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Individual attention a priority for Economics' Brown, winner of Rice's top teaching award
James Brown believes that the better he knows his students as individuals, the better he will be able to teach them. "What I try to do is come as close as I can to teaching each student as if it were a tutorial," he said.
Rice economists weigh effect of CO2 restrictions on world energy market
Moves to limit carbon-dioxide emissions will result in a shift toward natural gas, accompanied by increased reliance on Russian and the Middle Eastern sources, according to Rice economists Peter Hartley and Ken Medlock.
Panel Study Of American Religion And Ethinicity
PANEL STUDY OF AMERICAN RELIGION AND ETHINICITY :The Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life (CORRUL) at Rice
University invites all graduate and undergraduate students in U.S. and
worldwide to take part in the 2010 National Student Paper Competition.
All entries must conduct scholarly research using the newly released
data from the Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity (PS-ARE).
Please share this information and attached flyer with colleagues and
students. The PS-ARE website has complete details at http://www.ps-are.org.
Rice economists quoted on CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com
Ken
Medlock, the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and
Resource Economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy and adjunct professor of economics, is quoted in articles on
CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com about movement to curb oil speculation.
Medlock is also quoted in articles on NGOilGas.com and RigZone.com
about the acquisition of BJ Services by Baker Hughes. Articles in the
Houston Chronicle, Oil and Gas Investor and Gas2.org discuss a recent
study on the effect of speculators on oil markets by Medlock and Amy
Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the
Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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