Treangen was honored for strengthening Rice Engineering’s ties with the TMC, for his COVID-19 research, and teaching excellence.
The Center for Teaching Excellence recognizes top Rice instructors as determined by alumni votes
Parthasarathy Ranganathan recognized for ‘design and deployment of efficient hardware video accelerators for cloud’
Six CS faculty members have received awards via the AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative
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Reginald DesRoches, former dean of engineering, named 8th president of Rice University Thu, 11/11/2021 - 16:10
Distinguished civil engineer to replace David Leebron, president of Rice since 2004, effective July 1, 2022
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The Ken Kennedy Institute awards Computational Science & Engineering Fellowship to Xinyu Yao Tue, 11/09/2021 - 14:19
The Rice computer science doctoral student is one of three award recipients
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Kyrillidis urges caution when it comes to quantum computing Thu, 11/04/2021 - 11:29
Rice computer scientist and collaborators have received NSF grants totaling $930,000 to investigate the development of quantum computing.
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Kavraki Lab speeds process of identifying potential pandemic treatments Mon, 11/01/2021 - 15:35
Rice web portal helps identify COVID-19 drug candidates
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Engineering and science building signals ‘a new era of research and education’ Fri, 10/22/2021 - 16:58
Construction of the new $152 million, 266,000-square-foot building on the engineering quadrangle at Rice is underway.
![Dinler Antunes: Explaining Complex Research](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-01/dinler_mhc.jpg.jpeg?itok=dXkJSV7l)
Dinler Antunes: Explaining Complex Research Fri, 10/22/2021 - 14:39
"Reaching more people, achieving more collaboration—these are the benefits" of clear communication
![Dorry Segev honored with Distinguished Alumni Award](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2021-10/DorrySegev.jpg.jpeg?itok=ukzmWoje)
Rice CS alum Dorry Segev ('92) honored with Distinguished Alumni Award Fri, 10/08/2021 - 10:27
Segev is one of seven alumni being honored for achievements in the engineering profession
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NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for MCS and MDS students Fri, 10/01/2021 - 12:50
Rice, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M, Jackson State partner to prep future engineers
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Treangen Lab research shows SARS-CoV-2 getting better at spreading through breath Thu, 09/23/2021 - 20:07
Study confirms ventilation and tight-fitting masks remain key
![Meet Rice CS’ New Faculty: Vicente Ordóñez-Román, Associate Professor](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2021-09/Vicente_Ordonez_1600x900.jpeg?itok=MxGmYre5)
Meet Rice CS’ New Faculty: Vicente Ordóñez-Román, Associate Professor Thu, 09/09/2021 - 11:11
Ordóñez-Román is an expert in computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning