People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

RICE NEWS OFFICE
July 30, 1998

Janet Braam, associate professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Cell Biology,
was an invited speaker at the XIX International Society for Gravitational Physiology
in Rome, Italy, May 31-June 5, 1998. Her lecture was titled "Functions
of the Mechanoresponsive TCH Genes of Arabidopsis."

Michael M. Carroll, the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor in Engineering
and dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, was an invited lecturer
at the CAIMS, CSFD-98 held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on May 27-31,
1998. His topic was "Exact Solutions in Compressible Finite Elasticity."

Jane Chance, professor, Dept. of English, was elected to a two-year term as
vice president of the Texas Faculty Association, a professional society devoted
to the advancement of faculty rights and tenure in Texas. Twice previously she
was elected to membership on the executive committee representing private institutions.

Nicholas K. Iammarino, professor, Dept. of Human Performance and Health Sciences,
was named one of 57 national charter fellows of the American Association for
Health Education for his contributions to the association and to the profession
of health education.

Angelo Miele, professor emeritus, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials
Science, presented seminars on "Next Generation Rocket-Powered Spacecraft:
Single-Stage-to-Orbit vs. Two-Stage-to-Orbit" at the University of Pisa
on June 23 and at the Polytechnic of Turin on June 26. Also, he presented the
paper "Time-Optimal Climb of Next-Generation Jet-Fighter Aircraft: Classical
and Computational Results" at a one-day meeting in memory of Professor
Placido Cicala at the Polytechnic of Turin on June 25; the paper was co-authored
by Dr. J.B. Dabney, post-doctoral research associate, MEMS.

Miguel A. Quinones, associate professor, Dept. of Psychology, gave a presentation
entitled "Advances in Training Evaluation" at the Centro Caribeno
de Estudios Postgraduados in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Diana Strassman, senior research fellow, Center for the Study of Cultures,
and editor of Feminist Economics, gave a presentation titled "Identity
Matters: Discovering the Social Rhetoric of Economic Practice" at the International
Association for Feminist Economics Conference in Amsterdam, June 3, 1998.

Joan E. Strassmann, professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
gave a presentation titled "El parentesco y conflicto social en las abejas
meliponinas y Apis" ("Relatedness and social conflict in meliponine
bees and Apis") at the Departamento de Apicultura, Universidad Autónoma
de Yucatán, Merida, Mexico, on May 14, 1998.

Larry Temkin, professor, Dept. of Philosophy, attended a symposium honoring
his book, "Inequality," co-hosted by the U. of Copenhagen, Denmark,
and the U. of Lund, Sweden, from May 20-22, 1998. Symposium papers, together
with a response by Temkin, are slated to be published in the journal Theoria.
In addition, Temkin delivered three talks, May 19-20: the first, "From
Torture to Hangnails: A Problem with Practical Reasoning," at the U. of
Copenhagen; the second, "In Sickness and in Health, Till Death Do Us Part:
Fundamental Questions about Equality and the Human Condition," to the Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, in Copenhagen; and the third, "Equality,
Priority and the Leveling Down Objection" at the U. of Lund.

Duane Windsor, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management, Jones Graduate
School of Management, gave a featured presentation on "Evaluation and Compensation
of Work Team Performance" at the 6th Annual Advanced Concepts Conference
on Work Teams in Denton, Texas, on May 28, 1998. The conference is sponsored
by the Center for the Study of Work Teams of U. of North Texas. The conference
papers will be published as volume six of Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies
of Work Teams (JAI Press). Windsor also gave two presentations, titled "International
Suppression of business Corruption" and "The Definition of Stakeholder
Status," at the annual meeting of the International Association for Business
and Society (IABS) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in June 1998. The papers will be
published in the bound proceedings of the conference.