Dateline Rice for Dec. 8, 2020

Stefan De La Garza
– December 8, 2020Posted in: Dateline Rice

COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Forget the deficit for now. We have to spend our way out of this pandemic
Two articles about federal spending during the pandemic cite recent research by Jorge Barro, fellow in public finance at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
CNN
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-barro
New thinking in Washington in the debate over debt
U.S. News & World Report
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-barro

Have we reached peak rural?
An article cites a March article authored by Bill Fulton, director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, about the future of cities after the pandemic. Fulton also is featured in a podcast from FingerLakes1.com
Worth
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-fulton
DAILY DEBRIEF: Bill Fulton discusses how urban renewal failed Auburn (podcast)
FingerLakes1.com
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-fulton

Philanthropy Roundtable survey: Children’s mental health funding in the time of COVID-19
An article features collaborative research by Patrick Tennant, project manager for child mental health at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Philanthropy Roundtable
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-tennant

College football schedule 2020: The 119 games already postponed or canceled due to COVID-19
An article mentions that Rice has had several football games postponed or canceled due to the pandemic.
CBS Sports
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-rice-owls

C-SPAN2
A broadcast features a virtual panel discussion hosted by Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy about how journalists covered the 2020 presidential election during the pandemic.
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-baker-webinar

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Asteroid dust from Hayabusa2 could solve a mystery of planet creation
André Izidoro, the CLEVER Planets Postdoctoral Research Associate in Earth, environment and planetary science, is quoted.
Scientific American
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-izidoro

This popular clothing chain just announced it’s closing 100 more stores
Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted in MSN Money, and he authored two articles in Psychology Today.
MSN Money (This article originally appeared in Best Life.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-dholakia

Why didn’t polls predict the 2020 election results?
Psychology Today
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-dholakia
How useful are likelihood to recommend surveys?
Psychology Today
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-dholakia

Under Biden, Xavier Becerra could overhaul treatment of unaccompanied migrant children at border
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Washington Examiner
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-payan

HOUSTON/TEXAS
NASA taps Texas scientist for major Mars rover mission
An article mentions that Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, will help operate NASA’s Perseverance rover, and she and her colleagues received funding to create methods to help analyze any samples returned to Earth. Rice data scientist Yueyang Jiang and research scientist Gelu Costin are mentioned.
CultureMap
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-siebach

BROADCAST
How foreign policy changes under President Biden might affect Houston (Dec. 8, 2020)
Edward Djerejian, director of Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about the state of global security.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-djerejian

In depth: How a bill that helped hospitals merge could cost patients
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.
Texas Standard (This segment also aired on more than 20 stations across Texas.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-ho
Today on Texas Standard
Texas Standard
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-ho

How Beaumont State Rep. Dade Phelan clinched the Texas House speakership
Alumnus Ed Emmett ’71, fellow in energy and transportation policy at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-emmett

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
The study offers clues on what makes the sun’s atmosphere so hot
An article features collaborative Rice research that may solve the long-standing mystery about why the sun’s atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the surface. Stephen Bradshaw, associate professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
Tech Explorist
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-bradshaw
LASP researcher reveals new clues on what makes the sun’s atmosphere so hot
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-bradshaw

Can gender inequality kill? Paper looks at impact among older Indian women
An article features the research of Rossella Calvi, assistant professor of economics at Rice, who examined the impact of India’s gender inequality on the health, poverty and mortality of women 45 and older.
Phys.org (This article also appeared in News-Medical.net.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-calvi

Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence
An article features Rice research that found that single-walled nanotubes emit a delayed secondary fluorescence when triggered by a multistep process in a solution with dye molecules and dissolved oxygen. Co-authors quoted or mentioned include Bruce Weisman, professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering, alumnus Ching-Wei Lin and research scientist Sergei Bachilo.
Lab Manager
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-weisman

Compartments discovered in essential fat-burning organelles
An article features the work of alumnus and research scientist Zachary Wright, who discovered peroxisomes, bubblelike single membranes filled with a granular protein matrix, hidden in plant cells’ organelles. Wright and Bonnie Bartel, the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences, are quoted.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-wright-bartel

Journalist Barry Jagoda releases new memoir ‘Journeys with Jimmy Carter and Other Adventures in Media’
A book review quotes Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities.
Broadway World
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-brinkley

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
2D materials center ready to move to new phase, add industry partners
An article mentions that Rice is part of the Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC) research group, which aims to study and develop 2D materials as part of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Center project. The article mentions that Jun Lou, associate chair and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is the director of the Rice ATOMIC site.
Penn State News
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-lou

IIT-Kanpur becomes first to set up sustainable energy engineering department
An article mentions that Rice and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have agreed to share resources and perform research in the development of energy solutions and materials and sustainable technologies.
The Indian Express
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-ie

SPORTS
Rice named co-National Team of the Week
Several articles mention that Rice’s football team defeated No. 15 Marshall University 20-0 Dec. 5. The first Conference USA article mentions that Rice football has been named the National Team of the Week by the Football Writers Association of America. The article highlights Owls Naeem Smith and Blaze Alldredge, and the second Conference USA article mentions that Alldredge has been named the C-USA Defensive Player of the Week. Head coach Mike Bloomgren is featured in SB Nation.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-smith-alldredge
Dec. 7 football Players of the Week
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-alldredge
Three things we learned from Conference USA — Week 14
SB Nation
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-bloomgren
‘Houston’s Morning Show’
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-owls
What we learned: A look back at the weekend for UNT, Conference USA
Denton Record-Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-drc
Chuck Landon: Terrible time to be football fan in W.Va.
The Herald-Dispatch (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Charleston Gazette-Mail.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-hd
Coastal Carolina beats BYU to improve to 10-0 in 2020 NCAA college football season
The Sports Daily
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-tsd
Last week in the world of sports: Nov. 30 through Dec. 6
Northern Star
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-nstar

ET basketball: Weekend roundup

Up next for No. 10 Houston men’s basketball: South Carolina 
An article mentions that Rice’s men’s basketball team is slated to play the University of Houston Dec. 12.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-mbb

Texas A&M women’s basketball cracks top 10 in latest AP poll
An article mentions that Rice’s women’s basketball team will play Texas A&M University Dec. 20.
247Sports.com (A similar article also appeared in SB Nation.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-247

‘KAMC 28 News’
A broadcast mentions that Rice’s women’s basketball team defeated Texas Tech University 81-62 Dec. 5.
KAMC-TV (Lubbock, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-wbb (This segment aired four times.)

‘We’ll play anybody’: UH football seeking a game
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Dec. 8 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-hc
UH, Holgorsen prepare for Memphis, possible extra game
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-hc

NEWS RELEASE
US must ‘hold the line’ against China’s revisionist actions, says Baker Institute expert
The United States government should accept greater strategic risk to “hold the line” against the revisionist measures of the Chinese government, according to new research co-authored by Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://dateline.rice/dec-8-news-release-collins

About Stefan De La Garza

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