People, Papers, Presentations

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Joe Hughes,
professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering,
has been appointed associate director for research for the
Environmental Protection Agency-funded Hazardous Substances
Research Center South and Southwest and chair of the Science
Advisory Committee for the West Cost Hazardous Substances
Research Center. Hughes also is serving on the organizing
committee for the 2003 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

A collection
of essays, “19th Century Geographies: From the Victorian
Age to the American Century,” edited by Helena Michie,
professor of English and Ronald R. Thomas, was published
this fall by Rutgers University Press. The book features
articles by Betty Joseph, associate professor of
English; Ussama Makdisi, associate professor of history;
Robert Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor in
Humanities; and an introduction and article by Michie. The
collection is based on a 1998 conference at Rice that was
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Cultures and a
variety of humanities departments.