Scottish Power in Glasgow, Scotland.

Before joining Riverbank in October 2010, Klein served as chief financial officer and chief commercial officer for Symbiotics Energy LLC, a hydropower developer later acquired by Riverbank.

“I’ve been blessed with good fortune in business and wanted to share that with Rice,” Klein said. His years at Rice were “the richest part of my education,” he said, and he added that he has fond memories of rigorous political and social discussions with his

fellow students over coffee at Sammy’s undergraduate degrees at Rice during the Lounge in the student center. “At Rice past 10 years. It offers interdisciplinary I learned how to realize George Bernard programs in cognitive sciences, managerial Shaw’s philosophy – ‘Imagine what studies and policy studies and houses you desire, will what you imagine and five research institutes and centers: create what you will.’” the Douglas S. Harlan Program in State For the past two years, Klein has Elections, Campaigns and Politics; the served on the School of Social Sciences Hobby Center for the Study of Texas; Dean’s Advisory Board. He said the new the Kinder Institute for Urban Research; building will the Shell Center help “foster for Sustainability; ...THE NEW BUILDING WILL HELP interaction and the Social “FOSTER INTERACTION AMONG among faculty FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS Sciences Research and graduate Institute.

AND ENRICH BOTH.” students and Ragsdale, the enrich both.”

Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs “I am thrilled to have one of our very and a professor of political science, said own Social Sciences graduates’ names on three of the top five majors at Rice are in this building,” said Lyn Ragsdale, dean economics (No. 1), psychology (No. 2) and of the School of Social Sciences. “The political science (No. 5). As Rice began the building will be a testament to Bob Klein’s 30 percent expansion of its undergraduate remarkable talent and success as well as student body in 2006, the number of underhis courage and unflagging determination graduate student majors in the School of in life. He has been an extremely valuable Social Sciences began to expandas well – member of our advisory board and from 642 in 2006 to 1,044 in 2012 – a 63 understands that Rice cannot be a truly percent increase, Ragsdale said. top university without a distinctive Planning for the new building’s facility to accommodate the growth and design is in progress, and the importance of the social sciences.” dates for construction will More than one-third of Rice be determined in the undergraduates choose a major in near future. one of the social science departments, which include anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology, all of which also offer Ph.D. programs, and the school has conferred the most

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Lee Friedman, Ph.D. Catherine O'Dell Fritz, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. S. Malcolm Gillis Julius and Suzan Glickman Sandra Sheen Godfrey, Ph.D. Ron B. Goldfarb, Ph.D. Ms. Dianne Gordon Ms. Marta Isabel Fonseca & Mr. Edward Earl Graham Greater Houston Community Foundation Greater Texas Foundation Greater Tomball Area Chamber of Commerce Gulf Coast Power Association Timothy Scott Gunning, Ph.D. Ms. Anh-Thuy Thi Nguyen & Mr. Russell Warren Hall Mr. Jiaqi Hao Mr. and Mrs. W. Majors Harris Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc. Mikki Hebl, Ph.D. Michele Elizabeth Hendrix, Ph.D. Mr. Thomas B. Hix, Jr. The Honorable and Mrs. W. P. Hobby Mr. Christopher Hopeman Houston Ballet Houston Endowment Inc. William Carl Howell, Ph.D. Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston Ms. Adele D. James Mrs. Tracy Dittert Janda & Mr. Ken W. Janda Mr. Paul Richard Jeanneret JPMorgan Chase John Rains Kelly, Ph.D. William J. Kelly, Ph.D. Pamela Ann Kennedy, Ph.D. KHOU-TV Kinder Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Klee R. Kleber Robert A. Klein, Ph.D. The Kroger Company Foundation Lakewood Church Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Larsen Judith Lentz, Ph.D. Justin Theodore Leroux, Ph.D. Ronald L. Leven, Ph.D. Mr. Charles E. Lincoln Michael D. Maher, Ph.D. Marek Bros. Systems, Inc. Marek Family of Companies

Ms. Reinnette Morin Marek & Mr. Stan Marek, Jr. Dr. Mary McIntire & Dr. James R. Pomerantz Ms. Susan Keech McIntosh Ms. Milinda Leigh McNeely Mr. Samuel Morton McPhail The Meadows Foundation Memorial Hermann Healthcare System MetroBank Ms. Betsy Miller & James Isaac Miller, Ph.D. Ms. Janet L. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Moore Mr. and Mrs. William V. Morgan Ms. Nancy Carmichael Murphy Dr. Alma M. Novotny Frederick L. Oswald, Ph.D. Stephen Frank Overturf, Ph.D. Mr. Patrick Oxford Linda and Monte Pendleton Mr. Jason T. Perlioni Pinto America Growth Fund, L.P. Julie and Rege Platek Ms. Sandy Price-Epstein Karin Dudziak Quinones, Ph.D. & Miguel A. Quinones, Ph.D. Lyn Ragsdale, Ph.D. Kathleen Blyth McDermott, Ph.D. & Henry L. Roediger III, Ph. Ms. Ariel Elyse Rogers Thomas R. Saving Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Saving David Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. Mr. Allan Arthur Shenoi SHW Group LLP Robin C. Sickles, Ph.D. Ms. Jeanine Lee Skorinko South Texas College of Law Lucyna Spychalski Sterling Bank Gary H. Stern, Ph.D. Mr. Herman Stude Study Abroad Foundation, Inc. John Templeton Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Francis D. Tuggle Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Sant Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner & John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D. Frederick H. Wallace, Ph.D. Wulfe & Co. Wulfe Management Services Inc Dr. and Mrs. George R. Zodrow

The School of Social Sciences welcomes your participation in Rice University’s Centennial Campaign and encourages you to consider a campaign priority most meaningful to you.

Selected special giving opportunities in the School of Social Sciences: • Naming opportunities in the new Robert A. Klein Hall for Social Sciences • Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology • Graduate Economics Alumni Fund • Social Sciences Research Institute • Gateway program for undergraduates Your gift can take several forms and, in addition to benefiting the social sciences at Rice, may provide powerful tax or estate-planning benefits to you. For information and assistance regarding giving to Rice, please contact Julie Platek, executive director of development for the School of Social Sciences, at 713.348.2190 or jplatek@rice.edu.

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ThankYou.

Partner with us.

The School of Social Sciences would like to acknowledge its recent donors. Thank you for your generous support.

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams Amegy Bank Analytic Resources, Inc. Laura and John Arnold Foundation Laura and John Arnold Doyle L. Arnold and Anne Glarner Asian/Pacific American Heritage Association Ms. Sarah Balinskas & Mr. Jeffrey M. Debevec Bank of America Bank of America Foundation Mr. Russell C. Barnes Ms. Wei Wu & Dr. Richard R. Batsell Mr. Randolph J. Beck Bhatia Foundation Mr. Vineet Bhatia Joan Binstock & David Silvers Ms. Krystal A. Bivens Blumer Family Fund Mr. Terry J. Blumer Janet Hilary Blunt, Ph.D. Ms. Catherine Bracken Ms. Vicki Whamond Bretthauer & Mr. Neil L. Bretthauer Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Brooks Brookstone, L.P. The Brown Foundation, Inc. Mr. Eric Ramsey Brown Sarah A. Burnett, Ph.D. Jennifer Rich Captain, Ph.D. & Purvez Fali Captain, Ph.D. Ms. Joanne Carpenter CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Randi C. Martin, Ph.D. & Lawrence Chan, Ph.D. The Allan & Lalita Charitable Foundation Jean Barrow Talbert Clarke Mr. Robert L. Clarke Cockrell Interests, Inc. Mr. James Codd Mr. F. J. Hank Coleman, Jr. Comerica Dr. Nancy Cooke Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cooper Mr. and Mrs. James W. Crownover Karen Davis, Ph.D. Direct Energy Mr. Robert M. Eury Exxon Mobil Corporation Richard D. Felder, Ph.D. Robert H. Floyd, Ph.D. Foundation for Child Development

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Lee Friedman, Ph.D. Catherine O'Dell Fritz, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. S. Malcolm Gillis Julius and Suzan Glickman Sandra Sheen Godfrey, Ph.D. Ron B. Goldfarb, Ph.D. Ms. Dianne Gordon Ms. Marta Isabel Fonseca & Mr. Edward Earl Graham Greater Houston Community Foundation Greater Texas Foundation Greater Tomball Area Chamber of Commerce Gulf Coast Power Association Timothy Scott Gunning, Ph.D. Ms. Anh-Thuy Thi Nguyen & Mr. Russell Warren Hall Mr. Jiaqi Hao Mr. and Mrs. W. Majors Harris Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc. Mikki Hebl, Ph.D. Michele Elizabeth Hendrix, Ph.D. Mr. Thomas B. Hix, Jr. The Honorable and Mrs. W. P. Hobby Mr. Christopher Hopeman Houston Ballet Houston Endowment Inc. William Carl Howell, Ph.D. Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston Ms. Adele D. James Mrs. Tracy Dittert Janda & Mr. Ken W. Janda Mr. Paul Richard Jeanneret JPMorgan Chase John Rains Kelly, Ph.D. William J. Kelly, Ph.D. Pamela Ann Kennedy, Ph.D. KHOU-TV Kinder Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Klee R. Kleber Robert A. Klein, Ph.D. The Kroger Company Foundation Lakewood Church Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Larsen Judith Lentz, Ph.D. Justin Theodore Leroux, Ph.D. Ronald L. Leven, Ph.D. Mr. Charles E. Lincoln Michael D. Maher, Ph.D. Marek Bros. Systems, Inc. Marek Family of Companies

Ms. Reinnette Morin Marek & Mr. Stan Marek, Jr. Dr. Mary McIntire & Dr. James R. Pomerantz Ms. Susan Keech McIntosh Ms. Milinda Leigh McNeely Mr. Samuel Morton McPhail The Meadows Foundation Memorial Hermann Healthcare System MetroBank Ms. Betsy Miller & James Isaac Miller, Ph.D. Ms. Janet L. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Moore Mr. and Mrs. William V. Morgan Ms. Nancy Carmichael Murphy Dr. Alma M. Novotny Frederick L. Oswald, Ph.D. Stephen Frank Overturf, Ph.D. Mr. Patrick Oxford Linda and Monte Pendleton Mr. Jason T. Perlioni Pinto America Growth Fund, L.P. Julie and Rege Platek Ms. Sandy Price-Epstein Karin Dudziak Quinones, Ph.D. & Miguel A. Quinones, Ph.D. Lyn Ragsdale, Ph.D. Kathleen Blyth McDermott, Ph.D. & Henry L. Roediger III, Ph. Ms. Ariel Elyse Rogers Thomas R. Saving Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Saving David Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. Mr. Allan Arthur Shenoi SHW Group LLP Robin C. Sickles, Ph.D. Ms. Jeanine Lee Skorinko South Texas College of Law Lucyna Spychalski Sterling Bank Gary H. Stern, Ph.D. Mr. Herman Stude Study Abroad Foundation, Inc. John Templeton Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Francis D. Tuggle Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Sant Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner & John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D. Frederick H. Wallace, Ph.D. Wulfe & Co. Wulfe Management Services Inc Dr. and Mrs. George R. Zodrow

The School of Social Sciences welcomes your participation in Rice University’s Centennial Campaign and encourages you to consider a campaign priority most meaningful to you.

Selected special giving opportunities in the School of Social Sciences: • Naming opportunities in the new Robert A. Klein Hall for Social Sciences • Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology • Graduate Economics Alumni Fund • Social Sciences Research Institute • Gateway program for undergraduates Your gift can take several forms and, in addition to benefiting the social sciences at Rice, may provide powerful tax or estate-planning benefits to you. For information and assistance regarding giving to Rice, please contact Julie Platek, executive director of development for the School of Social Sciences, at 713.348.2190 or jplatek@rice.edu.

Listing includes donors from June 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012

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CLOSEUP Eye on People

THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY

School of Social Sciences

Department Chairs

Institute, Center and Program Directors

Lyn Ragsdale Dean

Eugenia Georges Anthropology

Suzanne Kemmer Cognitive Sciences

Ipek Martinez Associate Dean Director of Gateway

Bryan Brown Economics

Keith Hamm Douglas S. Harlan Program in State Elections, Campaigns and Politics

Lisa Birenbaum Assistant Dean Heather Willrich Stern Manager of Grant Administration

Mark P. Jones Political Science James Dannemiller Psychology Elizabeth Long Sociology

Steve Murdock Hobby Center for the Study of Texas

Stephen Klineberg and Michael Emerson Kinder Institute for Urban Research Richard Stoll Managerial Studies Don Ostdiek Policy Studies John Anderson Shell Center for Sustainability

Abbey Godley Gateway Administrator Alex Wyatt Social Sciences Coordinator Julie Platek Executive Director of Development

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