Who are the Graduate Student Ambassadors?
Ambassadors are current graduate students at Rice University! They are a great resource to use when wondering what life is like at Rice.
Connect with an Ambassador
Connect with one of our student ambassadors at the individual links below!
Make sure to register for our upcoming events, and check out our grad student blog here.
Our mission
The mission of the Rice Graduate Student Ambassadors is to equip prospective graduate students with accurate, honest information about graduate study. We share our unique experiences and provide informal mentoring, striving to empower prospective students to make the best choice possible for themselves, regardless of where they ultimately study.
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: India 🇮🇳 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi
Home Country: India 🇮🇳 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi
Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: History
Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Spanish, English
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Bengali
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: Spanish, English, German
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Applied Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English
Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Portuguese
Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Home Country: Costa Rica | Program: Chemistry | Language: English, Spanish
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, French, Edo
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Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Bioengineering
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: Mandarin, English
Southern Cone Liaison | Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Languages: Spanish/English
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry | 🏳️🌈
Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Twi
Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Physics | Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Assistant Dean | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸
Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Biosciences | Languages: English and Igbo
Home Country: India 🇮🇳 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program | Languages: English, Japanese, Tamil, Kannada
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science
Home Country: Lebanon 🇱🇧 | Program: Economics | Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English, and others
Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Computer Science | Languages: English, French
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Vietnamese
Home Country: Vietnam 🇻🇳 | Program: Statistics |
Languages: English, Vietnamese
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Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Mandarin
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin
Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Spanish, French
Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Art History | Languages: Igbo, English, French, Pidgin
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program | Languages: Spanish, English, German
Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Program: Political Science | Languages: Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), Italian (Fluent), French (Beginner)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish, German
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: English | Languages: English
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Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Mechanical Engineering
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Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish, German
Home Country: Nigeria | Program: Religion | Languages: English, Yoruba, Igbo, Ibibio
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Home Country: The Philippines 🇵🇭 | Program: Masters of Global Affairs | Languages: Filipino, English
Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien
Program Administrator | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Countries: United States 🇺🇸 Argentina 🇦🇷
Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: History | Languages: English, Chinese
Alumni Ambassadors
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Civil & Environmental Engineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin
Home Country: USA | Program: English| Languages: English, Spanish
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Spanish
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Statistics | Languages: Spanish, English
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Energy Economics | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: USA | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese
Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology| Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Japanese
Alumni Ambassador |. Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Global Affairs | Languages: English, German
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Languages: Spanish, English
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Malayalam
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Dominica 🇩🇲 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Japanese, English