End-of-year awards announced
Here’s a roundup of awards given each spring to faculty and students who enrich the social and intellectual life on campus.
Daniel Cohan, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Dave Johnson '82, associate professor of computer science, received Outstanding Faculty Associate Awards from Will Rice and Lovett colleges, respectively. Outstanding faculty associates are selected by the students. Cohan joined the faculty in 2006, and Johnson returned to Rice in 2000 after teaching at Carnegie Mellon University for eight years. Johnson was a resident of Lovett as an undergraduate and served as an associate for two years after receiving his Ph.D. from Rice in 1990.
Each spring undergraduates present their research work at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium. These students, all in bioengineering, took top honors: first place, Drew Bryant; second, Allen Chen; third, Jennifer Holm; fourth, Dania Daye; fifth, Marina Boleda.
The Jenessa Shapiro Award went to Drew Bryant, a senior in bioengineering. The award honors the student founder of the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, Jenessa Shapiro ‘02. The award is given to the undergraduate student presenter at RURS who embodies the ideals of the scientific enterprise exhibited by Shapiro. The recipient is chosen by the RURS Steering Committee from faculty advisers.
Patricia Anne Mahoney, mechanical engineering, won the 2007 Rice University Service Award, given in memory of former Dean of Students Hugh Scott Cameron.
Three of the ten winners of the 2007 Rice Student Association Outstanding Seniors were engineering students: Austin James Bratton, electrical and computer engineering; Cameron Alexander McGriff, bioengineering; and Brian David Schwab, bioengineering. These awards are given to seniors who have contributed the most service, performance, dedication and character.
Rice Women's Resource Center 2007 IMPACT Awards went to Veronique Tran, formerly of the Department of Bioengineering, and Nastassja Lewinski, a bioengineering graduate student.
The Graduate Student Association (GSA) FacultyTeaching/Mentoring Award went to Rob Raphael, assistant professor of bioengineering. Jordan Miller won the GSA Service Award, and the GSA Robert Lowry Patten Award for Service went to Jennifer Greeson and Louise Organ, all of bioengineering.
The 2007 Rice Alumni Sallyport Award went to Adrien Wang, a graduate student in bioengineering. The award goes to a graduate degree candidate who has made contributions to the Rice community beyond his or her department. Wang volunteered with the Office of International Students and Scholars and other programs for international student.
Eighteen graduates from the engineering school were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the national academic honor society:
Kelsey E. Beach: mechanical engineering, English
Paul M. Boyle: mechanical engineering
Howard B. Chao: chemical engineering
Geng Chen: chemical engineering
Clint C. Corcoran: mechanical engineering, economics
Dania Daye: bioengineering, French studies
Carrie A. Fossum: managerial studies, mathematical economic analysis, statistics
Max I. Glick: computer science, mathematics
Michael J. Holcomb: mechanical engineering
Ray K. Hwong: electrical engineering, mathematics
Tobin G. Isaac: computational and applied mathematics
Evan P. James: computer science
Heather E. Johnston: electrical engineering
Veena Padmanabhan: electrical engineering
Lisa C. Qian: electrical engineering, physics
Diane D. Shao: biochemistry, cell biology statistics
Paul E. Vouga: computer science, mathematics
Yi-Chieh Wu: electrical engineering.
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