For the fourth year in a row, Rice University ranks No. 1 in the nation for the best race/class interaction, according to student surveys for the Princeton Review’s 2019 edition of “The Best 384 Colleges.”
By training, Jonas Actor is a mathematician. He uses neural networks and partial differential equations to improve image segmentation in the diagnosis of liver cancer.
AAM graduate students Oscar Francisco Leong and Jonas Actor were honored by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program, with Leong winning a fellowship and Actor receiving an honorable mention. Justin Dong '14, now at Brown, is also among the honorees.
Muhammad Shamim '14 has received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans! Currently an M.D./Ph.D. student at Baylor College of Medicine, he was one of 30 students selected from a pool of more than 1,700 applicants and will receive up to $90,000 in funding for his graduate program.
Amanda Prestia, Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
The challenge was simple – can you cross the Rice University Recreation Center pool without getting wet? Seven teams answered the call at the first RCEL Splashdown Engineering Design Competition on March 31.
Back in 2010, as a recent grad with a degree in computational and applied mathematics, Matthew Broussard had never taken an improv class, dabbled in theater or attempted stand-up comedy. He took a job as a financial analyst and, on a whim, decided to try an open mic night.
Congratulations to the CAAM senior design team "Skewer Alignment for Skull Surgery" who won the People’s Choice Award at the Brown Engineering Design Showcase last week. The team members are: Wendy Knight, Alex Gardner, Evan Toler.
Congratulations to Wendy Knight, Evan Toler, and Alex Gardner! Their presentation of "Skewer Alignment for Skull Surgery" won today's CAAM Senior Design presentation.
