| Numerous articles report measures taken to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Rice will be transitioning to online classes for the remainder of the spring semester, and Conference USA has suspended all sports competitions. Several Rice experts are quoted in articles about how the virus has affected different aspects of our lives.
As coronavirus drives students from campuses, what happens to the workers who feed them?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://dateline.rice/march-16-che
How area college sports are handling coronavirus
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the March 14 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
UT confirms its first case of COVID-19 — the president’s wife
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the March 14 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
Lake Houston area schools, colleges, chamber cancel events to prevent spread of coronavirus
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
Local | State roundup
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the March 15 print edition of the Chronicle’s “Extra: Week In Review.”)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
Coronavirus: A Texas Medical Center continuing update
TMC News (This article was featured in the March 16 edition of the TMC Today newsletter.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-tmc
Here’s how many coronavirus cases there are in Texas — and everything else you need to know
Click2Houston
http://dateline.rice/march-16-c2h
A list of postponed Houston events, performances, schools and more
Houston on the Cheap
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
‘Wake Up! with SallyMac & Lina’
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-kriv
Virus-related school closures put parents in a bind
KPRC Online
http://dateline.rice/march-16-kprc
Coronavirus crisis opens new paths toward clean energy
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, authored an op-ed about how the spread of the novel coronavirus may affect the renewable energy sector. Cohan’s December 2019 op-ed in The Hill is cited in the Houston Chronicle.
The Hill (This article also appeared in Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-cohan
Can Republicans use energy politics to sink a pro-fracking, anti-Green New Deal Houston Democrat in 2020?
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the March 15 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News and the San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-cohan
Recounting a devastating week in North America’s biggest oil play
Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
CBC
http://dateline.rice/march-16-medlock
Coronavirus is exposing the faulty foundations of the Texas fracking industry
Texas Observer
http://dateline.rice/march-16-medlock
Crude oil analysis: FOMC, OPEC price war, coronavirus in focus
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Daily FX
http://dateline.rice/march-16-krane
Can Saudi Arabia really afford to wage an oil price war?
Al-Jazeera
http://dateline.rice/march-16-krane
Joined palms, hands on hearts, Vulcan salutes: Saying hello in a no-handshake era
Craig Considine, lecturer in sociology at Rice, is quoted.
Los Angeles Times (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the World News.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-considine
Feeling the pinch: Texans wait and worry as cases mount, cancellations increase
Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Longview News-Journal (This Texas Tribune article also appeared in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-rodriguez
Venezuela can’t withstand one-two punch of coronavirus, oil-price collapse | Opinion
An article quotes Francisco J. Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, Center for the United States and Mexico and Latin America Initiative and a lecturer in energy economics.
Miami Herald (This article appeared in the March 15 print edition of the Texarkana Gazette and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-monaldi
Fighting coronavirus, Houston is the largest US city without paid sick leave law
Joyce Beebe, a fellow in the Center for Public Finance at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/march-16-beebe
Rice’s Matt Bragga: ‘Our lives, professionally, have changed’
Rice head baseball coach Matt Bragga is quoted and pictured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the March 15 print edition of the Chronicle, and it appeared online in the Connecticut Post and the San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-bragga
A season cut short for Rice women’s basketball
Conference USA’s announcement suspending all sports competitions came as Rice’s women’s basketball team, which was the top-seeded team in the league tournament, was set to play in the quarterfinals March 12. Head coach Tina Langley is quoted and pictured, and Owls Erica Ogwumike and Nancy Mulkey are mentioned. The team is mentioned in the last three articles.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-wbb
Engel: NCAA owes North Texas, Baylor and the rest of us a March Madness bracket
MSN (This article originally appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
Spagnola: When our world comes to a standstill
Dallas Cowboys
http://dateline.rice/march-16-wbb
Marshall AD Hamrick speaks on C-USA’s decision to cancel spring sports
The Logan Banner
http://dateline.rice/march-16-lb
Best of the week’s Chronicle staff photos
Lovett College seniors Alessi Armengol and Julia Greenberg and Lovett College associate faculty fellow Katie Fagundes are pictured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the March 15 print edition of the Chronicle’s “Extra: Week In Review.” This image also appears in slideshows from the Chronicle in more than 30 articles.)
http://dateline.rice/march-16-hc
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