DesRoches named chair of the National Construction Safety Team Tue, 08/25/2020 - 08:18

NCST is the body charged with investigating building failures resulting in significant loss of life.

Garcia proposes development of next-generation flood alert system Fri, 07/31/2020 - 07:54

New system will provide specially and temporally distributed flood inundation maps in near-real time.

Padgett among engineering faculty named to endowed chairs Fri, 06/05/2020 - 17:47

Padgett among engineering faculty named to endowed chairs

Padgett, Dueñas-Osorio promoted to full professor Mon, 05/18/2020 - 17:49

Promotion effective July 1.

Griffin, Nakhleh receive George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching Wed, 04/15/2020 - 17:53

Administered by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the awards recognize top Rice instructors as determined by the votes of alumni.

Padgett named Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE Mon, 04/13/2020 - 17:54

Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE

With NSF grant, Padgett studies Puerto Rico infrastructure Wed, 04/01/2020 - 17:58

The grants are given by in situations of 'severe urgency' to collect 'perishable structural damage data.'

NIST approves $20 million grant for resilience planning center Mon, 03/30/2020 - 18:00

Rice professor Jamie Padgett serves as co-principal investigator on the grant.

Environmental graduate program ranks 15th, civil 27th in U.S. News for 2021 Tue, 03/17/2020 - 18:09

Environmental Engineering Graduate Students