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Rice Engineering and Computing names Dane Christensen to advisory board Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025

Alumnus brings expertise in secure, efficient renewable energy to the board.

Ajayan honored with Materials Today Innovation Award Monday, Jan 13, 2025

Rice materials scientist recognized for his significant achievements in developing nanoengineered materials.

Templeton and Young inspire the next generation of engineers through equitable STEM outreach programs Monday, Jan 6, 2025

More than 100 students to start off the new year with Rice University’s Young Scholar Invent workshop.

Eight seniors honored by Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Friday, Jan 3, 2025

Students received Michael Ross Franco Awards and Chevron Prizes at annual awards luncheon.

Rice team places second at Houston Methodist Hospital competition Friday, Dec 20, 2024

Electrical and computer engineers awarded for developing novel skin test for tuberculosis.

Beatrice Riviere re-elected to Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Thursday, Dec 19, 2024

Rice professor to serve premier society of applied mathematics for a second three-year term.

Wong to receive International Precious Metals Institute’s Henry J. Albert Award Thursday, Dec 19, 2024

Chemical and biomolecular engineer recognized for innovations in precious metals for clean water applications.

A Year in Review Wednesday, Dec 18, 2024

Message from the Dean, December 18, 2024.

Rafael Verduzco named A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Monday, Dec 16, 2024

Verduzco's research focuses on developing polymers for water treatment, bioelectronic devices and electrochemical CO2 reduction.

Thanh Tran named Technical Fellow at Raytheon Thursday, Dec 12, 2024

Rice professor in the practice of electrical and computer engineering recognized for dedication to the technology field.

New Dean Fellows program enhances research in computing, health and sustainability  Thursday, Dec 12, 2024

Inaugural fellows Anastasios Kyrillidis, Omid Veiseh and Haotian Wang to begin appointment Jan. 1.

Team Chronic Outages takes first prize at D2K Fall Showcase Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024

Interdisciplinary team improves power outage analysis, equitable energy infrastructure.

Eight Rice materials scientists are among the world’s highly cited researchers Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024

Esteemed faculty named to the Web of Science group’s Highly Cited Researchers list recognized for last decade’s most influential papers.

Pulickel Ajayan to step down as chair of materials science and nanoengineering Monday, Dec 9, 2024

Achievements during his decade of leadership include faculty growth, collaborative global partnerships.

Richard Baraniuk awarded 2025 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024

C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering honored for his outstanding achievements in signal processing.

Rice doctoral student designs electricity-free heating and cooling system Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024

Research by Lorenzo Castelli and collaborators expands passive variable insulation to multi-season capabilities.

Michael Wong named associate editor for American Chemical Society journal Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024

Rice professor joins the Environmental Science and Technology journal for ACS publications.

Rice Engineering and Computing faculty named to Highly Cited Researchers list Monday, Nov 25, 2024

Web of Science group‘s list recognizes researchers “who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication.”

Ross Thyer awarded BioMADE grant for sustainable biomanufacturing Monday, Nov 25, 2024

Funding will support development of genetic toolkit for environmental bacteria to manufacture materials, commodity chemicals.

Clean-tech company Helix Earth secures $5.6M in seed funding Friday, Nov 22, 2024

Startup led by Rawand Rasheed ’23 develops retrofit devices to reduce energy consumption in air-conditioning systems.