In the News

“In the News” features a sampling of faculty, staff and administrators who have been quoted in newspaper or magazine articles or have been interviewed on radio or television. To obtain a copy of the clipping packet from which the “In the News” items are collected, contact the Office of News and Media Relations, 713-348-6774.

Financial Times
A news item reported that psychologists from Rice and Rutgers have found evidence that humans can sense fear and alarm from changes in people’s body odor.

The New York Times
An article reported that a study by researchers at Rice found that obese shoppers routinely suffer rude and dismissive treatment from sales clerks. Graduate student Eden King, lead researcher on the study, was quoted. “The stigma of obesity is the worst there is,” she said.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Pol Spanos, the Lewis B. Ryon Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, was profiled as one of 74 newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering.

Christian Science Monitor
John Eliot, lecturer of kinesiology, was quoted extensively in an article about the possible effects of the steroid-abuse scandal in baseball.

Forbes Magazine
An article argued that nanotech research should not be regulated, as some suggest. Vicki Colvin, associate professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, and Kevin Ausman, executive director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, were quoted.