Dateline Rice

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

A game we all win: Dumping DRM can increase sales while reducing piracy

Contrary to the traditional views of the music industry, removal of digital rights management restrictions can actually decrease piracy, according to new research from Rice and Duke universities. Dinah Vernik, assistant professor of marketing at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.

ArsTechnica.com

http://tinyurl.com/6cffo3c

DRM encourages piracy, say US economists

Thinq.co.uk

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/10/11/drm-encourages-piracy-say-us-economists/

Removing DRM can prevent piracy

TechEye.com

http://news.techeye.net/software/removing-drm-can-prevent-piracy

Rice researchers: Lack of copy protection decreases music piracy

Houston Press

http://tinyurl.com/5ssos42

DRM can hurt sales, says new study

GameRevolution.com

http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/drm-can-hurt-sales-says-new-study-8847

And in other PC gaming news …

PCGamer.com

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/10/and-in-other-pc-gaming-news-170/

College radio stations fear budget cuts could silence them

More universities are selling their FM licenses to nonstudent operations. Linda Thrane, vice president for public affairs, is quoted about how a student-led committee is making recommendations for how to spend the proceeds from the sale of KTRU’s license, tower and bandwidth.

USA Today (This article also appeared in the Lafayette Advertiser, the Tucson Citizen, ArgentinaStar.com, BigNewsNetwork.com and WLTX.com [Columbia, S.C.].)

http://tinyurl.com/3lkygh9

LOCAL/STATE

Professor says state agency censored article

John Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Chair in Oceanography and professor of Earth science, said Texas’ environmental agency deleted all references to climate change and sea-level rise from an article he wrote about changes in Galveston Bay. A link to the KUHF-FM broadcast is not available.

Houston Chronicle (This front-page article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News.)

http://tinyurl.com/3hmhq5t

Texas on the verge of limiting academic freedom of climate scientists

Houston Chronicle

http://tinyurl.com/6883pod

KUHF-FM

Screening of ‘Latino in America 2: In Her Corner’

A photo gallery shows attendees of a Rice screening of the CNN-TV documentary “Latino in America 2: In Her Corner” about female boxer Marlen Esparza.

Houston Style Magazine

http://tinyurl.com/42t4sc8

New economics of divorce: Breaking up is harder to do

Economic hard times are driving more people to consider ending marriages in an effort to reclaim their financial independence until they discover they can’t afford to. Holly Heard, senior research analyst at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.

Memorial Examiner (This article also appeared in the West University Examiner and the River Oaks Examiner.)

http://tinyurl.com/6zhp2e5

Perry under pressure to lay out economic vision

Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor and chair of political science and fellow in political science at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in news items about Gov. Rick Perry’s bid for the GOP nomination for president. Jones is also quoted in articles about the U.S. tea party movement, the Venezuelan government’s response to criticism of the country’s increasingly fragile democracy and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s expected victory in Argentina’s Oct. 23 presidential election. English translations of the El Nuevo Herald and Clarín articles and a link to the KTMD-TV broadcast are not available.

Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News.)

http://tinyurl.com/6hsxdrs

KUHF-FM

http://tinyurl.com/3cpvyey

KRIV-TV

http://tinyurl.com/3bvsaem

KTMD-TV

Tea party shakes, shapes US politics

China Daily

http://tinyurl.com/42f7tzc

Venezuela defends itself against accusations in Geneva

El Nuevo Herald (Miami) (This article also appeared in the Charlotte Observer.)

http://tinyurl.com/42sk73n

In the USA they predict Cristina will win, but the relationship will worsen

Clarín (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (This article also appeared in the Los Andes and Foro de las Americas.)

http://tinyurl.com/434m9kp

Research prowess powers Texas solar industry

An article reports that the solar energy industry in Texas is undeterred by recent manufacturing failures elsewhere. Keily Miller, a research associate for the energy forum at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.

San Antonio Express-News (This article also appeared on FuelFix.com.)

http://tinyurl.com/3mz4wau

Corrections for Oct. 11

An editorial cartoon in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle incorrectly stated that a James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy study on shale gas and national security was partly funded by the energy industry. The study was funded wholly by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Houston Chronicle

http://tinyurl.com/3vq3c93

‘Seth Mittag: We’re Still Here …’ tragic, compelling

Rice is mentioned in an article about artist Seth Mittag.

Houston Press

http://tinyurl.com/3rjndq8

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Post oil: Glimpses of life after fossil fuel

An article about how the world might look without oil quotes Amy Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

AxcessNews.com

http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/22175

N.J. startup partners with largest solar manufacturer in Italy

Rice is mentioned in an article about Natcore Solar.

New Jersey Star-Ledger

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/10/natcore_solar_joint_venture.html

SPORTS

Rice releases 2012 baseball schedule

Rice will face at least nine teams that advanced to last year’s NCAA tournament as part of a 54-game 2012 regular-season baseball schedule.

Houston Chronicle

http://tinyurl.com/3ts8vkw

Rice offense must improve, Houston deserves a better bowl destiny and more …

A commentary piece discusses the Rice Owls football team. Lovett College senior Luke Willson is quoted.

Bellaire Examiner (This article also appeared in the West University Examiner, the Memorial Examiner and the River Oaks Examiner.)

http://tinyurl.com/6dh7c9n

NEWS RELEASE

All for one, ‘R-one’ for all

James McLurkin, assistant professor of computer science, is developing an inexpensive and sophisticated robot called the “R-one” to make his dream of robot proliferation a reality.

www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=16292

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