People, Papers, Presentations

John Anderson,
professor of earth science, was elected president of the
Society of Sedimentary Research. He will serve as president-elect
until April 2003, when he will assume office as president.

Mary Ann
Clark, who recently earned a Ph.D. from the Dept. of
Religious Studies, was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship
in religion. Next year she will be a Rockefeller Fellow
at the Center for Latin American Studies, U. of Florida,
where she will continue her work on facets of Santeria.

Steven W.
Lewis, senior researcher, James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy, and lecturer, Asian studies, presented
“China’s Oil Diplomacy and Relations with the
Middle East” at the conference “Energy Security
in the Eastern Hemisphere: Impact of Sept. 11 Terrorism
on the Middle East Countries and Its Implications for Energy
Security in Asia,” Petroleum Energy Center, Tokyo,
March 27.

Manik Talwani,
the Schlumberger Professor of Geophysics, presented a paper
titled “Gravity Gradients for Derisking Pre Stack Depth
Migration,” co-authored with Ed Biegert and Dirk Smit,
at the 2001 annual conference of the European Association
of Geophysicists and Engineers, held in The Hague, Netherlands.
The authors were awarded the prestigious Ludger Mintrop
Award for the best paper at the conference, and Talwani
was given the Distinguished Lecturer Award.

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