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Barbara White Bryson
Bryson Named to Associate Vice President Position The departments of facilities and engineering and of project management and planning have been consolidated and are now led by Barbara White Bryson. Bryson, formerly director of project management and planning, is now associate vice president for facilities, engineering, and planning. She has guided the campus through a surge of new construction, including the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, three colleges, and the Humanities Building, as well as the renovations of Rayzor and Herring Halls. Russell Price has been named the new assistant vice president for facilities. Price, who has been with Rice for more than 20 years, was promoted from maintenance manager of facilities and engineering. Doug Tomlinson is now assistant vice president for engineering, and John Posch serves as the new director of project management.
Barbara White Bryson Russell Price Doug Tomlinson John Posch Douglas Lee Foshee Carl E. Isgren M. Kenneth Oshman John Hutchinson David Tenney Malcolm Gillis Vicki Colvin Amy Myers Jaffe Steven C. Currall Jing Zhou Mahmoud El-Gamal Mark Wiesner Ramon Colorado Jr. Crystal Redden Elba Lopez
New to the Board
David Tenney Appointed Registrar
Three new members have been named to the university’s board of trustees. Douglas Lee Foshee ’92, Carl E. Isgren ’61, and M. Kenneth Oshman ’62 began their four-year terms July 1. Foshee is president, chief executive officer, and director of El Paso Corporation in Houston, the leading provider of natural gas services and the largest pipeline company in North America. Isgren is the retired president and CEO of Owen Healthcare Inc., in Houston, which offers hospital pharmacy management services in the United States. Oshman is chair and CEO of Echelon Corporation, a San Jose, California-based company that designs systems and software that link and automate industrial equipment, building environments, and devices ranging from light switches to conveyor belts.
David Tenney took the helm as the new campus registrar in September. Previously the director of administration, planning, and finance in the Office of Information Technology (IT), Tenney may seem an unexpected choice for the position responsible for maintaining student records, handling registration, certifying enrollment, enforcing academic policies and procedures, overseeing the graduation of students, and scheduling classroom time. But his background in finance and administration and his experience in IT has given Tenney a unique set of skills that will be invaluable in his new role. Since joining Rice in 1996, Tenney has been responsible for, among other things, business services, administration, human resources, accounting, project management, software management, and network monitoring. His goals include ensuring that the Office of the Registrar meets the needs of today’s students and serves as a strong advocate for the classroom. Tenney replaces Jerry Montag, who left Rice in July.
Douglas Lee Foshee
Carl E. Isgren
M. Kenneth Oshman
Hutchinson Named to New Campus Post Professor of chemistry John Hutchinson will serve as interim vice president for student affairs until a new campus position—dean of undergraduate education—can be filled. Hutchinson was associate vice president of student affairs under Zenaido Camacho, who retired in June from the position he held since 1994. President David W. Leebron expects the new dean to bring student life more into the university’s academic structure and mission by enhancing the role of students as apprentice scholars and future leaders who learn in all facets of their experience. The new deanship will report to the provost, the chief academic officer of the university, and will be held by a tenured Rice faculty member who is steeped in the intellectual process with students in the classroom and in research and embraces faculty academic values.
David Tenney
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