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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.

Rice undergraduates win Greene Prize for environmental writing Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Winning paper written for Daniel Cohan's “Energy and the Environment” course.

Li receives CAPEES Frontier Research Award Thursday, Sep. 30, 2021
Honor recognizes professors who have 'achieved recognized research leadership and pioneered an innovative research area.'

Houston tops ASCE Best Places for Civil Engineers 2021 list Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2021
Two other Texas cities named in top 10.

Dueñas-Osorio group awarded best paper by Society for Risk Analysis Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2021
'Interdependent Network Recovery Games' was published in special issue of Risk Analysis journal.