Crash! US crude futures turn negative for first time in history
Several Rice experts are quoted in articles and broadcasts on the oil market collapse. Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted and interviewed by Al-Jazeera; Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted in a KPRC-TV broadcast; Amelie Carlton, lecturer in economics at Rice, is quoted in Marketplace; Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies, is quoted in E&E News; and Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted in InvestorPlace.
Al-Jazeera (This article also appeared in GeesGuud and Hiiraan Online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-krane
‘News Live’
Al-Jazeera English
http://dateline.rice/april-21-krane
‘KPRC Channel 2 News’
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-rodriguez
US oil prices fall below zero for the first time
Marketplace
http://dateline.rice/april-21-carlton
‘Uncharted territory.’ Oil prices go negative for 1st time
E&E News
http://dateline.rice/april-21-finley
7 cash-rich oil stocks that will survive this crisis
InvestorPlace (This article also appeared in Markets Insider.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-mittal
Vote by mail in Wisconsin helped a liberal candidate, upending old theories
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is quoted.
The New York Times (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in Newsmax and F3 News.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-stein
Special edition: Dr. Vivian Ho and Dr. Susan McLellan (April 20, 2020)
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Health and Biosciences, is interviewed.
Houston Public Media (This “Houston Matters” segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-ho
Balconies, bicycles and belonging: The future of communities after COVID-19
Bill Fulton, director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
The National (This article appeared in the April 21 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-fulton
‘If the Italians can be overwhelmed, then we can be overwhelmed’: Houston expert shares insights on coronavirus response
Yousif Shamoo, Rice’s vice provost for research and a professor of biochemistry and cell biology, is quoted.
Community Impact Newspaper (This article appeared on the front page of the April 7-May 4 digital and print editions of the Bellaire/Meyerland/West University issues, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-shamoo
Industry count of US Gulf COVID-19 cases rises to 40
Upstream
http://dateline.rice/april-21-shamoo
Rice University researchers looking to understand impact across communities of COVID-19
An article mentions Rice’s collaborative effort to establish the COVID-19 Registry, which aims to compile a demographic portrait of the pandemic’s impact on Houston. Former Rice Provost Marie Lynn Miranda is interviewed.
Fox 7 Online (This segment appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-miranda
Snacks for med staff: Rice University students send meals to health care workers
An article features graduate students Coco Ma and Kathleen Harcourt, co-founders of nonprofit #SnacksForMedStaff.
Fox 26 Online (This segment also aired three times on KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-ma-harcourt
What if Houston floods during the pandemic?
Jim Blackburn, a professor in the practice of environmental law and the co-director of Rice’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center, is quoted.
Houston Public Media (This segment aired on twice on KSTX in San Antonio, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-blackburn
Texas engineers work in labs, living rooms to invent ventilator shortage solutions
An article mentions that the design plans for an emergency ventilator developed by a team of Rice engineering experts and students are now online and freely available to everyone in the world. Amy Kavalewitz, executive director of Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, is interviewed by KUT. Rice’s ventilator design is mentioned in two additional articles.
KUT Online
http://dateline.rice/april-21-kavalewitz
MasksOn.org making protective gear from snorkel masks
EHS Today
http://dateline.rice/april-21-ventilator
Innovation champion no more
Pacific Research Institute
http://dateline.rice/april-21-ventilator
Marie Kondo has advice for working from home
An article features a new book by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein, the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, titled “Joy at Work: The Career-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.”
TreeHugger
http://dateline.rice/april-21-sonenshein
Loneliness and stress can make you more prone to COVID-19, if exposed. Here’s how to combat those feelings.
Stress, loneliness and lack of sleep can weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to COVID-19, according to Christopher Fagundes, associate professor in psychological sciences.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the April 21 print edition of the Orlando Sentinel and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-fagundes
UCS president helps organize letters calling for flexibility in hiring, admissions, mental health counseling regulations
Brown College senior Grace Wickerson, president of the Rice Student Association, is quoted.
The Brown Daily Herald
http://dateline.rice/april-21-wickerson
Rice University awards first COVID-19 research grants
An article mentions that Rice’s COVID-19 Research Fund has awarded grants for projects to develop affordable diagnostic tools, seals to maximize the efficiency of surgical masks, a system to identify signs of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in Houston wastewater and methods to ensure voter safety this fall.
Community Impact Newspaper
http://dateline.rice/april-21-covid-research-fund
Monday AM: Texas reopens; city to announce task force leader today
An article cites a Rice study that analyzed social distancing views based on political affiliation.
KTRH Online (This article also appeared on KPRC Online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-ktrh
Coronavirus y economía: el precio del petróleo y una caída anunciada
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.
Clarín (An English translation is not available. This article also appeared in the April 21 print edition of Clarín, and it appeared online in The World News, MSN Colombia and MSN Argentina.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-jones
GOP pledges $3M for candidate Wesley Hunt in bid to retake Houston suburbs
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the April 21 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, the Connecticut Post and the San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/april-21-jones |
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