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Rice trio awarded Greene Prize for paper on solar energy Thursday, Jun. 23, 2022
Environmental engineering junior Kathryn Dale and alumni Johnathan Roberts and Hannah Vincent were students in Daniel Cohan's 'Energy and the Environment' course

Cohan appointed to EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors’ Climate Change Subcommittee Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2022
The subcommittee is charged with “providing expert review and advice” to the EPA’s Executive Committee.

Rice environmental engineering 16th, civil 34th in national graduate program rankings Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2022
Among private universities, environmental engineering at Rice ranked eighth and civil engineering ninth.

Cohan book looks at global warming, causes and solutions Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2022
Rice environmental engineer believes wind and solar will form 'backbone of a clean electricity grid.'

Jamie Padgett named CEE department chair, effective July 1 Monday, Nov. 22, 2021
Professor, who joined Rice in 2007, is faculty director of recently-launched Gulf Scholars Program at Rice.