Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden to deliver remarks at Rice, MD Anderson event Sept. 16

MEDIA NOTE AND UPDATE: The following media advisory provides updated media registration and guidelines information for Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Rice University.

For Rice University:
Jeff Falk
713-348-6775
Cell: 612-964-7236
jfalk@rice.edu

For the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center:
Brette Peyton
713-745-3676
Cell: 646-943-3256
BNPeyton@mdanderson.org

Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden to deliver remarks at Rice, MD Anderson event Sept. 16

HOUSTON – (Sept. 14, 2016) – Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at Rice University’s Tudor Fieldhouse at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, about the White House Cancer Moonshot, an initiative Biden leads.

The event, which is co-sponsored by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as part of the Medicine, Research and Society Lecture Series, will include welcoming remarks from James A. Baker III, former secretary of state and honorary chair of the Baker Institute, and introductory remarks from Dr. Jill Biden. Rice University President David Leebron, MD Anderson President Dr. Ronald DePinho and Baker Institute Director Ambassador Edward Djerejian will meet with the vice president and Dr. Biden before the event.

Logistical information for Rice University:

Location: Tudor Fieldhouse, 6100 Main St.
Camera presets prior to security sweep (for videography equipment only): 8:45-9:30 a.m.
Media arrival: 1:30 p.m.
Final access: 2:30 p.m.
Event start time: 3 p.m.
Camera throw: 45 feet
Cable run: 600 feet
Media entrance: Main entrance to Tudor Fieldhouse on the campus’s Inner Loop

Media parking: Media can park nearby in West Lot 1 or in the underground Central Campus Garage. For a map of Rice’s campus with parking information, go to www.rice.edu/maps.

RSVP: Members of the media must RSVP by 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, with name, position (reporter, videographer, photographer, etc.), media outlet, phone and email for each person planning to cover the event to jfalk@rice.edu. For further logistical and planning questions, contact Kitty Kurth at kittykurth@me.com or 312-617-7288, cell.

At the event, media will be required to wear their outlet’s media credential and the media badge provided at media check-in at all times, either around the neck or pinned to clothing.

The event will be streamed live at http://edtech.rice.edu/live-event-webcasts.

President Barack Obama announced the White House Cancer Moonshot initiative to accelerate cancer research during his 2016 State of the Union address. The initiative aims to make more therapies available to more patients, while also improving the ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage.

Biden’s speech at Rice will occur a few days after the 54th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s historic “Moon Speech” at Rice on Sept. 12, 1962.

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