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Rice environmental engineering 16th, civil 34th in national graduate program rankings

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.


Daniel Cohan holds up copy of new book.

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.'


Headshot of Jamie Padgett

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.


Allison Price, Maddie Forbes, Marina Karki and Valentina Camacho

Rice undergraduates win Greene Prize for environmental writing Friday, Nov. 12, 2021

Winning paper written for Daniel Cohan's “Energy and the Environment” course.


Qilin Li

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.'