awards

Xue Sherry Gao wins CAREER Award

Rice engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to create versatile new toolkits for controlling gene expression.

Marcia O’Malley named AIMBE fellow

Rice mechanical engineer Marcia O’Malley has been named an AIMBE fellow in recognition of her contributions to rehabilitation robotics, haptics and robotic surgery.

Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination

Germaine Franco is going for gold — a gold-plated Oscar, that is.

Anastasios Kyrillidis wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice computer scientist will explore the theory and design of non-convex optimization algorithms, which are increasingly important for machine learning.

Matthew Jones wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice chemist Matthew Jones wins an NSF CAREER Award to study controlled growth of metallic nanoparticles for biomedicine, energy storage and computing.

Nathan Dautenhahn wins CAREER Award

Rice University computer scientist Nathan Dautenhahn wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue simplified, automated security for sophisticated software.

Architecture’s Brittany Utting wins top honor for ‘Deep Geologies’

Brittany Utting wins the 2022 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society for her Rice Architecture studio on the relationship between resource extraction and the built environment in Texas.

James Pomerantz named AAAS fellow

James Pomerantz has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Rice physicist Pengcheng Dai wins superconductivity award

Rice University physicist Pengcheng Dai and two European physicists have won the 2022 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, one of the leading awards for experimental research in superconductivity.

NSF funds Rice effort to measure, preserve quantum entanglement

Rice University physicist Guido Pagano has won a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study quantum entanglement and develop new error-correcting tools for quantum computation.

Barney Graham '75 named a Time Hero of the Year for developing COVID-19 vaccine

Rice alumnus Barney Graham, a renowned virologist and deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been named a 2021 Hero of the Year by Time magazine for his work developing the groundbreaking Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

NEST360 wins 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award

NEST360, an international alliance with roots at Rice University’s Rice 360º Institute for Global Health, has won the Global Health Technologies Coalition 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award for its efforts to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals.

Nicolaou wins Robert Koch Gold Medal

K.C. Nicolaou, the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the Robert Koch Gold Medal for his life’s work in biomedical science.

Rice faculty, alums recognized among city's most impactful Latinos

Four people from the Rice community were recognized as top Latinos and featured in a recent Chronicle Sunday story.

Rivière named Association for Women in Mathematics fellow

Rice University’s Béatrice Rivière has been named a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.