All eyes on Ohio’s election: Nation will learn from Ohio’s success or failure on Tuesday
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is quoted.
Cincinnati.com http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein Biden red herring: Candidate stokes scare over Trump postponing elections Washington Examiner (This article also appeared in MSN.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein ‘COVID-19 in 60’ and ‘Coronavirus Chronicle’: The latest headlines and updated case counts Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein Houston coronavirus updates: April 24, 2020 Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein Rice University political expert on coronavirus voting: ‘Democracy is at issue here.’ Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the April 25 print edition of the Chronicle and online in the San Antonio Express-News, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein KUT (Austin, Texas) http://dateline.rice/april-27-stein
UT to decide fate of fall classes at the end of June
President David Leebron is quoted. Houston Chronicle (This article appeared in the April 25 print edition, and it appeared on the front of the Coronavirus section in the April 25 print edition of the San Antonio Express-News. This story also appeared online in the San Francisco Chronicle and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-leebron
Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and an emeritus professor of sociology, is quoted. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This op-ed also appeared in the April 27 print edition.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-klineberg
Expect significant, long-term economic impact of low oil prices, economists say
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. Click2Houston (This segment also aired on KPRC-TV in Houston.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-diamond
Rescuing US oil by restricting imports would be a bad idea
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted. Hellenic Shipping News http://dateline.rice/april-27-krane
Editorial: Welders. Engineers. In oil crisis, people before ideology
Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, is quoted. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This editorial also appeared in the April 27 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, Connecticut Post and San Francisco Chronicle.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-finley
Remote teaching makes us more human, Rice U. expert saysAn article cites an Inside Higher Ed blog post authored by Caroline Levander, vice president for global and digital strategy.
How do we keep the faith under lockdown? | ‘Start Here’
Elaine Howard Ecklund, professor of sociology and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice, is interviewed. Al-Jazeera English’s YouTube page (This segment also aired on Al-Jazeera English.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-ecklund
Roughly 19% of restaurants in Texas closed permanently in early weeks of coronavirus pandemic, study says
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 Business Journal http://dateline.rice/april-27-jones
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 and interviewed. The Dallas Morning News (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the April 26 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-ho Will COVID-19 bankrupt the health care system? Radio Health Journal (This segment aired on 550 stations across the U.S., and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-ho
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 aired three times on Texas Public Radio, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-moore
Medical Notes: Week of April 26, 2020
An article mentions that the design plans for the open-source 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 the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, and Dr. Rohith Malya, adjunct assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice and associate of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health, are quoted in Inside Higher Ed. Radio Health Journal (This podcast also appeared in 10 other media outlets, and this segment aired on 550 stations across the U.S.)
Rice researchers look to ‘trap and zap’ coronavirus
Rice researchers 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, and Jane Tao, professor of biosciences, have won a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to develop a “novel approach for selective adsorption and photocatalytic disinfection” of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. TMC News http://dateline.rice/april-27-alvarez-tao Rice University looks to ‘trap and zap’ SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater News-Medical.net http://dateline.rice/april-27-alvarez-tao
Want to help COVID-19 researchers? You don’t have to leave your living room
An article 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 quoted. Healthline http://dateline.rice/april-27-miranda
What’s Marie Kondo been up to during lockdown?
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.” Independent (This article also appeared in the April 26 print edition.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-sonenshein Marie Kondo is stuck at home, too. Here’s how she is sparking joy. The Philadelphia Inquirer (This article also appeared in the April 26 print editions of the Inquirer, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and QWeekend and online in the Seattle Times.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-sonenshein Marie Kondo cleaned house. Now she wants to fix your whole life Fast Company http://dateline.rice/april-27-sonenshein How to tidy your to-do list like Marie Kondo Fast Company http://dateline.rice/april-27-sonenshein
Humane resources: Business books 2020
A book review featured “Teams That Work,”co-authored byEduardo Salas, chair and professor of psychological sciences. Publishers Weekly (This article also appeared in the April 27 print edition.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-salas
Editorial: Circus performer to jailer. Sketches of life in a pandemic.
An article featuring Janis Scott mentions that she has attended lectures at Rice. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This editorial also appeared on the front of the “Outlook” section in the April 27 print edition, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, Connecticut Post and San Francisco Chronicle.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-hc
Are Houston-area summer camps canceled?
An article mentions that Rice has canceled some summer programs. Click2Houston http://dateline.rice/april-27-c2h
How FDA Chief Stephen Hahn found himself between a rock and a hard place
Alumnus Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is featured. Texas Monthly http://dateline.rice/april-27-hahn
KLBJ-AM (Austin, Texas)
A broadcast mentions collaborative Rice research into the post-pandemic recovery of restaurants. http://dateline.rice/april-27-klbj
Thumbs: ‘Nail-gate’ snags Beaumont mayor; the purrfect prom date
An editorial cites a Rice Thresher article. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This editorial also appeared in the April 25 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News, Connecticut Post and San Francisco Chronicle.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-hc
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Jackson Hicks, Houston’s ‘Prince of Parties,’ dies at 73
An article about the death of Jackson Hicks mentions that he supported the Young Artists Program and the Graduate Opera Program at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the April 27 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the Connecticut Post.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-shep-school
Introducing the newest members of Texas Monthly’s editorial staff
Alumna Rose Cahalan is featured. Texas Monthly http://dateline.rice/april-27-tm
Dayton debate makes history with dual debater
Alumnus David Taylor authored an article. Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.) http://dateline.rice/april-27-hc
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Rice University wins prestigious grant to develop new therapies for sickle cell disease
The Rice lab of Gang Bao, the Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering, professor of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering, won a National Institutes of Health grant worth $2.45 million to pursue gene-editing research that may lead to a cure for sickle cell disease. News-Medical.net http://dateline.rice/april-27-bao
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Ramachandra Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Lab, dies at 87
An article mentions Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, professor of bioengineering and director of the Rice 360º Institute for Global Health. MIT News http://dateline.rice/april-27-richards-kortum
How the assassination of John F. Kennedy shook up history
President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech” given at Rice Sept. 12, 1962, is mentioned. World Atlas http://dateline.rice/april-27-kennedy
Best and brightest: Combining athletics and intellect set student apart
An article featuring Wesley Wright mentions that he plans to attend Rice in the fall. The Gazette http://dateline.rice/april-27-g
SPORTS
WNBA draft recap — A bright future for women’s basketball
Former Rice basketball player Erica Ogwumike, who was the No. 26 pick in the WNBA draft held April 17, is mentioned. The Highlander http://dateline.rice/april-27-ogwumike
PRO FOOTBALL: Former Concord standout joins Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Former Rice football player Nick Leverett is featured. Independent Tribune http://dateline.rice/april-27-it
Ex-Maroon Thompson has persevered over rocky road
Former Rice head basketball coach Scott Thompson is featured. Quad-City Times http://dateline.rice/april-27-qct
Texas Tech baseball’s T.J. Rumfield enters transfer portal
An article mentions the March 8 baseball game between Rice and Texas Tech University. EverythingLubbock.com http://dateline.rice/april-27-el
NEWS RELEASES
Rice’s Glasscock School hosts conversation with infectious disease expert Yousif Shamoo
How will Houston weather the pandemic? Rice infectious disease expert Yousif Shamoo will discuss the topic during a free webinar May 1. The webinar is hosted by Rice’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies through OpenRICE, its initiative to provide expertise and insight, free and online, to the Houston community. http://dateline.rice/april-27-news-release-shamoo
US must reduce dependence on China-dominated supply chains, says Baker Institute report
The United States must reduce its dependence on China-dominated supply chains for critical goods, according to a new report co-authored by Gabriel Collins, an expert at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. http://dateline.rice/april-27-news-release-collins
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