COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Lacking faith: White Evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine
Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey professor of sociology and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice, is interviewed.
1A (This segment also aired on more than 475 National Public Radio affiliate stations across the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ecklund
By the numbers: How vaccine skepticism in Texas' Trump country threatens herd immunity
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.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front page of the April 10 print of the Chronicle and the front page of the April 12 print edition of the San Antonio Express-News. This story also appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ho
How I got my COVID-19 vaccine: Tales of getting the shot
An article features Martel College senior Sophie Clayton and her experience getting the COVID-19 vaccination when Rice distributed shots during the February winter storm.
The Wall Street Journal (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-clayton
In Houston, a race to vaccinate its student population
An article mentions that a collaborative vaccination hub between Rice and St. Luke’s Health is now located at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative.
Study International (This article also appeared in Phys.org.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-si
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Crowd of 23 candidates floods special congressional election in Texas
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.
Reuters (This article also appeared in 100 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-jones
Republican lawmaker drops push to consolidate power in Texas appeals courts
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-jones
Appellate court redistricting bill withdrawn
Off the Kuff
http://dateline.rice/april-12-jones
Texas senator yanks bill to shake up appellate courts
Law360 (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-jones
Yes, the Texas Senate's election bill SB7 changes early voting rules
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, is quoted.
PolitiFact
http://dateline.rice/april-12-stein
Krueger overstates findings on marijuana legalization and youth usage
Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
PolitiFact
http://dateline.rice/april-12-neillharris
Iran backs Assad, strengthens regional role with oil shipment
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Daily Sabah
http://dateline.rice/april-12-krane
6 ways to use your monthly child tax credit
Alumnus Ben Gran co-authored an article.
Forbes
http://dateline.rice/april-12-gran
L'odissea dell'Apollo 13, 'catastrofico successo' che cambiò le sorti del mondo
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
Il Giornale (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-kennedy
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Editorial: Our jobs are bound up with the future of four hydrogen atoms and one carbon
An article quotes Matteo Pasquali, the A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry, and director of the Carbon Hub, and mentions the late Richard Smalley, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with British chemist Sir Harold Kroto for the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes, or “buckyballs,” a new form of carbon.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This editorial also appeared on the front of the Opinion section in the April 11 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-pasquali
An open Texas power grid would boost reliability and renewables, experts say
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Julie Cohn, nonresident scholar in the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute, are quoted. The second article mentions that Cohn will be a panelist at the April 12 symposium "When the Lights (and Heat) Went Out in Texas."
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the April 12 print edition of the San Antonio Express-News.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-cohan-cohn
Coming soon: 'When the Lights (and Heat) Went Out in Texas'
University of Houston News
http://dateline.rice/april-12-cohn
Texas-Squared Startup newsletter No. 292
A roundup mentions that the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship has opened applications for the inaugural cohort of its Clean Energy Accelerator.
Texas-Squared Startup on Medium
http://dateline.rice/april-12-tss
Essay: Houston gave poet Adam Zagajewski, 1945-2021, the space to praise the 'mutilated world'
An article mentions Rice's Fondren Library.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This essay also appeared on the front of the Outlook section in the April 11 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-fondren
'Texans deserve better.' George P. Bush considers primary challenge to AG Ken Paxton
Alumnus George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, is featured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the April 10 print editions of the Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. This article also appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-bush
BROADCAST
The devotion of Nancy Reagan
James Baker III, honorary chair of Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy and former U.S. secretary of state, is interviewed about the late Nancy Reagan.
CBS News (This segment aired on more than 200 affiliate stations across the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-baker
'Sunday Morning' full episode April 11
CBS News (This item also appeared on the "Sunday Morning" website.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-baker
Houston Newsmakers: Ballot integrity or suppression?
Jim Blackburn, Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar and director of the Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice, is interviewed about his new study, "Houston Flooding 3.5 Years After Harvey."
Click2Houston (This segment also aired on KPRC-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-blackburn
'Fox 26'
Several broadcasts feature collaborative Rice research into the possible effects of increasing the corporate tax rate to 28%. Co-authors John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of its Center for Public Finance, and George Zodrow, the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics and a faculty scholar at the Baker Institute, are cited.
KMPH-TV (Fresno, California)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-diamond-zodrow (This segment aired more than 50 times across the U.S.)
WOAI-AM (San Antonio)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-baker-study (This iHeart Radio segment aired on 1,000 affiliate stations across the U.S.)
Combination of inflation and potential business downturn will slow IT job market growth by 50K to 75K jobs, says Janco
Virtual Strategy Magazine (This article also appeared in PR Leap.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-baker-study
'13 Eyewitness News'
A broadcast features Rice’s Mariachi Luna Llena.
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-luna-llena (This segment aired four times.)
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Syzygy Plasmonics raises $23M Series B to electrify chemical manufacturing; photocatalytic reactor for hydrogen production
An article mentions that Syzygy Plasmonics' hydrogen fuel cell technology currently under development was pioneered by Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering and the director of Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute; and Peter Nordlander, the Wiess Chair in Physics and Astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering.
Green Car Congress
http://dateline.rice/april-12-halas-nordlander
Texas could become carbon capture leader with help from legislature and regulators: Report
An article cites a Jan. 28 study by Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy detailing the potential for Texas to play a leading role in the development of the carbon capture sector. Baker Institute co-authors quoted include Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, and research manager Keily Miller.
Upstream
http://dateline.rice/april-12-medlock-miller
Recycled tire waste turned into graphene makes stronger concrete
Rice scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted.
Intelligent Living
http://dateline.rice/april-12-tour
Corporate America wants to avoid higher taxes and social issues. That's not likely to happen.
Doug Schuler, associate professor of business and public policy at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Markets Insider
http://dateline.rice/april-12-schuler
Computer scientists from Rice University display CPU algorithm that trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than GPU
Rice computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors. Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer science, and graduate student Shabnam Daghaghi are quoted. The research is featured in a roundup by Science X.
MarketPost.com
http://dateline.rice/april-12-shrivastava
Best of Last Week: Muons defy theory, a faster way to train AI, and faster muscle repair
Science X
http://dateline.rice/april-12-cpu-algo
Harvard responds (sort of)
Rice is mentioned.
Inside Higher Ed
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ihe
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
2021 SPS Scholastic Excellence Honorees: Central High School
An article mentions that Sam Wise Nance plans to attend Rice.
Ozarks Independent
http://dateline.rice/april-12-oi
SPORTS
WSOC: April 11 Players of the Week
An article features Rice soccer player Bella Killgore, who has been named Conference USA's Goalkeeper of the Week. The second article mentions that Killgore has also been named to C-USA's All-Academic first team, while teammates Mijke Roelfsema and Delaney Schultz were named to the second team.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-12-killgore
WSOC: 2020 All-Academic Teams announced
Conference USA (This article also appeared in GoUTSA.com.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-killgore
Georgia's Jenna Staiti and Que Morrison, Rice's Nancy Mulkey, Ohio's Cece Hooks opt out of WNBA draft
Rice basketball player Nancy Mulkey is featured.
ESPN
http://dateline.rice/april-12-mulkey
No. 16 LA Tech completes weekend sweep at Rice
An article mentions that Rice's baseball team lost four games against Louisiana Tech University April 9-11.
KTBS Online
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ktbs
No. 16 LA Tech sweeps doubleheader at Rice
KTBS Online
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ktbs
Dateline Delco: New throwing event named in Soroka's honor
Rice runner Grace Forbes is mentioned.
Delco Daily Times
http://dateline.rice/april-12-forbes
Wilson, Gregory win 200m finals at Texas A&M Team Invitational
Rice track and field athletes Julie Perez and Sam Woodley are mentioned.
TrackAlerts.com
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ta
Recap: Soccer eyes conference tourney after topping Texas-San Antonio on senior night
An article mentions that Rice's soccer team is No. 1 in Conference USA's West Division, and that the conference tournament slated for April 13-17 will be hosted by Rice.
North Texas Daily
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ntd
WSOC: 2020 championship bracket set
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-12-cusa
Texas A&M men's golf team, Sam Bennett grab titles at Aggie Invitational
An article mentions that Rice's golf team will compete in the Aggie Invitational April 9.
The Eagle (Similar articles also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-12-te
Houston falls to SMU
An article mentions that Rice's women's tennis team is slated to play the University of Houston April 17.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/april-12-uhc
Rice stadium to host Spring League's Houston Hub
An article mentions that a football league, The Spring League, will hold games at Rice Stadium.
XFL Newsroom
http://dateline.rice/april-12-xfln
Rice snags 54.7 butterflier Lili Elayi of Cardinal Aquatics for fall 2022
An article featuring Lili Elayi mentions that she has committed to swim at Rice in 2022.
SwimSwam
http://dateline.rice/april-12-swimswam
STEVE DeSHAZO: Transfer portal keeping college basketball on the move — but not in a good way
Former Rice basketball player Trey Murphy III is mentioned.
Fredricksburg.com
http://dateline.rice/april-12-fred
No. 6 men's tennis preview: No. 18 Oklahoma State
An article mentions that Rice's men's tennis team played the University of Texas at Austin March 12.
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/april-12-ts
NEWS RELEASES
Smartphone app for convenience store owners wins 2021 Rice Business Plan Competition
An application that allows convenience store owners to remotely manage and monitor their businesses from their smartphones took home the grand prize during the 2021 Rice Business Plan Competition. SwiftSku from Auburn University was selected by the judges as the startup with the highest investment potential and is taking home $432,667 in cash and other prizes.
http://dateline.rice/april-12-news-release-rbpc
China positioning itself to dominate world’s copper supply
China is positioning itself to dominate the global supply of copper, a material in high demand as the world transitions to alternative energy systems, according to experts from Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://dateline.rice/april-12-news-release-baker-study