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Rice researchers, colleagues awarded ASEE's Best Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Paper Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
Pearson, Phillips and DesRoches among authors of paper presented at June conference.

Ken Kennedy Institute graduate fellowship program awards $50,000 Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
Awards to help seven fellows in five Rice Engineering departments further pursue research.

Sabharwal elected a fellow of National Academy of Inventors Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
ECE chair and professor named one of 175 academic inventors in 2020 class.

Thanks to Rice Engineering, Bill Smoot '83 likes to get his hands dirty Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
The mechanical engineering alumnus's company WET Engineering deals in waterparks and water treatment.

Jermaine named interim chair of computer science department Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020
Computer science professor to succeed Luay Nakhleh, who is set to become dean of School of Engineering, effective Jan. 1.

This self-described 'geek' came to Rice to learn about business, leadership and his career ambitions Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020
Vinay Pai BA '88 BS '88 MS '91 now serves as a senior vice president of engineering with Bill.com.

Luay Nakhleh, Rice’s computer science chair, named dean of School of Engineering Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020
He will begin his new role on January 1, 2021.

Armistead’s Rice roots help him become a leader in renewable energy Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020
Hunter Armistead '90, chief development officer for Pattern Energy, has learned from his failures.

Kowal’s 'STAR' shines on data science Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020
Statistics professor develops 'new way to construct statistical models for integer-valued data — such as counts, test scores and rounded data.'