Rice's Illya Hicks inducted as fellow of prestigious society
Haotian Wang wins Packard Fellowship
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
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
Galveston Bay Park is a 'vision' of Houston's future
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two dozen recipients of this year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships are Rice students, incoming students or alumni.
Kavraki honored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award for her fundamental contributions to robot design.
BioScience's Rosa Uribe wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice University neurodevelopmental biologist Rosa Uribe has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.