Dateline Rice for Nov. 16, 2020 (Weekend Edition)
Nov. 16, 2020
SpaceX flying ex-football players, flight controller, Scout
An article features astronaut and alumna Shannon Walker '87, who is a member of the first crew rotation flight to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, which launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Nov. 15. Luis Duno-Gottberg, department chair and associate professor of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, is interviewed by KRIV following a watch party at Rice. McMurtry College senior Ryan Udell, president of Rice's chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and graduate student Feni Pandya, vice president of SEDS Rice, are featured in a C-SPAN broadcast.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in the more than 100 other media outlets.)
People, papers and presentations Nov 16, 2020
Nov. 16, 2020
Ryan Udell, a senior mechanical engineering major, has received honorable mention in the 2020 Distinguished Undergraduate Awards presented by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).
Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China
Nov. 16, 2020
In a study that gives new meaning to the term "rock bottom," seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth's lithosphere that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China by the process of tectonic subduction.
Dateline Rice for Nov. 13, 2020
Nov. 13, 2020
An article features Rice's plans to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which has included conducting over 60,000 tests since August, requiring face masks, holding some classes outdoors in tents and establishing the student-run COVID Community Court to adjudicate public health violations on campus. Rice community members quoted or mentioned include: President David Leebron; Bridget Gorman, dean of undergraduates; McMurtry College junior Mel Xiao; Jones College sophomore Jackson Jeffcoat; Duncan College junior Julian Braxton; Wiess College junior Abigail King; and Emily Garza, director of student judicial programs.
Biden must avoid cold war with China, says Rice U. expert
Nov. 12, 2020
With U.S.-China relations at their lowest point since the Cold War, President-elect Joe Biden’s expected approach to the world’s most populous country will likely exacerbate tensions, according to an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Dateline Rice for Nov. 11, 2020
Nov. 11, 2020
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted.
CNN (This article also appeared in more than 30 other media outlets.)
Texas teacher shortage tackled by Rice certification plan
Nov. 11, 2020
HOUSTON – (Nov. 11, 2020) – Texas’ ongoing shortage of teachers has led Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies to launch a program that will allow students to work as paid interns teaching classes while they earn their state certification.