| Faculty Distinctions for Current and Emeriti Faculty |
Number |
| Nobel Laureates |
2 |
| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Recipients |
28 |
| American Academy
of Arts and Letters - Literature Award |
1 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members |
8 |
| American Association
for the Advancement of Science Fellows |
25 |
| American Council of Learned Societies
Fellowships |
14 |
| American Philosophical
Society Awards |
3 |
| American Physical Society Fellows |
10 |
| American Society
of Microbiology Fellows |
2 |
| Guggenheim Fellowships |
17 |
| Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers Fellows |
12 |
| National Academies |
|
| Institute
of Medicine |
3 |
| National
Academy of Engineering Members |
13 |
| National
Academy of Sciences Members |
7 |
| National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships |
8 |
| National Endowment
for the Humanities - Research Fellows |
10 |
| National Humanities Center Fellowships |
5 |
| National Institutes
of Health Fellowships |
5 |
| National Science Foundation Awards
and Fellowships |
70 |
| Sloan Fellowships |
23 |
| U.S. Presidential Appointees to national
boards and advisory committees |
5 |
| Woodrow Wilson Fellowships |
5 |
Faculty Distinctions for Current and Emeriti Faculty
Awards and distinctions were compiled from several different sources. First,
awards and distinctions, and the respective recipient(s) of each, were requested
from each academy, agency, foundation, or association; in some cases, national
databases are available and were accessed for this same purpose. Second, requests
were made from each faculty member's respective school dean to submit to the
Office of Institutional Research a list of faculty with their respective awards
and distinctions. Third, searches were made on the Rice faculty website by the
Office of Institutional Research regarding awards and distinctions. At this
point, lists were compiled for each award or distinction with the recipient,
using all sources. The next step was to verify that each faculty member who
is on any of the lists was either a current Rice faculty member or held emeritus
status; this was done by going to the Fall 2001 faculty database (described
above) and verifying any variances with the Manager of Faculty Affairs. In some
cases, an understatement of the number of distinctions was possible if a faculty
member achieved an award or distinction before coming to Rice. The granting
academy, agency, foundation, or association may have listed the faculty member
and his or her award or distinction under the university's name with which the
faculty member was affiliated at the time the award or distinction was granted.
Website's for distinction categories included the following:
The Nobel Foundation is a private institution established in 1900 on the basis
of the will of Alfred Nobel. By the terms of the will, the Nobel Prizes in Physics
and Chemistry have been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS)
since 1901. The RSAS is an independent, non-governmental organization whose objectives
include the identification and reward of outstanding scientific achievements.
For their discovery of fullerenes, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded
the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to:
Professor Robert F. Curl, Rice University, Houston, USA
Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and
Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a non-profit organization established
under private law by the Federal Republic of Germany. Named in honor of the German
natural scientist and explorer, the Foundation was founded in 1860 to commemorate
his life work and to sponsor research travel abroad by German scholars. The Foundation
also assists foreign scholars pursuing postgraduate studies in Germany through
Humboldt Research Fellowships and Humboldt Research Awards.
Rice has twenty-four (24) current faculty members who have received twenty-eight
(28) awards and fellowships from the Humboldt Foundation:
Andrew R. Barron
Wilbur E. Billups
Robert E. Bixby (Emeritus)
Phillip R. Brooks
Franz R. Brotzen (Emeritus)
C. Sidney Burrus
Peter C. Caldwell (3)
John W. Clark, Jr.
Steven Cox
Robert F. Curl
Robert C. Haymes (Emeritus)
Mark Alan Kulstad
Eugene H. Levy |
Andreas Luttge
Rex B. McLellan
F. Curtis Michel (Emeritus)
Donald Ray Morrison (2)
C. Robert O'Dell (Emeritus)
Pol D. Spanos (2)
Frank K. Tittel
Raymond O. Wells, Jr. (Emeritus)
Kenton H. Whitmire
Joseph B. Wilson (Emeritus)
Harvey Yunis
|
The Academy of Arts and Letters honors the achievements of American artists who
excel in any of the fields of arts and literature and has been doing so since
1898. Three yearly exhibitions draw on an extensive permanent collection of memorabilia
and works by members.
Rice University has one (1) faculty member who has won the Academy Award in
Literature:
Edward Snow
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is an honorary society that recognizes
achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and
conducts a varied program of projects and studies responsive to the needs and
problems of society. The Academy's membership, which is elected, represents distinction
and achievement in the entire range of the intellectual disciplines and professions.
Its 3,300 Fellows and 550 Foreign Honorary Members are divided into four classes--the
physical sciences, the biological sciences, the social arts and sciences, and
the humanities and fine arts. Among its Fellows are 168 Nobel Prize laureates
and 58 Pulitzer Prize winners. The Academy recognizes achievement not only in
election to membership but in the awarding of prizes.
Rice currently has the following eight (8) faculty who are members of AAAS:
Robert F. Curl
Michael M. Carroll
William E. Gordon (Emeritus)
Norman Hackerman (Emeritus)
Randall G. Hulet
James L. Kinsey
Richard E. Smalley
Edith Wyschogrod (Emeritus)
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, pronounced "Triple-A-S")
is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific
and technological excellence across all disciplines, and to the public's understanding
of science and technology. AAAS is among the oldest societies in America, having
been founded in Philadelphia in 1848. Many of today's most prestigious and influential
scientific societies have their historical origins in AAAS.
Rice has the following twenty-five (25) faculty as fellows; and in 1997, Rice
University's Richard A. Tapia (Computational and Applied Mathematics) was the
recipient of the AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Albert W. Bally (Emeritus)
James W. Campbell (Emeritus)
Joseph W. Chamberlain (Emeritus)
William E. Gordon (Emeritus)
Randall G. Hulet
Jordan Konisky
Ken Kennedy
James L. Kinsey
Edward S. Lewis (Emeritus)
John L. Margrave**
Randi C. Martin
Kathleen S. Matthews
Larry McIntire
John S. Olson
Ronald J. Parry
John C. Polking
Frederick B. Rudolph*
David W. Scott
Gustavo Scuseria
Alvin Tarlov
Albert Van Helden (Emeritus)
Moshe Vardi
James B. Walker (Emeritus)
G. K. Walters (Emeritus)
Raymond O. Wells, Jr. (Emeritus)
*deceased on October 9, 2003
**deceased on December 18, 2003
According to its web site, the mission of the American Council of Learned Societies
(ACLS) is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the Humanities
and the related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among
the national societies devoted to such studies." The ACLS carries out its mission
in a variety of programs across many fields of learning, with the awarding of
peer-reviewed fellowships at the core of ACLS activity. Membership in ACLS is
restricted to organizations, with three types of memberships: Constituent Learned
Society (national or international organizations in the humanities and social
sciences that focus on a broad but discrete field of humanistic inquiry), Affiliate
(organizations and institutions whose goals and purposes are closely linked to
ACLS and serve to increase the community and the effectiveness of those actively
working on behalf of the humanities), and Associate (colleges, universities, research
libraries, and other scholarly institutions).
Rice University has the following fourteen (14) faculty as ACLS fellowships:
Alexander Byrd
William A. Camfield (Emeritus)
Philip W. Davis (Emeritus)
Richard Grandy
Deborah A. Harter
Anne C. Klein
Michael R. Maas
|
Joseph Manca
Hajime Nakatani
Nanxiu Qian
Meredith A. Skura
Martin J. Wiener
Philip R. Wood
Rachel E. Zuckert |
The American Philosophical Society, this country's first learned society, has
played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for 250 years.
An eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, the American Philosophical
Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence
in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources,
and community outreach.
Rice has three (3) faculty members who have received American Philosophical
Society awards:
William Camfield (Emeritus)
Randi
C. Martin
William
C. Martin
The American Physical Society (APS) is an organization of more than 40,000 physicists
worldwide. Serving on the Executive Committee of the Texas Section of APS are
two Rice faculty members: Naomi Halas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and
Stephen D. Baker (Physics).
In addition, Rice has a total of ten (10) faculty as fellows:
Randall G. Hulet
Eugene H. Levy
J. L. Margrave**
F. C. Michel (Emeritus)
Peter Nordlander
Gustavo Scuseria
R. E. Smalley
R. F. Stebbings (Emeritus)
Frank Tittel
G. K. Walters (Emeritus)
**deceased on December 18, 2003
American Society of Microbiology:
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is the oldest and largest single
life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from
59 scientists in 1899 to over 42,000 members today located throughout the world.
ASM represents 25 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division
for microbiology educators. Microbiological research includes infectious diseases,
recombinant DNA technology, alternative methods of energy production and waste
recycling, new sources of food, new drug development, and the etiology of sexually
transmitted diseases, among other areas. Microbiology is also concerned with
environmental problems and industrial processes. The mission of ASM is to promote
the microbiological sciences and their applications for the common good.
The following two (2) Rice University faculty are Fellows:
Jordan
Konisky
Herb
Ward
The Guggenheim Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all
fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the
performing arts. The Foundation selects its Fellows on the basis of two
separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin
America and the Caribbean. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected
individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months.
Since the purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows
with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible,
grants are made freely. No special conditions attach to them, and Fellows
may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work.
The following seventeen (17) Rice University faculty have received fellowships:
William Camfield (Emeritus)
Jane Chance
Shih-Hui
Chen
Benjamin
Lee
Helena Michie
Robert Patten
Basilios Poulos
David
C. Queller
Gustavo
Scuseria
Meredith
Skura
George Smith
Joan
E. Strassmann
Julie
Taylor
G.
K. Walters (Emeritus)
Geoffrey Winningham
Susan Wood
Edith Wyschogrod (Emeritus)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest
technical professional society. Founded in 1884 by a handful of practitioners
of the new electrical engineering discipline, today's Institute is comprised of
more than 320,000 members who conduct and participate in its activities in approximately
150 countries. The men and women of the IEEE are the technical and scientific
professionals who make revolutionary engineering advances, which reshape our world.
The technical objectives of the IEEE focus on advancing the theory and practice
of electrical, electronic and computer engineering and computer science. Through
its membership, IEEE provides leadership in areas ranging from aerospace, computers,
and communications to biomedical technology, electric power and consumer electronics.
The following twelve (12) Rice University faculty are fellows:
Behnaam Aazhang (2)
Athanasios Antoulas
Richard G. Baraniuk
C. Sidney Burrus
William E. Gordon (Emeritus)
Don H. Johnson
J. Robert Jump (Emeritus)
Ken Kennedy
J. Boyd Pearson (Emeritus)
Frank K. Tittel
James F. Young
Willie Zwaenepoel
- Institute of Medicine:
The mission of the Institute of Medicine is to advance and disseminate scientific
knowledge to improve human health. The Institute provides objective, timely, authoritative
information and advice concerning health and science policy to government, the
corporate sector, the professions and the public.
The following three (3) are Rice University faculty are members:
Baruch A. Brody
G. Anthony Gorry
Alvin R. Tarlov
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE), established by a Congressional act
of incorporation signed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln, is a private, independent,
nonprofit institution that not only advises the federal government, but also conducts
independent studies that examine some of the most important contemporary topics
in engineering and technology. The NAE's leadership continues to provide a forum
for the spirit of the engineering profession, building the bridge between science
and society. The NAE is also a member of a larger Academy complex, made up of
four distinct yet interdependent institutions: the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National
Research Council.
The following thirteen (13) Rice University faculty are members:
Robert Bixby (Emeritus)
Michael M. Carroll
William E. Gordon (Emeritus)
J. David Hellums
George J. Hirasaki
Ken Kennedy
Riki Kobayashi (Emeritus)
Larry V. McIntire
Angelo Miele (Emeritus)
Ronald P. Nordgren (Emeritus)
Richard A. Tapia
Moshe Y. Vardi
Anestis S. Veletsos
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was created specifically for the purpose
of advising the nation's leaders on the scientific issues that frequently pervade
policy decisions, in addition to its sister organizations in the National Academy
of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
These non-profit organizations provide a public service by working outside the
framework of government to ensure independent advice on matters of science, technology,
and medicine. The nation's top scientists, engineers, and other experts volunteer
their time to study specific concerns, the results of which have inspired some
of America's most significant and lasting efforts to improve the health, education,
and welfare of the population. NAS is an honorary society that elects new members
to its ranks each year.
The following seven (7) Rice University faculty are members:
Joseph W. Chamberlain (Emeritus)
Robert F. Curl
Quentin H. Gibson
William E. Gordon (Emeritus)
James L. Kinsey
John L. Margrave**
Richard E. Smalley
**deceased on December 18, 2003
The National Endowment for the Arts provides national arts education leadership
through grants, research, forums, and policy. The NEA serves the public
good by nurturing the expression of human creativity, supporting the cultivation
of community spirit, and fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence
and diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments. NEA fellowships
include the Arts Endowment Literature Fellowships for the encouragement of new
work; the American Jazz Master Fellowships that recognize artistic excellence,
significant contributions to jazz, and overall impact on the music field; and
National Heritage Fellowships for which excellence of artistry, authenticity of
tradition, and significance within their art forms are the criteria.
Rice has six (6) faculty who have received NEA fellowships (two have received
multiple fellowships):
Karin Broker
Brian Huberman
George Smith (2)
Edward Snow
Geoffrey Winningham (2)
Susan Wood
The National Endowment for the Humanities is a federal agency that provides grants
to individuals and institutions. The grants support research in the humanities,
educational opportunities for teachers, preservation of texts and materials, translations
of important works, museum exhibitions, television and radio programs, and public
discussion and study. NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis.
In the previous fiscal year, the Endowment funded about one out of every six applications
received.
Ten (10) Rice University faculty have received NEH research fellowships:
William Camfield (Emeritus)
Jane Chance
Chandler
Davidson (Emeritus)
Anne Klein
Helena Michie
Robert Patten
Paula
Sanders
Meredith Skura
Martin Wiener
Harvey Yunis
The National Humanities Center is the country’s only independent institute for
advanced study in the humanities. A private, nonprofit institution, the
Center exists to encourage excellent scholarship and to affirm the importance
of the humanities in American society. The fellowship program identifies
talented scholars at a breakthrough moment in their work, and provides financial
support and a stimulating environment for the best new work in the humanities.
Each year, up to 40 scholars, selected by rigorous peer review, come to the Center’s
Archie K. Davis Building for year-long residencies from across the United States
and around the world.
Fellowships have been awarded to five (5) Rice University faculty:
Michael Maas
Robert Patten
Paula
Sanders
George Sher
Edith Wyschogrod (Emeritus)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) consists of 17 institutes and associated
centers and divisions. It is one of the agencies of the Public Health Service
which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. NIH
is the federal government's primary agency for the support of biomedical research
and is the largest such organization in the world. Rice University had 27 active
NIH grants and awards in fiscal year 1998.
The following five (5) current faculty members are NIH Fellows:
Jordan Konisky
J. S. Olson
Ronald J. Parry
Dale Spence (Emeritus)
James M. Tour
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent U.S. government agency
responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest
over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in
science and engineering. The NSF Awards List shows 123 awards for fiscal year
1999 (October 1, 1998 - September 30, 1999), 104 awards currently active at Rice
University, and a total of 537 NSF awards to Rice since the mid-1980s.
The following 61 (unduplicated) current faculty at Rice have received awards,
fellowships, and/or associateships (not all categories are listed, and some
faculty have received awards in more than one category):
CAREER/Young Investigator Awards (22)
Richard Baraniuk
Enrique Barrera
Vicki Colvin
Alan Cox
Steven J. Cox
Peter Druschel
Jacqueline Goveas
Naomi Halas
Randall G. Hulet
Lydia Kavraki
Edward Knightly
Anatoly Kolomeisky
Jordan Konisky
Junichiro Kono
Chad Landis
Jianpeng Ma
Robert D. Nowak
Vijay Pai
Matteo Pasquali
Stephen Semmes
Pol Spanos
James M. Tour
Research/Engineering Initiation Award (5)
Behnaam Aazhang
Athanasios C. Antoulas
Walter G. Chapman
Marc A. Robert
Ka-yiu San
Postdoctoral/Research Fellowships (12)
Robert S. Cartwright
Tim Cochran
Richard Grandy
Joe Hightower (Emeritus)
Jordan Konisky
David Queller
Sherrilyn Roush
Stephen Semmes
Scott Singleton
Joan Strassmann
Moshe Y. Vardi
G. Walters (Emeritus)
Dissertation Grant (1)
William Reed
Fellowship(1)
Cassandra McZeal
Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering (2)
Rebekah Drezek
Cy-Ty Lee
Undergraduate Research Fellow (1)
Rebekah Drezek
|
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics, and Engineering (1)
Richard A. Tapia
Postdoctoral Associateships (3)
John E. Dennis (Emeritus)
Ken W. Kennedy
Willy Zwaenepoel
Research Fellowship (1)
Albert Van Helden (Emeritus)
Predoctoral Fellowships (6)
Walter G. Chapman
Tim Cochran
Jordan Konisky
Clarence Miller
John Olson
Ronald Sass
Corporate Research Grant (1)
Albert Van Helden (Emeritus)
Summer Grant (1)
Albert Van Helden (Emeritus)
Research Grant (2)
Bernard Lustig
Martin J Wiener
Grant (7)
Bryan Brown
Katherine Donato
Stephen Klineberg
Brett Leeds
T. Clifton Morgan
Herv Moulin
Robert Stein
Information Technology Research Award (2)
Edward Knightly
Walid Taha
Law & Social Science Program (1)
Chandler Davidson (Emeritus)
Leadership Grant (1)
Randi Martin
|
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic non-profit institution, was established
by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. in 1934. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established
in 1955 to provide support and recognition to young scientists, often in their
first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories
and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support.
Over the first 17 years of the program Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded
in physics, chemistry, and pure mathematics. In 1972, neuroscience was added to
the eligible disciplines, and in 1980 applied mathematics and economics were added.
The field of computer science was added in 1993. During 1996, two Sloan Fellows
were awarded Nobel Prizes: Robert F. Curl, Jr. of Rice University, a 1961 Sloan
Research Fellow in Chemistry, and Richard E. Smalley, also of Rice University,
a 1978 recipient in Chemistry. These bring the number of past Fellows who have
become Nobel Laureates to 21.
Receiving Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships in 1999 were the following Rice University
faculty: Vicki Colvin (Chemistry), Peter Druschel (Computer Science) and Lydia
Kavraki (Computer Science); all total, Rice University has twenty-two (22) current
faculty who are Sloan Fellows:
W. Edward Billups
Philip R. Brooks
Vicki Colvin
Alan L. Cox
Robert F. Curl
Kedar Damle
Katharine Donato
Peter Druschel
Paul S. Engel
Brendan Hassett (2)
Lydia Kavraki
Thomas Killian
James L. Kinsey
Edward Knightly
John L. Margrave**
Alexander Rimberg
Stephen W. Semmes
Qimiao Si
Richard E. Smalley
Richard A. Stong
Richard A. Tapia
R. Bruce Weisman
**deceased on December 18, 2003
- U.S. Presidential Appointees:
These are appointments to boards and committees made by presidents of the United
States. The following current full-time Rice faculty have received presidential
appointments:
1997 Ken Kennedy (Professor, Computational Engineering). Appointed
Co-Chair of the
President's Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and
Communication, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet.
1996 Richard A. Tapia (Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics).
Appointed
Member of the National Science Board.
2001 Michael P. Hammond* (Dean,
Shepherd School of Music). Appointed Chairman of the National
Endowment
for the Arts.
*deceased on January 28, 2002
Another Presidential Appointee and his current affiliation with Rice is as
follows:
1993 Neal Lane (University Professor, Physics & Astronomy; Senior
Fellow, Baker Institute). Appointed
Director
of the National Science Foundation
1998 Neal Lane (University Professor, Physics & Astronomy; Senior
Fellow, Baker Institute). Appointed
Director
of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was established to be a living
institution commemorating the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson, president
of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Created by law in 1968, the Center
is the official U.S. memorial to Woodrow Wilson. The Center supports scholarship
and links that scholarship to issues of concern to official Washington by offering
fellowships and other support to high-level professors, public officials, journalists,
professionals and other leaders, giving them special opportunities for research
and writing.
Five (5) Rice University faculty have received this fellowship:
Chandler Davidson (Emeritus)
Stephen Klineberg
Gale Stokes
Martin Wiener
Joel Wolfe