Graduate Student Ambassadors

Source: https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors Parent: https://graduate.rice.edu/

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.

Robyn Alba

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology \

Diana Alvarado

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Devesh Awasthi

Home Country: India 🇮🇳 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi \

Sebastián Berríos-Carvajal

Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Spanish \

Morgan Bettin-Coleman

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: History \

Eliana Cadena Semanate

Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering \

Astrid Campos Mata

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Rodolfo Cantu

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Manuel Carmona Pichardo

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Spanish, English \

Isha Chakraborty

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Bengali \

Emily Chang

Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Mandarin, Taiwanese \

Alan Covarrubias

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: Spanish, English, German \

Carlos Criollo Paredes

Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Applied Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English \

Carol De Groote Tavares

Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Portuguese \

Michelle Duran Chaves

Home Country: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 | Program: Chemistry | Language: English, Spanish \

Enina Egiebor

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, French, Edo \

Ahmad Elgazzar

Home Country: Egypt 🇪🇬 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: Arabic & English \

Gaetano Ferrante

Home Country: Italy 🇮🇹 | Program: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences | Languages: Italian, English, French \

Katie Garcia

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences \

Viraj Ghosh

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Bioengineering \

Sarah Glass

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering \

Mingrui (Lily) Gong

Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: Mandarin, English \

Norma Gonzalez

Southern Cone Liaison | Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Languages: Spanish/English \

Andrews Gyane

Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Twi \

Daniela Hikari Yano

Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Physics | Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish \

Jennifer Hunter

Assistant Dean | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 \

Onyekachi Idigo

Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Biosciences | Languages: English and Igbo \

Alex Jiménez-Martin

Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Languages: English, Spanish \

Maranda Joyce

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science \

Salpy Kanimian

Home Country: Lebanon 🇱🇧 | Program: Economics | Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English, and others \

Natalie Kokroko

Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Computer Science | Languages: English, French \

Vincent Lai

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Vietnamese \

Nhi Le

Home Country: Vietnam 🇻🇳 | Program: Statistics | Languages: English, Vietnamese \

Iris Lin

Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Mandarin \

Allen Luo

Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin \

Seiichi Matsuda

Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 \

Danny Medrano Gutiérrez

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research | Languages: English, Spanish \

Fernanda Morales-Calva

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Spanish, French \

Aneesha Nayak

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Computer Science \

Osinachi Okafor

Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Art History | Languages: Igbo, English, French, Pidgin \

Agustin Prinetti

Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Program: Political Science | Languages: Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), Italian (Fluent), French (Beginner) \

Damith Priyadarshana

Home Country: Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 | Program: Master of Science in Bioscience and Health Policy | Languages: Sinhala, English \

Dinora Rodriguez

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish \

Ana María Rosas

Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: English, Spanish \

Lul Sharif

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry \

Jae'la Solomon

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: English | Languages: English \

Arthur Steve Tchoneteck

Home Country: Cameroon 🇨🇲 | Program: Statistics | Languages: French, English, Nguembah (my dialect) \

Maximiliano Triana

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish, German \

Akpan Ubong-Abasi Asukwo

Home Country: Nigeria | Program: Religion | Languages: English, Yoruba, Igbo, Ibibio \

Sofia Urbina

Home Country: Honduras 🇭🇳 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Nathaniel Uy

Home Country: The Philippines 🇵🇭 | Program: Masters of Global Affairs | Languages: Filipino, English \

Katherine Vasquez

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Moira Venegas

Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English \

Kadena Weaver

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Systems, Synthetic, & Physical Biology \

Caroline Wolski

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Sociology \

Wally Wu

Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien \

Yunjie (Grace) Xie

Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: Economics | Languages: English, Chinese \

Cam Zapater

Program Administrator | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Countries: United States 🇺🇸 Argentina 🇦🇷 \

Bohan Zhang

Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: History | Languages: English, Chinese \

Alumni Ambassadors

Elsa Acosta de Anda

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Samuel Castro

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish \

Chun-Ying Chao

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Civil & Environmental Engineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin \

Nina Cook

Home Country: USA | Program: English| Languages: English, Spanish \

Emily Elia

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Spanish \

Mauro Florez

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Statistics | Languages: Spanish, English \

Brandon García

Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Energy Economics | Languages: English, Spanish \

Daniel Gorczynski

Home Country: USA | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology \

Victoria Granja

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \

Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese \

Chia Hsieh

Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology| Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English \

Rodrigo Ibarra Garcia Padilla

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French \

Natsumi Komatsu

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Japanese \

Anna Lucas

Alumni Ambassador |. Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Global Affairs | Languages: English, German \

Miguel Angel Ortiz Salazar

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Languages: Spanish, English \

Neethu Pottackal

Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Malayalam \

Phelecia Scotland

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Dominica 🇩🇲 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program \

Utana Umezaki

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Japanese, English \