Congratulations to the ECE research team led by Professor Zhang Rui from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for receiving the 2021 Stephen O. Rice Prize of IEEE Communications Society for their paper, “Modulation in the Air: Backscatter Communication Over Ambient OFDM Carrier,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 1219-1233, March 2018.