Dateline Rice for July 20, 2021

Matt Wilson
– July 20, 2021Posted in: Dateline Rice

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Daily on Energy: Despite OPEC oil supply deal, Biden not out of woods on gas prices
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Washington Examiner (This article also appeared in Yahoo! Finance and MSN.)
https://washex.am/3imIbJy

Editorial Roundup: Texas
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in an editorial on energy and a broadcast on the viability of using a diesel generator to charge an electric vehicle.
U.S. News and World Report (This Associated Press article appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://bit.ly/3xS7j1D
‘News 8 at 4’
WFAA-TV (Dallas)
https://bit.ly/3eCUksX

Countdown has begun: Israel redoubles efforts for second attempt to land on moon
Articles and a broadcast mention President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
The Algemeiner
https://bit.ly/3zf0NCg
WSCL-FM (Salisbury, Maryland)
https://bit.ly/2Uuc7vA
20 luglio 1969. Il “piccolo passo” del primo uomo sulla Luna che ha cambiato la Storia dell’umanità
RAI (An English translation is not available.)
https://bit.ly/2UtwlFK

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Space travel will advance with Blue Origin’s flight, experts say
David Alexander, director of the Rice Space Institute and professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
KTRK (This article appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://abc13.co/3rlEOH3
’13 Eyewitness News at 6 p.m.’
KTRK-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3kEo9xc

Texas House Democrats took big risk in quorum break, but will their DC gambit work?
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science, fellow in political science at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted in multiple stories.
Austin American-Statesman (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3ixWUBP
Six Texas Dems test positive for COVID, Toth orders audit of 2020 elections
KTRH (This article also appeared in KPRC Radio.)
https://ihr.fm/3rp2MB3
KTRH-AM (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3eANDHG (This broadcast aired twice)

Austin-area employers added 8,000 workers to payrolls in June as recovery continues
Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Austin American-Statesman (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3kAsxgq

Chronicle’s Shannon Tompkins honored by TWA for lifetime achievement
Alumnus Shannon Tompkins is featured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/36LQ2v9

Scholarships recognize Chinese American students at College Park
An article mentions that Zoe Wang plans to attend Rice.
The Courier of Montgomery County (This article also appeared in the Houston Chronicle.)
https://bit.ly/3kDxeq4

BROADCAST
‘The NewsEdge: Early Edition’
Research by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research on the impact trees have on average temperatures in Houston neighborhoods is featured.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3kDsW1Y

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Scientists seek details of cancer’s evolutionary tree
Luay Nakhleh, the J. S. Abercrombie Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering who has been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to analyze the genomes in colonies of single cancer cells to find not only the mutations at the root of the disease but also how they evolve from cell to cell as the tumor grows, is quoted.
Bioengineer (Similar articles appeared in 7th Space, Scienmag, India Education Diary, News-Medical.net and 15 Minute News.)
https://bit.ly/3wTs5fY

NuProbe and Microsoft researchers invent a deep learning model for predicting NGS sequencing depth
David Zhang, associate professor of bioengineering, is quoted.
AiThority
https://bit.ly/3rr9EOr

AWS names 10 finalists for the Clean Energy Accelerator program
The Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy is a supporter of the featured program.
Hart Energy
https://bit.ly/2W2L8HZ

Folded plate roofs are back, and now in mass timber
A 1964 essay by former assistant professor of architecture Clovis Heimsath is cited.
Treehugger
https://bit.ly/3BmXg6U

Jim Whitehurst left IBM because he’d rather be CEO
Alumnus Jim Whitehurst is featured.
DataCenter Knowledge (This article also appeared in ITProToday.)
https://bit.ly/3wYNgNO

People
Alumna Juliana Herman is featured.
Hydrocarbon Processing
https://bit.ly/3kBzE8s

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
What happens to discredited drug cops? They get rebranded as gun cops.
Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Reason (This article also appeared in Before It’s News.)
https://bit.ly/3BnXj1Z

Mission statements do nothing for corporate financial performance
New research shows that mission statements do not enhance financial performance, even though companies prominently feature them as an outcome of their strategy-planning process. Vikas Mittal, professor of marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
myScience
https://bit.ly/2UoiJf4

Baylor College of Medicine’s alum receives $4 million endowment to improve child health policy
Quianta Moore, the Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is featured.
NewsBreak (This article originally appeared in Marisol Gallagher.)
https://bit.ly/3Bn3gwk

Flood buyouts exacerbate inequality in Harris County, Texas
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s 2021 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report is featured. Jim Elliott, professor and chair of sociology, is quoted. Graduate fellow Phylicia Lee Brown is mentioned.
Planetizen (This article originally appeared in the Kinder Institute’s Urban Edge blog.)
https://bit.ly/3wPyvwt

Scientists developing inhalable COVID-19 vaccine spray
Collaborative research by José Onuchic, the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is featured.
Mirage News
https://bit.ly/3eClkss

PFAS “forever chemicals” ban: As Maine goes, so goes the nation?
Research by Michael Wong, the William M. McCardell Professor in Chemical Engineering, is mentioned.
Naked Capitalism
https://bit.ly/2VSM2qe

Vědci vynalezli revoluční technologii, kterou lze měnit různé druhy odpadu na velice odolný grafen
Research by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, is featured.
Magazín PLUS+ (An English translation is not available. This article originally appeared in Forbes.)
https://bit.ly/36L7yzv

SPORTS
Rice alum Erica Ogwumike named to Nigerian women’s basketball team
Former Rice women’s basketball player Erica Ogwumike will play for Nigeria in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3hNAE7D
Cy Woods alum Erica Ogwumike earns spot on Nigerian Olympic team
KPRC (This article originally appeared in VYPE.)
https://bit.ly/2USMmox
KPRC-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/2UXSlZp
https://bit.ly/2UvCn8H
https://bit.ly/3ivFmG9
ESPN Radio Los Angeles
https://bit.ly/3eAKBTO (This broadcast also aired on ESPN Radio New York and more than 100 affiliate stations.)

Razorbacks prepare for football media day
An article mentions Rice’s season-opening football game Sept. 4 at the University of Arkansas.
Batesville Daily Guard (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3wRKhXa
Pittman participates in first SEC Media Days, incoming freshmen impress
TheCabin.net (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3kCbUBh
Razorback football tickets on sale now
4029TV.com
https://bit.ly/3wYvBWw

Houston Rockets name new chief marketing and strategy officer
Former Rice football player Julian Duncan is featured.
MSN (This RocketsWire article also appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://bit.ly/3wQa5De
Houston Rockets hire Julian Duncan as chief marketing and strategy officer
InsideHoops.com
https://bit.ly/3kyNR68

In 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Texas athletes made their mark
Former Rice track and field athletes and Olympic medalists Fred Hansen and Dave Roberts are featured. Former assistant track and field coach Augue Erfurth is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3hQAbS4

‘Houston’s Morning Show 9 a.m.’
Former Rice basketball player Ricky Pierce discusses the NBA Finals.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3zhjTrj

NEWS RELEASE
Baker Institute’s BCarbon recognized as top in the US    
CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that analyzes climate solutions based on the best available science and data, has rated BCarbon, a standard created by Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, as one of the best publicly available protocols for soil carbon offsets in the United States. BCarbon, which was developed by a working group led by the Baker Institute, is a system to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil as organic carbon.
https://bit.ly/3hTUTjW

About Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson is a senior editor in Rice University's Office of Public Affairs.