Dateline Rice for May 7, 2021

Stefan De La Garza
– May 7, 2021Posted in: Dateline Rice

COVID-19 PANDEMIC
News Radio 610
Joyce Beebe ’07, a fellow in the Center for Public Finance at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about her research into how the three waves of COVID-19 stimulus payments may have raised many people’s credit scores.
WIOD-AM (Miami)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-beebe (This segment aired on 1,000 iHeart Radio-affiliated stations across the U.S.)

A half-million Texans haven’t returned for their second COVID-19 vaccine dose. Why?
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 in the Houston Chronicle, and she discusses her collaborative study “State Restrictions and the COVID-19 Death Rate” in a segment on C-SPAN.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the May 7 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-ho
Vivian Ho on the cost of COVID-19 lockdowns
C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” (This segment appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-ho

Q&A: Lina Hidalgo on her political future, I-45 and lowering Harris County’s COVID threat level
An article about Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo mentions that her health policy decisions have been informed by experts from Rice’s Texas Policy Lab and local medical centers.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-tp

 

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Grid manager assures ample electric power for Texas summer
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in more than 100 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan
ERCOT: Texas should not have blackouts this summer, unless …
KUT Online (This segment also aired on KUT-FM in Austin.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan
Texas: ERCOT jura que la red eléctrica sí resistirá durante el calor del verano
The Dallas Morning News’ Al Día Dallas (An English translation is not available.) 
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan
Despite record-breaking demand expected this summer, ERCOT believes it can meet demand
Fox 4 Online (This segment also aired four times on KDFW-TV in Dallas.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan
KRLD-AM (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan (This segment aired 15 times.)
KLIF-AM (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-cohan (This segment aired five times.)

Why some fish have two eyes on one side of their head
An article features collaborative Rice research into the evolutionary changes in flatfish, such as flounder and sole. Co-authors Kory Evans, assistant professor of natural sciences, and postdoctoral research associate Olivier Larouche are quoted.
Futurity (This article was also featured in the Futurity Today newsletter May 7.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-evans

Giuliani raid pushed by prosecutors who chose the ‘hard way’
An article mentions assistant U.S. attorney and alumna Rebekah Donaleski.
Bloomberg (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-donaleski

Kennesaw Mountain senior chooses Princeton out of long list of impressive schools

Rice is mentioned.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in the Marietta Daily Journal.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-yn

Watch live now! SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts talk Dragon splashdown
Alumna Shannon Walker is featured.
MSN UK (This article originally appeared in Space.com, and it appeared in SciTechDaily.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-walker

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston can be a leader in a circular plastics economy

BROADCAST
In Mayor Turner’s police reform, Houston works to correct police oversight shortcomings
An article features research by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research on police oversight groups in Texas’ major cities. Co-author Steve Sherman, research fellow at the Kinder institute, is quoted.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-sherman

‘Capital Tonight’
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 interviewed about changes to voter laws recently passed by the Texas Legislature. Jones also is quoted in Casino Review.
Spectrum News Austin 
http://dateline.rice/may-7-jones
I want to be a part of it: New York, New York
Casino Review
http://dateline.rice/may-7-jones

‘Classical 89.5’ 
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
Performance Today (This segment aired on more than 400 stations across the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/may-7-kennedy

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Photoresist puts focus on laser-induced graphene
Rice researchers have written fine patterns of graphene into photoresist polymers, an advance that could lead to applications in consumer electronics. Co-authors James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, and graduate student Jacob Beckham are cited.
The Engineer
http://dateline.rice/may-7-tour-beckham

OLCF, NERSC workshop on HPCToolkit profiler gives computational codes a boost
An article mentions that John Mellor-Crummey, professor of computer science, led a two-part training workshop March 29-April 2 on the HPCToolkit profiler.
HPCWire
http://dateline.rice/may-7-mellorcrummey

Black and white soldiers’ death rates in Korean War were similar regardless of segregation, study finds
An article features collaborative Rice research that analyzed the records of soldiers’ deaths during the first half of the Korean War, when troops were segregated, versus the second half, when troops were integrated. Co-author Connor Huff, an assistant professor of political science, is quoted.
Phys.org
http://dateline.rice/may-7-huff

House hearing spells out extent of proposed subsidies for electric vehicles
An article cites the testimony of Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and minerals in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, who was a witness at a May 5 hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
http://dateline.rice/may-7-foss

Meet top Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander inventors — speaker biographies
An article mentions that alumna Yiran Yang will participate in the May 14 panel discussion “Inventors Fighting COVID-19.”

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
The Metropolitan Opera auditions: Who’ll come back a star?
Alumnus Duke Kim is featured.
Pasatiempo
http://dateline.rice/may-7-kim

SPORTS
Texas Southern releases 2021 football schedule
An article mentions that Rice’s football team is slated to play Texas Southern University Sept. 25.
HBCU Sports
http://dateline.rice/may-7-hbcu

St. Andrew’s Scots hold signing day celebration for 15 athletes
Rice is mentioned.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
http://dateline.rice/may-7-sun

Houston set for Tom Tellez Invitational
An article mentions that Rice track and field athletes will compete in the University of Houston’s Tom Tellez Invitational May 7.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/may-7-uhc

NEWS RELEASE
Black and white soldiers’ death rates in Korean War were similar regardless of segregation, study finds
“Segregation, Integration, and Death: Evidence from the Korean War,” a new study from Rice and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, examines whether segregation or integration led to unequal fatality rates on the battlefield.
http://dateline.rice/may-7-news-release-huff

About Stefan De La Garza

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