Advance

ADVANCE Leadership Committee

CHARGE: Lead the institutionalizing of ADVANCE initiatives that change the climate and/or have the potential to change the climate, and increase the participation of female faculty at all levels of leadership at Rice University.

ADVANCE Leadership Committee Members:

Name Title

Carol Quillen
Principal Investigator

Vice Provost, Academic Affairs;
Director, Boniuk Center for the  
Advancement of Religious Tolerance

Sallie Keller
Co-Principal Investigator

William & Stephanie Sick
Dean of Engineering; Professor of Statistics

Mikki Hebl
Co-Principal Investigator 

Associate Professor
Psychology

Dan Carson
Co-Principal Investigator

Dean of Natural Sciences; Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Kathy Collins
Co-Principal Investigator

Vice President for Finance

Kathleen Matthews

Special Assistant to the Dean of Natural Sciences;
Stewart Professor,
Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Ken Whitmire

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Natural Sciences;
Professor , Chemistry

Richard Zansitis  General Counsel
Mike Wong
Co-Chair, Recruitment Committee
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Marcie O' Malley
Co-Chair, Recruitment Committee

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Brendan Hassett
Co-Chair, Retention Committee

Professor
Mathematics

Liliana Borcea
Co-Chair, Retention Committee

Noah G. Harding Professor 
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Lisa Hall Special Projects Manager for the Office of the Provost
Mary Cronin Associate Vice President for
Human Resources
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