In The News

Each month
Rice News will publish a sampling of faculty, staff and
administrators who have been quoted in newspaper or magazine
articles or have been interviewed on television or radio.
To obtain a copy of the clipping packet from which the In
the News items are collected, contact the Office of Media
Relations and Information at (713) 348-6774.

U.S.
News & World Report
John Olson, the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry
and Cell Biology, commented on engineering blood substitutes.

The Chronicle
of Higher Education
An article named Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer
science and in electrical and computer engineering, and
Rice students Ben Swartzlander and Adam Stubblefield among
the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to clear the way for
publication of their research about unscrambling encrypted
digital music.
An article mentioned that Atieno E. Odhiambo, professor
of history, was among the participants in a conference to
promote efforts to revitalize Africa’s failing systems
of higher education and research. Odhiambo commented that
the conference marks a new beginning for African higher
education.

Los Angeles
Times
Amy Jaffe, senior energy adviser at the James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy, commented on turbine power
and the price of natural gas.

The Boston
Globe
Linda McNeil, professor of education, commented that measurable
outcomes may be the least significant results of learning.

Arkansas
Democrat Gazette
Jane Chance, professor of English, commented on the work
of J.R.R. Tolkien and on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
books.

Houston Chronicle
An article featured Phil Bedient, the Herman Brown Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his calling
on the Texas Medical Center to improve its floodproofing
and its handling of overflow from a former stream beneath
the center.
A news brief announced the naming of Gale Stokes, the Mary
Gibbs Jones Professor of History, to dean of the School
of Humanities.

Houston Business
Journal
Richard Batsell, the Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Associate
Professor of Management and associate professor of psychology
at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, commented
that the Internet and e-commerce are having a profound impact
on Rice’s MBA program. The article discussed a study
conducted by Batsell that found that e-commerce courses
within management education programs are rapidly becoming
the most sought-after majors and courses within their curriculum.

KHOU-TV
A program about the energy situation included a segment
with Jaffe, who discussed sports utility vehicles.
Al Napier, professor of management and psychology at the
Jones School, commented on Compaq.

KUHF-FM
Bedient commented that scientists usually have 40 to 50
years of information with which they can measure storms.