People, Papers, Presentations

Paul Brace,
the Clarence L. Carter Professor of Political Science, participated
in the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies
at the International Political Science Association meeting
in Cape Town, South Africa, from Jan. 7-9. Brace presented
a paper titled “Organized Interests and Judicial Decisions:
Lessons from the American States.”

Susan McIntosh,
professor, Dept. of Anthropology, attended the White House
Conference on Culture and Diplomacy, which was convened
in the East Room of the White House by President Clinton,
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright. Subsequently, she participated in one of the four
workshops designed to generate policy recommendations on
the role of preservation of diverse cultures in a global
economy and, more generally, on the integration of cultural
considerations in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. McIntosh
is beginning her 5th year of service as a member of the
Presidential Advisory Committee on Cultural Property.

Rafael M.
Mérida-Jiménez, assistant professor, Dept.
of Hispanic & Classical Studies, gave an invited presentation
of a paper titled “La bibliografia académica
considerada como una de las belas artes” at the Facultat
de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, Universitat de
Barcelona, Dec. 20. He also participated in the annual meeting
of the Catalan Research Council, in Barcelona, Spain.

R. John Rath,
the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor Emeritus of History and former
chair of the Dept. of History in the 1960s, is being honored
by the Austrian History Yearbook. The Yearbook, which was
created by Rath while he was at Rice, will dedicate its
forthcoming issue to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
The Yearbook is the primary international historical journal
covering the area encompassing the Habsburg lands. Rath
continues to publish, and he will have a detailed scholarly
article based on archival documents in the same issue of
the Austrian History Yearbook that honors him.

Joan Strassmann
and David Queller, both professors in the Dept. of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Yong Zhu,
Rice graduate student, Ph.D. 2000, published “Altruism
and Social Cheating in the Social Amoeba, Dictyostelium
Discoideum” in Nature, 408:965-967.

Stephen A.
Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting
and professor of managerial studies at the Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Management, presented an address on international
accounting standards at a conference in Singapore organized
by Singapore Management University and sponsored by Ernst
& Young.

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