Jane Grande-Allen, 2016 Teaching and Research Excellence Award
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Gang Bao, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Named University Professor
Pierre Galletti Award, American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering
Tony Mikos, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society - Americas
Ann Saterbak, 2015 Nichalas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award
Junghae Suh, Outstanding New Investigator Award from the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy
Jeffrey Tabor, NSF CAREER Award
George Hirasaki, 2016 Offshore Technology Conference Distinguished Achievement Award
Rafael Verduzco, 2015 Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC)
Promoted to Associate Professor
Pedro Alvarez, Elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors
Satish Nagarajaiah, Named to the American Society of Civil Engineers Board of Directors
Ilinca Stanciulescu, Promoted to Associate Professor
Adrianna Gillman, 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics
Illya Hicks, 2015 Presidential Mentoring Award
Bill Symes, Erasmus Award from the European Association of Geosciences and Engineering
Richard Tapia, College-Level Promotion of Education Award from the 2016 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) STEM Conference
Christopher Jermaine, 2016 Teaching and Research Excellence Award
Promoted to Full Professor
Luay Nakhleh, Promoted to Full Professor
Eugene Ng, Promoted to Full Professor
Krishna Palem, Guggenheim Fellowship
Vivek Sarkar, Most Influential Paper Award - 2015 OOPSLA Conference
Lydia Kavraki, 2015 Award for Technical Leadership - Anita Borg Institute
Presidential Mentoring Award
Moshe Vardi, Honorary Doctorate from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Aydin Babakhani, NSF CAREER Award
Richard Baraniuk, 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Naomi Halas, Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Xaq Pitkow, NSF CAREER Award
Gary Woods, 2016 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching
Lin Zhong, Promoted to Full Professor
Pulickel Ajayan, 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Nanotechnology from the Houston Technology Center
NANOSMAT Prize
Fathi Ghorbel, Named American Society of Mechanical Engineering Fellow
Pol Spanos, Named Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Genevera Allen, NSF CAREER Award
Kathy Ensor, Elected vice president of the American Statistical Association
Philip Ernst, 2016 Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching - Rice University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
Loren Raun, 2016 GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award
David Scott, 2016 Nancy Moore and J. Thomas Eubank Prize in Computational Statistics
For a list of 2014–2015 faculty scholarly accomplishments, click here.
