Frederick B. Rudolph

Chair and Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Rice University
fbr@rice.edu Homepage

Biographical Sketch:

Frederick B. Rudolph is Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Rice University. He also serves as Executive Director of the Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering at Rice. He received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1966 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Iowa State University in 1971. After a year as an NSF fellow in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin he was a founding member of the Biochemistry Department at Rice. His research interests are in the areas of enzymology, metabolism, fermentation and nutritional immunology. The nutritional work has lead to new enteral feeding solutions and reformulation of infant formulas. He has done extensive structural and functional studies of enzymes involved in nucleotide metabolism. He has developed a number of educational initiatives particularly in the K-12 area and in undergraduate and graduate curriculum reform. He has been Program Director for grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for undergraduate biological science initiatives and various educational grants from the NSF and NIH and from other foundations. He is currently a member of the boards of directors for the Texas Healthcare and Biosciences Institute and the Council of Biotechnology Centers.

Presentations:

• Biochemistry: Biology or Chemistry
  PKAL 2000 Summer Institute
  Keystone Resort and Conference Center
  Keystone, Colorado
  July 23 - 26, 2000
  
  

• Infusing Scientific and Technological Advances into the Learning Environment: Biochemistry
  Project Kaleidoscope 10th Anniversary:
  Celebrating and Anticipating a Decade of Reform
  College Park, Maryland
  October 22-23, 1999



• Closing Remarks
• Hands-on Lab Presentations and Issue Discussions: Modular Laboratories - The Rice Model
  
• Setting Out the Issues: Models for Governance and Administrative Structures (moderator)
  Biochemistry: Biology or Chemistry
  Macalester College
  July 16-18, 1999
  
  
• Setting Out the Issues - Perspectives of the Disciplines
  
• Spotlighting the Host Institutions: A Biochemistry Major in a Biology Department
  
• A Biochemistry Program in a Chemistry Department
  
• A Biochemistry Interdepartmental Major: Wellesley College
  
• Setting Out the Issues: The Administrative Perspective
  Biochemistry: Biology or Chemistry
  Rice University
  September 11 - 13, 1998