People, Papers, Presentations

Nicholas K. Iammarino, professor, Dept. of Kinesiology, presented an invited paper titled “Can the United States Successfully Reform Its Health Care System?” to the Colombian Ministry of Health, Bogata, Colombia, Oct. 20. He presented the same invited paper to the faculty of medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga—UNAB, Bucaramanga, Colombia, Oct. 21.

Maria-Regina Kecht, associate professor, Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Languages, was invited to moderate a session at the second Colloquium on International Engineering at the U. of Rhode Island, Oct. 22-23. At the 52nd International Conference on Educational Exchange, Chicago, Nov. 10-13, Kecht gave a presentation titled “Creating Broad Bandwidth: Globally Educated Engineers in a Curricular Context.”

Steven Lewis, coordinator, Transnational China Project, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, was a speaker at a recent Houston symposium on U.S.-China relations marking the 50th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Lewis’ talk outlined major changes in China’s economic reform, including privatization, decentralization of political and economic control, support for private enterprise, job retraining and protection of intellectual property.

Cheryl Matherly, director, Career Services Center, co-authored the article “Ready for the Global Workplace?,” which appeared in the Wall Street Journal special college publication, “Managing Your Career.” Matherly also served as a course developer for “Career Advantage,” a telecourse produced by KCSM Television in San Mateo, Calif. She edited the companion textbook and developed the original faculty manual. “Career Advantage” won a Silver Apple from the National Educational Media Network’s 1999 Apple Awards Film and Video Competition for excellence in educational video.

Linda McNeil, associate professor, Dept. of Education, and co-director, Center for Education, delivered the keynote address “Democracy and Standardization in Education,” at the Accelerated Schools Conference, Nov. 19, in Austin. She was also a featured speaker at the Conference on Educational Research in the Urban South: Challenges for the New Millennium at Emory U., Dec. 3-4. She spoke on “The Rice University Center for Education: Emergent Research on Urban Teachers’ Learning.”

Angelo Miele, professor emeritus, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, has been elected honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) “for analytical, computational and educational contributions to the fields of atmospheric and space flight mechanics, centered on optimization, guidance and control of aircraft and spacecraft trajectories. He will receive the honor at the AIAA annual meeting in Washington, May 10-12.

Hamid Naficy, associate professor of film and media studies, Dept. of Art & Art History, gave three talks: “Evolution of Iranian Cinema” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 14; “Gender, Sexuality and Vision in Iranian Cinema” at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown U., Washington, Nov. 18; and “Images of Women in Iranian Film” at the Middle Eastern Studies Association conference, Washington, Nov. 20.

Karen E. Schnietz, assistant professor of management, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, had the article, “Politics Matter: The 1997 Derailment of the Fast-Track Trade Negotiating Authority,” with Timothy Nieman, published in Business and Politics, 1 (1999): 233-251. Also accepted for publication was “The Institutional Foundations of U.S. Trade Policy: Revisiting Explanations for the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act,” Journal of Policy History, 12 (2000), forthcoming.

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