News Briefs

Campus memorial
service for Hammond
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A memorial service
for Michael Hammond, former dean of the Shepherd School
of Music, will be held at 3 p.m. March 14 at Stude Concert
Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall.

Hammond died
from complications of cancer Jan. 29 in Washington, D.C.
He was 69. He had been appointed as new chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts just before his death.

A funeral mass
for Hammond was held Feb. 4 at St. Patrick’s Roman
Catholic Church in Bedford Village, N.Y.

Donations in
honor of Hammond can be made to the Shepherd School of Music,
Rice University, MS 532, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892.

Grad student
earns NSF fellowship
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Shelly Harvey,
who will receive her Ph.D. in mathematics this May, is the
first student from Rice’s Department of Mathematics
to win a coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical
Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Fewer than 30
of the fellowships are awarded annually. Harvey will spend
the first year of the fellowship conducting full-time research
in low-dimensional topology at the University of California,
San Diego. Harvey’s research centers around use of
noncommutative invariants in the classification of three-dimensional
objects. Harvey will combine the final two years of her
NSF fellowship with a Moore Instructorship at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, dividing her time between teaching
and research.

Rice News
goes on spring break
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No Rice News
will be published next week, March 7, because of spring
break. The next issue will be March 14. Deadline for submission
for that issue is Wednesday, March 6.