People, Papers, Presentations

Robert Dipboye,
professor of psychology and management and chair, Dept.
of Psychology, has been elected to the executive board of
the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Matthias
Henze, assistant professor, Dept. of Religious Studies,
has been awarded an annual Junior Scholar Grant of $2,000
by the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. The commission
is the regional umbrella organization for the main professional
societies in the field of religious studies. Henze received
his award on the basis of a competition in which he proposed
his next major research project, a study of the reception
history of the Biblical psalms in early Christianity.

Nicholas
K. Iammarino, professor of health sciences, Dept. of
Kinesiology, presented a paper titled “The Importance
and Relevance of the Intercultural Cancer Council’s
Cancer Fact Sheets” at the Intercultural Cancer Council
National Network Meeting, Washington, D.C., Feb. 6.

Maryana Iskander
(Wiess ’97), has been named one of 30 chosen 2001 Paul
and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. She will receive up
to a $20,000 per year stipend plus half-tuition for as many
as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher
learning in the United States. Iskander currently is a student
at Yale Law School. There were 900 applications nationwide
for the award.

George Marcus,
professor, Dept. of Anthropology, was a guest of the Legal
Theory Workshop at the Yale Law School March 22. His work
on changes in the practice of ethnography was considered
in relation to new approaches in legal studies. Marcus also
has been awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship for the spring
semester of 2001-2002 at American Academy in Berlin.

Hamid Naficy,
associate professor, film and media studies, Dept. of Art
& Art History, gave a talk titled “Cinema of Diaspora
and Exile: Representing House, Home, Homeland” at the
Dept. of Cinema, State University of New York–Binghamton,
March 9.
Barbara J. Rozek, editorial assistant, Jefferson Davis Papers,
was named by Peter MacNicol (John Cage on “Ally McBeal”)
in the Target Takes Charge of Education program, which asks
celebrities to name their favorite teachers. Target flew
Rozek and her husband to Los Angeles for the “Teachers
Make A Difference” photo shoot April 1 and will make
a $1,000 donation to the K-12 school of Rozek’s choice.
MacNicol was a student in Rozek’s world history class
in the early 1970s at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.
Allison Janney of “The West Wing” and Camryn Manheim
of “The Practice” and their favorite teachers
also took part in the event.

Roland Smith,
associate provost, was elected to serve on the board of
the American Conference of Academic Deans for a term starting
in 2004. The goal of the ACAD is to create both formal and
informal opportunities for deans and other academic officers
to meet, network and offer professional support to their
colleagues in their work as academic leaders.

Joan Strassmann
and David Queller, professors, Dept. of Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology, along with their colleague Yong Zhu,
a 2000 Rice Ph.D. graduate, had a research paper, “Altruism
and Social Cheating in the Social Amoeba Dictystelium Discoideum,”
published in the Dec. 21 issue of Nature. The paper also
was published in the Jan. 20 issue of Arzte Zeitung, a German
newspaper.

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