What's New!

PSM Students are interning at various corporations this summer and fall:

Gisselle Cornejo – Nobel Energy, Joe Mils – Schlumberger, Liang Ge – Baker Hughes, Ting Hong – Teledrill, Inc., Alex Wagner – City of Houston, Scott Rauschhuber – UH, Carol Liu – GIS, Vishwa Nellore – Rice Nano-Physics, Bret Halbe – Nanoridge, Sona Joseph – Rice MEMS,  Dana Akilbekova – Kazakhstan government office, Jeff Rudnik -  Chevron.

Visit with Vishwa Nellore in the Physics lab in the Space Science building:

      

After his internship with the City of Houston, Alex Wagner secured an academic internship at Rice conducting research for an air pollution study of Houston this fall under Dr. Bedient and Dr. Raun.

 

The Program Director, Dagmar Beck, has been visiting with interns and their internship providers to establish an on-going dialogue between the university and the corporation, and to inform the corporation about the PSM program and the internship requirements. So far, luncheons were held with Nobel Energy, Teledrill, Inc., Nanoridge, and Chevron.

Jeff Rudnik, EADM student is interning with Chevron's Environmental Department under guidance of Dr. Roland Borey.

                    

Chris Ochterbeck is interning with Chevron's Deep Water G&G Ops Team

         

Bret Halbe, NP student,  is working for Nanoridge, an advanced nanomaterials manufacturer utilizing leading-edge technology to commercialize the production of intermediate nanomaterials based carbon nanotubes and polymer matrices.

            

 

Ting Hong, SG student, was accepted as intern at Teledrill, Inc., a company that provides the drilling industry with a Rate of Penetration (ROP) enhancement tool/service that both triples the drilling rate and also provides Measurement While Drilling (MWD) with Gamma Ray information in real time. Teledrill also has the only retrievable downhole generator and can use rechargeable batteries in its 10 foot tool.

     

Thank you to all our internship providers for 2009!

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 Dagmar Beck with other participants at the NPSMA Board Meeting and Workshop in Nashville in June 2009.

 

96th Commencement of Rice University happened on May 9th, 2009!!

The Professional Science Master's at Rice congratulates five graduating students to their successful completion of their Master of Science degrees:

 Nada Ahmed, Environmental Analysis and Decision Making

 Brian Cornette, Subsurface Geoscience

 Damir Aidarkhanov, Nanoscale Physics

 Hemtej Gullapalli, Nanoscale Physics

 Billy Kittler, Nanoscale Physics 

Congratulations!!

RICE PSM PREVIEW DAYS:

This year's Rice PSM Preview Days were again well attended, the students got a thorough introduction to the Professional Science Master's Program at Rice, participated in a campus tour, toured the Nano lab with John Marsh, Operations Director of the Smalley Institute, learned about Environmental projects at Rice with Dr. Walter Chapman, and toured the business school. They were provided with a glimpse "outside the hedges" of the campus and visited the downtown theater district including a Wortham Center performance and a dinner.

The 2009 PSM CORPORATE RECEPTION took place on February 18th at the Student Center's Farnsworth Pavilion. Nearly 100 corporate representatives attended our annual event and we received high interest in our program and our students. Many companies are ready to get more involved with the university and we are establishing new connections and building in-roads with a variety of companies in the Houston and surrounding areas.

Companies seeking students to help with projects this summer/fall, please contact us at profms@rice.edu. Information on our students can be found under the link "About our Students" - please contact us if you like to meet the students for an interview!

The ConocoPhillips Fellowship Awards was given to Professional Master’s student Liang Ge in Subsurface Geoscience. Congratulations!  Thank you to ConocoPhillips for their continued support of our program and our students

Spring 2009 Seminar Speakers:  Thanks to all seminar speakers. We appreciate your time and commitment to our program!

Christopher J. McCarthy, Ecological Risk Assessor, CH2MHill
Paula Krisko, NASA/Jacobs Engineering
Tom Bergstresser, Anadarko, G&G Manager
Sarah Mason, City of Houston, Environmental Dept.
Bruce Weisman, Applied Nanofluorescence
Ionut Prodan, Shell, Scientist
Dicksen Tanzil, Golder Associates, Project Engineer
Jim Gregory, PBS&J, Manager
Cynthia Blankenberg, BP, Gas Exploration Manager
Greg Hebertson, Anadarko, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, General Manager