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.
Doctoral alumna wins prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
Doctoral graduate Natsumi Komatsu has been awarded a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship
Rice physicist wins DOE early career award
Physicist Guido Pagano wins a prestigious Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy.
Zoghbi shares prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
Rice trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Casbarian, Doty, Leebron and Sun receive ARA’s Gold Medal at 2022 Laureates Awards
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2022 Laureates Awards ceremony May 7, the group bestowed its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to Rice Architecture’s John Casbarian ’69 ’72 and Janice Doty ’60. Rice President David Leebron and wife Y. Ping Sun were also awarded the ARA’s Gold Medal for their 18 years of service to the university.
Daniel Preston wins NSF CAREER Award
Daniel Preston wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop textile-based wearable robots.
Rice biologist wins NIH early career award
Durre Muhammad, a Rice Academy postdoctoral fellow, has won a prestigious NIH award to pursue her research plant biology.
Faculty recognized with award for superior teaching
Nine faculty received the 2022 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors top Rice instructors by votes from alumni who graduated within the past two, three and five years.
Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service
Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service.
Assistant dean of finance and administration Birenbaum wins Elizabeth Gillis Award
Lisa Birenbaum, assistant dean for finance and administration in the School of Social Sciences, was named winner of the Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service at President David Leebron’s spring town hall meeting April 21.
‘Awesome in every possible way’
To understand why Statistics’ Philip Ernst won this year’s George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Rice’s top teaching award, one need only read a few of the student comments in anonymous evaluations of his STAT 310 course.