awards

IEEE honors Kavraki, Richards-Kortum, Truchard

Two renowned Rice University professors and a longtime backer have won prestigious honors in the 2023 IEEE Awards.

Douglas Brinkley nominated for two Grammys

Rice historian Douglas Brinkley is once again a Grammy nominee. Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor of Humanities, will be up for awards in two categories at the Feb. 5 ceremony in Los Angeles.

ACS taps Rice, Shell for Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award

Collaborators at Rice and Shell receive the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award.

Rice bioengineer seeks better signals from cells

Jerzy Szablowski earns NIH support to research noninvasive reporters that monitor gene therapy in the brain.

Rice’s Eduardo Salas receives lifetime achievement award from Association for Psychological Science

Eduardo Salas , department chair and a professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, has received the coveted James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of his outstanding career achievements.

Biden appoints Rice's Ruth López Turley to National Board for Education Sciences

President Biden has appointed Ruth López Turley, director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and professor of sociology, to the National Board for Education Sciences.

Rice’s Kiese Laymon awarded ‘genius grant’ MacArthur Fellowship

Rice University English professor and acclaimed author Kiese Laymon has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the prestigious honor popularly known as the “genius grant.”

Halas, Nordlander honored in Rome

Italian President Sergio Mattarella presented Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander the 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award in an Oct. 3 ceremony in Rome's Quirinal Palace.

Wong named fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Michael Wong has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Onuchic wins top Biophysical Society honor

José Onuchic wins the 2023 Founders Award presented by the Biophysical Society.

People, papers and presentations for Sept. 6, 2022

Melodie French, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has won the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award.

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 22, 2022

Eduardo Salas , the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor and chair of Rice’s Department of Psychological Sciences, was a finalist for the 2022 George R. Terry Book Award for his manuscript, “Teams That Work: The Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness.”

Halas, Nordlander win prestigious Eni Energy Transition Award

Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander have won the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award.

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 8, 2022

Alyssa Cahoy, a senior Health Sciences student in the Department of Kinesiology, won the Morehouse College Project Imhotep Public Health Leadership Award during her summer internship at the Atlanta program.

Read all about it: Access Services team honored with Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award

Fondren Library’s Access Services team, a group of 19 people, has won the 2022 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.