![Pedram Hassanzadeh](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/17.jpg.jpeg?itok=_BZNtapT)
Hassanzadeh awarded Young Investigator Program research grant Friday, Apr 10, 2020
Rice mechanical engineering professor is one of 26 recipients of U.S. Office of Naval Research grant.
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Lab assistants are unsung heroes during COVID Thursday, Apr 9, 2020
Ray Simar celebrate ENGI 220 team that helps with online classes.
![Anibal Tafur and Jamie Padgett](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/19.jpg.jpeg?itok=Vto2ZW6k)
With NSF grant, CEE's Padgett studies Puerto Rico infrastructure Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020
The grants are given by in situations of 'severe urgency' to collect 'perishable structural damage data.'
![RCEL 100 class online](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/20.jpg.jpeg?itok=gpTfXUN4)
RCEL takes leadership role-playing online Monday, Mar 30, 2020
'Self-Awareness and the Engineering Leader' is first course many students take to earn RCEL certificate.
![ow Caleb Kemere is providing students a remote 'hands-on' experience](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/21.jpg.jpeg?itok=Iu_vwoR_)
How Caleb Kemere is providing students a remote 'hands-on' experience Thursday, Mar 26, 2020
For his ELEC 327 lesson, he returned to an artifact of his own childhood — Simon, the electronic memory game introduced in 1978.
![Jeffrey J. Tabor](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/23.jpg.jpeg?itok=4ezh28zJ)
Bioengineering's Tabor named AIMBE Fellow Wednesday, Mar 25, 2020
Rice professor recognized for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.'
![Rob Griffin](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/22.jpg.jpeg?itok=ydShKO6R)
Rob Griffin to serve as Rice Engineering interim dean Wednesday, Mar 25, 2020
On July 1, the current dean, Reginald DesRoches, will take office as the provost of Rice University.
![Yvette E. Pearson](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/24.jpg.jpeg?itok=2Snqjp6-)
Pearson named to ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission Friday, Mar 20, 2020
Rice associate dean has been a program evaluator for the EAC since 2013.
![ELEC 220](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/26.jpg.jpeg?itok=styYZjsT)
How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online Thursday, Mar 19, 2020
ELEC 220 is a required course for all ECE and computer science majors at Rice University.
![OpenStax](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/25.jpg.jpeg?itok=e76cL5t5)
In response to COVID-19, OpenStax sees surge in new users Thursday, Mar 19, 2020
Since March 11, more than 27,000 accounts have been created on the Rice University-based publisher of free online texts
![Sibani Lisa Biswal and Ashutosh Sabharwal](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/27.jpg.jpeg?itok=cqjMhptj)
Engineering faculty Biswal, Sabharwal named to endowed chairs Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020
Biswal leads Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory, and Sabharwal is founder of Wireless Open-Access Research Platform.
![Engineering Quad](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/28.jpg.jpeg?itok=jkoyIuic)
Rice Engineering graduate programs rank in U.S. News top 30 for 2021 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2020
The George R. Brown School of Engineering ties for 33rd among the nation’s top 160 engineering graduate schools.
![Temi Prioleau](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/29.jpg.jpeg?itok=APj6YJmx)
How Temi Prioleau engineers personalized diabetes management Friday, Mar 13, 2020
Former Rice postdoctoral fellow and now Dartmouth professor uses wearable technologies to inform treatment strategies.
![13th-annual Rice Oil & Gas High Performance Computing Conference](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/30.jpg.jpeg?itok=Nw5jtL16)
![Construct3D](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/32.jpg.jpeg?itok=9l78jETP)
Construct3D bring hundreds to Rice for 3D printing and digital fabrication Friday, Mar 6, 2020
More than 250 students, industry representatives, academics, K-12 teachers and hobbyists attended the four-day conference.
![Department of Statistics wishes Kathy Ensor good luck in the election for President of the American Statistical Association.](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/31.jpg.jpeg?itok=_cXO0Lao)
Kathy Ensor running for American Statistical Association president Thursday, Mar 5, 2020
Statistics professor is one of two candidates running for the ASA’s top elected spot.
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Mech Lab to reopen as renovated Maxfield Hall in 2021 Monday, Mar 2, 2020
Robert and Katherine Maxfield and the Maxfield Foundation commit $5 million for 'gut remodel.'
![CubeSat](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/33.jpg.jpeg?itok=5q8O0vGp)
Aerospace students build OwlSat to monitor extreme ultraviolet radiation Friday, Feb 28, 2020
Small research satellite proposed by the Rice chapter of SEDS will learn where all the space junk is.
![Lydia Kavraki](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/34.jpg.jpeg?itok=W4KlnJA4)
Kavraki receives Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award Thursday, Feb 27, 2020
Rice computer science professor recognized for her fundamental contributions to robot design.
![Satish Nagarajaiah](/sites/g/files/bxs2626/files/styles/thumbnail_small_75x75/public/2020-07/35.jpg.jpeg?itok=nw2lc7WD)
Nagarajaiah honored with ASCE's 2020 Nathan M. Newmark Medal Friday, Feb 21, 2020
The recognizes research that has 'helped substantially to strengthen the scientific base of structural engineering.'