Sallyport - The Magazine of Rice University - Summer 2002

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Feathers in Their Caps - Students for her research in Brazil, Thailand, Djibouti, and Botswana and will finish her tour next summer in Geneva, Switzerland, taking six weeks to compile the data for a report to UNAIDS, the United Nation’s joint HIV/AIDS program. Junior Emily R. Wheeler earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship this year. The Goldwater is the premier undergraduate scholarship for sophomores or juniors majoring in mathematics, engineering, or the sciences who plan to obtain a doctorate in their fields. Seventy-nine Rice students were elected as members-in-course of Phi Beta Kappa. Election to Phi Beta Kappa recognizes outstanding achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. And 25 graduating seniors were honored as members of Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities 2001. [ back to top ] Featured Stories | Through the Sallyport | On the Bookshelf | Who's Who Students | Arts | Scoreboard | Yesteryear | Previous Issues Copyright ©2002 Rice University http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2002/summer/students/feathersintheircaps.html (3 of 3) [10/30/2009 10:50:01 AM]
Rocky Cuba Picture Show - Students Spring 2002 VOL.58, NO.4 Rocky Cuba Picture Show Twelve hundred miles might seem like a long distance to travel for a field trip, but the Rice students who took the Department of Earth Science’s eight-day trip to Cuba in January were particularly pleased. “Everybody loved it because the trip was such a unique experience,” said Julia Morgan, assistant professor of earth science, who led the trip with Hans Avé Lallemant, professor of earth science. “Cuba is very interesting geologically, with so many different types of rock that there’s something there for everyone,” she said. “We wanted to expose our students to geologic locations that have heavily influenced geologists’ thinking in the past.” The island of Cuba was once part of a volcanic island chain that rims the Caribbean. More than 58 million years ago, that chain collided with the Bahama platform, fusing Cuba to North America. The island offers a unique variety of rocks, some of which were once buried at depths exceeding 40 miles and have since come back to the surface. Also found on the island are rocks interpreted to be chaotic landslide and tsunami deposits resulting from an asteroid that smashed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and, some theorize, wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Seeing a 400-meter-thick rock deposit that formed within a month after the asteroid impact was a highlight of the field trip for first-year doctoral student Alastair John. “That’s beyond our concept of geological processes,” he said. Because the field trip included visits to different parts of the island, students were introduced to many geologic features, including dramatic mogotes, which are steep-walled limestone mountains riddled with caves; ancient and modern-day reefs; and ophiolite complexes, which are slices of the oceanic crust now found on land. “I had never seen so many geologic terrains juxtaposed,” said Patrick Taha, http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2002/summer/students/rockycubapictureshow.html (1 of 2) [10/30/2009 10:50:02 AM]
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