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Rice University track team runner Jeff Wells
No full textBlack and white photograph of Rice University track and field team member Jeff Wells competing in a race. Another competitor can be seen close behind him
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No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Jeff Daiell interview
No full textSpeakers: Jeff Daiell, Pete Elloway, John GriffinContents include: On "Up in the Air," John Griffin and Pete Elloway speak with Jeff Daiell who is running for Houston City Council. Daiell discusses crime fighting, Clear Lake, and outsourcing city business
Rice University track runner Jeff Wells
No full textBlack and white photograph of Rice Owls track and field athlete Jeff Wells, accompanied by text headlining his achievement and entry into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame.Caption reads: If ever there was a student who made the most of his years at Rice both as an athlete and academician, it would be JEFF WELLS.
He came in from Madisonville High in 1972 as a walk-on runner whose schoolboy best time was a 4:32 in the mile. He left in 1976 with a B.A. in history and all-America awards both in track and cross-country. He continued his successful running career following graduation and also enjoyed a wonderful life in the ministry.
The one accomplishment that made Wells a true international star was his close second (by only two seconds) to Bill Rogers in the 1978 Boston Marathon, the closest finish ever of that event to that point. While he may be most famous for his second-place finish, Wells had marathon wins to his credit in Honolulu, Stockholm, Auckland, Eugene, Houston and Dallas.
Wells was an all-America in track and cross country three straight years from 1974 to 1976, won the SWC cross county title in 1973 and 1974 and the SWC three-mile race in 1975.
His personal best for the 5,000 meters was 13:31.0 set in Helsinki in 1978, and he had a best of 28:12.0 for the 10,000 meters at the 1980 Olympic trials. His best time in the famed Boston Marathon was 2:10.15.
Well graduated cum laude in history and won an NCAA post-graduate scholarship, which he used while getting his master’s in theology at the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1981. He became a pastor intern in Oregon while training for the Olympic trials and later opened his own church in The Woodlands.Rice University Athletic Hall of Fam
Two Rice Students Admit Painting A&M Campus Will Pay Damages
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Prediction and Control of Urban Stormwater Quality- A Case Study
No full textPaper by Philip B. Bedient, Jeff L. Lambert, Chris B. Amandes, and David P. Smit
Ep. #021 - Jeff VanderMeer
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic debate the merits of season 1 of Bloodline and quickly agree to disagree on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast. Then (9:25) we get to the main event, our conversation with Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winning writer Jeff VanderMeer, author of the NYT bestselling, Southern Reach Trilogy (FSG, 2014). Our friend Roy Scranton joins us on the line as well—since you last heard him, Roy has published his own novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and become a Professor at Notre Dame: way to go, Roy!—and together we all get deep into Area X. We ask Jeff about the challenges of language and knowledge in the trilogy, whether Area X could be a metaphor for the Anthropocene, and what is going on with the doppelgangers. Jeff talks about his fascination with fungi and how they show we are always already contaminated. He discusses his use of dreams and how the speculative and uncanny elements of fiction can be a way of gaining new perspective on the world without lecturing the reader. He drops a terrific idea for a VR device that could make us see the invisible vectors in the world around us and we rashly promise to help him build it. There’s a film in the works for the first volume of the trilogy, Annihilation, and we talk about how not to let the Southern Reach be reduced to Hollywood formula. And, finally, we talk about Jeff’s upcoming projects including his novel about a Godzilla-sized psychotic flying bear, Borne. If you, like Jeff, are doing your best to contribute to a lack of bullshit in the world, then this episode is for you
Jeff Pan oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Jeff Gee-shang Pan is a Chinese-American geophysicist with extensive experience in the petroleum industry. He was born in Taiwan and left for the US to pursue his doctoral degree in Geophysics at Princeton University. After a year as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). In 1998, Dr. Pan joined Oryx, which first merged with Kerr McGee and then later with Anadarko. During his tenure at Anadarko, Dr. Pan and his family were expatriated to Beijing, China where he served as an executive who managed their China operations and joint venture partners. Dr. Pan has been involved in the Chinese American Petroleum Association since 2000, where he held a variety of leadership positions, including President and Director of BOD. He also served a two-year term as President of the North American Chinese Geoscientists Association. Dr. Pan encourages future generations of Chinese-Americans to engage in public discourse and pursue leadership positions through hard work and tenacity, and he advises Chinese-Americans to be proud of their heritage and to leave a positive legacy
Vandiver to Publish Jeff Davis' Papers
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Civil War Centennial Commission Pays Tribute to Jeff Davis Group
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
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