EXPLAINER: How wetlands can help buffer Louisiana storms
Phil Bedient, director of Rice’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), is quoted. A Houston Chronicle article mentions that SSPEED collaborated on the Galveston Bay Park Plan, a proposal to protect the region from storm surges caused by hurricanes.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in 100 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-bedient
The final Ike Dike plan won’t protect against every storm — especially with climate change
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article was also featured in the Chronicle’s “Morning Report” newsletter.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-sspeed-center
Power could be out for weeks in Louisiana. Avoiding long outages will be incredibly expensive
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
CNN (This article also appeared in more than 30 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-cohan
China’s top oil producer prepares to revive Venezuela operations
Francisco Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Center for Energy Studies, the Center for the United States and Mexico and the Latin America Initiative at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and a lecturer in energy economics at Rice, is quoted.
Bloomberg (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-monaldi
Biden hastens a slow-burn shift away from overreach overseas
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted in an article by NBC, and The Washington Post mentions that Brinkley will speak at the 2021 Texas Tribune Festival Sept. 25.
NBC (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-brinkley
The Washington Post returns as media partner of the 2021 Texas Tribune Festival
The Washington Post
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-brinkley-talk
Will the Texas abortion law survive a court battle?
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.
Washington Examiner (This article also appeared in Yahoo! News.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-jones
L’avortement quasi interdit au Texas
Radio France Internationale (An English translation is not available. This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-jones
‘KSAT 12 News’
KSAT-TV (San Antonio)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-jones
Researchers at Rice University create a smart shirt that can monitor your heart rate
An article features Rice research into sewing nanotube fibers into athletic wear to monitor the heart rate and take a continual electrocardiogram of the wearer. Co-authors cited include 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 graduate students Lauren Taylor and Oliver Dewey.
MSN Money India (This article originally appeared in News 18.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-taylor
University researchers develop ‘smart shirt’ that monitors your heart rate
MSN India (This video originally appeared in Cover News India.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-taylor-dewey
Nanotube threads improve vital signs readings
Smart clothing monitors the wearer’s heart
Futurity (This article was featured in the “Futurity Today” newsletter Sept. 1 and appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-pasquali-taylor
The rise of midwives in rural America
Robbie Davis-Floyd, adjunct professor in anthropology, is quoted.
Deseret News
http://dateline.rice/sept-2-davisfloyd |
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