Ken Kennedy Institute awards $135,000 to nine fellows Thu, 10/08/2020 - 10:09

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 Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:15

Maxfield Hall transformation under way, as Rice National Security Research Accelerator nears completion.

Ernst named inaugural Don Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award winner Mon, 09/21/2020 - 11:23

The first institute-wide early-career award from INFORMS recognizes 'outstanding research accomplishments in operations research, probability and statistics.'

Rice undergraduate engineering program moves up to No. 19 in U.S. News ranking Mon, 09/14/2020 - 07:11

Remains highest-ranked engineering program in Texas.

Kavraki, Mikos elected to prestigious Academia Europaea Fri, 09/11/2020 - 09:19

Rice Engineering faculty members recognized for their 'sustained academic excellence'

How a lifetime of advocacy led Norma Santamaría to helping underrepresented students Fri, 09/11/2020 - 08:29

A former lawyer and teacher, the ECE administrator aims to promote equity and inclusion.

Rice goes GRE-optional for grad programs, will grant fee waivers to graduates of Texas schools Wed, 09/09/2020 - 08:06

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 Thu, 09/03/2020 - 13:50

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 Fri, 08/28/2020 - 12:17

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 Tue, 08/25/2020 - 08:23

NCST is the body charged with investigating building failures resulting in significant loss of life.