MECH student Savannah Cofer has been named a 2018 Goldwater Scholar. The scholarship program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
MECH student Savannah Cofer has been named a 2018 Goldwater Scholar. The scholarship program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
During the competition, 10 graduate students, including MECH's Andrew Erwin and Arti Qormemeti, had just three minutes and a single slide to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
IE is the sixth-most popular engineering master’s degree in the U.S., with 3,538 granted in 2014-15. Nationally, more than twice as many master’s degrees are awarded in IE than in chemical engineering.
Harvard Elementary School's fifth-grade class visited the Rice campus to tour labs, dine in one of Rice’s residential college commons, talk to university students and see how their STEM education could work in the real world.
Professor Pol Spanos was a recipient of the China International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award. Of the seven award recipients, he was the sole engineer.
The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has awarded $67,500 to nine Rice University graduate students as part of its annual graduate fellowship program, including MECH student Ashesh Chattopadhyay.
In his letter announcing her appointment to the endowed chair, David W. Leebron, Rice president, praised O’Malley as a “recognized leader in your field and an accomplished and energetic scholar."
“Everyone you know, whether they know it or not, has been touched by the genius of I. A. Naman because of the buildings and systems designed by him and his associates. I’m thrilled to have known him and to have benefitted from his knowledge,” said Thomas G. Barrow Jr., president of the company Naman founded.
The projects are aimed at making the city of Houston and surrounding areas stronger and more sustainable following the devastation caused by the storm’s record rainfall.
Rice University alumna Fay Pauly ’15 is among the 140 people chosen for the 2018 class of Schwarzman Scholars. She will receive a fully funded scholarship for postgraduate study at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.