NPR
Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, is interviewed about the gasoline market’s reaction to the disruption of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico caused by Hurricane Ida.
KHPR-FM (Honolulu)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-finley (This segment aired on more than 950 affiliate stations across the U.S.)
Ida weakens to a tropical depression as it moves through Mississippi
An article quotes Phil Bedient, director of Rice’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center, and Jim Elliott, a professor and chair of sociology at Rice and a fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
The Washington Post (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-bedient-elliott
Smart clothing monitors the wearer’s heart
An article features Rice research into sewing nanotube fibers into athletic wear to monitor the heart rate and take a continual electrocardiogram of the wearer. Co-authors cited include Matteo Pasquali, the A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry, and director of the Carbon Hub, and graduate student Lauren Taylor.
Futurity (Similar articles appeared in 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-pasquali-taylor
Vaccine opposition drops amid COVID surge: Only 1 in 5 in new poll say they won’t get a shot. Latest updates
An article mentions that Rice delayed the start of in-person instruction until Sept. 3 due to anomalous results from a COVID-19 testing center. Provost Reginald DesRoches and Kevin Kirby, vice president for administration and chair of the Crisis Management Advisory Committee, are quoted in Campus Reform.
USA Today (This article also appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-usatoday
Liberty University pivots to virtual classes amid coronavirus outbreak
The Washington Post (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 30 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-washpo
‘A very unsafe environment’: Liberty University student discusses on-campus coronavirus outbreak
Yahoo! Money (This article also appeared in MSN.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-ym
Back to school or back to Zoom? These colleges are delaying in-person classes.
Campus Reform
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-desroches-kirby
Robert Ritner, U of C Egyptologist who studied intersection of religion and magic, dies at 68
An article features late alumnus Robert Ritner Jr., who died July 25 at 68.
Chicago Tribune
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-ritner
Una guerra eterna
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, nonresident scholar at the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, authored an article.
Sin Embargo (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-31-correacabrera |
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