Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.
Kaiyuan Yang wins NSF CAREER Award
Electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Center for Civic Leadership to host annual Spring Showcase April 12
The hard work and civic-oriented contributions of Rice community members will be celebrated at the Center for Civic Leadership’s annual Spring Showcase April 12 at the Rice Memorial Center.
Adrienne Correa wins CAREER Award
Rice marine biologist Adrienne Correa has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Thomas Senftle wins NSF CAREER Award
Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineer Thomas Senftle has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance machine learning techniques for designing new catalysts.
Faculty set Rice record with eight CAREER Awards
Rice faculty set a record, winning eight NSF CAREER Awards in 2002
Vicky Yao wins CAREER Award
Computer scientist Vicky Yao has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop computational tools to analyze and interpret DNA methylation.
Yousif Shamoo honored for work as vice provost
Members of the Rice community came together Feb. 15 to honor Yousif Shamoo for his work as vice provost for research over the last seven years.
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.
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.
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.
Flutist Marianne Gedigian to join Rice's Shepherd School of Music
Marianne Gedigian, a seasoned international concert flutist and widely respected music educator, will join Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as professor of flute after the next academic year, starting July 1, 2023.
Rice issues update to COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees
Vice President for Administration Kevin Kirby, chair of the Rice's Crisis Management Advisory Committee, sent a message regarding the updated COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees in a Nov. 19 email to the university community.
