NPSMA Board Meeting and Workshop in Nashville, TN June 2009
The Quarterly Workshop focused on preliminary evaluation of data from various employer surveys, update on NSF progress on publishing guidelines for funding proposals from the stimulus package, discussion on a PSM peer review process, modeling of program costs for new programs, program branding and marketing, discussions with local employer representative and feedback from an alumni/student panel.
The NPSMA board discussed its strategy plan to fulfill its various short- and long-term goals. We encourage all our alumni, enrolled students, board members, and faculty to become members in the National PSM Association to forge a strong entity in our efforts to support the PSM graduate degrees and assist in establishing these degrees as a graduate degree-of-choice. Please visit the NPSMA web site and sign up under: "Membership".
ScienceNews published an article by Sheila Tobias, PSM Academic Liasion and longtime supporter of the PSM programs, titled: Professional Science Master's is 21st Century MBA
Article o PSM degrees published in Nature Medicine, Volume 15, May 2009. Click on "Newsletter and Articles" under the LEARN AND SEE MORE tab to read "A master's degree with a business spin gains popularity"
The Professional Master's program hosted a luncheon to welcome Dr. James Stevens from Chevron as a new member of the PSM Board of Affiliates. We appreciate Dr. Stevens interest in Rice and our program and are looking forward to working closely with Chevron in the upcoming months. Thank you to all for a great turn-out! We had Board members, faculty, alumni, and students in attendance.
Congratulations to our five graduates receiving their Master of Science diploma at the 96th Commencement:
Nada Ahmed, EADM; Brian Cornette, SG; Damir Aidarkhanov, Hemtej Gullapalli, and Wilfred Kittler, NP.
The Professional Science Master's at Rice was represented at the NSTI Nanotechnology Conference & Expo 2009 at the George Brown Convention Center!
The NSTI Nanotech 2009 is the world’s largest and most anticipated annual nanotechnology conference and expo.
Now in its 12th year, over 4,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors participated. Rice had a large booth representing a variety of centers and institutes at Rice involved in Nanotechnology. Students from the Nanoscale Physics track manned the booth and took time to visit with a variety of nanotechnology companies from the U.S. and Europe.
For more information on this event please click here!
You are invited to take a look at the newly updated virtual tours of Rice and the City of Houston. The updated tours include additional imagery under four categories:
This is Rice: The Campus
This is Rice: Study and Play
This is Rice: Residential Life
This is Rice: The City of Houston
To check out the latest tours, please click here!
Rice PSM Preview Days were busy and informative! A group of prospective students arrived the week of March 23rd to learn about our program, meet the faculty, tour the campus, get a taste of Houston, and socialize with current students and alumni. Photos can be seen in the "Photo Gallery".
Environmental Analysis and Decision Making student mentioned in recent AWIS Article!
The 2009 Corporate PSM Reception was a great success. Over 100 corporate representatives joined faculty, staff, and alumni for this annual event. Thank you to all attendees for their time! We appreciate your interest and support of our program! Photos can be found under the "Photo Gallery" link.
The latest Winter/Spring 09 Newsletter was published for the reception! Read it here!
The Conoco Phillips Fellowship Award was given to Subsurface Geoscience student Liang Ge! Congratulations! Thank you to our supporters at ConocoPhillips for their continued interest in our students.
Program Director, Dagmar Beck, was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Professional Science Master's Association (NPSMA - npsma.org). She accepted a three-year term heading the Committee for Membership Development.
New Dean of Natural Sciences Dr. Dan Carson is on board since January 09 for his new assignment at Rice. He took over the reigns from Dr. Kathleen Matthews who has been a continued supporter and champion of the Professional Master's Program and its students at Rice.
Rice professor among best under age 40!
An article reports that Doug Natelson, associate professor of physics and astronomy and in electrical and computer engineering, was named one of the nation's top 20 scientists under age 40 by Discover magazine.
Doug has been instrumental in creating the nanotechnology capstone courses for our Professional Master's Program in Nanoscale Physics! We are proud to have him as track advisor for our program and our students.
New ConocoPhillips 2009 Scholarship/Internship Award:
Great news for students in the Professional Master’s in Subsurface Geoscience program: ConocoPhillips again offered a $10,000 scholarship in combination with an internship and a mentor to our students. We hope to be able to announce the award winner soon!
Thank you to ConocoPhillips who has been a committed supporter of Rice and our program!
Rice’s PSM Program participated at the Inaugural Conference of the NPSMA – The National Professional Science Master’s Association – in Atlanta, Georgia in November, 2008. Our Program Director hosted a workshop on Industry Connections together with Stephan Crothers, Director of Biomedical Initiatives, San Jose State University, CA. We combined our visit with a visit to Emory University and Georgia
Tech, and took the opportunity to meet with one of our Nanoscale Physics students who is currently interning with nGimat Co.