Duncan, Spiegel honored at Rice360 awards breakfast
May 6, 2023
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies presented its 2023 Global Champion Award to philanthropist Jan Duncan and its 2023 Alumni Leadership Award to physician Elizabeth Spiegel ’11 at its graduate recognition and awards breakfast May 5.
Rice mourns passing of Manik Talwani
April 17, 2023
Rice is mourning the death of Manik Talwani, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.
Alex Dessler, founding father of Rice space science, dies at 94
April 14, 2023
Pioneering space scientist Alexander Dessler, who taught at Rice University for 30 years after founding the first university department dedicated to the study of space science at the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race, died April 9 at age 94.
Higgs, Ramos elected AIMBE Fellows
March 28, 2023
Engineering’s Fred Higgs and Renata Ramos have been elected fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.