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Civil engineers Nagarajaiah, Erazo awarded IASCM's Takuji Kobori Prize Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020
Pair recognized for their paper 'Bayesian structural identification of a hysteretic negative stiffness earthquake protection system using unscented Kalman filtering.'
No longer on the outside looking in Monday, Oct 12, 2020
Gilda Barabino '86 used her experience as a black female engineer to become president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Ken Kennedy Institute awards $135,000 to nine fellows Thursday, Oct 8, 2020
Program aims to attract graduate students to Rice in the fields of computational science and engineering, high performance computing and data analytics.
Construction projects helping to transform engineering facilities Monday, Oct 5, 2020
Maxfield Hall transformation under way, as Rice National Security Research Accelerator nears completion.
Ernst named inaugural Don Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award winner Monday, Sep 21, 2020
The first institute-wide early-career award from INFORMS recognizes 'outstanding research accomplishments in operations research, probability and statistics.'
Kavraki, Mikos elected to prestigious Academia Europaea Friday, Sep 11, 2020
Rice Engineering faculty members recognized for their 'sustained academic excellence'
Rice goes GRE-optional for grad programs, will grant fee waivers to graduates of Texas schools Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020
Rice is eliminating the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) standardized test requirement for its 2021 graduate programs.
Seven students, alumni named 2020 Fellows of the National GEM Consortium Thursday, Sep 3, 2020
GEM has supported more than 4,000 Fellows from underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science.
Eight new tenure-track faculty members join Rice Engineering in 2020-21 Friday, Aug 28, 2020
The new faculty in five departments have joined or soon will join the School of Engineering as assistant professors.
DesRoches named chair of the National Construction Safety Team Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020
NCST is the body charged with investigating building failures resulting in significant loss of life.
CAAM alumna Villalobos receives mentoring award from White House Wednesday, Aug 5, 2020
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley professor earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice in 1998 and 2000.
How this SVP at Caterpillar acquired engineering fundamentals at Rice Friday, Jul 17, 2020
Tom Pellette '86 is responsible for the company's Solar Turbines subsidiary and serves as a strategic adviser.
Lydia Kavraki receives NSF grant for COVID-19 'computational pipeline' Thursday, Jul 16, 2020
Rice computer scientist looks to help identify fragments of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins that could be used as targets for vaccine development.
Three Rice Engineering faculty named to endowed chairs Friday, Jun 5, 2020
Junichiro Kono, Daniel Kowal, Jamie Padgett will be promoted July 1.
12 of Rice COVID-19 research grants awarded to Rice Engineering faculty Thursday, May 28, 2020
Fund established in April to support projects to help end the pandemic and prepare for potential future outbreaks.