Dateline Rice for July 14, 2015

FEATURED ITEMS

Rice hires director for its coming Moody Center
Alison Weaver, an art historian and former director of affiliates for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, has been named executive director of Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts. Rice President David Leebron and Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice School of Architecture and the William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture, are quoted.
Houston Chronicle (This appeared on the front of the City & State section. Subscription required.)
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Rice arts center selects Guggenheim leader as new director
Houston Business Journal
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5 Houstonians to know and 32 top execs to meet
Rice President David Leebron and alumnus Brock Wagner ’87 are on the Houston Business Journal’s list of “five Houstonians to know.” The article notes that under Leebron’s leadership for more than a decade, Rice has achieved “major milestones and national attention.” Wagner is cited for the success of Saint Arnold Brewing Co., which he founded and is planning to expand. An article in the Broward Pal Beach New Times mentions that Wagner will speak at the Craft Beer Cartel’s “Meet the Brewer” series in Florida.
Houston Business Journal
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Night + day: 9 things to do this week
Broward Pal Beach New Times
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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Money’s best colleges
Rice is No. 14 on Time Money’s list of colleges that provide the best value, which is based on educational quality, cost and alumni earnings compared among 736 four-year U.S. universities.
Time Money
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Money Magazine’s new college rankings finally get it right for students
The Washington Post
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The 20 best colleges for your money
Business Insider (This article also appeared in Business Insider Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
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Money’s best colleges 2015
MSN
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Rice University named to best colleges list, most valuable in Texas
Houston Business Journal
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How cancer sprouts blood vessels for itself
Rice researchers have built a simulation to understand how cancerous tumors manipulate blood-vessel growth. Graduate student Mohit Kumar Jolly and José Onuchic, the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy, are quoted. The late Eshel Ben-Jacob, an adjunct professor of biosciences at Rice and a senior investigator at Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, is mentioned.
Futurity
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Rice lab synthesizes cancer-killing compound
Texas Medical Center News (This article also appeared in the Katy Rancher and Bellaire Examiner.)
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Researchers achieve 1st total synthesis of cancer-killing shishijimicin A
Phys.org
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How to make buckyballs soak up more CO2
Rice scientists have analyzed the carbon-capture ability of materials created with enhanced C60 molecules. Andrew Barron, the Charles W. Duncan Jr.-Welch Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted.
Futurity
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Heat buckyballs to help environment: Rice University scientists advance toward tunable carbon-capture materials
Nanotechnology Now
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Heated buckyballs battle greenhouse gases
Controlled Environments (This article also appeared in ScienceNewsline.)
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Heat buckyballs to help environment
Science Daily (This article also appeared in Phys.org and e! Science News.)
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Phone notifications kill concentration: Study
A yearlong study of first-time smartphone users by researchers at Rice University and the U.S. Air Force found that users felt smartphones were actually detrimental to their ability to learn.
Business Standard (This article also appeared in India Online and 13 other media outlets.)
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De 24 empresas que van por la Ronda Uno, 11 son acusadas por corrupción y daño ambiental
The National Hydrocarbons Commission will release its list of oil contract winners, though many of these private companies have faced corruption and environmental damage allegations. Miriam Grunstein, contributing expert and scholar in the Mexico Center at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
SinEmbargo.mx (An English translation is not available.)
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HOUSTON/TEXAS

Texas secessionists kick off statewide speaking tour to campaign for a break from the Union
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science and fellow in political science at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, comments on the Texas Nationalist Movement’s upcoming “Take Texas Back Tour,” drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape from a Mexican prison and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to dispatch the Texas State Guard to monitor the U.S. Army Special Operations Command exercise and appease theorists.
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in Beaumont Enterprise. Subscription required.)
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Texas secessionists kick off statewide speaking tour to campaign for a break from the Union
Beaumont Enterprise
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EE.UU. presionará para que México extradite a ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán si logra capturarlo: expertos
La Voz de Houston (An English translation is not available.)
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US ‘ready’ to help Mexico recapture drug lord
Inland News Today (This article also appeared in Soldier of Fortune and Pub Memo.)
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US military drills stoke politics of suspicion in Texas
KDAL610.com (This article also appeared in Buenos Aires News and over 20 other media outlets.)
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Wilkinson: The end of deportations
The Department of Homeland Security is retreating from deporting law-abiding undocumented immigrants, a step toward the U.S. eventually abandoning deportation policy. The article mentions a speech at Rice June 8 by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
Dallas Morning News
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Anvil’s head guy creates list of 100 great Houston bars to try in 10 days
Valhalla, the graduate student-run pub, is included in a list of Houston bars worth visiting.
CultureMap Houston
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BROADCAST

C-SPAN
Sen. Ted Cruz mentions his mother, alumna Eleanor Darragh ’56.
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TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Rice transmits data on active UHF channels
Rice University engineers have demonstrated the first system that allows wireless data transmissions over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts. Edward Knightly, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, is quoted. Graduate student Xu Zhang is mentioned.
TVTechnology
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Engineers test wireless data delivery over active TV channels
ECNMag.com
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Wireless data delivery over active TV channels tested
Science Daily (This article also appeared in Topix, Press-News.org, Cellular News, ScienceNewsline, e! Science News and Wireless Design & Development.)
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Rice tests wireless data delivery over active TV channels
RF Globalnet
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Combined titanium and gold create 1st itinerant antiferromagnetic metal
How can two metals that are not magnetic combine to make a magnet? Scientists at Rice University have found one answer in their creation of the first known itinerant antiferromagnet from nonmagnetic constituents. Emilia Morosan, associate professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering, and postdoctoral researcher Eteri Svanidze are quoted. Graduate student Jiakui Wang is mentioned.
Phys.org
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Plagiarism row: How Rajiv Malhotra became the Ayn Rand of Internet Hindutva
“Kali’s Child,” a book by Jeffrey Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, is cited in an article about Hindutva activist and author Rajiv Malhotra.
Scroll.in
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Purdue’s Nobel laureate celebrates 80th birthday
James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, will speak at the annual Negishi-Brown lectures at Purdue University.
Purdue.edu
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Major tech partnership to deliver ‘interactive’ lectures
Top Hat, a digital learning platform for higher education, has partnered with Rice’s OpenStax College.
eCampus News
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Top Hat, OpenStax College partner to deliver interactive lecture experience
TechVibes
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SPORTS

Rice athletics awarded Institutional Excellence Award
Rice’s student-athletes earned the Conference USA Institutional Excellence Award for their annual GPA of 3.246. Athletes Katie Jensen, Cali Roper, Belle McFarlane, Evan Karakolis, Duncan Dickerson, Scott Filip and Christal Porter also earned awards. Head women’s cross country coach Jim Bevan and head men’s cross country coach Jon Warren are mentioned.
Tomball Potpourri (This article also appeared in Magnolia Potpourri.)
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Brock Holt fits right in at All-Star Game
Alumnus Brock Holt ’12 is featured.
Boston Globe
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NEWS RELEASES

Nonmagnetic duo form unique magnet
How can two metals that are not magnetic combine to make a magnet? Scientists at Rice University have found one answer in their creation of the first known itinerant antiferromagnet from nonmagnetic constituents.
http://bit.ly/1dYmhcl

Rice lab synthesizes cancer-killing compound
The molecule shishijimicin A, discovered more than a decade ago in a marine animal known as a sea squirt and found to be highly toxic to cancer cells, has been synthesized by the Rice University laboratory of chemist K.C. Nicolaou.
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