April  10, 2008:	Congratulations to Antoun Daou for his successful PhD defense of the thesis Observational and Theoretical Interpretation of Energetic Particle Transport in Solar Flares.
March  14, 2008:	Congratulations to Lirong Tian for her promotion to Research Scientist.
March  7, 2008:	Congratulations to Anne Sandman for successful defense of her Masters Thesis 3D Simulations of Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere: Preparing for STEREO Data Analysis.
November 9, 2007:	Holly Gilbert has been selected to participate on the Solar Physics Division Prize Committee.
April 11, 2007:	Congratulations to Aaron Coyner for being selected a recipient of the Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year.
March 22, 2007:	Congratulations to Gary Kilper for being selected to participate in an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) sponsored by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering. Gary will be spending the summer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan working on the Hinode mission under the direction of Prof. Saku Tsuneta.
March 11, 2007:	Congratulations to Antoun Daou who was selected for a second Envision Grant Award from Leadership Rice, for the Leadership Project 2007.
November 29, 2006:	Congratulations to Gary Kilper for the successful defense of his Masters Thesis Observational Analysis of Composition Variation in Solar Filaments
June 9, 2006:	Gary Kilper has been awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship from Goddard Space Flight Center
May 5, 2006:	Rui Liu was awarded the William and Elva Gordon Fellowship
April 28, 2006:	Aaron Coyner has been selected as a recipient of a 2006-2007 Texas Space Grant Consortium fellowship.
April 17, 2006:	Congratulations to Rui Liu on his successful defense of his Masters work:  Hard X-ray Production in a Failed Filament Eruption
April 11, 2006:	Antoun Daou and Aaron Coyner have been selected for the Second SPD Summer School: High Energy Solar Physics
April 04, 2006:	Gary Kilper has been selected for the University of Arizona and NSO's 2006 Solar Physics Summer School
March 21, 2006:	We are pleased to welcome Ross Galloway of the University of Glasgow
January 27, 2006:	David Alexander has been appointed Associate Editor of JGR-Space Physics.
January 3, 2006:	We are pleased to welcome graduate student Gary Kilper as the newest member of our research group.
December 2, 2005:	Rice Solar Group metioned in Rice News article on space weather. The electronic version can be found here
November 22, 2005:	Congratulations to Dr. Holly Gilbert who will serve as a new SHINE Group Leader for Working Group 1: CME Initiation.
November 22, 2005:	BBC TV to film at Rice University as part of a documentary "Biography of the Sun."
November 4, 2005:	We are pleased to welcome Dr. Holly Gilbert as a new Research Scientist in the Rice Solar Group.
October 27, 2005:	Antoun Daou was selected for the Envision Grant Award from Leadership Rice for the  Rice Science Tournament project.

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