Rice University ignites innovation in response to COVID-19 crisis
An article details Rice’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Moody Center for the Arts transformed its studio space to produce face shields; MBA students at the Jones Graduate School of Business established a nonprofit to provide snacks for medical workers; Rice Athletics staff delivered care packages for medical workers at the Texas Medical Center; students at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen developed an inexpensive ventilator; a COVID-19 Research Fund was established; and Wiess and Hanszen colleges were opened as temporary housing for front-line medical workers at the TMC. Rice community members quoted include President David Leebron; Amy Kavalewitz, executive director of the OEDK; Dr. Rohith Malya, adjunct assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice and associate of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health; and Danny Blacker, OEDK engineering design supervisor. Leebron also is quoted in a Houston Chronicle article about resuming fall classes.
TMC News
http://dateline.rice/april-24-rice-innovates
UT to decide fate of fall classes at the end of June
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/april-24-leebron
Kinder Institute founding director: ‘Difficult times for Houston’ ahead
Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and an emeritus professor of sociology, is featured in a Q&A ahead of the release of the results of the 39th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey.
Houston Business Journal (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-klineberg
Voting by mail faces challenges in the coronavirus election year
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is quoted.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston, and it aired on more than 20 stations affiliated with Texas Public Radio.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-stein
Rice University political expert on coronavirus voting: ‘Democracy is at issue here.’
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-stein
Amid a global pandemic, how do Dallas doctors get patients to want to come back?
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 quoted.
The Dallas Morning News (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-ho
Can we ‘trap and zap’ the coronavirus?
An article features Rice research employing graphitic carbon nitride customized at the molecular level to absorb and disable viruses. Pedro Alvarez, director of Rice’s Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment and the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is quoted.
Futurity (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-alvarez
How will COVID-19 change the way Muslims observe Ramadan?
Craig Considine, lecturer in sociology at Rice, is quoted.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (This article also appeared in the April 24 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-considine
Tackling invisible enemy: What’s behind Trump’s new migration ban amid COVID-19 outbreak?
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.
Sputnik News
http://dateline.rice/april-24-jones
How are Texas restaurants surviving COVID-19 shutdown?
University of Houston News (This article also appeared in Covering Katy.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-jones
Trump pressured to stop deluge of Saudi oil headed to US in tankers
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted and interviewed.
Washington Examiner
http://dateline.rice/april-24-krane
Rising calls to block Saudi crude shipments to US
Al-Jazeera’s YouTube page (This segment also aired on Al-Jazeera English.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-krane
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.
Texas Standard (This segment aired on more than 20 stations affiliated with Texas Public Radio. This item originally appeared in Houston Public Media.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-moore
No, Democrats aren’t pushing microchips to fight coronavirus
Kevin McHugh, assistant professor of bioengineering, is quoted.
Politifact
http://dateline.rice/april-24-mchugh
Marie Kondo is stuck at home, too. Here’s how she is sparking joy.
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.”
Winston-Salem Journal
http://dateline.rice/april-24-sonenshein
Nevada debate team season comes to an early end amid coronavirus closures
An article mentions that Rice’s debate team was ranked No. 2 in the National Parliamentary Debate Association before the season’s abrupt end.
Nevada Today
http://dateline.rice/april-24-nt
Why this Corpus Christi native’s appointment to this foundation matters
An article mentions that the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation has partnered with Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
http://dateline.rice/april-24-baker-inst
Houston Symphony pumps up the volume on outreach online
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle’s “Preview” (This article appeared in the April 24 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/april-24-hc
The coronavirus, discrimination against Asian Americans
Rice is mentioned.
Jewish Herald-Voice
http://dateline.rice/april-24-jhv |
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