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Robert Griffin

Robert Griffin joining Roger Williams University as dean, effective July 1 Monday, Apr. 5, 2021

Former department chair and interim dean joined the Rice faculty in 2008.


US News and World Report ranking

Environmental ranks 14th, civil 20th in US News top graduate engineering programs Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2021

Environmental up one spot, while civil rose seven.


Michael Wong and Pedro Alvarez headshots

ACS recognizes Wong, Alvarez for work on fracking byproduct 'produced water' Monday, Nov. 9, 2020

Rice pair with Shell collaborator receive Greater Houston Section's P3 Salute to Excellence Award.


Satish Nagarajaiah

Nagarajaiah, Erazo awarded IASCM's Takuji Kobori Prize Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020

Pair recognized for their paper 'Bayesian structural identification of a hysteretic negative stiffness earthquake protection system using unscented Kalman filtering.'


​James Doss-Gollin

Doss-Gollin to join CEE faculty as assistant professor in 2021 Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2020

Research is motivated by challenging questions at the intersection of climate dynamics, water management, data science, and decision science.