COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Once lauded for its COVID-19 response, Texas now grapples with one of country’s worst outbreaks
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Health and Biosciences, is quoted or interviewed in several media outlets.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the July 5 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared on the front page of the July 6 print edition of the San Antonio Express-News. This article also appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, Connecticut Post, San Francisco Chronicle, MSN and more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ho
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Firework sales are up in North Texas. In El Paso, not so much.
Texas Standard (This article also appeared in KERA Online, and this segment also aired twice on more than 20 station across Texas.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ho
The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
WSWS.org
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ho
As virus overtakes Texas, Houston hospitals face crisis
The National Memo
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ho
KLBJ-AM (Austin, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ho
As COVID-19 cases break records, El Paso finds itself in 'a concerning situation'
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science, fellow in political science at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and fellow at Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
USA Today (This El Paso Times article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-jones
Texas Republicans face dilemma on stimulus with COVID-19 surge
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front of the Business section in the July 3 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-jones
Familiarity breeds favorability: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 local TV news interview strategy
The Dallas Morning News (This article also appeared on the front page of the July 5 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-jones
How the pandemic is spurring a wave of ‘stress spending’
Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
The Toronto Star (This article also appeared on the front of the Business section in the July 6 print edition of the Star, and it appeared online in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-dholakia
Mexico plans a 'happiness index' to measure its progress
An article quotes Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of the institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico.
San Antonio Express-News (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front page of the July 4 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-payan
How the coronavirus is impacting November elections
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, is quoted.
ValueWalk
http://dateline.rice/july-6-stein
Free, low-cost job retraining available to help you land a job
David Vassar, assistant dean of professional and executive programs at Rice's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, is interviewed about the school's Back to Work initiative, a series of five interactive online workshops launching July 16 to teach everything from basic work-searching skills to techniques for turning a job interview into a job offer.
Fox 26 Online (This segment aired on KRIV-TV in Houston and appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-vassar-glasscock-school
Rice University Baker Institute fellow to speak in upcoming OU Energy Institute webcast
An article mentions that the University of Oklahoma Energy Institute's July 8 webinar will feature Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and minerals in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
OU Daily
http://dateline.rice/july-6-foss
Owls baseball coach Bragga dealing with coronavirus pandemic ramifications
Rice head baseball coach Matt Bragga is featured.
Star Beacon
http://dateline.rice/july-6-bragga
Should you consider a virtual gap year?
An article mentioning Rice's plans to reopen campus this fall with substantial changes, including classes held simultaneously in-person and online, quotes incoming freshman Jacob Duff.
Forbes
http://dateline.rice/july-6-fall-restart-duff
Opinion: Cancel University of Houston football this fall to keep players safe from pandemic
An article mentions that Rice's football team is slated to play the University of Houston Sept. 3.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-rice-football
Mimir Chamber Music Fest takes the digital stage
Alumnus Curt Thompson is quoted and alumnus Johan Fröst is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle's "Preview" (This article appeared in the July 3 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-thompson-frost
Flying Chanclas’ Texas Collegiate League roster has local flavor
An article quotes former Rice baseball player Tyler LaRue.
San Antonio Express-News (This article also appeared on the front of the Sports section in the July 3 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-chanclas
RACE IN THE U.S.
The fight over monuments asks, who is an American hero and who is a 'symbol of hate'?
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted in USA Today, and he is interviewed on CNN about President Donald Trump's recent speeches. Brinkley's biography of former President Ronald Reagan is a clue on Hometown High Q.
USA Today (This article also appeared on the front page of the July 6 print edition, and it appeared online in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-brinkley
'Reliable Sources'
CNN (This segment aired five times.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-brinkley
'Hometown High Q
KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-brinkley
Amid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes and more
Kory Evans, assistant professor of natural sciences, is quoted.
Science (This article also appeared in NewsCaf.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-evans
Disaster loans foster disparities in Black communities
Jim Elliott, professor of sociology and fellow at Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
Scientific American (This E&E News article also appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-elliott
Houston woman creates networking group to help women of color hit their career goals
Alumna Christa Clarke is featured in an article and television broadcast.
KHOU Online (This segment aired on KHOU-TV in Houston and appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-clarke
Students push Texas State Board of Education to adopt antiracist curriculum
Wiess College senior Claudia Di Bonaventura is quoted.
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/july-6-di-bonaventura
COVER STORY: Rallying for racial justice
An article cites research from Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research that determined nearly 500,000 Houstonians live in food deserts as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture. MSN also cites the research and mentions it found that only 14.83% of residents of Houston's Third Ward left their neighborhood to obtain food.
OutSmart Magazine (This article was also featured on the cover of the July print and digital editions.)
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Food insecurity struggles in Houston's Third Ward
MSN (This article originally appeared in Spoon University.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-kinder-study
Why should white people be believed?
An article mentions and pictures Kameelah Janan Rasheed's text-based installation "perhaps, there is no sequel" on Rice's campus.
Equality Includes You on Medium
http://dateline.rice/july-6-rasheed
Athletes taking a stand for social justice
Rice football player Naeem Smith is featured in a television broadcast discussing the need for greater social justice.
Fox26Houston.com (This item appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-smith
College football players preparing for season during COVID-19
Fox26Houston.com
http://dateline.rice/july-6-smith
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
The Ion on track for Q1 opening in former Sears building
An article features Rice's redevelopment of the historic Midtown Sears building into the Ion, the centerpiece of an innovation district slated to open in the first quarter of 2021. Ryan LeVasseur, Rice Management Co.’s managing director of direct real estate, is quoted.
MSN (This Houston Chronicle article also appeared in Connect Texas and more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-the-ion-levasseur
This woman discovered she was aromantic at age 46. Here’s how it changed her life.
Elizabeth Brake, professor of philosophy, is quoted.
Huffington Post
http://dateline.rice/july-6-brake
Study suggests plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease
An article features collaborative Rice research into the vulnerability of neurons to Alzheimer's disease. Co-lead author Vicky Yao, an assistant professor of computer science, is quoted.
Yahoo! News India (This article originally appeared in ANI.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-yao
China and Taiwan could be headed toward a showdown. What should America do?
President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech” given at Rice Sept. 12, 1962, is mentioned.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in The National Interest.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-kennedy
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Future hurricanes more likely to be fast-moving storms like Ike, Rice researcher says
An article by the Houston Chronicle features collaborative Rice research that found climate change will intensify winds that steer hurricanes north over Texas in the final 25 years of this century, increasing the odds for fast-moving storms like 2008’s Ike compared with slow-movers like 2017’s Harvey. It quotes study lead author Pedram Hassanzadeh, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. An article from Columbia University's Earth Institute quotes or mentions Hassanzadeh and co-authors Laurence Yeung, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and graduate student Ebrahim Nabizadeh. The second article also mentions that the research was supported in part by Rice’s Houston Engagement and Recovery Effort, which was established in response to Hurricane Harvey.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-hurricane-research
Future hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?
Columbia University's Earth Institute
http://dateline.rice/july-6-hassanzadeh-yeung
Fort Bend County community activist, historian Reginald Moore dies at 60
An article mentions the July 3 death of activist Reginald Moore, whose research is collected and housed as the Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict-Leasing System Research Collection at the Woodson Research Center at Rice’s Fondren Library. The broadcast from ABC 13 Online mentions that Rice has established three research grants in Moore's name.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the July 5 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, Connecticut Post and San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-moore-woodson
Sugar Land 95 activist Reginald Moore dies at 60
ABC 13 Online (This segment also aired on KTRK-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-rice-moore-research
Better understanding what makes Houston special
A Houston-area news roundup features an excerpt from a book review of "Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America," authored by Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research and an emeritus professor of sociology.
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/july-6-klineberg
Jasper Co. looks at faster internet speeds
An article mentions that Skylark Wireless, which aims to bring broadband internet access to rural communities, started at Rice in 2012. Alumnus Clayton Shepherd, chief technical officer of Skylark Wireless, is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle and more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-shepherd
2020 40 Under 40 Michelle Craven Vinson
Alumna Michelle Craven Vinson is featured.
Fort Worth Business Press (This article also appeared in the June 22-July 5 print and digital editions.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-vinson
Best private colleges in America
A slideshow mentions that Rice's is ranked No. 10 in the U.S. according to Stacker's list of top private universities.
Houston Chronicle (This Stacker article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-no-10
Perry Adkisson, nationally recognized Texas A&M entomologist, dead at 91
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the July 6 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News and San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-hc
BROADCAST
Eva Hoffman on getting lost — and found — in time, language and memory
Alumna Eva Hoffman is featured in an interview.
CBC Radio One (This segment also aired on more than 600 stations across Canada and the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-hoffman
What's up for July 5-11
A roundup mentions that the Rice Space Institute will offer a free, live virtual planetarium show, "Search for Life in the Universe," July 8.
WRAL Online
http://dateline.rice/july-6-rice-space
Houston bucket list: The things every Houston resident should do before they die (or move)
A roundup suggests visiting Rice's campus.
Click2Houston
http://dateline.rice/july-6-c2h
KTXX-AM (Austin)
Rice is mentioned.
http://dateline.rice/july-6-ktxx
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Laser-welded sugar: 3D-printing blood vessels the sweeter way
An article features collaborative Rice research that created complex blood vessel networks from templates of 3D-printed sugar, capable of feeding a constructed organ. Co-authors Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering, and graduate student Ian Kinstlinger are quoted.
TechTalkers on Medium
http://dateline.rice/july-6-miller
Sweet! Rice researchers 3D-print blood vessels using sugar and laser
3D Printing Media Network
http://dateline.rice/july-6-miller
AI-driven biotech company neoX raises $10M pre-A round
An article mentions that experts from Rice and other institutions around the world make up the core research and development team of Beijing-based neoX Biotech.
China Money Network
http://dateline.rice/july-6-cmn
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Friday week: July 3
A roundup features Marie Lynn Miranda, former provost and professor of statistics at Rice.
University of Notre Dame's "Works"
http://dateline.rice/july-6-nd
SPORTS
Reed follows dad’s, granddad’s footsteps; now coaching at Rice
An article features Rice assistant football coach Lucas Reed.
El Dorado News-Times (This article also appeared on the front page of the July 6 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-reed
College Football News preview 2020: Rice Owls
Rice's football team is featured.
MSN (This article originally appeared in College Football News.)
http://dateline.rice/july-6-rice-football
COLUMN: For starters: Crafting ledes no easy task
The 1981 football game between Rice and the University of Arkansas is mentioned.
The Sentinel Record
http://dateline.rice/july-6-sr
NEWS RELEASES
Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?
Climate change will intensify winds that steer hurricanes north over Texas in the final 25 years of this century, increasing the odds for fast-moving storms like 2008’s Ike compared with slow-movers like 2017’s Harvey, according to new research.
http://dateline.rice/july-6-news-release-hurricane-research
Rice physicists win grant to continue Higgs study
Rice physicists Paul Padley and Karl Ecklund have received a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Energy to bolster the university’s ongoing research at the Large Hadron Collider.
http://dateline.rice/july-6-news-release-padley-ecklund
Rice U. expert: Trade pact success tied to competence of American, Mexican presidents
The success of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement depends on competent leadership from two unpredictable presidents, according to a new brief by David Gantz, the Will Clayton Fellow in Trade and International Economics at the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://dateline.rice/july-6-news-release-gantz
Rice launches online Visiting Owls program
Rice is welcoming visiting students into its classrooms this fall through a new online program. The pilot Rice Online Visiting Owls program allows high school juniors and seniors and visiting undergraduates to enroll in select online courses for credit.
http://dateline.rice/july-6-news-release-visiting-owls