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• Kamrahn Khan, Vice Provost for Information Technology, is mentioned in the article "Breaking the Ice," offering advice to vendors and IT leaders on forging a more productive relationship, Campus Technology, 05/01/12
• IT, Network Infrastructure: IBM Supercomputers: 12 Ways HPC Is Leading to Scientific Breakthroughs, eWeek, 04/24/12
•  Rice to have Top Computing Power in World, Rice Thresher, 04/20/12
• Meet this week's Centennial Stars (Carlyn Chatfield), 04/18/12
•  NetID Problem Causes Outage, Rice Thresher, 04/06/12
•  Rice Exchange program with Brazil, KTRK-TV, 03/29/12
•  Rice's New Supercomputer to Study Disease, Houston Chronicle, 03/29/12
•  Rice University, IBM partner to bring first Blue Gene Supercomputer to Texas, Rice News, 03/30/12
•  Rice, IBM partner to build Texas' first Blue Gene supercomputer, West University Examiner 03/17/10
• This article also appeared in the River Oaks Examiner, the Bellaire Examiner the Memorial Examiner and the Cypress Times.
•  Big Computer for Microscopic Matters, Sydney Morning Herald, 03/31/2012
•  Rice to install Texas' first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, Houston Business Journal, 03/30/12
•  IBM Blue Gene supercomputer heads to Texas, TexasTechPulse.com, 03/30/12
•  Brazil and Texas scientists to share IBM supercomputer, DatacenterDynamics.com, 03/30/12
•  Rice To Host Texas' First IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer, KUHF-FM, 03/30/12
•  IBM inks Blue Gene supercomputer deals with Rice, Rutgers universities, eWeek.com, 03/30/12
•  Rice University, IBM partner to bring first Blue Gene supercomputer to Texas, FinChannel.com, 03/31/12
•  Big states (and countries) need big computers, InternetEvolution.com, 03/30/12
•  Rice supercomputer less interested in conquering the world, more concerned with earthquakes and genetic mapping, Houston.CultureMap.com, 04/06/12
•  First Blue Gene Supercomputer in Texas, KTRK-TV, 03/30/12
•  Meet this week's Centennial Stars (Danny Eaton), Rice News, 03/27/12
• Chris Pound, developer and systems administrator for IT Enterprise Applications, and his team thanked for their work making "News.rice.edu 'like a superstore,'" Rice News, 03/15/12
• Carlyn Chatfield, manager of IT technical communications, presented the workshop "Critical Communication Skills for IT Professionals"  and led an online session entitled "Online Speaker Skills and Resources" at the Educause Annual Conference in Portland on February 23, 2012.
• Archived webcasts easy to find Rice News, 2/9/12
• Rice Internet Services in need of a Makeover Thresher, 2/8/12
• Student Association Minutes of January 23, 2012 (RE: Student Google Contract), Thresher, 1/27/12
• Flattening the Learning Curve for HPC with Linux on POWER, PowerUp, 11/16/11
• Jeff Frey was a keynote speaker at the ektron Synergy Conference in Las Vegas, NV on November 7, 2011
•  Remember to Change Clocks, Passwords, Rice News, 11/02/11
• Carlyn Chatfield, Manager of IT Communications, was one of four presenters at a Rice Staff Advisory Committee sponsored event, "Social Media in the Workplace," on October 25, 2011.
• IT offers tips for cybersecurity, Rice News, 10/28/11
• Classes Test SCALE-UP Method, Rice Thresher, 10/21/11
• Carlyn Chatfield presented Effective Project Deployment: Six Steps to Keep Them Coming Back at the Educause Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 20, 2011 with five colleagues from other universities
• IT and K2I hosted a Open House at the Rice Data Center, 10/13/11
• On the CUSP of the Next Superhighway, Built by Private Partnerships, Forbes, 10/17/11
•  EDUCAUSE 2011 Speaker Spotlight: Carlyn Chatfield, Knewton Blog,  10/03/11
• VPIT Kamran Khan hosted the CXO Meeting held at Rice with CIOs from major Houston corporations, 09/28/11
• Pirating Rates Go Up at Rice, Rice Thresher, 09/23/11
• OWL-Space Goes Mobile, Rice Thresher, 09/16/11
• Data Security Precautions Taken, Rice News, 09/16/2011
• OWL-Space Goes Mobile, Rice News, 09/08/11
• Rice University Breaks Down Barriers to Research, IBM Case Study, 08/31/11
• Changing Technology Puts Tablet Computer in the Hands of Students, KTRK-TV, ABC 13, 8/22/11
• IT Ambassadors Program Begins, Rice Thresher, 8/19/11
• Jeff Frey was a co-keynote speaker at the Forrester Research Community Event in Houston on "The 4C's of Technology Solutions," June 2011 
• Jeff Frey presented a half-day seminar on "Non-Profit Social Media, Mobile Marketing and Fundraising" for the United Way of Greater Houston, June 2011
•  Rice student one of "Freshman 15" for Seventeen Magazine, Rice News, 05/26/11
• Gmail: Contract Causes Potential Delay, Rice Thresher, 5/17/11
• Case Study: Implementation, Customization and Cooperation for Success: the Rice University Story, Ektron Case Studies, May 2011
• Rice doubles supercomputing capacity: NIH, NSF grants boost computational capacity of dozens of Rice labs, Rice News Release, 05/09/11
• Rice doubles supercomputing capacity, Rice News, 05/06/11
• "Running Water" Sweeps Film Competition, Rice News, 04/08/11
• Winners of Rice Student Film Contest to be Screened April 6 , Rice News, 04/01/2011
• Rice to Switch to Gmail as Email Provider, Rice Thresher, 04/01/11
• Research Computing: Bumping up the Bytes, Rice Magazine, March 2011
• Remember to change clocks, passwords, Rice News, 03/03/11
• Kamran Khan presented a keynote workshop, "Cloud Computing - A New Business Model for IT," at the Next Generation (NG) Education Summit, March 1-3, 2011 in Pasadena, CA
• IT survey deadline extended, Thresher, 02/25/11
• Web Services recognized with Brandy Award, Rice News, 02/25/11
• Gary Kidney presented Understanding Users and Transforming IT to Deliver  and led a roundtable discussion on ITIL  at Educause West/Southwest Regional Conference, February 22-24 in Austin
• OWL-Socrates set to Expand, Rice Thresher, 02/11/11
• Kamran Khan hosted the CXO Meeting held at Rice with CIOs from major Houston corporations, 02/09/11
• Video: A Flock of Rice Owl "Replicants", Houston Press, 02/08/11
• Joy of a Toy, Rice News, 02/02/11
• Kamran Khan chaired the LoneStar Education and Research Network (LEARN) Executive Committee meeting held at Rice on January 31, 2011
• Rice Student Film Contest Offers Cash Prizes, Rice News, 01/28/11
• Network Fails, Revived, Rice Thresher, 01/28/11
• Gary Kidney co-authored chapter in the textbook Instructional Technology: Past, Present and Future, People, Papers and Presentations, Rice News, 01/12/11
   

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