Rice’s Kinder Institute to release findings from 35th Kinder Houston Area Survey

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David Ruth
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Amy McCaig
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Rice’s Kinder Institute to release findings from 35th Kinder Houston Area Survey

HOUSTON – (April 5, 2016) – Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and a sociology professor, will release findings from the 2016 Kinder Houston Area Survey at a downtown luncheon April 19. The 35th annual study covers such topics as Houstonians’ current economic outlooks, changing religious and political affiliations, and perspectives on the region’s demographic transformations.

Prior to the luncheon at the Hilton Americas hotel, 1600 Lamar St., Klineberg will discuss highlights from the survey during a press conference at 11:15 a.m. in Meeting Room 230.

Who: Stephen Klineberg, founding director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and professor of sociology.

What: Press conference highlighting findings from the 2016 Kinder Houston Area Survey.

When: 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, April 19.

Where: Hilton Americas hotel, Meeting Room 230, 1600 Lamar St., Houston. Press check-in will be located directly outside the second floor Ballroom of the Americas. Media should proceed to the meeting room for the press conference after checking in.

Members of the news media who would like to speak with Klineberg about the survey should attend the press conference and RSVP to Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at ah25@rice.edu, 713-348-6777 (office) or 217-417-2901 (cell).

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Kinder Institute Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiceKinderInst

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Photo credit: Rice University/Jeff Fitlow.

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