Dateline Rice for May 1, 2020

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Texas A&M, UH systems plan to open colleges this fall
An article mentions that while Rice has transitioned classes to an online format for the remainder of the spring and summer semesters, the university has not yet made a determination for the fall semester. President David Leebron is quoted in several articles.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the May 1 print edition, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News and in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron

Houston universities prepare for possible return to classroom in fall 

Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron
LIST: Texas colleges planning to open this fall and some still evaluating
MSN (This article originally appeared in KVUE Online, and it appeared in KCEN Online.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron
Houston coronavirus updates: April 30, 2020
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.) 
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron
LIST: Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor among colleges planning to reopen campuses in the fall
KHOU Online
http://dateline.rice/may-1-leebron
Aggies aiming for football and a full Kyle Field by fall
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the May 1 print editions of the Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News and San Francisco Chronicle.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-fall-semester
Several Texas universities plan to open for fall semester and some plan to start sports
Click2Houston (This article also appeared in KSAT Online, and the video segment also aired on KPRC-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-fall-semester

Study identifies Harris County neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID-19 unemployment
An article cites a new study by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research on Houston-area neighborhoods hit hardest with job losses. Bill Fulton, director of the Kinder Institute, is quoted and interviewed in MSN. Kinder Institute director of research management Jie Wu is quoted and pictured in the Houston Business Journal.
MSN (This article originally appeared in KHOU Online, and the video segment aired three times on KHOU-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-fulton
These Harris County neighborhoods have seen the most job loss due to COVID-19 
Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/may-1-wu
Texas jobless claims near 2 million, Houston’s low-income neighborhoods among hardest hit
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Business section in the May 1 print edition, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-kinder-study
Study shows how economic downturn is affecting Harris County neighborhoods
KHOU Online
http://dateline.rice/may-1-kinder-study
Houston doing ‘very little’ to help renters during pandemic, advocates say
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/may-1-kinder-study

Strained San Antonio hospitals receive federal coronavirus bailout checks
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Health and Biosciences, is quoted.
San Antonio Express-News (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Business section in the May 1 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-ho

Al-Jazeera English
Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about the possible effects of oil production cuts.
http://dateline.rice/may-1-krane

WOAI-AM (San Antonio)
Drug cartels may turn to smuggling heroin into the U.S. as exports of Chinese precursors for synthetic drugs have dried up, according to researchers at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Nathan Jones, nonresident scholar in drug policy and Mexico studies at the Baker Institute, is interviewed by WOAI. Gary Hale, nonresident fellow in drug policy and Mexico studies at the Baker Institute, is interviewed by KFYI.
http://dateline.rice/may-1-jones (This segment aired five times.)
KFYI-AM (Phoenix)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-hale

NASA selects SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build human landing systems for the moon
Patrick Rodi, professor in the practice in mechanical engineering, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the May 1 print editions of the Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-rodi

Parenting in a pandemic: How caregivers can ease young minds
Children’s distress about the pandemic can manifest in a wide variety of ways, some of which will not appear to be related to the pandemic at all, according to experts Quianta Moore, fellow in child health policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Patrick Tennant, project manager in child mental health at the Baker Institute.
The Good Men Project
http://dateline.rice/may-1-moore

Colorado oil and gas downturn affecting economy, jobs
Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies, is quoted and interviewed.
KRDO Online
http://dateline.rice/may-1-finley
‘Newschannel 13 at 4:30’
KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-finley

These 5 Houston-area research institutions have bright minds at work to battle COVID-19
An article mentions that a team of Rice researchers has created an interactive map of all coronavirus cases in Texas. Farès el-Dahdah, professor and director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice, is quoted.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/may-1-dahdah

Expert: Pandemic requires new ways of thinking about drug addiction
Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Medical Xpress
http://dateline.rice/may-1-harris

It’s National College Decision Day, though fall semesters remain undecided
Rice Vice President for Enrollment Yvonne Romero da Silva is quoted.
KTRH Online
http://dateline.rice/may-1-da-silva

Get a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of Houston’s arts-changing Moody Center — a PaperCity video exclusive
An article features the exhibit “Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present” at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts. Alison Weaver, executive director of the Moody Center, is quoted in the article, and she leads a virtual tour of the works.
PaperCity
http://dateline.rice/may-1-weaver

China may regret its role in the spread of the virus
A broadcast cites a study from Rice that suggests that the U.S. may need to increase competition with China for rare-earth metals.
KTRH on Spreaker (This segment also aired on KTRH-AM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-rice-study

5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week
An article reports that Rice’s COVID-19 Research Fund has awarded grants for projects to develop affordable diagnostic tools, seals to maximize the efficiency of surgical masks, a system to identify signs of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in Houston wastewater and methods to ensure voter safety this fall.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/may-1-research-fund

What’s in the water? Houston health officials monitoring wastewater to track COVID-19
An article mentions that the Houston Health Department has partnered with Rice to test the city’s wastewater for the presence of COVID-19.
KHOU Online (A similar article also appeared in the Houston Press and News Break.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-khou
Coronavirus updates: 13 HSCO employees now hospitalized with COVID-19

MSN (This article originally appeared in KHOU Online.)

http://dateline.rice/may-1-msn
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-ktrh (This segment aired four times.)

Leaning into online learning
An article mentions that Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies has launched OpenRICE, an initiative aimed at offering free COVID-19-related education materials to Houstonians.
The Buzz Magazines
http://dateline.rice/may-1-glasscock-school

Summer camps may be different or canceled this year
An article mentions that Rice has canceled some summer programs.
Reform Austin
http://dateline.rice/may-1-ra

 
Women take charge at SOM

An article mentions that architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative. Barbara White Bryson, former associate vice president for facilities, engineering and planning, is mentioned.
Architectural Record (This article also appeared in Ladies Want More.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-bryson

Editorial
An article mentions that design plans for the open-source emergency ventilator developed by a team of Rice engineering experts and students are now online and freely available to everyone in the world.
Drexel University’s The Triangle
http://dateline.rice/may-1-ventilator

Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus in Houston
A timeline of the pandemic in Houston mentions that Rice transitioned to online classes March 9.
Houstonia
http://dateline.rice/may-1-houstonia

10+ can’t-miss virtual business and innovation events in Houston for May
A roundup mentions that Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Day, which connects startups with investors and energy companies, will be held May 7.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/may-1-rice-alliance

As ‘Angel of West Dallas’ comes to her neighbors’ rescue, she worries that coronavirus will accelerate gentrification
Alumna Erica Solis is quoted.
The Dallas Morning News
http://dateline.rice/may-1-tdmn

Texas colleges plan virtual graduations during pandemic
An article mentions that Rice will hold its virtual commencement ceremony May 16.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-hc

Texas universities tighten budgets, plan for fall classes
An article mentions that while Rice has not furloughed any employees as a result of the pandemic, a hiring freeze has been imposed.
Reform Austin
http://dateline.rice/may-1-ra

‘It was like an emotional bomb’: Houston families make sure high school seniors aren’t forgotten
An article mentions that Juan DeLeon has photographed Rice’s women’s basketball games.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front of the Coronavirus section in the May 1 print edition, and it appeared online in the San Antonio Express-News and San Francisco Chronicle. This story also appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-hc

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Why we need to help Texas coral reefs now
An article mentions that Rice collaborated on research to determine how climate change will impact reefs in the Gulf of Mexico in the future. Sylvia Dee, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, is quoted.
Houstonia (This article also appeared in the May print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-deeTeams of bacteria have working memories remarkably like ours
Matthew Bennett, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, is quoted.
MSN (This Popular Science article also appeared in 10 other media outlets, and it appeared in yesterday’s Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-30-bennett

Grace Walters is the spelling bee coach of champions
Jones College freshman Grace Walters is featured.
Houstonia (This article also appeared in the May print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-walters

HOUSTON/TEXAS

Dynamic duo: Bobby and Andrew Linhart take on Tommy Tune Awards
An article featuring Andrew Linhart mentions that he plans to attend Rice in the fall.
The Buzz Magazines
http://dateline.rice/may-1-bmGrammy-winning cellist known for technical mastery
An article about the death of Lynn Harrell mentions that he formerly taught at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music.
Houston Chronicle (This Washington Post article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-shep-school

BROADCAST

‘Eyewitness News at 4’
A broadcast features Rice research into developing motorized molecules that can kill antibiotic-resistant microbes. 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 interviewed.
WCTV-TV (Tallahassee, Florida)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-tour

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Water recycling, reuse could dramatically slash cities’ need for fresh water resources, research shows
An article features a plan developed by Rice researchers that could reduce the need for surface water by 28% by recycling wastewater to make it drinkable once again. Qilin Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering and co-director of Rice’s Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment, is quoted.
WaterWorld (This article also appeared in Sustainability Matters.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-liHidden symmetry found in chemical kinetic equations

Rice researchers have discovered a hidden symmetry in the chemical kinetic equations scientists have long used to model and study many of the chemical processes essential for life. Co-authors quoted are Anatoly Kolomeisky, professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the department chair of chemistry; Oleg Igoshin, professor of bioengineering and of biosciences and chemistry; and postdoctoral research associate Joel Mallory.

Science Codex
http://dateline.rice/may-1-kolomeisky-igoshin

SPORTS

2020 Texas football status report: Special teams
Rice football is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the May 1 print edition of the San Antonio Express-News, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://dateline.rice/may-1-hc
How new NIL rules will change G5 recruiting
SB Nation
http://dateline.rice/may-1-sbnVirginia Tech is heavily recruiting three-star OL Canon Boone
Rice is mentioned.
The Tech Lunch Pail
http://dateline.rice/may-1-tlp

About Stefan De La Garza

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