NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Rice University is recipient of new Biden grant for cancer-fighting inventions
An article features the news that Rice will receive an $18 million grant to lead the development of more advanced imaging systems as part of the Biden administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative. Community members quoted in InnovationMap include Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, professor of bioengineering and co-director of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technology; Ashok Veeraraghavan, professor of electrical and computer engineering; Ramamoorthy Ramesh, executive vice president for research and professor of materials science and nanoengineering and physics and astronomy; and Tomasz Tkaczyk, professor of bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering.
Axios (This article alo appeared in MSN Health.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-axios
University of Washington receives $21M grant for 'groundbreaking' cancer research
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in KOIN Online.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-yahoo
Promising Houston cancer research project wins $18M grant
InnovationMap (This article was also featured in its "Daily Digest" newsletter.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-richards.kortum-et.al
Who wrote Texas' million dollar, Bible-infused curriculum? The state won’t say
David Brockman, nonresident scholar in the Religion and Public Policy Program at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
MSN (This article originally appeared in The 74.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-brockman
New watchdog report criticizes proposed reading curriculum from Texas Education Agency that includes biblical references
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-brockman
Sunday schools or Texas public schools? Report questions Christianity in proposed lessons
The Dallas Morning News (This article also appeared in MSN.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-brockman
'Texas Public Radio'
KSTX-FM (San Antonio)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-brockman (This segment aired on seven affiliate stations.)
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston top innovation news this week includes 2 startups' series A, space tech founder steps down, and more
A roundup features the Rice Nexus, an innovation hub aimed at transforming ideas from faculty and students into market-ready technology. The Nexus will be housed within the Ion, a Houston-based tech hub owned by the Rice Management Co. President Reginald DesRoches is quoted.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-desroches
Rice University course teaches executives to elevate business performance with customer-centric strategy
An article features a Q&A with Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business.
Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-mittal
How Rootlab has become a go-to builder of custom, real-world experiences
An article features alumnus Logan Beck.
Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-beck
Texas Area Planetary Science meeting gives host UTSA an edge in forging strategic partnerships
An article mentions that experts at Rice attended the Texas Area Planetary Science meeting Aug. 15-16.
University of Texas at San Antonio
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-utsa
Spreading Roots: Chabad at Rice set for big expansion with new building
An article features Chabad at Rice and quotes Rabbi Shmuli Slonim and Nechama Slonim, co-directors of Chabad at Rice, and Jones College sophomore Sam Forman.
Jewish Herald-Voice
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-the.slonims
Largest heat-mapping campaign in US focuses on Houston urban heat island effect in Harris County
An article mentions a study by Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research that found Harris County lost almost 10% of its overall tree canopy from 2011-21.
Houston Chronicle (This article appeared in the Aug. 16 print edition and was in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-hc
BROADCAST
District 15 race heats up in Hidalgo County
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science and fellow in political science at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
KRGV Online (This segment also aired on KRGV-TV in Harlingen, Texas.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-jones
Inside conservative activist Leonard Leo's long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood
KFF Health News (This article also appeared in California Healthline.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-jones
'SWR Aktuell' (Germany)
A broadcast mentions that a Rice-led team of researchers is establishing the Global Glacier Casualty List, a database of the world's glaciers lost to climate change. The casualty list will be unveiled alongside a Glacier Graveyard in Iceland Aug. 17.
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-swr (This segment aired three times.)
'KPRC Channel 2 News'
A broadcast features a study by Rice that found that over 73% of Texas schools are underfunded.
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-kprc
'KHOU 11 News'
A broadcast features a "moment of Zen" from the Rice campus.
KHOU-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-khou
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
'Legos for wireless research': Rice-led university consortium tackles the future of wireless with $4.5M NSF award
An article mentions that a research team from Rice will receive a $4.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to design and develop a new open-access software-defined radio system. The research team includes Ashutosh Sabharwal, the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering and chair of electrical and computer engineering; Joseph Cavallaro, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science; and Rahman Doost-Mohammady, assistant research professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Bioengineer.org
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-sabharwal-cavallaro-doost.mohammady
JPMorgan, Zelle may have upper hand if litigation ensues
John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of the Center for Public Policy at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Payments Dive (This article also appeared in Banking Dive.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-diamond
Batterie, una tecnica a microonde per recuperare l'87% del litio in soli 15 minuti
An article features Rice research into the rapid, efficient and environmentally friendly method for selective lithium recovery from lithium-ion batteries. Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, professor of chemistry and a Rice Academy Senior Fellow, is quoted.
Energia Italia News
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-ajayan
Could artificial intelligence self-destruct? Synthetic data can cause the model to collapse
An article features Rice research into the negative impacts of using synthetic data to train generative artificial intelligence. Co-author Richard Baraniuk, the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, is quoted.
Meteo Giornale
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-baraniuk
L'intelligence artificielle pourrait-elle s'autodétruire? Les données synthétiques peuvent-elles provoquer l’effondrement du modèle?
Meteo Giornale
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-baraniuk
L'intelligenza artificiale potrebbe autodistruggersi? i dati sintetici possono causare il crollo del modello
Meteo Giornale
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-baraniuk
Könnte sich die künstliche Intelligenz selbst zerstören? Synthetische Daten können den Zusammenbruch des Modells verursachen
Meteo Giornale
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-baraniuk
¿La inteligencia artificial podría autodestruirse? Los datos sintéticos pueden causar el colapso del modelo
Meteo Giornale
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-baraniuk
Ultrasound technology offers way to peek into brain's molecules
An article features research by Jerzy Szablowski, assistant professor of bioengineering.
Parkinson's News Today
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-szablowski
Prof. Ming Yi (Rice University), 'Flat bands in quantum materials'
Ming Yi, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is featured.
Princeton Center for Complex Materials on YouTube
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-yi
Eleven women scholars appointed to new faculty roles
An article mentions Amy Kahrmann Huseby, senior lecturer and executive editor of Studies in English Literature, an academic journal housed at Rice.
Women in Academia Report
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-huseby
Shelf Drilling introduces top brass changes
Alumnus Ernie Danner is featured.
Offshore Energy
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-danner
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
New study uncovers racial bias in language used by physicians in medical records
An article features Rice research into electronic health records that found that doctors were more likely to use negative words in describing visits with Black and Hispanic patients than white patients. Co-author Eden King, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychological Sciences and a Rice Academy Senior Fellow, is quoted.
The Seattle Medium
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-king
KIRO-AM (Seattle)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-kiro
How MLK’s questions became my questions too
Michael Emerson, the Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is mentioned.
Baptist News Global
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-emerson
COVID-19: New research shows how the virus enters our cells and may lead to better vaccines
An article mentions that experts at Rice collaborated on the featured research.
Yale School of Medicine
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-yale
Antibody could offer sweeping protection against evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus
Medical Xpress (This article also appeared in MSN Health.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-mx
Sunday schools or Texas public schools? Report questions Christianity in proposed lessons
An article featuring Lucy Kim mentions that she will be an artist-in-residence at Rice's Moody Center for the Arts this fall.
Northwest Asian Weekly
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-kim
Con Vaca Muerta en el horizonte, ¿se viene un Massa-Larreta 2027?
An article mentions that Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy will host conferences and workshops focused on the Argentine energy sector in September.
Editorial RN
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-ern
SPORTS
Paralympic hopeful heads to France
An article features former Rice swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger, who will compete in the Paralympics in Paris Aug. 28-Sept. 8.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in KRIV Online, and this segment also aired on KRIV-TV in Houston. This article also appeared in MSN Health.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-lettenberger
Rice swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger heads to Paralympics
Click2Houston (This segment also aired four times on KPRC-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-lettenberger
Dunch nets first career goal in season opener
An article mentions that Rice's soccer team defeated Texas State University 2-1 in their season-opening game Aug. 15.
TXST.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-txst
Memphis' Monaghan reaches 300 career wins on opening night
TheAmerican.org
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-the.american
Every G5 name on the Lombardi Award watch list 2024
An article mentions that Rice football player Brant Banks has been named to the Lombardi Award preseason watch list.
Sports Illustrated's G5 Football Daily
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-banks
'Wake Up! with SallyMac & Lina'
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-banks
Set piece conversions by UTSA knocks off Navy in season opener, 2-1
An article mentions that Rice's soccer team is slated to play Navy Aug. 18.
NavySports.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-navy
Tigers out-duel Vaqueros in opener
An article mentions that Rice's soccer team is slated to play the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley Aug. 25.
The Rider
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-rider
Sam Houston takes fall camp to Huntsville ISD Stadium
An article features Rice football ahead of its season-opening game against Sam Houston State University Aug. 31.
KBTX Online
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-kbtx
Rising Star: Cowboys legend Jason Witten's son ranked top-25 college recruit
Rice is mentioned.
Athlon Sports
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-as
Long forgotten Super Bowl champion’s son makes NFL debut after being drafted by Washington Commanders
An article features former Rice football player Luke McCaffrey.
The U.S. Sun
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-mccaffrey
American announces 2025 football scheduling model
An article features Rice football's 2025 slate of games.
TheAmerican.org (This article also appeared in Sports Illustrated's G5 Football Daily, Charlotte49ers.com, FBSchedules.com, KENS 5 Online, MeanGreeSports.com and Rivals.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-the.american
NEWS RELEASES
OpenStax Assignable expands, brings interactive learning to higher education
OpenStax, a nonprofit initiative of Rice, announces the expansion of OpenStax Assignable, a product allowing instructors to create custom assignments from high-quality, peer-reviewed OpenStax resources directly within their institution’s learning management system. The expansion of Assignable is aligned with the OpenStax commitment to expand access to high-quality educational materials and experiences to all.
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-news-release-openstax
'Legos for wireless research': Rice-led university consortium tackles the future of wireless with $4.5M NSF award
Rice professor Ashutosh Sabharwal will lead a research project dedicated to the design and development of a new open-access software-defined radio system, a modular platform for wireless networking, imaging and sensing that will significantly expand research capabilities and catalyze innovation in support of 6G wireless.
http://dateline.rice/aug-16-news-release-sabharwal