Students in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University have a variety of scholarships, awards and opportunities available to them. These awards recognize academic success, research, service and development. Engineering Scholarships are awarded through the Office of Student and Financial Aid and are not included in this list. Browse the opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students and apply today!
2022-23 Student Award Recipients
Chima Adiole
B.A. computer science
REA Research Excellence Award
Ayush Agrawal
Ph.D. chemical engineering 2024
REA travel grant
“The Materials Research Society is one of the leading materials science conferences in the world. It provides a platform to showcase my research in Aditya Mohite’s group. The grant will help cover the cost of travel, the registration fee and accommodation in San Francisco.”
Emily Aspey
B.S. chemical engineering 2025
Rodd Selman Scholarship
“The award will help offset the cost of my degree, allowing me to focus more on my studies as I prepare to enter industry or pursue graduate school.”
Summer Barrette
B.S. mechanical engineering 2024
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award
“I plan to apply to graduate school next year and this gift will help me cover expenses for this process, including testing and application fees.”
Sean Bishop
B.S. chemical engineering 2024
Fluor Daniel Scholarship
Eli Blasini
B.S. chemical engineering 2025
Rodd Selman Scholarship
“The award will help me afford tuition and enable me to continue my education. That will allow me to focus on my academics and extracurriculars, and prepare for graduate school applications.”
Isabelle Chang
B.S. bioengineering, B.S. civil engineering 2025
Fluor Daniel Scholarship
“This award will give me the flexibility to further pursue unpaid learning opportunities and will open doors to new career opportunities.”
Yining Chen
B.S. bioengineering 2023
James S. Waters Creativity Award
“The award is a validation of my hard work in the past four years and a great support as I go into graduate school. It will motivate me to do research that makes a difference to the biomedical world in my future research career.”
Nahom Demek Dagnachew
B.S. mechanical engineering 2023
Chevron Scholarship
“I will use this money to help pay my student loans, save for graduate school and pay for any materials I will need in my future endeavors working as a fulltime engineer.”
Travis Dowd
B.S. bioengineering 2023
REA Leadership Excellence Award
“As I continue into graduate school next year, this award will prove instrumental in financing my further education. I hope to use many of the leadership opportunities that I have had as I move toward becoming a physician.”
Dongyu Fan
Ph.D. chemical engineering 2024
REA travel grant
“The travel award will be instrumental in advancing my educational and career goals. By attending the ACS conference, I will have the opportunity to present my research and receive feedback from experts in the field.”
Weili (Winnie) Fan
B.S. electrical and computer engineering 2024
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“These gifts will be helpful as I continue to pursue my degree and give me more freedom to explore my future in the academic or industrial field. It allows me to determine what I will do after graduation without financial burden.”
Saba Feleke
B.S. mechanical engineering 2025
Phil Layton Award of Excellence in the Arts
“This will help ease the financial burden my family faces and permit me to focus more on what I love: making things.”
Yuren Feng
Ph.D. environmental engineering 2024
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award
“This award inspires me to innovate and build bridges between lab-scale technology and real-life scenarios. It will help me realize my dream of presenting our ideas at national and overseas conferences so that I can optimize my invention with more feedback.”
Anna Frey
B.S. mechanical engineering 2023
Nazim S. Nathoo Award for Engineering Excellence
“The scholarship will help me transition after graduation to Navy Nuclear Power School, where I get to continue studying engineering, particularly nuclear engineering in order to become a submarine officer in the US Navy.”
Vanessa Garlepp
B.S. bioengineering 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“This generous gift gave me freedom to explore my passions outside of course work in my final semester at Rice, so I could dedicate more time to the development of our capstone design project.”
Alex Han
B.A. statistics 2024
REA Leadership Excellence Award
“This award will allow me to further develop as a leader and grow as a scholar.”
Caroline Miyuki Hashimoto
B.S. civil engineering, B.S. statistics 2025
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“These gifts will reduce the financial obligations of my family and potentially make it easier for me to go to grad school.”
Emily Huang
B.S. computer science 2024
School of Engineering Most Outstanding Junior Award
“I will use this gift to purchase textbooks and further my education in computer science.”
Xiaochuan Huang
Ph.D. materials science and nanoengineering 2023
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award
“In addition to the financial support it provides, this award acknowledges that I and my team members are doing research that is valuable. It inspires me to continue to work on our water treatment studies.”
Kshipra Kapoor
Ph.D. electrical and computer engineering 2023
REA travel grant
“My research is focused on developing a suite of high-throughput and modular technologies for isolating exosomes and elucidating the biophysical and biomolecular makeup of exosomes. This gift permits me to attend a conference that provides valuable networking.”
Ellen Kasradze
B.S. mechanical engineering 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“I’m grateful for these award and will use them to pay for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam after graduation, the first step toward my goal of becoming a licensed professional engineer.”
Fadeel Sher Khan
B.S. bioengineering 2023
R.K.M. "Bob" Dickson Prize
“This award will help me create a computational system to allow physicians to make better informed clinical decisions in low-resource and time-constrained settings. I can make a tangible impact on improving patients’ lives.”
J. Lyle Kim
Ph.D. computer science 2024
REA travel grant
“The REA’s travel grant allowed me to attend the Quantum Information Processing conference at the University of Ghent, and present two works on quantum state tomography.”
Sabrina Kim
B.A. computer science 2024
Chevron Scholarship
“This award will help me pay for my college tuition and allow me to invest more time in my studies.”
Chloe “Seoyun” Kong
B.S. materials science and nanoengineering 2023
School of Engineering Most Outstanding Senior Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Most Outstanding Senior Award
“This gift will help me transition into my next step in life which is to pursue biomaterials and tissue engineering research as a Ph.D. student in bioengineering.”
Andrew Li
B.A. statistics 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award
“This gift will further my opportunities in medical school to conduct statistical machine learning research on patient health data to advance disease/cancer prediction methods and create early detection opportunities.”
Kashif Liaqat
Ph.D. mechanical engineering 2026
REA travel grant
“This will permit me to attend a leading conference on sustainability, which will not only propel me on my educational journey but will also have an impact my professional growth.”
Nancy Lindsey
B.S. mechanical engineering 2025
REA Leadership Excellence Award; REA Project Grant
“I spend most of my free time on Rice's rocketry team, Eclipse, and RC plane team, Design, Build, Fly. I hope to pursue a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering when I graduate. This award will help me apply to graduate programs.”
Andrew Linhart
B.S. mechanical engineering 2024
Chevron Scholarship
“This gift will go towards my tuition as I continue my studies with a concentration in thermal fluids. I am thankful for the scholarship donors who value academic achievement and support my academic journey.”
Shannon McGill
B.S. bioengineering 2024
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“I’m grateful for this award that will allow me to continue taking advantage of all the amazing opportunities here at Rice, propelling me to a successful career in medical-device design.”
Andrei Mitrofan
B.S. bioengineering 2023
James S. Waters Creativity Award
“This award will allow me to continue exploring new fields and pursue passion projects without having to worry about how I'm going to afford the supplies I need.”
Jacob Morgan
B.S. civil engineering 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“I plan to become a practicing structural engineer after I graduate. This award will help me fund my structural engineering studies in graduate school and help me pay for exam preparation materials as I begin my career journey.”
Joseph Clay Murphy
B.S. chemical engineering 2025
Rodd Selman Scholarship
“I count myself blessed to have received this scholarship. As I pursue research this summer, it will allow me to consider lab options that align with my interests and potential future career instead of simply the ones that pay well.”
Prani Nalluri
B.A. computational applied mathematics and operations research 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award
“This award will help support me as I begin my Ph.D. this fall. I will pursue research in computational geophysical fluid dynamics. I hope to pursue a postdoc in my field and eventually become a research professor.”
Amanda Nash
Ph.D. bioengineering 2023
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award
“This award will help encourage future students to submit patents related to their inventions. In addition, it will help fund development of future creative ideas by reducing financial concerns for students.”
Leanh Nguyen
B.S. civil engineering 2025
Chevron Scholarship
“With this scholarship, I am encouraged to keep aiming higher for my education and career, further contribute to the Rice community and support my research.”
Tina Nguyen
B.S. civil engineering 2025
Dick and Mary Ellen Wilson Engineering Student Enhancement Award
“This award will allow me to go on an assessment trip with Rice Engineers Without Borders Prado team, which is working on the design of five bridges for a small community in Peru.”
Joseph Paci
B.S. chemical engineering 2024
Society of American Military Engineers Scholarship
“This scholarship will help cover my food and transportation expenses while I’m in school.”
Natasha Patnaik
B.A. computational applied mathematics and operations research 2024
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award
“This recognition motivates me to continue working hard and aiming high in my educational/career pursuits. As an engineering student, I truly strive to make the most of my time here at Rice.”
Brett Pogostin
Ph.D. bioengineering 2023
REA travel grant
“The award funded my travel to a Gordon Research Conference specific to my field, peptide materials. I was able to disseminate my graduate research there, make connections with people in my field and secure interviews for postdoc positions.”
Aditya Pradhan
B.S. chemical engineering 2025
Rodd Selman Scholarship
“This scholarship will help pay tuition for summer classes which will help me complete my degree within four years and achieve my career goals faster.”
Sahana Prasanna
B.S. bioengineering 2024
Phil Layton Award of Excellence in the Arts; REA Research Excellence Award
“Music has always been my passion. I can now achieve my goals of doing engineering and medicine while pursuing my musical career. The research award helps me pursue data-driven research as I continue my academic journey in medical school.”
Bryant Ruff
B.S. chemical engineering 2024
Chevron Scholarship; School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Most Outstanding Junior Award
“This award means alot — not just for monetary support but also for the vote of confidence in my future. School is challenging and receiving this award has given me a chance to stop and reflect on all the support that I have received.”
Catherine Russell
B.S. mechanical engineering 2024
Buckley Sartwelle Scholarship
Sarah Salvatore
Chevron Scholarship
B.S. civil engineering 2023
Benjamin Smiley
B.S. civil engineering 2024
Dick and Mary Ellen Wilson Engineering Student Enhancement Award
“This award will help my family finance my trip to Mexico, where I will interact with the Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment center to learn about providing water purification systems in the developing world.”
Eliot Solomon
B.S. computer science 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award
“This gift will further my educational goals and career by helping me pay for academic materials and stuff to make side projects with.”
Alexa Thomases
B.S. electrical and computer engineering 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“They will help me pursue an advanced degree in machine learning or a related field after working in industry. Upon graduation, I will work at Microsoft on a Health AI team, building machine-learning solutions for healthcare practitioners to improve patient outcomes.”
Savannah Tiemann
B.S. chemical engineering 2023
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award; REA Leadership Excellence Award; REA Research Excellence Award
“These awards are such an honor. They help cover my cost of living while I am in Switzerland for a research fellowship at ETH Zurich to study the effects of an ultrasound treatment on Alzheimer’s disease.”
Mohammad Taha Toghani
Ph.D. electrical and computer engineering 2024
REA Travel Grant
“This grant enabled me to attend and present my research at leading international conferences and workshops in my field -- critical opportunities to connect with experts, share my research and learn about cutting-edge advances in my area of study.”
Andrew (A.J.) Walters
Ph.D. bioengineering 2025
Harrianna Butler Scholarship
“My family and I are grateful for this award, especially after welcoming a second child into our home. By relieving the tremendous financial burden of these expenses, I will be able to provide my family and give my kids what they need, enabling me to continue to progress in our educational/career goals.
Ryan Z. Wang
B.S. computer science 2024
James S. Waters Creativity Award; REA Leadership Excellence Award
“These awards will help fund my future creative endeavors, such as attending conferences to present my research. Most importantly, it will open opportunities for me to make an impact in research, service and mentorship.”
Anthony Weeks
B.S. chemical engineering, B.A. materials science 2024
Chevron Scholarship
“I want to learn how to use engineering to solve the problem of sustainable development. The scholarship will permit me to focus more on studying, taking classes and doing research than on doing work study on campus.”
Rui Xu
Ph.D. materials science and nanoengineering 2025
REA travel grant
“The REA grant will help me significantly in presenting my research results to a broad academic audience.”
Ethan Yang
B.S. bioengineering, B.S. mechanical engineering 2024
Chevron Scholarship
“This scholarship will assist me in pursuing a master's degree in mechanical engineering and an eventual career in industry. It will allow me to explore my interests in both mechanical engineering and bioengineering.”
Yiyi Yang
B.S. materials science and nanoengineering 2024
School of Engineering Outstanding Student Award; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“These awards will help me pursue my goal of becoming an engineer to reduce social inequality in product design and research.”
Jason Ye
B.S. mechanical engineering 2024
Fluor Daniel Scholarship
“This award will help cover some of my tuition and living costs.”
Yang Zhao
Ph.D. electrical and computer engineering 2023
Ralph Budd Award for Research in Engineering
“As an incoming assistant in the ECE department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, this recognition reinforces my commitment to excellence and academic rigor. It demonstrates that I am a capable and respected researcher and educator.”
Aasha Zinke
B.S. materials science and nanoengineering 2024
Louis and Peaches Owens Fellowship for Professional Masters; REA project grant; Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Student Award
“As an engineer planning to work in industry, earning a masters would allow me to grow my expertise and expand my range of skills. I am passionate about materials science, and grateful that this fellowship will allow me to continue to explore this field.”
Gabriel Tomoya Zook
B.S. electrical and computer engineering 2024
Chevron Scholarship
“As a low-income student, it is a struggle to make ends meet while balancing my academics. This award will allow me to focus on learning and alleviate some of the pressure to meet living expenses.”