People, Papers, Presentations

Entries for “People, Papers,
Presentations” should be submitted to the Office of News and Media
Relations by e-mail, <ricenews@rice.edu>;
fax, 713-348-6380; or campus mail, MS 300. Entries will run on a space-available
basis.

Jane Chance,
professor of English, has been selected to be series editor
of the Praeger Perspectives on the Middle Ages. It will
consist of definitive monographs on various subjects, including
women, warfare, religion (Islam, Judaism and Christianity),
folklore and mythology, chivalry and courtly love, gender
and sex, recreation (culture), art (music, theatre and architecture),
politics, family (household), health and medicine (death),
science and technology, crime (law), literature and images
of the other (ethnicity) and is to be published over the
next five years. Chance also delivered an invited lecture,
“Filming an Epic: Peter Jackson’s Interpretation
of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Epic, ‘Fellowship of the Ring’”
to the Rice University Alumni Group–Austin Oct. 10
and “Tolkien and Middle-earth” to the Rice University
Society of Women, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Houston,
Nov. 11. She directed a workshop on “The Lord of the
Rings: The Mythology of Power” and participated as
a reader at “The Two Towers: Marathon Reading Celebration”
that was sponsored by the English Department of Cleveland
State University, Ohio, and The Edge Lutheran Campus Ministry,
Ohio, Nov. 14 and 15. Chance has participated in seven invited
lectures or performances that are related to Tolkien scheduled
for 2003-2005.

Sydney Lamb,
the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
and Cognitive Sciences, gave four lectures at City University
of Hong Kong Oct. 31-
Nov. 14. The lectures were titled “Linguistic Information
as a Relational Network,” “Questions of Evidence
in Neurocognitive Linguistics,” “Relational Network
Theory” and “Neurocognitive Structure in the Interplay
of Language and Thought.”

John L. Margrave,
the E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemistry, represented the
Rice NROTC unit at the annual meeting of the National Association
of NROTC Colleges and Universities in Providence, R.I.,
and at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., Nov. 1 and
2. Margrave discussed “Fluorination, the Real Thing”
Nov. 4 for the Society of Rice University Women. From Nov.
7 to 9 he attended the annual meeting of the American Institute
of Chemists in Boston, where he presented a lecture, “More
Than Five Decades of Fluorine Chemistry,” and was recognized
with a Chemical Pioneer Award for his work in fluorine chemistry
and his studies of levitated liquid metals. Margrave was
one of the invited participants at a conference near Washington,
D.C., Nov. 19-21 considering “Approaches to Combat
Terrorism,” co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation
and the Intelligence Community.