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34 t m c » p u l s e | m a r c h 2 0 1 9 Credit: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, courtesy photos; No. 1, Paul Vincent Kuntz, Texas Children's Hospital; No. 5, SHoP Architects/James Carpenter Design Associates; No. 8, Jason Hinestroza 2 4 3 5 1 Field Notes 1 | Texas Children's Hospital employees Dan DiPrisco, executive vice president; Mary Jo Andre, senior vice president and chief nursing officer; Manisha Gandhi, M.D.; David Muigai, M.D.; Michael Belfort, M.D., Ph.D., OB-GYN-in-chief; Nan Ybarra, R.N., director of inpatient services; Liz Bold, R.N., assistant clinical director of inpatient nursing; and Lynda Tyer-Viola, R.N., director of nursing at the Pavilion for Women, celebrated the opening of a four-bed maternal intensive care unit at TEXAS CHILDREN'S PAVILION FOR WOMEN—the only one of its kind in the state—with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 | MARK TORRES,PH.D., assistant profes- sor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University, was one of two Rice faculty members selected as a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. MING YI, PH.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, was selected for physics. The two- year, $70,000 fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scien- tists and scholars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | HELEN COHEN, ED.D., professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, received the Award of Merit from the Texas Occupational Therapy Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 | KATHY ERDMAN, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, has been named director of the Physician Assistant Program in the School of Health Professions at Baylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 | A rendering of The Ion shows a trans- formation of the historic Sears building on Main Street into a centerpiece for a new innovation district, slated to be completed in late 2020. The Rice Management Company, which manages the RICE UNIVERSITY endowment, is spearheading the project. A network of the area's institutions of higher learning—including Rice, the University of Houston, UH-Downtown, the University of St. Thomas, Houston Community College, Texas Southern University, Houston Baptist University, San Jacinto College and the South Texas College of Law—will provide programming within The Ion. Station Houston, a technology accelerator that has partnered with the TMC INNOVATION INSTITUTE to support local entrepreneurs, will oversee public programming.