WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY Minutes of the Faculty Meeting

May 7, 2004 (final Meeting of academic year 2003-2004)

Attendance: Approximately 115

Announced Agenda: 9 items

1. Approval of the minutes of April 6, 2004 (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~facsec/facmin/04-04-06.html)

2. Approval of the lists of candidates for undergraduate degrees

3. Approval of undergraduate honors

4. Approval of the lists of candidates for advanced degrees

5. Faculty Council's year-end report

6. Faculty awards

a. Teaching awards

b. Outstanding college associates

7. Overview of faculty accomplishments

8. Recognition of retiring members of the faculty

9. Announcements

10. Adjournment

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President Malcolm Gillis called to order and chaired the General Faculty Meeting in McMurtry Auditorium of Duncan Hall at 10:05 a.m. Alan Chapman served as Parliamentarian.

1. Minutes of 4-6-04 Faculty Meeting - On motion duly made and seconded, the minutes of the April 6, 2004 Faculty Meeting were APPROVED as circulated in advance on the web.

2. Approval of Candidates for Undergraduate Degrees - President Gillis called on Deborah Nelson, chair of the Committee on Examinations and Standings (EX&S), to present the list of candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees. Nelson relayed there were no exceptions. There was discussion regarding students adding hours late in the semester, the ways in which EX&S deals with these types of anomalies, and a possible honor code violation.

During the discussion of the Committee on Examinations and Standings (EX&S) report, faulty memories caused incorrect comments to be presented to the faculty. To prevent such errors in the future a new procedure has now been established. The chair of EX&S will keep a log of all exceptions it makes and any overruling made by the President. That log will be brought to each faculty meeting called to confer degrees and will be available to assure accurate descriptions of any exceptions or overruling of EX&S decisions.

President Gillis moved to approve the list of candidates for Baccalaureate degrees as circulated in advance of the meeting by Registrar Jerry Montag.

Bachelor of Architecture - 14
Bachelor of Arts - 452
Bachelor of Science - 20
Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering - 30
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering -13
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering - 11
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - 9
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering - 38
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering - 26
Bachelor of Music - 18

A vote was taken, and the faculty APPROVED that the 631 degrees be awarded. The list of names and associated departments are shown in ATTACHMENT A.

3. Approval of undergraduate honors - Once again President Gillis called on Nelson to present for faculty approval the list of students qualifying for University Honors. The list is summarized below:

Summa cum laude - 32
Magna cum laude - 65
Cum laude - 104

By unanimous vote, the faculty APPROVED for honors the 201 candidates listed in ATTACHMENT B. President Gillis requested that the names of honorees be kept confidential until they appear publicly at Commencement on Saturday morning.

4. Approval of Candidates for Advanced Degrees -President Gillis called on Clarence Miller, chair of the Graduate Council, to present the official list of candidates for Advanced Degrees. Miller stated there were no other exceptions. The list of those recommended for graduate degrees had also been previously distributed to all attendees and is summarized in the following categories:

Doctor of Philosophy - 71
Doctor of Musical Arts - 5
Master of Arts - 44
Master of Science - 42
Master of Architecture - 23
Master of Arts in Teaching - 1
Master of Science in Environmental Analysis and Decision - 2
Master of Science in Nanoscale Physics - 1
Master of Science Teaching - 1
Master of Music - 59
Master of Civil Engineering - 3
Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics - 2
Master of Electrical Engineering - 7
Master of Environmental Engineering - 1
Master of Mechanical Engineering - 2
Master of Business Administration - 302

After a vote, the faculty unanimously APPROVED the 566 Advanced Degree candidates (see ATTACHMENT C).

6. Faculty Council's year-end report - Speaker Akin presented a brief summary of Faculty Council's work and accomplishments this year as follows:

Established a faculty liaison to the Honor Council;

Carried out a study of athletics at Rice: released a report on athletics, held two general faculty meetings to discuss athletics, and conducted a poll on athletics and distributed the results;

Completed a faculty compensation study;

Revised Policy 201 to cover "Professor of the Practice";

Reviewed and approved new degrees: 3 masters degrees, 1 bachelor of science degree, and a graduate certificate program;

Conducted a lengthy evaluation of the intellectual property policy;

Began work to remove the gendered language from faculty policies; and

Continued its multi-year review of faculty governance;commissioned the "Ambler Review" on governance at similar universities; held two open faculty forums on governance with selected external speakers, and announced the beginning of a special select panel to evaluate options for faculty and shared governance at Rice.

7. Faculty Awards: Teaching Awards and Outstanding Faculty Associates - President Gillis presented the following awards to 24 outstanding faculty. In most cases, the awards consisted of a plaque and a check.

George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching ($6,500)

John Hutchinson, Professor of Chemistry

George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching ($2,000)

James Brown, Professor of Economics
Brian Gibson, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
Michelle Hebl, Radoslav Tsanoff Assistant Professor of Psychology and Management
Lynne Huffer, Professor of French Studies
Elizabeth Long, Associate Professor of Sociology
Joel Wolfe, Associate Professor of History

Charles Duncan Junior Faculty Achievement Award ($5,000)

Lydia E. Kavraki, Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management Award for Excellence in Teaching ($5,000)

Barbara Ostdiek, Associate Professor of Management and Statistics

Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize ($2,000)

Mark Embree, Assistant Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics

GSA Teaching Award ($1,500)

John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History
Rebekah Drezek, Stanley C. Moore Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Presidential Award for Mentoring ($2,000)

John Anderson, W. Maurice Ewing Chair in Oceanography and Professor of Earth Science

Piper Professor ($5,000)

Michelle Hebl, Radoslav Tsanoff Assistant Professor of Psychology and Management

Texas Professor of the Year - awarded by CASE

Elizabeth Long, Associate Professor of Sociology

Outstanding Faculty Associates of the Colleges ($1,500)

Baker: Mary Tobin, Lecturer in English
Brown: Yousif Shamoo, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Hanszen: James Young, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jones: Richard Stoll, Professor of Political Science
Lovett: George Bennett, Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Martel: Thomas Killian, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Sid Richardson: Michael Wolf, Professor of Mathematics
Wiess: Neal Lane, University Professor
Will Rice: Andreas Luettge, Associate Professor of Earth Science

6. Overview of Faculty Accomplishments - The respective deans have reported the following accomplishments by faculty in their Schools.

A. ARCHITECTURE: Assistant Professor Nana Last received a Getty Library Research Grant for 2004. Assistant Professor Dawn Finley was the Associate Architect with Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa, Italy for the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Professor in Practice Nonya Grenader recently received a Houston American Institute of Architects 2004 design award for "The 22nd Street Lofts." Professor Gordon Wittenberg received a Houston American Institute of Architects Honor Award for "The Yoakum Street Townhouses" in Houston. Professor Carlos Jimenez completed design and construction on the Irwin Mortgage Corporate Headquarters in Indianapolis and also the Rice Library Service Center. Dean Lars Lerup was named "Swedish American of the Year" for 2004.

B. GEORGE R. BROWN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: Rebekah Drezek (Bioengineering) received the Whitaker Foundation Young Investigator Award; Young Scientist Award from Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology. Jennifer West (Bioengineering) received the 2003 Charles Duncan Award; “Best Discovery of 2003” from Nanotechnology Now; 100 Most Innovative Young Scientists, MIT Technology Review. Richard Tapia (Computational and Applied Mathematics) – received an Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science and Technology, from Carnegie-Mellon University. He also received Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Mathematical Society (AMS), an Honorary Doctorate from the Colorado School of Mines; and was honored at the National Atomic Museum Foundation Hispanics in Science and Engineering Exhibit. Ken Kennedy (Computer Science) received the Computerworld Honors Foundation Award. Moshe Vardi (Computer Science) was elected to Texas Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Naomi Halas (Electrical and Computer Engineering ) received the “Best Discovery of 2003” from Nanotechnology Now; Fellow, Optical Society of America. Enrique Barrera (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) received the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Award in Education. Kathy Ensor (Statistics) was elected to Governing Board of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

C. HUMANITIES: Hilary Mackie published Graceful Errors: Pindar and the Performance of Praise with the University of Michigan Press. Betty Joseph published Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender in the prestigious Women in Culture and Society Series from the University of Chicago Press. Jack Zammito, who is jointly appointed in German Studies and the Department of History, continues his analysis of the foundations of the sciences and social sciences with A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-Positivism in Science Studies from Quine to Latour, published by the University of Chicago Press. Robert Englebretson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, published Searching for Structure: The Problem of Complementation in Colloquial Indonesian Conversation, with John Benjamins, Amsterdam. Geoff Winningham published a book of photography, Along Forgotten River, funded with a $100,000 grant from the Texas State Historical Association.

D. JONES GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: Associate Professor Shannon Anderson was presented with the "Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award" by the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. Associate Professor Doug Schuler was presented this year with a "Best Paper Award" from the International Association for Business and Society for his paper (coauthored with Rehbein and Cramer), "Pursuing strategic advantage through political means: A multivariate approach" published in Academy of Management Journal, 45(4): 659-672, 2002. The American Marketing Association presented Richard Bagozzi, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management, with the Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. Award for Lifetime Achievement in Marketing Research. He was also presented with a "Best Article Award" by the "Journal of Interactive Marketing." Stephen A. Zeff, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, was made an ICAS Honorary Research Fellow by the Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

F. SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Karim Al-Zand was awarded the Sackler Composition Prize ($20,000). Leone Buyse, Professor of Flute, was invited Clinician at the National Flute Association Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Marcia Citron’s article was accepted for publication in the journal, The Musical Quarterly, on "Operatic Elements in Coppola's Godfather Films." This article grew out of an "Opera on Film" seminar of last spring. Cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Gil Shaham will be featured with the Houston Symphony on July 8, 2004 in a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto in a program that also includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Jon Kimura Parker was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada by the Canadian government in September 2003. This is the highest civilian honor given to a Canadian citizen. Bobby Roux was the Guest Artist (solo recital performance) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, on October 27, 2003.

E. WIESS SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES: Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede (Biochemistry & Cell Biology) received the National Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon. Four faculty from Chemistry received prestigious awards: Cecilia Clementi, NSF Career Award; Jeffrey Hartgerink, Searle Scholar; Anatony Kolomeisky, Sloan Research Fellow; and Seiichi Matsuda, Matt Suffness Award, American Society of Pharmacognosy. John Anderson (Earth Science) was elected President of Society of Sedimentary Research. Joan Strassmann (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) has been named a J. S.Guggenheim Fellow. Randy Hulet (Physics & Astronomy) has been elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Doug Natelson (Physics & Astronomy) received three awards: David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, Sloan Research Fellow and NSF Career Award

G. SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: George Marcus (Anthropology) was awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. George Zodrow (Economics) was elected a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association. Earl Black (Political Science), co-author with his brother Merle, published his new book The Rise of Southern Republicans. Randi Martin (Psychology) was funded (co-PI) a major grant ($300,000) from NSF to promote the advancement of women in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Elizabeth Long (Sociology) published her book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life. Suchan Chae was elected to the Korean National Assembly.

7. Recognition of Retiring Members of the Faculty - In ascending order of length of service, President Gillis acknowledged 4 retirees. Each will receive an inscribed captain's chair.

1. Madelaine Alcover (1975 - 2004), 29 years of service, Professor of French Studies
2. Anne M. Schnoebelen (1974 - 2004), 30 years of service, Joseph and Ida Kirkland Mullen Professor of Music
3. John C. Polking (1968 - 2004), 36 years of service, Professor of Mathematics
4. Stephen D. Baker (1963 - 2004), 41 years of service, Professor of Physics

8. Announcements -

President Gillis announced names of faculty members who passed away this academic year.

Frederick B. Rudolph, 1944-2003
Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 1972-2003 (31 years at Rice)

John L. Margrave, 1924-2003
Chemistry, 1963-2003 (40 years at Rice)

Joseph W. Chamberlain, 1929-2004
Space Physics & Astronomy, 1971-1992 (21 years at Rice)

Over the last ten years, the Rice community has lost a total of 140 members: 40 faculty, 5 adjunct faculty, and 95 staff.

Bill Wilson made a few comments regarding the 91st Commencement ceremony.

President Gillis thanked all for a productive year and added some valedictory remarks to the faculty.

Speaker Akin announced the final faculty action of the year to be a resolution presented to President Gillis from the faculty. The text of the resolution follows:

Be It Resolved that:

Whereas Malcolm Gillis has served Rice University with distinction and excellence as its sixth President; and whereas he as been instrumental in assuring that the University will continue to achieve a very high degree of distinction in teaching and research in the coming decades; and whereas he and his wife Elizabeth have provided the kind of leadership and guidance which has brought Rice to a new level of national and international renown; now therefore do we, the Faculty of Rice University, express our profound gratitude to Malcolm for the selfless dedication, energy, and effort he has expended on our behalf the past eleven years. We wish them the very best and look forward to welcoming him back to the faculty after a well-earned leave.

After receiving a lengthy standing ovation from the faculty, President Gillis adjourned the meeting at 11:05 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,


Janis Cain, Secretary to the Rice Faculty

ATTACHMENTS - 3

ATTACHMENT A - 2004 Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degrees

ATTACHMENT B - 2004 Undergraduate Honors

ATTACHMENT C - 2004 Graduate Degrees