Rice Mechanical Engineering hires two new tenure-track faculty members Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023

Raudel Avila and Vanessa Sanchez are among 21 faculty hires in the School of Engineering.

Rice doctoral student receives clean energy fellowship Friday, Aug. 25, 2023

Chain Reaction Innovations support to allow Rawand Rasheed to work in his Helix Earth Technologies startup.

Rice doctoral student Castelli named IBUILD Fellow Monday, Aug. 14, 2023

Department of Energy program supports research-intensive building technologies in fields relevant to energy efficiency.

Tezduyar awarded USACM's John von Neumann Medal Thursday, Jul. 27, 2023

Rice engineer honored with association's highest award for his 'outstanding, sustained contributions in the field of computational mechanics.'

Rice researchers win ASME paper award for energy sustainability Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2023

Mechanical engineering team led by Shima Soleimani studied 'CO2 Heat Pump Water Heaters Using NSGA-II.'

PhD student's flash presentation wins first at International Conference on Microneedles Wednesday, Jul. 5, 2023

In the lab of Peter Lillehoj, Elizabeth Clarke Wilkirson developed a lateral flow-based skin patch to enable detection of protein biomarkers.

Kashif Liaqat places first in IEEE sustainability student poster contest Tuesday, Jun. 13, 2023

Rice mechanical engineering PhD student's paper focuses on the optimization of solar-power plant maintenance.

PhD student wins Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer best poster Wednesday, May. 24, 2023

Trevor Shimokusu's poster was titled 'Aluminum Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes.'

Pedram Hassanzadeh promoted to associate professor Wednesday, May. 24, 2023

Having joined Rice in 2013, Hassanzadeh studies turbulent flows and chaotic dynamical systems.