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People, papers and presentations

Wade Adams,
director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute
for Nanoscale Science and Technology, was awarded the Silver Good
Citizenship Medal by the Texas chapter of the Sons
of the American Revolution May 21. Adams spoke to the group about the
promise of nanotechnology and how Rice University is working to make good on
that promise. The medal is the organization’s highest citizenship award for a
nonmember, and is presented to people of prominence in government (including
the military), religion, education, business and the professions and other
fields. Before joining Rice, Adams retired from the Air Force Reserve as a
colonel after 30 years of service and from the Air Force civil service after 37
years. He finished as chief scientist of the Materials and Manufacturing
Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
in Ohio.

Jones Graduate School of Business executive MBA alum Idris
Bello ’11 led a Rice team in winning the Dell Technology Award for the social
innovation that best leverages technology. The $10,000 award will fund
“Libraries Across Africa,” a plan to radically accelerate the
construction of public libraries in Africa to provide information access for
the largest number of people at the least cost.

Inspired by Rice’s energy and the environment initiative,
Associate Professor Dominic Boyer and Assistant
Professor Cymene Howe, both in
the Department of Anthropology, organized a special section on energy and
energopolitics for the May Anthropology News, the American Anthropological
Association’s monthly newspaper with a circulation of 11,000. Both Boyer and
Howe published articles that demonstrated how anthropologists have the unique
skills and perspectives to work at the intersection of politics, energy and
culture.

Ed Segner, professor in the practice of civil engineering
management, won the 2010-2011 Chi Epsilon Excellence in
Teaching Award for the Southwest District.

Entries for ”People, Papers, Presentations” should be submitted to the Office of News and Media Relations by email to ricenews@rice.edu or campus mail to MS 300.