Dateline Rice for May 21, 2021

Stefan De La Garza
– May 21, 2021Posted in: Dateline Rice

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Colorado is offering hospitals Medicaid money to close down free-standing ERs
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics at the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Health and Biosciences, is quoted.
Fortune
http://dateline.rice/may-21-ho

From deal frenzy to decoupling: Is the China-Hollywood romance officially over?
Aynne Kokas, a nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
MSN Entertainment (This article originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.)

http://dateline.rice/may-21-kokas

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Research: Rice professor reports on the impact of personalized health care marketing

BROADCAST
Bill to better protect Texas’ power grid against another weather storm gaining steam
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted and interviewed.
Fox 4 Online (This segment also aired three times on KDFW-TV in Dallas.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-cohan
KUT-AM (Austin, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-cohan
The unsilenced majority vs. cancel culture
KTRH on Spreaker (This segment also aired on KTRH-AM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-cohan

What should be done with the dome? (May 21, 2021)
Kirstin Matthews, fellow in science and technology policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about separating politics from science.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-matthews

‘CW 39 Weather and Traffic’
Sylvia Dee, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, is interviewed about how climate change may affect flooding in Houston.
CW 39 (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-dee

‘ABC 13 Eyewitness on CW 39’
A broadcast features Rice’s Houston Asian American Archive and interviews alumna Anne Chao, manager of the archive and adjunct lecturer in the Department of Humanities.
CW 39 (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-chao (This segment aired six times and appeared in yesterday’s Dateline.)

Honeywell Arts Academy to host elite musicians from around the globe in 3-week program
Jones College junior Tim Rinehart is featured.
WANE Online
http://dateline.rice/may-21-rinehart

‘NewsChannel 9’
The Rice Management Co. is mentioned.
KTSM-TV (El Paso, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-rmc

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization
An article features Rice research into manipulating polarized light from a laser or other source to make it completely visible or completely opaque with a carbon nanotube film. Quoted are Junichiro Kono, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor in Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of physics and astronomy, and of materials science and nanoengineering, and postdoctoral researcher Andrey Baydin.
Phys.org
http://dateline.rice/may-21-kono-baydin

A tumultuous year closes with celebration
An article mentions that Rice held in-person commencement ceremonies May 14-15 for 2020 and 2021 graduates. President David Leebron is quoted in Inside Higher Ed, and he and alumna Ashton Smith and are mentioned in the Jewish Herald-Voice.
Inside Higher Ed
http://dateline.rice/may-21-leebron
Hillel International president, local university students visit — in person
Jewish Herald-Voice
http://dateline.rice/may-21-leebron-smith

Over 200 signatories from abroad demand repeal of farm laws as COVID ravages India
An article mentions that Kamala Visweswaran, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Prof of Transnational South Asian Studies Anthropology, signed an open letter supporting Indian farmers.
The Wire
http://dateline.rice/may-21-visweswaran

The methane problem
Anna Mikulska, nonresident fellow in energy studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Gas Transitions (This article was featured on the cover of the May 17 print and digital editions.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-mikulska

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Russian bots and US trots in Poland
Ewa Thompson, professor emerita of Slavic studies, is quoted.
Emerging Europe
http://dateline.rice/may-21-thompson

Let’s do hard things again
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
The Toledo Blade
http://dateline.rice/may-21-kennedy

Survivors recount emotional decade since 2011 tornado
Graduate student Quinton Anderson is featured.
The Joplin Globe
http://dateline.rice/may-21-anderson

SPORTS
No. 4 men’s tennis preview: NCAA semifinals
A pair of articles mention that Rice’s men’s and women’s tennis teams were defeated by the University of Texas at Austin earlier this season.
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/may-21-ts
No. 2 women’s tennis preview: No. 6 NC State (NCAA semifinals)
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/may-21-ts

Excitement brews around Texas football with hopes of a Big 12 championship
An article mentions that Rice’s football team is slated to play the University of Texas at Austin Sept. 18.
BCSNN.com (A similar article also appeared in Best of Arkansas Sports.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-bcsnn

Did Texas A&M’s move to the SEC elevate its stature to match Texas’? How do high school coaches impact recruiting?
Rice football is mentioned.
The Athletic (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/may-21-ta

2021 FYPD Focus — Colton Cowser, OF, Sam Houston State Bearkats
Rice baseball is mentioned.
Prospects 1500
http://dateline.rice/may-21-pros

NEWS RELEASE
Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization
The ultrathin, highly aligned carbon nanotube films first made by Rice physicist Junichiro Kono and his students a few years ago turned out to have a surprising phenomenon waiting within: an ability to make highly capable terahertz polarization rotation possible.
http://dateline.rice/may-21-news-release-kono

About Stefan De La Garza

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