• Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Director of the Rice Space Institute
• Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Member of the CMS collaboration
• Baker Institute Director
• Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Member of the CMS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Professor in Enlgish Department
• Carlson Professor in the Humanities
• Fulbright Association Board of Directors
Member of the CMS collaboration
• Associate Teaching Professor
• Biologist
• Science Writer
Member of the CMS collaboration
• Associate Professor of Caribbean and Film Studies
• Editor of La Política Encarnada
• Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Director of Rice 360° Institute for Global Health
• Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders
Member of the CMS collaboration
• George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Advisory Board of NSF Engineering Directorate
• Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology
Member of the CMS collaboration
• Professor of Political Science
• Director of the Kinder Institute's Center for Local Elections in American Politics (LEAP)
• Professor of Architecture
• Most Admired Educator 2013 at Rice
• Associate Professor of Anthropology
• Tropical Community Ecologist
• Coordinating lead author for the UN-backed Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Member of the CMS collaboration
• Associate professor of Historyadjunct associate professor of Economics
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
• Economic Historian of Latin America
Member of the CMS collaboration
Caroline Levander
Recent Fellowships, Awards, leadership roles with global scope.
A 2017 Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Senior Fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Caroline Levander, a professor in the English department and Carlson Professor in the Humanities, has recently been elected to the Fulbright Association Board of Directors, beginning a 3-year term in 2019.
Rockefeller Foundation Future Global University Summit 2018.
Co-founded the Global Scholars Consortium, http://news.rice.edu/2017/12/05/106063/ and also a http://online.rice.edu/global-scholars-program.
David Alexander
David Alexander, a Rice University professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Rice Space Institute, has been named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his efforts to link the United States and United Kingdom in the space industry and higher education.
The appointment was announced as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which recognizes exceptional achievement and service to the U.K. All British honors are awarded on merit and are conferred by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary.
The OBE was founded in 1917, but honors have been bestowed on the monarch’s birthday since the reign of Queen Victoria in the mid-19th century.
Edward Djerejian
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have launched a joint effort to create a report addressing current options for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The project will be headed by Baker Institute Director Edward Djerejian and Carnegie Endowment Vice President Marwan Muasher.
The report, to be published this fall will consider two frameworks for addressing the conflict in the years ahead: the two-state paradigm that has characterized the peace process for decades, or the parameters of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians within a single or binational state. The project will not only seek to revisit long-standing assumptions, but will assess current realities in the Israeli, Palestinian and international political context, in an effort to evaluate practical next steps toward finding a sustainable and equitable solution.
Paul Padley
Paul Padley, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is a member of the CMS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland, one of the two experiments that discovered the Higgs boson.
Dr. Padley has conducted research in experimental particle physics at several of the world’s leading particle physics facilities. Currently he leads US contributions to the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is active in bringing physics to the public by contributing to/consulting with popular TV programs and appearing on the Discovery Channel.
Dr. Padley's group at Rice builds electronics to help sift through the massive amounts of data that is collected by the CMS experiment. In addition, his group works on implementing techniques from data science in these electronics and is deeply involved in the search for the dark matter that pervades the universe.
Scott Solomon
Scott Solomon, a Biologist, Professor, and Science Writer. He teaches Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Scientific Communication as an Associate Teaching Professor at Rice University. He received a doctorate in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin where his research examined the evolutionary basis of biological diversity in the Amazon Basin. He has worked as a visiting researcher with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and São Paulo State University in Rio Claro, Brazil.
He also speaks and writes about science for the general public. His writing and photography have appeared in publications such as Aeon, Nautilus, Slate, and Wired. His first book, Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution was published by Yale University Press in 2016.
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Luis Duno-Gottberg is an Associate Professor of Caribbean and Film Studies at Rice University. He specializes in Caribbean culture with an emphasis on race, ethnicity and politics. His current research, "Dangerous People: Hegemony, Representation and Culture in Contemporary Venezuela," explores the relationship between popular mobilization, radical politics and culture. He is the editor of La Política Encarnada.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Dr. Richards-Kortum is a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is the Director of Rice 360° Institute for Global Health, and the Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders.
Guided by the belief that all of the world’s people deserve access to health innovation, Rebecca Richards-Kortum’s research and teaching focus is on the development of low-cost, high-performance technologies for remote and low-resource settings. She is known for providing vulnerable populations with access to life-saving health technologies that address diseases and conditions that cause high morbidity and mortality, such as cervical and oral cancer, premature birth, sickle cell disease and malaria.
Pedro Alvarez
Dr. Pedro J.J. Alvarez is the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, where he also serves as Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT). His research interests include environmental applications and implications of nanotechnology, bioremediation of toxic chemicals, water footprint of biofuels, water treatment and reuse, and antibiotic resistance control.
Dr. Alvarez currently serves on the advisory board of NSF Engineering Directorate and as Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology. Additionally, he serves as honorary professor at Nankai University in Tianjin and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and as adjunct professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. He recently completed service on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board.
Melissa Marschall
Professor Marschall's research and teaching focuses on urban politics, educational policy, political behavior, and representation. Her book, Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools (coauthored with Mark Schneider and Paul Teske) was recipient of the Policy Studies Association Aaron Wildavsky Award for the Best Policy Book in 2000-2001. She is Co-PI of the Local Elections in America Project (LEAP), funded by The National Science and the Ken Kennedy Institute of Information Technology at Rice University.
Carlos Jimenez
Carlos Jiménez teaches both undergraduate and graduate studios and a seminar on architecture, film, literature, and music case studies.
Jiménez has won several awards for excellence in design and teaching, most notably Design Intelligence "Most Admired Educator 2013", and "2013 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching" at Rice.
Jeff Fleisher
Jeffrey Fleisher is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. He taught at Lehigh University before joining the faculty at Rice University in 2007. In 2014, Professor Fleisher was awarded the Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement at Rice University.
Professor Fleisher’s research focuses on the ancient Swahili of the eastern African coast; his field research, based primarily in Tanzania, has involved archaeological surveys and excavations in ancient Swahili cities and villages. He has published widely on this research, in journals and books, and his recent project was highlighted in a 2014 article in Archaeology Magazine.
Amy Dunham
Amy Dunham is a tropical community ecologist who studies complex tropical rainforests in Madagascar and West and Central Africa. Her research spans a wide range of topics in ecology, evolution and conservation biology, from geographic and phylogenetic patterns of trait distributions and community assembly, to impacts of extinction and invasion on trophic cascades and ecosystem processes. Dunham also serves as an expert of the African region and a coordinating lead author for the UN-backed Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Moramay López-Alonso
Moramay López-Alonso is an associate professor of History and adjunct associate professor of Economics at Rice University. She is an economic historian of Latin America. She is the author of Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico 1850-1950 (Stanford University Press 2012), winner of the 2013 Mexican History Book Prize awarded by the American Historical Association and published in Spanish with Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2015. She holds a degree in economics from (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University.
