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- Anthony Pinn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Jing Zhou elected fellow of Academy of Management
- B.J. Fregly named American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow
- Rice professors named American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows
- Quianta Moore named first Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy
- Haotian Wang named Sloan Research Fellow
- Laura Segatori named American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellow
- Satish Nagarajaiah named distinguished member of American Society of Civil Engineers
- Béatrice Rivière named Association for Women in Mathematics fellow
- Pedro Alvarez, Antonios Mikos elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering
- Junghae Suh named American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellow
- Jane Grande-Allen named fellow of medical and biological engineering academy
- Yan “Anthea” Zhang named fellow of Strategic Management Society
- Packard Foundation backs Rice bioengineer
- CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center
- Five Rice labs join DARPA-funded effort to make an implant to counter jet lag
- Szablowski receives Michael J. Fox grant for Parkinson’s Research
- Rice, Baylor win defense grant to advance metastasis study
- NIH funds effort to customize treatment of movement impairments
- Rice computer scientist, engineering dean Luay Nakhleh earns NSF support for single-cell genome study
- Rice lands NIH grant to improve time-release drugs
- Bao, Bashor receive Kleberg Foundation grant for in-vivo genome editing
- Lu, Raphael receive Hearing Health Foundation grant to study Ménière’s disease
- NIH award to Rice, UH will advance science of synthesizing microbial structures
- University wins NSF grant to acquire ‘optical tweezer’ to manipulate micron-scale matter
- National 2D materials research center wins NSF funding
- NIH funds Segatori lab’s development of synthetic circuits to sense trouble and respond
- NIH grant will help streamline chemical synthesis
- Keck Foundation backs Rice bid to ‘build a brain’
- NIH grant boosts computational search for cancer drugs
- NIH supports mathematical optimization of tumor treatment
- Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
- Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system development
- Ashok Veeraraghavan named IEEE Fellow
- Yingyan Lin receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Pedram Hassanzadeh wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Jo Nelson wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Vicente Ordóñez joins Rice with National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Akane Sano wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Christopher Tunnell wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Jun Lou receives Brimacombe Medal from Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
- Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society's Clarke Award
- Moshe Vardi wins Knuth Prize
- Phil Bedient honored by American Institute of Hydrology
- Moshe Vardi wins award for social and professional responsibility
- Gustavo Scuseria wins Award in Theoretical Chemistry for career of breakthroughs
- Qilin Li receives CAPEES Frontier Research Award
- Hulya Eraslan appointed research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research
- K.C. Nicolaou wins Robert Koch Gold Medal
- Moshe Vardi honored with esteemed 2020 Allen Newell Award
- K.C. Nicolaou, Antonios Mikos among historic Greek heroes
- Haotian Wang receives Young Investigator Award from AIChE
- Postdoc Chenguang Sun wins mineralogical society award
- Marina Vannucci awarded Zellner Medal
- Retired Rice economist Ken Wolpin receives prestigious Jacob Mincer Award
- American Chemical Society honors Gustavo Scuseria
- OpenStax founder Richard Baraniuk wins ‘Nobel Prize of education’
- Record number of Rice grad students awarded National Science Foundation fellowships
- Bria Romero wins fellowship fostering Black success in high-flying industry
- Biochem lab partners win Goldwater Scholarships
- Rice grads win 10 Fulbright grants
- Safiya Khalil named affiliate of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists
- Rice recognized as one of nation’s top producers of Fulbright scholars
- Finlay, Berman take top spot for design of ‘accessory’ home
- Doerr Institute releases book that provides blueprint for effective leader development
- Students design Rice Public Art app
- Five Rice Architecture students part of Future 100 profile
- 40th Kinder Houston Area Survey: Hope for future despite pandemic's challenges
- Shepherd School student, alum winners of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
- Baker Institute publishes new book, “Monetizing Natural Gas in the New ‘New Deal’ Economy”
- Architect students Cardozo, Sollie win A+ Award for work in Third Ward
- Kinder Institute co-authors book about the Texas Triangle and its impact on the state’s economy
- Rice economist Yunmi Kong honored with young scholar award
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- Vivian Ho elected to National Academy of Medicine
- Rice duo named to National Academy of Engineers
- Two engineering faculty members elected to prestigious Academia Europaea
- Rice professors named American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows
- Illya Hicks inducted as fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Maria Oden named Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
- Christopher Fagundes named fellow of Academy of Behavioral Medicine
- Karl Ecklund named American Physical Society Fellow
- Anthony Varilly-Alvarado named fellow of American Mathematical Society
- David Damanik named Simons Fellow in Mathematics
- Pope picks Rice professor for science academy
- Fellowships and Grants
- Early Career Awards
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- Jesse Chan, Ang Chen receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
- BioScience’s Rosa Uribe wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Geologist Melodie French wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Laurence Yeung wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- DOE Early Career award to physicist Ming Yi backs experiments on 2D materials
- Philip Ernst named inaugural Don Gaver Jr. Early Career Award winner
- Rice chemist named to Forbes 30 Under 30
- Other Prestigious Awards
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- Rice history professor wins Pulitzer Prize
- Doerr Institute’s Kolditz honored at West Point
- Civil engineers Nagarajaiah, Erazo awarded Takuji Kobori Prize
- DesRoches named chair of the National Construction Safety Team
- Lydia Kavraki earns top computer science honor
- Kathy Ensor elected president of American Statistical Association
- Satish Nagarajaiah wins ASCE’s Newmark Medal
- Lydia Kavraki receives Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award
- Pedro Alvarez honored with ASCE Simon W. Freese Award
- Reto Geiser receives Charles Duncan Award
- Rice business professor’s research wins 2020 Moskowitz Prize
- Fred Oswald named National Associate for National Academy of Sciences Engineering, Medicine
- Student Awards
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- More than two dozen students win National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship
- Senior is first Rice student to earn prestigious coaching accreditation
- Yasaman Ghasempour received 2020 Marconi Society Young Scholar Award
- Rice grads win 10 Fulbright grants
- Mech Major Cofer named Knight Hennessy scholar
- Three Rice students receive Hertz Fellowships
- Three PhD grads win NSF postdoctoral fellowships
- Rice graduate student wins Department of Energy Fellowship
- Other Esteemed Accomplishments
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- Four decades of change in Houston chronicled in book
- New book from Rice sociologist examines why science and faith need each other
- Rice economist wins best paper from American Economic Association
- New book from Rice economist examines theory and practice of taxation
- James Tour scores prestigious centenary prize
- Moody art exhibition shows a half-century Rothko’s influence
- Moody publishes first-ever exhibition catalogue
- Next fall, Rice Architecture sets sail for Seoul
- Dogtrot dwelling divides to conquer energy bills
- Blake Denson among winners of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
- Doerr Institute spearheads leadership education effort