The Center for the Study of Environment and Society Prize recognizes an outstanding project that seeks to promote a deeper and broader understanding of environmental issues through interdisciplinary approaches and/or improvement of the sustainability of the community.

Center for the Study of Languages Prize ($250)

The Center for the Study of Languages Prize recognizes an outstanding project in foreign languages and culture that recognizes today’s interconnected world and promotes our willingness to bridge gaps between cultures.

Center for Multimedia Communication Prize (Wireless Communication and Networking) ($250)

The Center for Multimedia Communication Prize recognizes an outstanding project in basic theoretical and experimental research that leads the transformation of wireless communications and networking by bringing together expertise from computer networking, signal processing, optics, applied mathematics, and computer engineering.

Chao Center for Asian Studies Prize ($250)

The Chao Center for Asian Studies Prize recognizes an outstanding project that looks carefully and critically at the complex ways people in ‘Asia’ have been involved with one another and with the rest of the world, either today or in the past.

Humanities Research Center Prize ($250)

The Humanities Research Center Prize recognizes outstanding undergraduate humanities research that reaches across departments, schools, or organizations. Projects that do not comfortably fit within the traditional boundaries of given disciplines and that chart unforeseen futures in the Humanities will be considered.

Institutes of Biosciences and Bioengineering Prize for Translational Research in Biosciences and Bioengineering ($250)

The Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Prize is for an outstanding project demonstrating innovative research relating to translational and interdisciplinary approaches to biosciences and bioengineering.

Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Prizes ($500 for First Place; $250 for Second Place; and $250 for Third Place)

The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology will be recognizing creative and outstanding undergraduate research that uses information and computing technology to develop and advance research. We are looking to recognize projects that advance information and computing technology as well as projects for which information and computing technology is critical to the solution.

Rice 360º: Institute for Global Health Technologies Award ($250)

The Rice 360º Award recognizes an outstanding project demonstrating innovative research related to the developing world.

Rice Space Institute Prize ($250)

The Rice Space Institute Prize recognizes outstanding undergraduate research that furthers our knowledge or understanding of the universe, enhances our ability to explore space, or extends a terrestrial technology application for use in space. Projects from all disciplines that meet one or more of these criteria will be considered.

Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems ($250)

The Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES) Award goes to an outstanding project in the cross-disciplinary area of computational finance for real-world markets.

The Shell Center for Sustainability (SCS) Sustainable Development Awards ($500 for First Place; $250 for Second Place; and $100 for Third Place)

The Shell Center for Sustainability Awards recognize outstanding, multidisciplinary research projects that consider long-term sustainable development in the Houston region and/or Gulf Coast. Entries must meet the following criteria:

Expand knowledge about the threats to sustainability in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure, population growth, business model, global change, energy (renewable and fossil fuels).
Address how public policies influence private sector decisions in ways that make them more compatible with sustainable development.
Demonstrate how new scientific information or new technologies reduce threats to sustainability in one or more of the 5 areas listed above (integrated impact and benefits).
Demonstrate communication, data sharing, and coordination among interdisciplinary work teams, partners and collaborators.
Take into account findings by the Houston Sustainability Indicators Project Report and the identified issues by the Gulf Coastal Science Consortium (both available on the SCS website at http://shellcenter.rice.edu).

Smalley Institute Prize for Nanotechnology ($250)

The Smalley Institute Prize for Nanotechnology recognizes an outstanding project that addresses how nanotechnology will tackle one of civilization’s grand challenges – energy, water, environment, disease, or education.

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