2021 Laureate · Higher Education
Richard G. Baraniuk
C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Founder and Director, OpenStax
Rice University
Citation
Recipient of the 2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education — Higher Education.
Biography
Engineer, researcher and education entrepreneur Richard Baraniuk revolutionized college textbook publishing. The C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, he founded OpenStax, whose free, peer-reviewed open textbooks have saved students billions of dollars and are used at the majority of U.S. colleges.
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