Alvarez honored with 2021 ASCE Simon W. Freese Award Friday, Jan 24, 2020
Civil and environmental engineering professor recognized for 'extraordinary accomplishments' in solving challenging water quality problems.
Ken Kennedy Institute graduate fellowship program awards $65,000 Friday, Jan 24, 2020
Recipients use fellowship awards to further research pursuits, attend conferences, travel, and develop networking relationships.
Bao named chair of Bioengineering Thursday, Jan 16, 2020
Will step down as associate dean for research and innovation in the George R. Brown School of Engineering.
How this alumna speaks the language of mathematics Monday, Dec 16, 2019
Cassandra McZeal '98, '99 supervises computational and data scientists at ExxonMobil.
10 Rice Engineering faculty among world’s highly cited researchers Friday, Dec 6, 2019
The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list is a global accounting of scientists who produced decade’s most influential papers.
Peter Varman named IEEE Fellow Thursday, Dec 5, 2019
Rice professor recognized for his 'contributions to input/output scheduling algorithms for storage systems.'
Marcia O'Malley named IEEE Fellow Tuesday, Dec 3, 2019
Rice mechanical engineering professor cited for her “contributions to rehabilitation robotics and haptic systems.”
Hadley Wickham identifies good design in data science Monday, Nov 25, 2019
RStudio data scientist shares his career story at first D2K Distinguished Lecture.
Vardi named honorary professor at East China Normal University Thursday, Nov 21, 2019
ECNU describes Rice professor as “one of the world’s top-notch computational logic researchers.”
Rice Engineering names first Future Faculty Fellows Thursday, Nov 14, 2019
Program supports Ph.D. and postdoctoral students interested in pursuing academic careers through funding and mentoring.
'Exciting time' of growth for Rice Computer Science Friday, Nov 8, 2019
Increased enrollment, new faculty and expanding research highlight department's bright future.
A.I. and machine learning at Rice: Much more than science fiction Tuesday, Nov 5, 2019
Rice researchers are changing public perception by making artificial intelligence less flashy and more practical.
Developing the tools to handle big data Monday, Nov 4, 2019
Eugene Ng has devised numerous strategies that enable networks to adapt their structures dynamically.
Woods named distinguished professor in practice of computer technology Friday, Nov 1, 2019
Has served as an ECE professor in the practice since 2008 with research focusing on optical probing of integrated circuits and work on ultra-low-cost medical devices.
Spanos recognized with medal for China contributions Thursday, Oct 31, 2019
Rice professor has recruited and supervised more than 30 visiting scholars and Ph.D. students from China.
Rivière helps Shell increase efficiency of energy production Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019
Digital Rock process shows more detailed picture of what’s going on underground for improved oil and gas recovery.
Wehmeyer receives NASA Early Career Faculty award Thursday, Oct 24, 2019
With three-year, $600,000 grant, his research will investigate novel approaches to thermal-control materials for spacecraft.
How math and art led Ryan Li '17 to data science Wednesday, Oct 23, 2019
The professional master's alumnus was recently hired by Schlumberger.
Predicting 20 billion connected electronic devices by next year Tuesday, Oct 22, 2019
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology hosts third annual Rice Data Science Conference.