Admissions | Graduate Program Contacts

Graduate Program Administrators

Current and prospective students should consider their graduate program of interest or home department to be their first point of contact on all graduate matters. To search for faculty, staff or other contacts on campus, utilize the search feature at the top right of this site to access the full campus directory.

Graduate Program

Program Contact

Phone

Mail Stop

African and African American Studies

Liliana Kearson

(713) 348-6318

MS 33

Anthropology

Shawna Forney

(713) 348-2132

MS 20

Applied Physics

Laura Livingston

(713) 348-6008

MS 378

Architecture

Kristina Kennedy

(713) 348-4864

MS 50

Art History

Jenny Ustynik

(713) 348-4276

MS 21

BioSciences

Denise Torres

(713) 348-4015

MS 140

Bioengineering

Gayle Schroeder

(713) 348-5869

MS 142

Business (Ph.D.)

Melinda Peña

(713) 348-4622

MS 531

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Olga Trejo

(713) 348-2646

MS 318

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Yesmin Escobar

(713) 348-2396

MS 362

Chemistry

Kari Stein

(713) 348-4082

MS 60

Computational & Applied Mathematics

Latreece McKinney

(713) 348-4805

MS 134

Computational Science & Engineering

Agustina Fernandez-Moya

(713) 348-2852

MS 364

Computer Science (PhD)

Beth Rivera

(713) 348-4834

MS 132

Computer Science (On-campus MCS)

Melissa Cisneros

(713) 348-3834

MS 132

Computer Science (Online MCS)

Tatianna Carr

(713) 348-3131

MS132

Critical and Cultural Theory

Andrew Stefl

(713) 348-4810

MS 33

Data Science

Tatianna Carr

(713) 348-3131

MS132

Dual Credit Teaching Credentialing (Transcriptable Certificate)

Rebecca Sharp

(713) 348-4803

MS 550

Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Meagan McKellar

(713) 348-4880

MS 126

Economics (Ph.D.)

Lexi Phillips

(713) 348-4381

MS 22

Education

Marcie Carlson

(713) 348-2474

MS 146

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aki Shimada

(713) 348-3597

MS 366

Energy Economics

Abbey Godley (Admissions)
Lexi Phillips (Current Students)

(713) 348-2367

(713) 348-4381

MS 22

Energy Transition and Sustainability

Engineering: Agustina Fernandez Moya

Natural Sciences: Dagmar Beck

Engineering Management and Leadership

Schuyler Boss

(713) 348-3181

MS 363

Engineering Professional Master's Program

Agustina Fernandez-Moya

(713) 348-2852

MS 364

English

Jenny Ustynik

(713) 348-4840

MS 30

Global Affairs

Abbey Godley

(713) 348-2367

MS 37

History

Lydia Westbrook

(713) 348-2092

MS 42

Industrial Engineering

Latreece McKinney

(713) 348-5997

MS 321

Jones School of Business

Melinda Peña

(713) 348-4622

MS 531

Liberal Studies

Rebecca Sharp

(713) 348-4803

MS 550

Mathematics

Ligia Leismer

(713) 348-4829

MS 136

Materials Science & NanoEngineering

Kim Hardy

(713) 348-3698

MS 325

Mechanical Engineering

Tammi Bodenhamer

(713) 348-7993

MS 321

Music (Shepherd School)

Isabella Kruger-Seiler (Admissions)
Suzanne Taylor (Current Students)

(713) 348-3578

MS 532

Philosophy

Lydia Westbrook

(713) 348-2092

MS 14

Physics and Astronomy

Rosa Almendarez

(713) 348-4938

MS 61

Political Science

Norma Lara

(713) 348-4842

MS 24

Psychological Sciences

Hannah Wilkes

(713) 348-2076

MS 25

Religion

Lydia Westbrook

(713) 348-2092

MS 15

Shepherd School of Music

Isabella Kruger-Seiler (Admissions)
Suzanne Taylor (Current Students)

(713) 348-3578

MS 532

Social Policy Evaluation

Abbey Godley

(713) 348-2367

MS 27

Sociology

Gina Stayshich

(713) 348-3286

MS 28

Statistics

Zoila Castelan

(713) 348-6032

MS 138

Synthetic, Systems, and Physical Biology

Jing Jin

(713) 348-5961

MS 144

Wiess Professional Science Master's Program

Dagmar Beck

(713) 348-4188

MS 103

Women, Gender and Sexuality

cswgs@rice.edu

(713) 38-5874

MS 38

Graduate Student Payroll (Student HCMIs)

Current students may wish to contact their student HCMIs for questions regarding their graduate student payments.

School or Program

Student HCMI

Architecture

Kristina Kennedy

Engineering and Computing

Asia Donald

Humanities

Christine Medina

Jones School (PhD)

Melinda Pena

Jones School (MBA)

Rebeca Reyes

Social Sciences

Corina Gonzalez

Natural Scienes

Dominique Oumar

Shepherd's School

Susie Schoepf

Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB)

Jing Jing

Applied Physics

Laura Livingston

Updated June 2024