Rice CEE hires Avantika Gori as assistant professor Tue, 08/29/2023 - 13:19

Gori, who starts January 1, is among 21 new faculty hires in the School of Engineering.

Rice ranked 12th in environmental engineering, 19th in civil in US News best graduate programs Tue, 04/25/2023 - 09:42

Both programs rose in rankings to top 10 among private universities.

Stadler receives NSF CAREER Award Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:11

With grant, Rice engineer intends to harness microbiomes to improve wastewater treatment processes.

Rice workshop examines resilience, equity in Houston Wed, 01/04/2023 - 14:36

'Steering Cities and Regions Towards Resilience and Equity' co-chaired by professors Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio and Jamie Padgett and the Kinder Institute's Daniel Potter.

Padgett named NSF BRITE Fellow Fri, 12/09/2022 - 09:15

Rice professor and department chair receives $1 million grant to rethink disaster resilience modeling.

Chen poster wins at Community Modeling and Analysis System conference Tue, 11/08/2022 - 08:57

Second-year PhD student's research suggests flaring of natural gas at U.S. drilling sites contributed to dozens of premature deaths.

Civil engineering alumni honored by Rice Engineering Wed, 10/19/2022 - 10:44

Carlos Estuardo Ventura and Elle Lewis Anderson receive alumni awards.

CDC grant backs science, innovation in wastewater-based epidemiology Fri, 10/07/2022 - 10:05

Rice Engineering team seeks to harness power of wastewater surveillance as public health tool.

PhD students receive IASSAR best paper awards Mon, 10/03/2022 - 11:20

Yi Luo won in the first-class category, while Bowen Fu won in the second-class category.