Thank you for visiting our web site. We value your interest in Rice and our programs. Please visit often as we keep the home page updated with news on the program, our students and our alumni.

 Information on our new track in "Space Studies" is now available on this web site - see gray tab above on the right!   If you are interested in this new degree program, please contact the PSM office at profms@rice.edu - Enrollment is open for Fall 2012! This track will focus on training students in Space Science and Engineering with the intent of creating new options for engineering and science students interested in working in the space technology industry or related government entities, e.g. NASA, as well as governmental relations positions in non-profit organizations, industry and academic institutions. We are currently working on adding all pertinent information to this web site. If you are interested to learn more about this track, please contact us at profms@rice.edu or call 713-348-3188.   

The PSM Program graduated fifteen students at Rice's  99th Commencement! Congratulations to all our graduates!  The majority has already found employment and is joining the corporate world this summer.

Thank you to all our speakers participating in the Spring Master Seminar: We welcomed: Stephanie Fiorenza, BP; Nicole Van Den Heuvel, Rice Career Development Center; Nancy Sauer, Government Relations, Jones School; Mary Purugganan, Rice PSM Communications; Lauren Vestewig, Rice Global Health; Larry Price, Lockheed Martin; Don Paul, USC Energy Institute; Liz Eich, Rice PSM Communications; Richard Green, DNV Energy  Solutions; Dick George, Noble Energy. We appreciate your time and the interest you show in our students and our program and hope to see you on campus again soon!

 Thank you also to all corporate representatives who joined us for lunch on campus this spring, we had an active networking schedule including representatives such as  Stephanie Barczyk from URS; Dick Williams, Shell Wind Energy; Fugro, William Haneberg and Aaron Broughton;  Katia Pronina; Shell E&P; Amy Wright and Tong Sun, Methodist Hospital Research Institute; Peter Schwans, Amanda Beardsley of Apache Corp. and others!

If you need intelligent and hard-working interns for your projects, please contact us!

 The Spring 2012 Newsletter is now available!    

Check out our Rice PSM Facebook Site where you can find photos of all our recent activities, make sure to become a friend!

Virtual Tour of School of Natural Science includes now a feature on the Professional Master's Program!

 Students participating in the Master Seminar this spring are now a permanent feature in Rice's virtual tours! 

 Latest photos on PSM events and graduation can be found in our Photo Gallery!  

 

Press release on our new track!

Latest article on PSM Programs!   See more under "Newsletters and Articles"

Institute of Physics article (London) mentions Rice University and the PSM Program

This year's event was a great success with 185 attendees from a wide variety of industry sectors. Special "Thank you!" to first time attendees from various related industries, such as the American Geoscience Institute,CH2M Hill, CGG Veritas, Foster Findlay Associates, Gamesa, Hart Energy, ION Geophysical, Kerogen Exploration, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, N3DBio, NASA, Octave Reservoir Technologies, Paradigm, Protean Performance Solutions, and Waste Management!  If your company was not able to send a representative to attend our last event, please do not hesitate to contact us, so we can organize a lunch with students or a speaking opportunity on campus - profms@rice.edu.

THREE SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN BY BAKER HUGHES!

Baker Hughes, a long time supporter of the PSM Program and its students at Rice, has consistently supported and sponsored the Professional Science Master's program at Rice. We thank Baker Hughes for their interest and continued support!

Companies actively supporting our program: