Benard-Boggs wins Bourland award
 Leah Benard-Boggs, senior administrator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), has received the 2007 Hardy M. Bourland Award for Distinguished Service from the George R. Brown School of Engineering.
Benard-Boggs was nominated for the honor by Enrique Barrera, professor and chair of MEMS, who said, “Leah does it all. She provides fiscal management and routinely discusses the budget with me. Scholarship oversight has improved. In short, Leah has had a huge impact on MEMS, rapidly and continuously.”
Benard-Boggs went to work for Rice University in April 1997, first as the administrator for the late Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy. In November 1999, she became the senior department administrator for the Chemistry Department, and assumed her present position in December 2005.
“In the more than two decades I’ve served at Rice, I have not interacted with any departmental administrator who surpasses Ms. Benard-Boggs in effectiveness and courtesy,” said Pol Spanos, the Lewis B. Ryon Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Civil Engineering.
At a ceremony in April for the Hardy Bourland award, Benard-Boggs received a certificate and a check for $500. To be eligible for the award, established in 2001, an employee must display a consistently outstanding performance.
The award is named in honor of Hardy Bourland, retired associate dean, who served the School of Engineering for 39 years.
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