Dateline Rice for April 23, 2020

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Thursday’s show: Greater Houston’s new recovery czars, Rice President David Leebron and a film about DJ Screw (April 23, 2020)
President David Leebron is featured in an interview discussing Rice’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. Charles Dove, professor in the practice of visual arts and film and director of Rice Cinema, discusses the film “The Social Network” in a new edition of “The Bigger Picture.”
Houston Public Media (This “Houston Matters” segment also aired twice on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-leebron-dove

How Hurricane Harvey is helping COVID-19 response
A broadcast features the early results of Rice’s collaborative COVID-19 Registry, which aims to compile a demographic portrait of the pandemic’s impact on Houston and already has more than 2,200 respondents. Marie Lynn Miranda, director of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative and professor of statistics at Rice, is interviewed and quoted in KHOU Online. Miranda is quoted in TMC in an article about Earth Day.
KHOU Online (This segment also aired on KHOU-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-covid-registry
The link between Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 pandemic
KHOU Online
http://dateline.rice/april-23-covid-registry
Earth Day 2020: A healthy planet means healthier people
TMC
http://dateline.rice/april-23-miranda

COVID-19 has working class moms at a breaking point
Quianta Moore, fellow in child health policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired twice on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-moore

Efficiency vs. resilience: What COVID-19 teaches computing
Moshe Vardi, University Professor and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, a professor of computer science and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice, authored an op-ed.
Communications of the ACM (This op-ed will also appear in the May digital and print editions.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-vardi

280,000 more Texans filed for unemployment last week as oil collapse and coronavirus precautions wallop state’s economy
John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of its Center for Public Finance, is quoted.
Texas Tribune (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-diamond

Texas’ freestanding ERs to get Medicaid funding
Ken Janda, adjunct professor of management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Business section in the April 23 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-janda

From threats to solidarity, virus reconciles US-Mexico leaders
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of the institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico, is quoted and interviewed.
The Christian Science Monitor (This article also appeared in the April 23 print editions of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Marin Independent Journal and The Trentonian, and it appeared online in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Latino Rebels. This Associated Press article also appeared in yesterday’s Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-payan
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-payan (This segment aired four times.)

Elite colleges back away from rescue cash amid criticism of endowments
Rice is mentioned.
Politico (This article also appeared in Yahoo! News.) 
http://dateline.rice/april-23-pol

Local engineers make ventilators

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.
Myanmar Times
http://dateline.rice/april-23-mt

Factbox: Virus-fueled rout in oil market promises lower US gas supply, higher prices
An article cites a study by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
S&P Global Platts
http://dateline.rice/april-23-baker-study

Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office hosting free drive-thru mask, glove giveaway
An article and broadcast mentions a study by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research that suggests Harris County’s stay-at-home order has spared more than 40,000 people from being hospitalized by the coronavirus.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study
Houstonians, public officials react to Lina Hidalgo’s mandatory face covering order
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo issues mandatory mask order
CultureMap Houston
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study
’13 Eyewitness News’
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-kinder-study (This press conference also aired on KRIV-TV and KHOU-TV in Houston.)

Special Olympics athlete selected to 2020 Longhorn Legacy Hall
An article mentions that former Rice soccer player Callye Dannheim Emmons will be inducted into the Cedar Hill ISD Longhorn Legacy Athletic Hall of Honor.
Focus Daily News
http://dateline.rice/april-23-fdn

President Trump to block green cards for 60 days due to COVID-19 pandemic
Rice is mentioned.
KTRH on Spreaker (This segment also aired on KTRH-AM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-ktrh

Houston Symphony pumps up the volume on outreach online
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle’s “Preview”
http://dateline.rice/april-23-hc

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Chevron barred from drilling, transporting oil in Venezuela: US official
Francisco J. Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, Center for the United States and Mexico and Latin America Initiative and a lecturer in energy economics, is quoted.
Reuters (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-monaldi

‘I’m massively conflicted — I still love that football club’: Newcastle fans in the face of a tarnished takeover
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, fellow for the Middle East at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Independent (This article also appeared in Go Tech Daily.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-ulrichsen

Will the search for dark matter be frozen by coronavirus?
Petr Chaguine, assistant research professor of physics and astronomy, is mentioned.
Independent (This article also appeared in the April 23 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-chaguine

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Loving sports, living with RA
Sid Richardson College freshman Savannah Parrot, a member of Rice’s cheer squad, is featured in a Q&A about managing rheumatoid arthritis.
Health Central
http://dateline.rice/april-23-parrot

The best international online MBAs?
Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is mentioned.
Poets & Quants
http://dateline.rice/april-23-jones-school

Here are your Elijah Watt Sells award winners for 2019 (and the Big 4 firm with the most of them)
Alumna Molly Garrision is featured.
Going Concern
http://dateline.rice/april-23-gc

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Best Life: Killing superbugs with a tiny tool — medicine’s next big thing?
An article features Rice research into developing motorized molecules that can kill antibiotic-resistant microbes. James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted and interviewed.
WMC 5 Online
http://dateline.rice/april-23-tour
‘Action News A.M.’
WMC-TV (Memphis, Tennessee)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-tour

SPORTS

The tight end who could’ve been a Blue Jay
Former Rice football player Luke Willson is featured.
MLB News
http://dateline.rice/april-23-mlb

Antoine Winfield Jr. rises from The Woodlands to the pros
Former Rice football player Buddy Dial is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-23-hc
http://dateline.rice/april-23-hc

NEWS RELEASE

Remote teaching makes us more human, Rice U. expert says
At Rice, only three undergraduate classes were scheduled to be conducted completely online from the beginning of the semester. Now more than 1,900 have gone remote. The biggest revelations have been about the human — rather than the technical — dimension of teaching, said Caroline Levander, vice president for digital and global strategy at Rice and a leading humanities scholar.
http://dateline.rice/april-23-news-release-remote-teaching

About Stefan De La Garza

Stefan De La Garza is a news analyst in Rice University's Office of Public Affairs.