Architecture	Music
Continuing Studies	Natural Sciences
Engineering	Social Sciences
Humanities	Interdisciplinary Programs

Program		Degrees Offered
Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies
Master of Liberal Studies Mary McIntire	Phone: 713-348-4767 Fax: 713-348-5213 Email: mls@rice.edu URL: http://mls.rice.edu	The Master of Liberal Studies degree program is a part-time program that allows adults to explore the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

The George R. Brown School of Engineering
Bioengineering Rebecca Richards-Kortum 116 Keck Hall	Phone: 713-348-5869 Fax: 713-348-5877 Email: bioeng@rice.edu URL: http://www.bioe.rice.edu	Biochemical engineering, biological systems modeling, biomaterials, biomedical lasers, cellular and molecular engineering, controlled release technologies, metabolic engineering, spectroscopy, systems engineering and instrumentation, thrombosis, tissue engineering, and transport processes

Chemical & Biomolecular Eng Kyriacos Zygourakis B216 Abercrombie Lab	Phone: 713-348-4902 Fax: 713-348-5478 Email: chbe@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~che/	Thermodynamics and phase equilibria, chemical kinetics and catalysis, optimization, stability and process control, theology and fluid mechanics, polymer science, biomedical engineering, enhanced oil, recovery and cleanup of ground-water aquifers, biochemical reactor engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering Pedro Alvarez 203 Ryon Laboratory	Phone: 713-348-2353 Fax: 713-348-5268 Email: ceve@rice.edu URL: http://www.ceve.rice.edu	Structural and foundation dynamics (e.g., earthquake and offshore engineering), reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, application of probability theory to structural dynamics, experimental studies of structures, geotechnical engineering, and computer-aided engineering

Comp. & Applied Mathematics Matthias Heinkenschloss 2110 Duncan Hall	Phone: 713-348-4805 Fax: 713-348-5318 Email: caam@rice.edu URL: http://www.caam.rice.edu/	Operations research, mathematical programming, discrete and continuous optimization, numerical linear, algebra, inverse problems, computational seismology, optimal design, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, computational neuroscience

Computer Science Joe Warren 3121 Duncan Hall	Phone: 713-348-4834 Fax: 713-348-5930 Email: comp@rice.edu URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/	Algorithms and complexity, artificial intelligence and robotics, compilers, distributed and parallel computation, graphics and visualization, operating systems and programming languages

Electrical & Comp. Engineering Behnaam Aazhang A204 Abercrombie	Phone: 713-348-4020 Fax: 713-348-5686 Email: elec@rice.edu URL: http://www.ece.rice.edu	Bioengineering, computer systems engineering, quantum electronics, semiconductor devices, communications, control systems, robotics

Mechanical Eng. & Mat. Sci. Enrique Barrera 101 Mechanical Engineering Building	Phone: 713-348-4906 Fax: 713-348-5423 Email: mems@rice.edu URL: http://www.mems.rice.edu	Heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, random vibrations, solid mechanics, computer-aided design, robotics, control, materials engineering, and optimization theory

Statistics Katherine Ensor 1083 Duncan Hall	Phone: 713-348-6032 Fax: 713-348-5476 Email: stat@rice.edu URL: http://www.stat.rice.edu	Applied probability, biomathematics, data analysis, density estimation, epidemiology, image processing, model building, quality control, statistical computing, stochastic processes, time-series analysis

The School of Architecture
Architecture Lars Lerup (Dean) 111 Anderson Hall	Phone: 713-348-4044 Fax: 713-348-5277 Phone: 713-348-5152 Email: arch@rice.edu URL: http://arch.rice.edu/	Architecture, design, urbanism, theory and practice

The School of Humanities
Art History Diane Wolfthal	Phone: 713-348-6771 Fax: 713-348-4039 Email: lcannady@rice.edu URL: http://arthistory.rice.edu/	Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia (Antiquity to the Present)

Education Meredith Skura 17 Herman Brown Hall	Phone: 713-348-4826 Fax: 713-348-5459 Email: educ@rice.edu URL: http://education.rice.edu/	Secondary education

English Helena Michie 225 Herring Hall	Phone: 713-348-4840 Fax: 713-348-5991 Email: englgrad@rice.edu URL: http://english.rice.edu/	British and American literature and literary theory

French Studies Jean-Joseph Goux 207 Rayzor Hall	Phone: 713-348-4851 Fax: 713-348-5951 Email: fren@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~fren	Medieval through contemporary literature, French literary theory, philosophy, French cultural history, postcolonial and gender studies, French linguistics second language acquisition

History Martin J. Wiener 326 Humanities Bldg.	Phone: 713-348-4948 Fax: 713-348-5207 Email: hist@rice.edu URL: http://www.history.rice.edu	United States: Southern, African-American, Colonial, Intellectual/Cultural, Post WW II, Women's; European: Intellectual/Cultural, Expansion, Colonialism; 19th & 20th Century Middle East; African; Ancient Mediterranean; Atlantic World; British; Caribbean; Chinese; Indonesian; Islamic; Latin America

Linguistics Nancy Niedzielski 211 Herring Hall	Phone: 713-348-6299 Fax: 713-348-4718 Email: ling@rice.edu URL: http://www.linguistics.rice.edu	General and cognitive-functional linguistics, syntax and semantics, discourse analysis, typology, language description and change, computational linguistics

Philosophy Steven Crowell 244 Humanities Bldg.	Phone: 713-348-4994 Fax: 713-348-5847 Email: philos@rice.edu URL: http://www.philosophy.rice.edu	History of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, medical ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, language, and science

Religious Studies Jeffrey Kripal 225 Humanities Bldg.	Phone: 713-348-5201 Fax: 713-348-5486 Email: reli@rice.edu URL: http://www.reli.rice.edu	African Religions, African American Religion, The Bible and Beyond, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Gnosticism, Esotericism, Mysticism, Modern Christianity in Thought and Popular Culture, and Religion & Psychology

The School of Social Sciences
Anthropology James Faubion 572 Sewall Hall	Phone: 713-348-4847 Fax: 713-348-5455 Email: anth@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/	Archaeology, anthropological linguistics, social/cultural anthropology, theory, history, and global change

Economics Herve Moulin 266 Baker Building	Phone: 713-348-2289 Fax: 713-348-5278 Email: econ@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~econ/	Differential tax incidence, optimal taxation, labor economics, econometrics, industrial organization, monetary economics, state and local public finance, micro foundations of macroeconomics

Political Science Rick Wilson 200b Baker Building	Phone: 713-348-4842 Fax: 713-348-5273 Email: poli@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~poli/	Comparative government and political development in Western Europe and Latin America, American government including public policy, Congress, and intergovernmental relations, international relations and conflict

Psychology David Lane 468 Sewall Hall	Phone: 713-348-4856 Fax: 713-348-5221 Email: psyc@rice.edu URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~psyc/	Cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, human factors, industrial/organizational psychology

The Shepherd School of Music
Music Robert Yekovich 2241 Alice Pratt Brown Hall	Phone: 713-348-4854 Fax: 713-348-5317 Email: musi@rice.edu URL: http://music.rice.edu	Orchestral studies, performance, conducting, composition, theory, music history

The Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Applied Physics (RQI) Dr. Bruce Johnson	Phone: 713-348-5103 Fax: 713-348- Email: johnson@rice.edu URL: http://rqi.rice.edu/academics/graduate/graduate.php	Nanoscale research, growth of collaborative interactions among research groups and open new areas of discovery

Biochemistry & Cell Biology Janet Braam W100 George R. Brown Hall	Phone: 713-348-4015 Fax: 713-348-5154 Email: bioc@rice.edu URL: http://www.biochem.rice.edu	Biochemistry, biophysics, developmental biology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, neurobiology, structure and function of nucleic acids and proteins, regulatory processes, biochemistry of lipids, enzymology, NMR and crystallography, cellular regulation, oxygen and electron transport, molecular genetics of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, bacteriophage

Chemistry Seiichi Matsuda 201 Space Science	Phone: 713-348-5650 Fax: 713-348-5155 Email: chem@rice.edu URL: http://www.chem.rice.edu	Synthesis and biosynthesis of organic natural products, synthesis of small cycloalkanes, molecular recognition and biological catalysis, bioinorganic and organometallic, chemistry, chemistry of group 13 (III) elements, high- pressure and high-temperature chemistry, fluorine chemistry, chemical vapor deposition, design of nanophase solids, molecular photo-chemistry and photophysics, infrared kinetic spectroscopy, laser and NMR spectroscopy, study of oriented molecular beams, theoretical and computational chemistry, and study of giant fullerene molecules and fullerene nanowires

Earth Science Alan Levander 106 Keith-Weiss Geology Lab	Phone: 713-348-4880 Fax: 713-348-5214 Email: geol@rice.edu URL: http://www.earthscience.rice.edu	Stratigraphy, sedimentation, paleoclimate, geophysics, geodynamics, global plate tectonics, geochemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, marine geology and oceanography, structural geology, and rock mechanics

Ecology & Evol. Biology Evan Seimann 135 Anderson Biology Lab	Phone: 713-348-4919 Fax: 713-348-5232 Email: eeb@rice.edu URL: http://www.eeb.rice.edu	Biogeochemistry, wetland ecology, plant community and population ecology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, molecular evolution, and insect diversity and community structure

Mathematics Brendan Hassett 220 Herman Brown Hall	Phone: 713-348-4829 Fax: 713-348-5231 Email: math@rice.edu URL: http://www.math.rice.edu	Differential geometry, ergodic theory, partial differential equations, probability, real analysis, mathematical physics, complex variables, geometric and algebraic topology, and combinatorics

Physics and Astronomy F. Barry Dunning 105 Physics Lab	Phone: 713-348-4938 Fax: 713-348-9033 Email: physics@rice.edu URL: http://www.physics.rice.edu	Atomic and molecular physics, biophysics, condensed matter and surface physics, nuclear and particle physics, theoretical physics Observational astronomy of star-forming regions, nebulae, and galaxies; solar system studies, including instrumentation for planetary probes; theoretical astrophysics and space plasma physics, with emphasis on planetary magnetospheres and compact objects; and earth systems science

Prof Masters in Sch of Nat Sci Dagmar Beck	Phone: 713-348-3188 Fax: 713-348-3121 Email: profms@rice.edu URL: http://sloan-pmp.rice.edu/	Instead of specializing in a research area, you will learn what it takes to become a well-rounded, technically adept professional.

Interdepartmental and Cooperative Programs
Environmental Analysis and Decision Making 713-348-3188 profms@rice.edu		MS
Joint Program in Biomedical Ethics 713-348-4994		M..A., Ph.D.
Computational Science & Engineering 713-348-4657 caam@rice.edu		Master's, Ph.D.
Joint Program in Computational Biology 713-348-4752 bioc@rice.edu		Training for Ph.D. students
Materials Science and Engineering 713-348-4906 mems@rice.edu		Master's, Ph.D.
Nanoscale Physics 713-348-3188 profms@rice.edu		MS
Joint Programs with Medical Colleges 713-348-5869 bioeng@rice.edu		M.D./Ph.D., M.D./M.A., M.D./M.S.
Applied Physics 713-348-6356 ycreed@rice.edu		Master's, Ph.D.
Subsurface Geoscience 713-348-3188 profms@rice.edu		MS
Education Certification 713-348-4826 educ@rice.edu		MAT
Study of Women and Gender 713-348-5784 cswgs@rice.edu		Graduate Certificate
Master of Liberal Studies 713-348-4767 mls@rice.edu		MLS

Graduate Departments and Programs

Graduate Departments and Programs