NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Partisan gerrymandering has empowered a hard-right turn in Texas
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, is quoted.
The Guardian
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-stein
City Council debate reveals kinks in charter amendment process
Community Impact Newspaper (This article also appeared in the print and digital edition of the Heights/River Oaks/Montrose Sept. 4-Oct. 1 issues.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-stein

Ida’s aftermath shows just how risky petrochemical production is in a hurricane zone
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Mother Jones
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-cohan

Researchers test a ‘smart’ shirt that monitors your 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 students Lauren Taylor and Oliver Dewey.
The Hill’s “Changing America”
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-pasquali-taylor
Carbon nanotubes are about to spell the end of the clunky, obnoxious heart monitor
Daily Kos
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-pasquali-taylor

WINS-AM (New York)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-smart-shirt (This segment aired three times.)
‘The Morning Show’
WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, Florida)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-smart-shirt
KOH-AM (Reno, Nevada)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-smart-shirt (This segment aired twice.)

Agnes Scott College makes Princeton Review’s 2022 ‘Best’ list
MSN (This article originally appeared in Patch.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-msn
11 MD colleges make Princeton Review’s best list For 2022
Annapolis, Maryland Patch (This article also appeared in more than 20 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-patch
13 NYC colleges make Princeton Review’s 2022 ‘Best’ list
Gowanus-Red Hook, New York Patch (This article also appeared in more than 20 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-patch
21 VA, DC colleges make Princeton Review’s best list for 2022
Chantilly, Virginia Patch 
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-patch

HOUSTON/TEXAS

BROADCAST

‘Freethought Matters’
Anthony Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and founding director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies, is interviewed.
WISC-TV (Madison, Wisconsin)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-pinn (This segment aired four times.)

Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?
Kelsey Norman, fellow for the Middle East and director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, is interviewed.
World Affairs Podcast (This segment also aired twice on KQED-FM in San Francisco.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-norman

Everything to know about back-to-college
A broadcast mentions that Rice has some of the happiest students, according to surveys conducted by The Princeton Review.
Today with Hoda & Jenna
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-today-show

‘Destination Texas’: Labor Day
An article features James Turrell’s “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace on the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion and Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts. Allison Weaver, executive director of the Moody Center, is interviewed.
KFDX-TV (Wichita Falls, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-weaver (This segment aired on 15 stations across Texas.)

’13 Eyewitness News’
Rice’s graduate student pub Valhalla is featured. Alumnus Thomas Nichols and graduate student Asa Stahl are interviewed.
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-valhalla (This segment aired four times and appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Graduate student Matthew Goldsby is featured. Alaina Schuhsler, director of development at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Poets & Quants
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-goldsby

Why we need to keep going to space and shouldn’t ‘fix Earth first’
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
Interesting Engineering
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-kennedy

Colleges are ‘getting back to normal’ — or are they?
An article mention that Rice requires masks to be worn indoors at nearly all times and requires regular testing for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals on campus.
PleasantonWeekly.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-pw
University officials mislead, gaslight students with COVID restrictions, public health professor says
The College Fix
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-cf

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

USF alumni win nationwide competition with innovative ventilator prototype
An article mentions that a team from Rice competed in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering’s Biomedical Undergraduate Teams Challenge.
University of South Florida’s “The Oracle”
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-usf

UChicago remembers Robert Ritner, iconic Egyptologist
An article features late alumnus Robert Ritner Jr., who died July 25 at 68.
The Chicago Maroon
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-ritner

SPORTS

Shough, Brooks lead Texas Tech to 38-21 win over Houston
An article mentions that Rice’s football team is slated to play the University of Houston Sept. 11 at Rice Stadium, their 40th meeting. Head coach Mike Bloomgren is mentioned in the first Houston Chronicle article, and Director of Athletics Joe Karlgaard is quoted in an article by the University of Houston.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-ap
UH notebook: Breaking down Clayton Tune’s interceptions
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Sept. 7 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-bloomgren
H-E-B assumes title sponsorship of Bayou Bucket
University of Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-karlgaard
Cougars extra points: Texas Tech 38, UH 21
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Sports section in the Sept. 6 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-hc
Smith: College football is doing just fine, thank you
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Sports section in the Sept. 7 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-hc
Houston falls in season opener against Texas Tech
University of Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-uh
Cougars fall in opener to Texas Tech
CW 39 Online
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-cw39
Top 6 games and sports events in Houston this week: Sept. 6 to 12, 2021
365 Things To Do in Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-365
‘KPRC Local 2 News’
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-kprc

VB: Sept. 6 players of the week
An article features Rice volleyball player Anota Adekunle, who has been named as the Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-adekunle

Badie helps Missouri run past Central Michigan, 34-24
An article mentions former Rice football player Blaze Alldredge.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-ap

VB: HBU takes on Rice in midweek tilt
An article mentions that Rice’s volleyball team is slated to play Houston Baptist University at Tudor Fieldhouse Sept. 7.
HBUHuskies.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-hbu

Soccer ties No. 19 Rice in Houston, 1-1 (2OT)
An article mentions that Rice’s soccer team drew with the University of Texas at Austin 1-1 after two overtimes Sept. 5.
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-ts

Houston prepares for Sunday match
An article mentions that Rice’s soccer team is slated to play the University of Houston Sept. 9.
University of Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-uh
Gracia announced as conference goalkeeper of the week
University of Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-uh
Houston soccer continues best start in season history
University of Houston
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-uh

Nuneviller, Murphy earn PAC-12 accolades
An article mentions that Rice’s volleyball team was defeated last week by the University of Oregon.
GoDucks.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-ducks
Pac-12 women’s volleyball weekly awards — Sept. 6, 2021
PAC-12 
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-pac12

Middle Tennessee soccer welcomes Houston Baptist Huskies Sunday
An article mentions that Rice’s soccer team defeated Houston Baptist University 2-1 Aug. 27.
GoBlueRadiers.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-gbr

BY THE NUMBERS: Zappe, offense put up huge performances in opening game
An article mentions the 2011 and 2016 football games between Rice and Western Kentucky University.
WKUSports.com
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-wku

University of Houston board of regents to meet today to discuss move to Big 12 Conference
Rice is mentioned.
ABC 13
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-abc13

NEWS RELEASES

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time
Atlantic hurricanes leave clues to their passage through the landscape that last centuries or more. Postdoctoral fellow Elizabeth Wallace, who joined the lab of Rice climate scientist Sylvia Dee, is using these natural archives to find signs of storms hundreds of years before satellites allowed us to watch them in real time.
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-news-release-wallace-dee

Biden continues Trump’s ‘benign neglect’ of USMCA
Mexican officials are right to worry that the United States’ “rules of origin” interpretation in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement could reduce Mexican automobile production and investment, according to David Gantz, the Will Clayton Fellow in Trade and International Economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://dateline.rice/sept-7-news-release-gantz