awards

B.J. Fregly named ASME Fellow

B.J. Fregly, a professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering and a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Pedram Hassanzadeh wins NSF CAREER Award

Atmospheric blocking is known to cause or exacerbate extreme weather events, but much about them remains a mystery. Rice University fluid dynamicist Pedram Hassanzadeh has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study these events with an eye toward better understanding the physics behind their complex mechanics.

‘An unprecedented year’: Record number of Rice grad students awarded NSF fellowships

Two dozen current graduate students are among 44 affiliated with Rice to win Graduate Research Fellowships and three years of financial support.

Biochem lab partners win Goldwater Scholarships

Passionate pursuit of research opportunities pays off for Syed Shams and Jim Zhang

Rice's Beatrice Riviere selected as fellow of professional mathematics society

The computational and applied mathematician is among 28 new fellows announced by the 14,000-member society.

Akane Sano wins NSF CAREER Award

Forget the mood ring. Akane Sano has a far better idea.

‘Personal experiences of joy’: Baker College senior Pikus wins Watson Fellowship

“I feel grateful having come to Rice, because I feel like it allowed me to go with the flow, have fun, learn things and follow my passion.”

Rice undergrad soars into inaugural group of aerospace fellows

Bria Romero, a mechanical engineering sophomore at Rice, has won one of 43 inaugural Patti Grace Smith Fellowships launched to empower Black excellence in aerospace.

Christopher Tunnell wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice University computational astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell is getting help in his search for the nature of the universe through a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Rice earns Tree Campus USA recognition for ninth straight year

Rice received the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for the ninth consecutive year in 2020.

Rice's Yingyan Lin receives NSF CAREER Award

Rice engineer Yingyan Lin has won a National Science CAREER Award to help close the gap between fast “deep learning” algorithm advances and slow accelerator development.

Laura Segatori named AIMBE fellow

Rice bioengineer Laura Segatori has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society’s Clarke Award

Mark Torres with water samples collected from Iceland's Efri Haukadalsá River in 2016. (Photo by Woodward Fisher)

Postdoc Chenguang Sun wins mineralogical society award

Rice chemist, alums named to Forbes 30 Under 30

Rice University chemist Julian West and four alumni have been named to the 10th annual Forbes 30 Under 30.