A family member has confirmed that a member of the UC Davis faculty, Kevin Rice, was injured in the crash Tuesday of a Singapore Airlines jet bound from Taipei to Los Angeles. Kevin Rice's brother, Barry Meyers-Rice, said late Tuesday that Kevin Rice had telephoned him at his Davis home today and left a message saying that he was hospitalized with burns but "generally all right." Meyers-Rice said his brother had traveled from Davis to Indonesia about three weeks ago to visit his wife, who is a doctoral candidate at UC Davis and doing field research in Indonesia. He was expected to return to Sacramento International Airport tonight. Kevin Rice, 47, is a professor of agronomy and range science. He joined the UC Davis faculty in 1986 after completing his doctorate here in 1984. His research specialty is restoration ecology; he studies native species in efforts to restore disturbed lands and damaged ecosystems. Singapore Airlines said late Tuesday that 66 people were confirmed dead after the accident at Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek Airport. The airline said 159 passengers were on board Flight SQ 006. For a photo of Kevin Rice, see . For more information on Kevin Rice's research, see .