Postdoc Chenguang Sun wins mineralogical society award
January 6, 2021
Rice chemist, alums named to Forbes 30 Under 30
December 31, 2020
Rice University chemist Julian West and four alumni have been named to the 10th annual Forbes 30 Under 30.
Rice's Illya Hicks inducted as fellow of prestigious society
December 14, 2020
Haotian Wang wins Packard Fellowship
October 15, 2020
Haotian Wang has been honored with a Packard Fellowship, one of 20 researchers in the nation to do so this year.
Rice alumna Villalobos earns White House mentoring award
August 6, 2020
Maria “Cristina” Villalobos, a Rice graduate in computational and applied mathematics (CAAM), has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Ghasempour receives 2020 Marconi Society Young Scholar Award
August 4, 2020
Galveston Bay Park is a 'vision' of Houston's future
August 3, 2020
An ambitious plan to shield Houston from a devastating hurricane by creating Galveston Bay Park, a 10,000-acre public park on a chain of man-made islands, earned top honors in the international design competition Houston 2020 Visions.
Tour scores prestigious Centenary Prize
June 24, 2020
Rice University chemist James Tour has been named a winner of this year’s Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize.
Rice scientist goes deep to improve environmental tracers
June 1, 2020
Rice Earth scientist Laurence Yeung earns a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve our understanding of the biosphere’s productivity.
Rice U. physicist Ming Yi wins coveted Moore Foundation grant
May 28, 2020
Rice physicist Ming Yi won $1.6 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for high-risk, high-reward research into quantum materials.
Mech major Cofer named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
May 6, 2020
The Jones College senior will joining 75 other scholars from 26 countries pursuing Ph.D.s at Stanford University.
Three Ph.D. grads win NSF postdoctoral fellowships
May 4, 2020
Three Ph.D. graduates from the same Rice University research group have won prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences.
Prestigious Truman Scholarship awarded to Rice junior
April 16, 2020
Junior Cordy McJunkins won the premier graduate fellowship for those pursuing careers as leaders in public service
Two dozen Rice students win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, funding
April 15, 2020
Two dozen recipients of this year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships are Rice students, incoming students or alumni.