NASA’s solar probe answers fundamental questions about the sun’s behavior
Stephen Bradshaw, associate professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the Dec. 5 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared in the San Antonio Express-News and the San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-bradshawRice class explores what it means to be Muslim in America
Craig Considine, lecturer in sociology at Rice who teaches the course Muslims in America, is featured. Rice students Noor Gamal Eldin, Emma Siegel, Eden Desta, Amanda Ochu and Alina Zhu are quoted. A column authored by Zhu published in the Rice Thresher is cited.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-considineField notes: December 2019
Rice has announced the creation of a new center in response to increasing interest and expertise in African and African American Studies on campus. Anthony Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion, who will serve as founding director of the Center for African and African American Studies, is pictured and quoted.
TMC News (This article was also featured in the December 2019 digital and print editions of TMC Pulse.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-pinn
Top Texas Medical Center news stories of 2019
An innovations roundup features the following “news of the year” from Rice: Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering, led a team that developed a tangled, 3D-printed network of vessels that mimics a human lung; conductive carbon threads developed at Rice could serve as an electrical bypass or bridge to repair the function of the heart; and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, which partners with Rice, received $37 million in renewed funding for its Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences from the National Institutes of Health.
TMC News (This article was also featured in the digital and print editions of the December 2019 TMC Pulse.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-miller-tmc
Self-funded candidates achieve mixed results in Houston area
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.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-jones
KLBJ-AM (Austin)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-jones-klbj
Magical snowbirds take over Discovery Green in an art frenzy that will have you seeing double
An article features the collaborative artwork of Lina Dib, lecturer in Rice’s Program in Writing and Communication. Dib created “Here and Now,” the complementary sound recording for Discovery Green’s new public art piece “Paloma,” on view through Feb. 24, 2020.
PaperCity
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-dib
Magical tree fort exhibition climbs into Austin as a must-see attraction
Alumnus James Edward Talbot is featured.
CultureMap Houston
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-talbot
Andrea Bocelli emphasizes beauty for his upcoming Houston performance
Grammy Award-winning soprano Ana María Martínez, Rice’s Shepherd School of Music’s artist-in-residence for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years, is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-martinez
What’s on in Houston galleries this week
An arts roundup mentions that Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts will exhibit “Moon Shot” through Dec. 21.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-moody
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-moody2
How an investor in Japanese anime came to restore a golf course in Lake Bridgeport
Alumnus Daniel Cocanougher is featured and pictured.
D Magazine
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-cocanougher
10+ can’t-miss Houston business and innovation events for December
An article mentions the Dec. 3 Houston Coalition for Equitable Development without Displacement community forum with Rice Management Co.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-rmc
Outside the Megaplex: Here are the Houston arthouse movies showing Dec. 6-12
A roundup of alternative Houston-area movie theaters mentions that Rice Cinema will present “Low-Fi,” a collection of unusual films from the Rice Cinema archive, Dec. 12.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-rice-cinema
Entrepreneurship program founded by local honored
An article mentions that Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is ranked No. 1 in the nation for entrepreneurship studies according to the list compiled by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Fredericksburg Standard (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-5-jones-school |