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Kowal’s 'STAR' shines on data science Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020

Statistics professor develops 'new way to construct statistical models for integer-valued data — such as counts, test scores and rounded data.'

How Camille Little '20 found her way to data science Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020

Thanks to D2K and Genevera Allen, the ECE alumna and current PhD student is pursuing her passion.

Armistead’s Rice roots help him become a leader in renewable energy Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020

Hunter Armistead '90, chief development officer for Pattern Energy, has learned from his failures.

ACS recognizes Wong, Alvarez for fracking byproduct 'produced water' Monday, Nov 9, 2020

Rice duo pairs with Shell collaborator receive Greater Houston Section's P3 Salute to Excellence Award.

Rice Engineering awards Future Faculty Fellowships to students, postdocs pursuing academic careers Thursday, Nov 5, 2020

Second-year program will help prepare fellows for interviews and enhance teaching skills.

Ken Kennedy Institute conference explores how COVID-19 has influenced the use of data Wednesday, Nov 4, 2020

Annual Data Science Conference at Rice goes virtual to more than 300 leaders from industry and academia.

Rice team takes first prize in NIHF's Collegiate Inventors Competition Tuesday, Nov 3, 2020

At Your Cervix won for their UFO device, which helps guide needles carrying radiation seeds directly to late-stage cervical tumors.

How Bilal Ghosn teaches engineering design and empathy Monday, Oct 26, 2020

The bioengineering lecturer applies engineering principles to the lives of people with disabilities.

RCEL course allows students to explore career options with industry leaders Thursday, Oct 22, 2020

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans '78 among guests to share advice with class.

O'Malley named ASME's Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Nyquist Lecturer for 2020 Thursday, Oct 15, 2020

Haptics: A Hot Topic with Controls at its Core' lecture delivered during Oct.5-7 conference.

Civil engineers Nagarajaiah, Erazo awarded IASCM's Takuji Kobori Prize Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020

Pair recognized for their paper 'Bayesian structural identification of a hysteretic negative stiffness earthquake protection system using unscented Kalman filtering.'

No longer on the outside looking in Monday, Oct 12, 2020

Gilda Barabino '86 used her experience as a black female engineer to become president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

Ken Kennedy Institute awards $135,000 to nine fellows Thursday, Oct 8, 2020

Program aims to attract graduate students to Rice in the fields of computational science and engineering, high performance computing and data analytics.

Construction projects helping to transform engineering facilities Monday, Oct 5, 2020

Maxfield Hall transformation under way, as Rice National Security Research Accelerator nears completion.

Ernst named inaugural Don Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award winner Monday, Sep 21, 2020

The first institute-wide early-career award from INFORMS recognizes 'outstanding research accomplishments in operations research, probability and statistics.'

Rice undergraduate engineering program moves up to No. 19 in U.S. News ranking Monday, Sep 14, 2020

Remains highest-ranked engineering program in Texas.

Kavraki, Mikos elected to prestigious Academia Europaea Friday, Sep 11, 2020

Rice Engineering faculty members recognized for their 'sustained academic excellence'

How a lifetime of advocacy led Norma Santamaría to helping underrepresented students Friday, Sep 11, 2020

A former lawyer and teacher, the ECE administrator aims to promote equity and inclusion.

Rice goes GRE-optional for grad programs, will grant fee waivers to graduates of Texas schools Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020

Rice is eliminating the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) standardized test requirement for its 2021 graduate programs.

Seven students, alumni named 2020 Fellows of the National GEM Consortium Thursday, Sep 3, 2020

GEM has supported more than 4,000 Fellows from underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science.