The Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month: Tolga Tezcan, Professor of Operations Management; Academic Director of Business Analytics. Prior to joining Rice, Tolga Tezcan was on the faculties at the University of Illinois, the University of Rochester and London Business School, and he also served as an academic director at London Business School. Tolga currently teaches courses on Operations Management, Business Analytics and Data Mining.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Vice President for Research; Professor, Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Physics and Astronomy. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, was named Rice University’s vice president for research on August 15, 2022.