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2024 Rice Engineering Magazine Cover

The spring 2025 issue of Rice Engineering Magazine is here!

At Rice Engineering, we are driven by a passion for innovation and a commitment to responsible engineering practices. It’s with great excitement that we unveil the new design of Rice Engineering magazine, which underscores our dedication to excellence in research, education, and service. The 2024-25 issue is full of news about how Rice Engineering is solving for greater good.

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Spoken at Rice

Astro Teller
CEO of X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory
Rice University President’s Lecture Series
October 29, 2025
Asking what if, imagining things differently is the source of making the world better. It has to start with some sense that things could be better and asking weird, uncomfortable questions…That is the essence of radical innovation.
VP, Engineering Fellow at Google
Raleigh White Johnson, Jr. Lecture
April 9, 2026
Whether you're technical or non-technical, it's important to realize we’re at a societal inflection point, and we need to participate in and influence the conversation.
Arati Prabhakar
Former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and science and technology advisor to President Joe Biden
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Civic Scientist Lecture Series
March 13, 2026
AI is in everything. If you care about national security, or if you care about the climate and the environment and clean energy…AI is, in a sense, woven through all of them.
Huda Zoghbi
Neurogeneticist and pioneer in brain research
Rice University’s 112th Commencement
May 10, 2025
This is the beauty of academia. It is a gift economy, not a market economy.
Chairman and CEO of Phillips 66
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership: Engineers in the C-Suite Speaker Series
September 15, 2025
Think about how important energy is in your life. Think about how important energy is to the world…We're committed to providing it in the least impactful way we can on the environment.