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Today’s the day! Join the 24-Hour Challenge and support CMOR as we advance mathematical solutions for cancer detection, convection modeling & more. Every gift to the CMOR Excellence Fund supports our students and highest priorities. Give by 11:59 p.m. CT: givecampus.com/s/qs1nf4

Tomorrow is Rice’s 24-Hour Challenge! A gift to the CMOR Department Excellence Fund supports faculty & students developing innovative algorithms to tackle complex challenges in science, healthcare, and engineering. Make your early gift today: givecampus.com/s/qs1nf4

Early giving is live for Rice’s 24-Hour Challenge! Your gift to CMOR fuels innovation solving real-world challenges across industries. Every gift matters. #1Day1Rice Make your impact: givecampus.com/s/qs1nf4

Mark your calendars: March 4 is the 24-Hour Challenge! When Rice Engineering and Computing reaches 600 donors, we will unlock a $120K gift from the Engineering Advisory Board for the Dean’s Fund for Engineering Excellence. Stay tuned for updates! #1Day1Rice

🎉 From Rice CMOR grad to national leader! Cristina Villalobos ’00 has been elected President of the Association for Women in Mathematics — championing the future of women in STEM. 🔗 cmor.rice.edu/news/alumni-sp… #RiceCMOR #WomenInMath #STEMLeadership

Huge congrats to Rice alumna Erica Klampfl ’01 for being named a 2025 INFORMS Fellow! Leading industrial system analytics at Ford, her work spans advanced analytics, research & leadership. Proud moment for #RiceEngineering & #CMOR! cmor.rice.edu/news/rice-alum…

🎉 Big congrats to the Rice INFORMS Student Chapter on earning the 2025 “Cum Laude” recognition at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting! cmor.rice.edu/news/rice-info…

Congrats to Rice PhD student Adrian Celaya ’25 & the Rice MDA team—Top Performer at the MICCAI BraTS 2025 Lighthouse Challenge for the 2nd year in a row! Results announced Sept. 23 in South Korea #SolvingForGreaterGood

Last week, CMOR alumna and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers ‘13 returned to earth after her first spaceflight, ending a 148-day mission to the International Space Station as a member of SpaceX Crew-10. aviationweek.com/space/operatio…

💡@RiceEngineering faculty recently hosted two premier summits on the future of AI and quantum computing that brought together global experts: QuantIPS 2025 and TL;DR 2025. 🔗 Read more here: engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-igni… @RiceECE @RiceCMOR @RiceCompSci #SolvingforGreaterGood

Future Faculty Fellow Ali Siahkoohi, a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in @RiceCMOR, has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at @UCF. Congrats, Ali! 🎉 🔗 Learn more about Ali’s journey here: engineering.rice.edu/news/future-fa… #SolvingforGreaterGood

@RiceUniversity and @MDAndersonNews are teaming up to improve liver cancer treatment. A 5-year NIH grant supports new mathematical models to optimize thermoembolization therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. Learn more: engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-and-…

Thank you to the 581 donors who supported Rice Engineering and Computing during yesterday's 24-Hour Challenge! Your generosity helped us raise more than $211,857 across our 15 funds for student awards, research and programs so we can continue Solving for Greater Good! #1Day1Rice

The countdown is on: Tomorrow is Rice’s 24-Hour Challenge! Your gift to the CMOR Department Excellence Fund will support our faculty and students as they design algorithms to model phenomena in science, health and engineering. Make your gift early today! givecampus.com/kllzgo

Early giving for Rice University's 24-Hour Challenge starts today! Your gift to the CMOR Department Excellence Fund helps us continue developing cutting-edge solutions to real challenges across business, finance, oil and gas, energy, healthcare and more. givecampus.com/kllzgo

CMOR Alumni, have you registered for the March 28-29 @RiceEngineering 50th Anniversary Celebration yet? You won’t want to miss this exciting lineup of panels, keynote speakers, lab tours and networking events with fellow alumni. Register by March 10! bit.ly/3EqzaxY

Our own Prof. Beatrice Riviere and collaborators recently published a textbook titled "Mathematics and Finite Element Discretizations of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flows." This textbook is published by SIAM. epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.11…

Congratulations to eight of our seniors for receiving Michael Ross Franco Awards and Chevron Prizes. We are proud of them for their outstanding academic achievements! bit.ly/40ioCJH

Our own Prof. Beatrice Riviere professor has been re-elected to the Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, serving the organization for a second three-year term. engineering.rice.edu/news/beatrice-…

Congratulations to the Rice INFORMS Student Chapter for receiving the INFORMS Student Chapter Magna Cum Laude Award! This is an impressive achievement for a young, undergraduate-led chapter that has already made a big impact since launching last year. bit.ly/4fBS5Dg