Dateline Rice for April 8, 2021

Stefan De La Garza
– April 8, 2021Posted in: Dateline Rice

COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Will the pandemic spark a religious revival in the Muslim world?
A.Kadir Yildirim, fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, co-authored an article.
The Washington Post (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-yildirim

By the numbers: How vaccine skepticism in Texas’ Trump country threatens herd immunity
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.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-ho

Communicating COVID and public health in Idaho
Alumnus David Pate is featured in a Q&A.
Boise State University News
http://dateline.rice/april-8-pate

How Austin’s start-up sector won the pandemic
An article mentions Rice’s Welch Institute, which aims to accelerate the discovery, design and manufacture of new materials.
Texas Monthly
http://dateline.rice/april-8-welch

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Texas’ distanced juries hit big tech with $3.7 billion of awards
Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and an emeritus professor of sociology, is quoted.
Bloomberg (This article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-klineberg

Biden’s corporate tax hike could cost US economy 1M jobs, trade group warns
An article cites research about the possible effects of increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% co-authored by John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of its Center for Public Finance, and George Zodrow, the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics and a faculty scholar at the Baker Institute.
Fox Business
http://dateline.rice/april-8-diamond-zodrow
Business group’s study says corporate tax hike would cost 1M jobs
The Hill (This study was also cited on broadcasts by OAN News and SuperTalk 99.7 in Nashville, Tennessee, and similar articles appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-hill

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Battle brewing over proposed city charter amendment
Bill Fulton, director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
The Leader
http://dateline.rice/april-8-fulton

Arts picks: Nicole Heaston, Alley Theatre’s ‘Man.Kind’ are top fine arts choices

BROADCAST
Why Texas had among the most arrests from the Capitol insurrection (April 7, 2021)
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science, fellow in political science at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and fellow at Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is interviewed by Houston Public Media, and he is quoted in University of Houston News about his collaborative research.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-jones
Harris County took brunt of February freeze
University of Houston News
http://dateline.rice/april-8-jones

‘6 a.m. newscast’
Adrienne Correa, assistant professor of biosciences, is interviewed about her research, which found that runoff from the 2016 Tax Day flood and flooding from 2017’s Hurricane Harvey carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
Houston Public Media on Google Podcasts (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-correa
‘8 a.m. newscast’
Houston Public Media on Google Podcasts (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-correa

KFBK-AM (Sacramento, California)
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about the recent arrest of two immigrants on the terror watchlist at the U.S.-Mexico border.
http://dateline.rice/april-8-payan (This iHeart Radio news segment aired on 1,000 affiliates stations across the U.S. and appeared in yesterday’s Dateline.)

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
CPU algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU trainers
Rice computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors. Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer science, graduate student Shabnam Daghaghi and McMurtry College senior Nicholas Meisburger are quoted.
Tech Xplore
http://dateline.rice/april-8-shrivastava

The ethical quandary of default opt-ins
Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, authored an article.
Psychology Today
http://dateline.rice/april-8-dholakia

Old tires turned into graphene that makes stronger concrete
Rice scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. 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.
Brinkwire (This article also appeared in Anthropocene.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-tour

 

No time to waste
An article quoting consultant Ryan McMullan mentions that he has worked with Rice.
Bed Times
http://dateline.rice/april-8-bt

These 28 B-schools are on BCG’s target list for MBA recruits

Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is mentioned.
Poets & Quants (This article also appeared in Yahoo! Finance.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-jones-school

Certain disorders, education level predict high utilization of inpatient psychiatric services
An article mentions that David Buck has been an adjunct professor at Rice.
Psych Focus
http://dateline.rice/april-8-pf

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Expedition 64 Inflight with Rice Space Institute — April 8, 2021

An article features a NASA video of alumna and astronaut Shannon Walker answering questions from the International Space Station from students around the world.

The Chestnut Post
http://dateline.rice/april-8-walker

Deacon profile: Michelle Gillespie
Alumna Michelle Gilespie, dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University, is featured.
The Gold & Black
http://dateline.rice/april-8-gillespie

UCI announces membership in consortium ensuring future of SlaveVoyages database
An article mentions that Rice is one of six partnering institutions in the SlaveVoyages consortium, which will continue to serve as a resource for new initiatives and broader public understanding of the history of slavery.
University of California, Irvine News
http://dateline.rice/april-8-uci

On stage: Belardo returns to her Wilmington roots
An article mentions comedian and alumnus Matthew Broussard.
The Unionville Times
http://dateline.rice/april-8-ut

Man points gun at another in dispute
An article cites the Rice Neologisms Database’s definition of the word “merk.”
Racine County Eye
http://dateline.rice/april-8-rce

Derby High student aims to raise cultural pride among AAPI youth
Rice is mentioned.
Derby Informer
http://dateline.rice/april-8-di

SPORTS
Langley ready to embrace challenge of rebuilding Washington
An article features former Rice head women’s basketball coach Tina Langley, who is the new head coach at the University of Washington. Rice Director of Athletics Joe Karlgaard is interviewed by KPRC about the search for a new coach.
The Associated Press (This article also appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-ap
‘KPRC Channel 2 News’
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-karlgaard
Here’s what you need to know about newly hired UW women’s coach Tina Langley
Seattle Times
http://dateline.rice/april-8-st
Live coverage of Washington’s press conference introducing new women’s basketball head coach Tina Langley
Pac-12.com
http://dateline.rice/april-8-pac12
KOMO-AM (Seattle)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-komo
‘Q13 News’
KCPQ-TV (Seattle)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-kcpq (This segment aired five times.)

‘True brotherhood’ NFL nose tackle summit conducted in Houston
Former Rice football player Christian Covington is featured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-covington

Attorney says what happened between Lance Armstrong’s arrested son, 16-year-old ‘not a crime’
An article reports that sexual assault charges have been filed against Rice football player Luke Armstrong.
KXAN Online (This segment also aired three times on KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas. Similar articles also appeared in more than 100 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-8-kxan

Saban sheds light on what new hire Drew Svoboda will do this spring
Former Rice assistant football coach Drew Svoboda is featured.
247Sports.com
http://dateline.rice/april-8-247

Miner soccer takes on Rice Thursday, C-USA Tourney bid on the line
An article mentions that Rice’s soccer team is slated to play the University of Texas at El Paso April 8.
El Paso Herald-Post
http://dateline.rice/april-8-ephp

Huskers travel to Texas for Aggie Invite
An article mentions that Rice’s golf team will compete in the Aggie Invitational April 9.
Huskers.com
http://dateline.rice/april-8-huskers

North Carolina A&T grabs history with volleyball tourney berth 
Rice’s volleyball team will face North Carolina A&T State University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament April 14.
The Charlotte Post
http://dateline.rice/april-8-cp

Cougars set for Friday doubleheader
An article mentions that Rice’s women’s tennis team is slated to play the University of Houston April 17.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/april-8-uhc

LA Tech hopeful to host regional as team prepares for Rice

An article mentions that Rice’s baseball team is slated to play Louisiana Tech University April 9-11.
KTBS Online
http://dateline.rice/april-8-ktbs

NEWS RELEASES
Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer Xue Sherry Gao has won National Institutes of Health support for a new strategy to fight cystic fibrosis. The agency awarded Gao a four-year R01 grant of more than $2 million to adapt tools developed by her lab that increase the accuracy of CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing to repair mutations responsible for the disease that affects 70,000 people worldwide.
http://dateline.rice/april-8-news-release-gao

Survey of Houston-area families reveals depth of COVID-19 financial pain
During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, only a third of Houston-area households with children reported having enough money saved to cover one month of expenses, according to a new research brief from Rice’s Houston Education Research Consortium.
http://dateline.rice/april-8-news-release-herc

About Stefan De La Garza

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