Dean William B. Russel has been invited to present the 2008 T.W. Leland, Jr Lecture in Chemical Engineering at Rice University. The endowed lecture honors the memory of Professor Thomas Leland, a faculty member at Rice from 1954 until his death in 1986. Russel, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School, will give a talk titled Colloidal Dispersions as Thermodynamic Phases: Past, Present, and Future. The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m. in McMurtry Auditorium at Rice University on November 5, 2008.