Tapia to discuss book on importance of improving STEM education for minorities
Rice University’s Multicultural Community Relations department will host a book presentation for Richard Tapia’s “Losing The Precious Few: How America Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering” Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in Anne and Charles Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium.
Rice’s Jamie Padgett wins Texas academy’s O’Donnell Award
Rice University structural engineer Jamie Padgett has received the 2023 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.
Record 17 Rice University graduate students named GEM Fellows
A record 17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium.
AMP! ramps up for a new year of STEM training for teachers with a day at Minute Maid Park.
Stroke analysis project wins Spring D2K Showcase
Deep learning can be a tool to help those who suffer strokes discover their risk of having another. That idea won the top capstone prize in the Spring D2K Showcase.
The ConocoPhillips Applied Mathematics Program at Rice hosts teachers for its year-ending AMPosium!
US News grad school rankings give high marks to Rice programs
A total of 19 graduate programs at Rice University rank among the nation's top 25 in their categories in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
12 questions for Nichole Ayers, Rice’s newest astronaut
Rice alumna and fighter pilot Nichole Ayers joins NASA's astronaut corps.
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.
Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come
Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.
NIH supports mathematical optimization of tumor treatment
A new strategy to reduce the side effects suffered by patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancers now has the support of the National Institutes of Health.
Students’ model could help avoid costly natural gas compressor shutdowns
A student project to predict the need for maintenance in natural gas compressors and avoid unexpected shutdowns has won this year’s Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
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.
Rice adds operations research major
Rice will offer a new major and bachelor of arts degree, operations research, this fall.
Debate teams Zoom to national championships
Hosting meetings and giving presentations via Zoom during the pandemic has been tough enough for many of us. But Rice students in the George R. Brown Forensics Society have now won national debate competitions over Zoom — and in three different categories.
