IN S I D E
RICE SALLYPORT • THE MAGAZINE OF RICE UNIVERSITY • SUMMER 2006
2 President’s Message • 3 Letters • 6 Through the Sallyport
Departments
16 Students • 37 Arts • 40 On the Bookshelf
42 Who’s Who • 50 Scoreboard
13
Outsourcing to
maquiladora factories
8
Rice to manage an
international team-
may seem economically production of an
benefi cial on the innovative set of
surface, but could have detectors for a premier
hidden costs not initially particle accelerator.
apparent.
9
A Rice study looks into
the facts and fi ctions
15
Shelly Harvey’s discovery
may not help you untie
of IT outsourcing to
a tangled shoelace, but
other countries.
it will help topologists
to characterize the
underlying mathematical
structure of complex
surfaces like knots.
12
Birth weight of male
infants is related to their
later ability to learn and
focus on visual stimuli.
10
The world’s fi rst single-molecule vehicle gets its own engine.
11
The new “nanorice”
particle may fi nd
applications in cancer
treatment, medical
diagnostics, molecular
16
Rice’s Medical Scientist
39
An intoxication of color
Training Program links illuminates the Rice
imaging, and chemical
institutions to provide Gallery.
sensing.
doctors of the future with
an interdisciplinary focus.
37
Celebrating the struggle to
reach a higher plane with
The Birth of Something.
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