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Adam Subel and Pedram Hassanzadeh

Adam Subel's late-blooming interest in machine learning, climate dynamics is paying off Friday, Mar. 12, 2021

Hassanzadeh lab undergraduate student recently published a first-authored paper in Physics of Fluids, a major journal in fluid mechanics.


Aman Eujayl

How Aman Eujayl is using creativity to design useful solutions Friday, Mar. 5, 2021

Preston Innovation Lab undergrad was named Top Presenter at GCURS, awarded Sustaining Excellence stipend.


Vanessa Wyche

SEDS to host 2021 Owls in Space Symposium virtually, on March 6 Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021

The event’s keynote speaker will be Vanessa Wyche, deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.


Soheil Asgarpour

Rice MECH alumnus elected president-elect of Canadian Academy of Engineering Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021

Soheil Asgarpour '81 serves as president of the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada.


Trevor Shimokusu headshot

Shimokusu receives NASA Space Technologies Graduate research fellowship Friday, Jan. 29, 2021

Second-year graduate student's proposal is titled 'Jumping Droplet Thermal Diodes for Spacecraft Thermal Control.'


Headshots of award recipients

Graduate students earn AMPT Center's first Resiliency Awards Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021

Of the five recipients, four come from Department of Mechanical Engineering.


Barclay Jumet

Jumet receives AATCC grant for soft wearable device fabrication Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020

First-year PhD student in Preston Innovation Lab will be funded for $1,100.


Bill Smoot

Thanks to Rice Engineering, Bill Smoot '83 likes to get his hands dirty Friday, Dec. 4, 2020

The mechanical engineering alumnus's company WET Engineering deals in waterparks and water treatment.


Rice Eclipse Rocket Team

How Rice Eclipse built a competition rocket during a pandemic Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020

Kimberly Rodriguez '22 on preparing for the largest intercollegiate rocketry competition in the world.