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COVID-19 PANDEMIC

‘WZDX News’
A pair of broadcasts mention that stay-at-home orders are likely the biggest factor in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S., according to a new Rice study. 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 interviewed by KUT, and she is quoted in the Waco Tribune-Herald.
WZDX-TV (Huntsville, Alabama)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-baker-study (This segment aired more than 10 times on affiliate stations across the U.S. and appeared in a previous edition of Dateline.)
KUT-AM (Austin)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-ho
Jobless rate climbs in Waco, statewide during November
Waco Tribune-Herald
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-ho

Datos indican que cierre es insostenible
An article cites a study by Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy into how restrictions on non-essential travel over the U.S.-Mexico border due to the pandemic affected the economy. José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez, a postdoctoral research fellow in international trade at the Baker Institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico, is cited.
Houston Chronicle (An English version is not available. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-rodriguez-sanchez

Opinion: When COVID trapped me in Houston, I stopped wanting to escape
An article mentions the exercise path ringing Rice.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Outlook section in the Dec. 20 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-hc

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12 strategies for encouraging students to want to revise their writing
Alumna Jenny Vo authored a response to a “question of the week.”
Education Week Blog
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-vo

Rice lab finds van der Waals force can deform nanoscale silver for optics, catalytic use
An article features Rice research that found that the ubiquitous, ”weak” van der Waals force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, which may help nanoscale optics or catalytic systems applications. Co-authors Matt Jones, the Norman and Gene Hackerman Assistant Professor of Chemistry and an assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering, and graduate student Sarah Rehn are quoted.
India Education Diary
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-jones

We’re the Walter Bradley Center. But who is Walter Bradley?
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 quoted.
MindMatters.ai
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-tour

Top USBE news stories of 2020
A roundup features alumnus Tarence Rice.
U.S. Black Engineer 
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-rice

Meltem Demirors, CSO at CoinShares, explains how mining secures the bitcoin network, which secures financial information
Alumna Meltem Demirors is featured.
Crowdfund Insider
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-demirors

http://dateline.rice/dec-21-campbell

SPORTS

Nutall lifts Sam Houston State over Rice 82-69
An article mentions that Rice’s men’s basketball team was defeated by Sam Houston State University 82-69 Dec. 19. Owls Quincy Olivari, Chris Mullins and Travis Evee are mentioned.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-mbb

The week in women’s football: W-League preview part 1; CONCACAF calendar
Former Rice soccer player Gaby Garton is featured.
Tribal Football
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-garton

Texas college football rankings: Who needs the CFP? Aggies No. 1 in state
A roundup featuring Rice football mentions head coach Mike Bloomgren.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-bloomgren

TCU football headed to Houston for the Texas Bowl to face a former SWC rival
An article mentions that the 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl was held at Rice Stadium.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://dateline.rice/dec-21-bbowl