People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

RICE NEWS
April 1, 1999

Walter B. Bailey, associate professor of musicology, Shepherd School of Music, delivered a paper titled “The Rice Lectureship in Music, 1922-1933” at the annual conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music, which was held March 10-14 in Fort Worth. The paper traced the origins and evolution of the lectureship, which brought a series of famous musicians and lecturers to Houston, in the correspondence between President Edgar Odell Lovett and the lectureship’s donor, Ima Hogg.

Michael Carroll, the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor in Engineering, has been named to the NCAA Baseball Research Panel, a seven-person group that includes experts in medicine, mathematics, research, physics, engineering and biomechanics, as well as the game of baseball. The panel reports and recommends to the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee and the Executive Committee specifications for baseballs and nonwood baseball bats, as well as future certification protocol.

Nicholas K. Iammarino, professor, Dept. of Human Performance & Health Sciences, presented a paper titled “Problems and Challenges Facing the American Health Care System” to the Republican Center for Surgery in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Dec. 15.

Steven W. Lewis, lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, and director, Transnational China Project, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, gave a presentation titled “Making History as We Please: Evaluating Path Dependency in Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Privatization Programs” at a Jan. 30 workshop held at Rice. The workshop was titled “The Road to Plandom: Non-Socialist and Pre-Socialist Economic Planning in Republican China and Europe, 1935-50” and was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Cultures and the Baker Institute for Public Policy. The workshop was organized by Lewis and P. Carl Cald-well, assistant professor, Dept. of History.

Heather Logan, adjunct lecturer, Dept. of Art & Art History, has etchings showing in the following national juried exhibitions through April: “Another View: Selected Works from Contemporary American Printmakers,” Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, Calif.; “Dream-scapes,” Galleria Mesa, Mesa, Ariz.; “Innovations in Printmaking,” Arundel College, Arnold, Md.; “11th National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition,” Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore; and “Surrealism: National Juried Exhibition,” Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, Calif. In June through July, Logan will present a solo exhibition at the Museum of Printing History.

William Martin, the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religion and Public Policy, Dept. of Sociology, has the cover article, titled “The Religious Right and Foreign Policy,” in the spring issue of Foreign Policy magazine. To view an abstract of the article, see the magazine’s Web site at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/.

Linda McNeil, associate professor, Dept. of Education, and co-director, Center for Education, has been named editor of the American Educational Research Journal, a quarterly publication of the American Educational Research Association, publishing scholarly research on social and institutional analysis in education. The appointment is for three years, 2000-2003.

Hamid Naficy, associate professor, film and media studies, Dept. of Art & Art History, gave the following talks: “House” at Migrations, Diaspora Communities and Transnational Identities Symposium, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., March 12-13; “Emergence of Cinema During the Qajar Era,” at UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, March 4; and “Open Forum on Iranian Cinema,” Dept. of Communication, Texas Southern U., Houston, Feb. 27.

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