Keller-McNulty to succeed Burrus as engineering dean
· Sallie Keller-McNulty will become Rice's eighth engineering dean in July, Provost Eugene Levy announced April 4. Keller-McNulty is currently the group leader for the Statistical Sciences Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Number of Beer-Bike EMS calls similar to previous years
· Except for last-minute cancellations of several colleges' parade trucks and a crash during the alumni race that caused the race to end early without a winner, Beer-Bike proceeded routinely this year.
Economics eliminates 212, changes major requirements
· In conjunction with changes to its major requirements, the economics department has eliminated the introductory macroeconomics course, ECON 212: Principles of Economics II. Under the new requirements, which take effect in the fall, economics majors must instead take ECON 375: Macroeconomic Theory. ECON 375 will probably be made less difficult, Economics Chair Peter