Awards Honor Faculty, Staff, Students

BY DANA DURBIN
Rice News Staff
May 28, 1998

Rice faculty, staff and students have been recognized for their work in the
classroom and beyond as recipients of numerous awards.

Graduate Student Association awards

The Graduate Student Association (GSA) has announced the recipients of its
annual awards. Nominations were sought from the entire Rice community and selections
made by a five-person committee of graduate students.

The GSA Teaching/Mentoring award was given to Katherine B. Ensor, statistics
department, and Robin C. Sickles, economics department. The awards include $1,500
prize to each of the recipients and is funded through the President’s Office.

Linda Rassinier, department administrator in geology and geophysics, and Sarah
Nelson Crawford, director of student activities, are the recipients of the GSA
Faculty/Staff Service Award.

The GSA Service Award is based on the contribution of time, effort and service
to improving graduate student life and education at Rice. This year’s winners
are graduate students Russell Hale, Jones Graduate School of Management, and
Joy Michelle Roth, geology and geophysics. The award includes a $100 prize and
a plaque.

Recipients of the GSA Robert Lowry Patten Award are graduate students Mark
A. Nichols, mechanical engineering and materials science; Heidi Elizabeth Zeimer,
psychology department; Kristin Heather Griffith, psychology department; and
David J. Mendelow, the Jones School. The awards are given in honor of GSA faculty
advisor Bob Patten and recognize graduate students that may not be recognized
elsewhere for their service to other graduate students. The award consists of
$250 and a plaque to each recipient.

George R. Brown Award for Innovative Teaching in Engineering

Robert (Corky) Cartwright Jr. and Matthias Felleisen, both in the computer
science department, are the recipients of the George R. Brown Award for Innovative
Teaching in Engineering. The two faculty developed COMP 210, an introduction
to the principles of scientific computation. The course introduces undergraduates
from all disciplines to computer science and programming using a variety of
application-specific exercises. It uses a locally developed program called DrScheme,
which is available on the World Wide Web and has been installed in hundreds
of educational and commercial Web sites.

Jones Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award

Edward Williams, the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor at the Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Management, has been named as the recipient of the Jesse
H. Jones Graduate School of Management Excellence in Teaching Award. The award
winner is selected by alumni of the Jones School who have been graduated two
and five years. This year, Williams was selected by students who graduated in
1993 and 1996. Recipients are professors who made a difference to Jones School
students while they were in school, and who contributed to the education the
students received after graduation.

Awards Honor Faculty, Staff, Students