Houston's hedged campus where nanoscience was reborn, robots learned to plan their motions, and a conservatory shares a quad with world-class engineering.
14 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for leading Rice with the conviction that excellence is an expectation, not an aspiration, and for bringing an earthquake engineer's discipline to building a stronger, more welcoming university.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor of Economics; Professor of Finance
Office of the Provost
Thank you for guiding Rice's academic enterprise as provost while keeping a scholar's hand in economics and finance.
University Professor; Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thank you for showing that the nanoscale shape of a metal particle sets its optics, and for carrying plasmonics from the bench to cancer therapy, clean water, and solar chemistry.
T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Materials Science & NanoEngineering
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for chemistry aimed squarely at hard problems: recovering critical minerals from waste, destroying PFAS, and building molecular machines that fight bacteria and cancer.
Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Thank you for pioneering carbon nanotube materials and for training a generation of nanoengineers who build with atoms.
University Professor; Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering
Computer Science
Thank you for making logic a working tool of computer science, from automated reasoning to verification, and for asking out loud, again and again, what computing owes society.
University Professor; Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing; Director, Ken Kennedy Institute
Computer Science
Thank you for the motion planning algorithms and the Open Motion Planning Library that robots everywhere quietly run, and for pointing AI back at the constraints of the physical world.
Malcolm Gillis University Professor; Professor of Bioengineering; Co-Director, Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies
Bioengineering
Thank you for low-cost diagnostics and the Rice360 technologies that help newborns survive in Malawi and beyond; engineering has rarely been so humane.
C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thank you for founding OpenStax and giving millions of students free, excellent textbooks, while pushing signal processing and machine learning forward at the same time.
Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering; Director, Smalley-Curl Institute
Electrical and Computer Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Thank you for terahertz spectroscopy and ultrastrong light-matter coupling experiments that reveal what electrons do in extreme fields, thirty tesla at a time.
Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities
Department of History, School of Humanities
Thank you for histories of presidents, rivers, moonshots, and public lands that make America's past feel present, written from the Rice history department to the national stage.
Professor of Piano; Walter Kris Hubert Chair of Keyboards
Shepherd School of Music
Thank you for concert stages shared generously with students, and for making the Shepherd School a place where world-class piano is taught with joy.
Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy; Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute
Physics and Astronomy
Thank you for a lifetime of service to American science, from Rice's physics classrooms to the NSF directorship and the White House, always insisting that science serve the public.
Stewart Memorial Professor Emeritus
BioSciences
Thank you for decades spent unraveling how the lactose repressor grips DNA, and for the devoted mentorship and leadership you gave Rice's natural sciences.
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