FEATURED ITEMS
Rice University launches international campus in Paris, the institution's European hub for research
Several articles mention that a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Rice University Paris Center, an international campus that will serve as a hub for European research, will take place June 29. Community members quoted include President David Leebron, Caroline Levander, vice president for global and digital strategy, and Provost Reginald DesRoches.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in MSN Money.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-leebron-levander-desroches
Rice University to open international campus in Paris
Greater Houston Partnership
http://dateline.rice/june-28-leebron-levander-desroches
City of Houston, Greater Houston Partnership lead mission to France to grow business and cultural ties
Greater Houston Partnership
http://dateline.rice/june-28-leebron-desroches
Houston university goes global with Parisian outpost announcement
InnovationMap (This article also appeared in CultureMap Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-leebron-levander-desroches
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
The many uses of CRISPR: Scientists tell all
A roundup features Gang Bao, chair of the Department of Bioengineering and a professor of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering, who is studying how to use CRISPR gene-editing techniques to treat sickle cell disease.
The New York Times (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the June 28 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-bao
Governo Biden vai emitir 300 mil vistos de trabalho
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
AcheiUSA.com (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-payan
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez withdraws from consideration as ICE chief
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science, fellow in political science at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the June 28 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-jones
Supreme Court sides with school coach who prayed at a game, offering more protection to public displays of religion
The Texas Tribune (This article also appeared in more than 20 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-jones
Fall of Roe could sway some swing voters to Democrats in November
Tucson Sentinel (This Courthouse News Service article appeared in yesterday's Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-jones
'KPRC Channel 2 News'
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-jones
Gregg Abbott invierte millones de dólares en publicidad en medios hispanos; explicamos por qué
Univision (This segment also aired on KAKW-TV in Austin.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-jones
TX — City, county and port support Galveston Bay Park study
An article features the Galveston Bay Park Plan, a proposal to protect the region from hurricanes that was designed by researchers at Rice's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED). SSPEED co-directors Phil Bedient, the Herman and George R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering, and Jim Blackburn, a professor in the practice of environmental law, are quoted.
Coastal News Today
http://dateline.rice/june-28-bedient-blackburn
Chevron's offer to pay for staff to move to Houston signals growing focus on Texas
An article mentions the Ion, an innovation tech hub managed by the Rice Management Co.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Business page in the June 28 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-the-ion
How much power do police oversight offices really have?
An article cites a 2020 study by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research into police oversight boards in Texas' five largest cities.
Texas Observer
http://dateline.rice/june-28-kinder-study
Sherman wins GlobiTech expansion, bringing 1,500 new jobs and $5 billion investment
An article cites the recent study "Investing in Texas: Economic Impact of Severe Drought" co-authored by the Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The Dallas Morning News
http://dateline.rice/june-28-baker-study
BROADCAST
Inflation: How bad is it and how long will it last?
Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Click2Houston (This segment also aired twice on KPRC-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-rodriguez
Rice University rises to No. 1 spot in new ranking of best college investments
A pair of articles featuring Rice mentions that it is ranked No. 1 in Texas and No. 10 in the nation according to SmartAsset.
ABC 13 Online
http://dateline.rice/june-28-abc13
Rice University rises to No. 1 spot in new ranking of best college investments
CultureMap Houston (This article also appeared in CultureMap Dallas.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-cmh
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Humans in the loop help robots find their way
An article features collaborative Rice research that developed a method for humans to help robots "see" their environments and carry out tasks. Co-authors cited include Lydia Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and director of Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute, and graduate students Carlos Quintero-Peña and Constantinos Chamzas.
ScienceDaily
http://dateline.rice/june-28-kavraki-pena-chamzas
Molecular machine drills holes in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, killing them
An article features the latest iteration of nanoscale drills developed at Rice that can quickly kill bacteria. Co-authors quoted are James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering, and alumni Ana Santos and Dongdong Liu.
Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World
http://dateline.rice/june-28-tour
Carbon nanotubes: Is bigger better?
An article mentions that several companies creating spun nanomaterials have based their processes on Rice research.
IDTechEx
http://dateline.rice/june-28-idtechex
Mechanical testing will be key to making thinner, more flexible electronics: U of T engineering study
An article mentions that experts at Rice collaborated on the featured research.
University of Toronto Engineering News
http://dateline.rice/june-28-utoronto
Scientists develop a game-changing UV optics technology
An article cites Rice research into the power density of a vacuum UV radiation metalens.
ElectronicsForU.com
http://dateline.rice/june-28-efu
Stan Farnsworth, OE-A chairperson, to present during Sensors Converge Conference
Alumnus Stan Farnsworth is featured.
Circuits Assembly
http://dateline.rice/june-28-farnsworth
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
America, Communist China in race for lithium
Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and minerals in the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
The New York Sun (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-foss
Seven elected to Princeton board of trustees
An article features Carol Quillen, former vice president for international and interdisciplinary initiatives.
Princeton University News
http://dateline.rice/june-28-princeton
GW selects Education Executives as presidential search firm
Rice is mentioned.
The GW Hatchet (This article also appeared in GW Today.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-gwh
SPORTS
Ivan Melendez named Baseball America's 2022 College Baseball Player of the Year
An article mentions that former Rice baseball player Anthony Rendon was the 2010 Baseball America College Baseball Player of the Year.
Baseball America
http://dateline.rice/june-28-rendon
Ranking the logos of every college football team in Texas
Rice is featured.
SB Nation
http://dateline.rice/june-28-sbn
University of Houston basketball to face Saint Joseph's at Veterans Classic
An article mentions that Rice's men's basketball team is slated to play the University of Houston in the upcoming season.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-hc
Dalen Terry will wear 25 to honor Chicago's Ben Wilson, Bulls' Steve Kerr
An article mentions that Mekhi Mason has signed to play basketball at Rice.
NBC 5 Online (This article also appeared in NBC Sports Chicago, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Sports.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-nbc5
Beaumont is one of the most expensive Texas 'college football towns'
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-hc
Top Memphis-area high school football offensive lineman
The Commercial Appeal (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/june-28-tca
Region/state roundup: Heritage sprinter Madison Whyte races to girls 200-meter title at New Balance Nationals
Daily Press
http://dateline.rice/june-28-dp
Recruiting notebook for June 27
Sports Talk Media Network
http://dateline.rice/june-28-stmn
Texas receiver Wesley Greaves pulls the trigger after unofficial visit to Boulder
247Sports.com
http://dateline.rice/june-28-247
NEWS RELEASES
Flooding exacerbates pollution exposure in at-risk urban communities
Increased flooding in the U.S. is exposing more people to industrial pollution, especially in racially marginalized urban communities, according to new collaborative research by Jim Elliott, professor and chair of sociology at Rice.
http://dateline.rice/june-28-news-release-elliott
Landmark new engineering and science building on campus to bear Ralph S. O'Connor's name
A self-made businessman who started out working in oilfields and ended up building an empire in energy and real estate investments will be memorialized at Rice with a landmark new science and engineering building named in honor of Ralph S. O'Connor.
http://dateline.rice/june-28-news-release-oconnor
Rice physicists available to discuss Higgs boson 10th anniversary
Rice physicists Paul Padley, Karl Ecklund and Darin Acosta are available to discuss the July 4 anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery and the recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider for a third round of experiments.
http://dateline.rice/june-28-news-release-padley-ecklund-acosta
Blockchain tech can help small businesses launch and grow, says Baker Institute expert
Blockchain technology can give small businesses and entrepreneurs new avenues for funding their ventures and create opportunities for growth, according to a report by Alexander Hernández Romanowski, research analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy's McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth.
http://dateline.rice/june-28-news-release-romanowski
DOE backs Rice physicists' collaboration
Two Rice nuclear physicists have received Department of Energy backing to continue their research on the fundamental properties of matter in extreme conditions. Frank Geurts and Wei Li, both members of Rice's T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, won a three-year, $1.8 million grant to pursue their study of relativistic heavy-ion physics at both Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at the European Council for Nuclear Research.
http://dateline.rice/june-28-news-release-geurts-li