Dateline Rice for Feb. 27, 2018

FEATURED ITEM

Billy Graham warned against embracing a president. His son has gone the other way.
William Martin, the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in an article on the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late Rev. Billy Graham.
New York Times (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front page of the Feb. 27 print edition with a different headline, “Partisanship from the pulpit splits evangelicals,” and it appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://nyti.ms/2Cp4cVw

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

The 35 hardest US colleges to get into
Rice is No. 17 on Niche’s 2018 ranking of the “hardest colleges to get into in America.”
MSN.com
http://bit.ly/2CmIsK0

Saudi military leaders replaced amid stalemated war in Yemen
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, fellow for the Middle East at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in an article on a military shake-up in Saudi Arabia. Ulrichsen also is quoted in an article on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s upcoming international tour.
ABC News (This Associated Press article appeared in more than 300 media outlets.)
http://abcn.ws/2sZfqML
In search of investors, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is coming to America
Forbes
http://bit.ly/2t1HoYc

HOUSTON/TEXAS

Student activism on gun laws won’t ding your Rice University application, school says
Rice University announced that participation in peaceful protests will not have a negative effect on prospective students’ admission to Rice. President David Leebron is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Feb. 27 print edition with a different headline, “Peaceful protests OK with colleges,” and a teaser for the story appeared on the front page. The article was included in a previous edition of Dateline when it was posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2FxjwOK
http://bit.ly/2FyypjN
Colleges: Participating in walkouts won’t affect admission
Spectrum News Austin
http://bit.ly/2F8Dl13
UT Austin: High school students won’t have admission chances dampened by protesting gun laws
Daily Texan
http://bit.ly/2F8KoXD

After years of rancor over ethanol, Cruz, Cornyn go head-to-head on reform
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 quoted in an article on the renewable fuel standard. Jones also is quoted in stories on the potential threats to the United States’ two-party system, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s participation in a gathering of governors in Washington and the race to represent Texas’ 32nd Congressional District.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front of the Business section in the Feb. 27 print edition with a different headline, “Senators tangle over ‘big corn,” and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when the article was posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2FyfgOX
1-party rule has never been that simple in Texas
KUT.org
http://bit.ly/2CpMNMM
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://bit.ly/2CLUUPv (Click the audio button to listen to the broadcast.)
KRLD-AM (Dallas)
http://bit.ly/2oBqHNF (Click the audio button to listen to the broadcast.)
District 32
Dallas Morning News
http://bit.ly/2sYrIVP

What kind of Astrodome will it be without sports?
An article on the renovation of Houston’s Astrodome mentions a design competition sponsored by the Rice Design Alliance.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Chronicle’s “Gray Matters” online magazine.)
http://bit.ly/2sVHksW

HMNS weekly happenings
Jim Blackburn, a professor in the practice of environmental law and the co-director of Rice’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center, will give a lecture titled “Making Houston a Resilient City: Flooding, Carbon and Food” Feb. 27 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Houston Museum of Natural Science
http://bit.ly/2CrmgOQ

Space City mural debuts at Rice Village
Rice’s acquisition of the Village Arcade shopping center is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2sWTDp6
http://bit.ly/2t0gyQb

CounterCurrent announces 2018 lineup
Rice’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences and the Humanities Research Center are mentioned as presenting partners of CounterCurrent, which runs April 10-15.
Glasstire
http://bit.ly/2Fcda9E

BROADCAST

Living Lab Radio: ‘Black Panther’ as a science movie, edible electronics and more
Rice scientists who introduced laser-induced graphene have enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics. 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.
WGBH.org
http://bit.ly/2F6NmvD

How an electric car boom could impact Houston
Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology in Rice’s School of Social Sciences and director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice, is quoted.
KHOU.com
http://bit.ly/2CsbNmg

‘Texas Standard’
Luz Garcini, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology, discusses the impact of the uncertain future facing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients on their mental health.
KUT-FM (Austin)
http://bit.ly/2FCbJiH (Click the audio button to listen to the broadcast.)

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

15 best college campuses in America
Rice is No. 15 on Niche’s 2018 Best College Campuses in America ranking.
Business Insider (This article appeared in more than 10 media outlets.)
http://read.bi/2t3FlD6

Researchers win $10M grant for ‘super-cameras’ to see through human skin and diagnose disease
The National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to a Rice-led team that hopes to create wearable and point-of-care microscopes that use on-chip illumination and sensing to non-invasively aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of nearly 100 health conditions that today require a biopsy or blood test. Ashutosh Sabharwal, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is quoted.
GeekWire
http://bit.ly/2t4Psri
NSF invests $30 million to pursue transformative advances at frontiers of computing and information science
National Science Foundation
http://bit.ly/2sWUmXm

Big data to show how mixed toxins affect children
Rice researchers have won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to build data analysis tools and analyze how exposure to mixed toxins in the environment affects a population, especially children. The four-year $1.7 million R01 grant will allow a team led by Marie Lynn Miranda, Rice’s Howard R. Hughes Provost and a professor of statistics, to analyze the massive set of data she and her colleagues gathered for the entire state of North Carolina over more than 20 years.
Health Canal (A similar article appeared in Scienmag.)
http://bit.ly/2F8MarG

NASA’s newest wearable technology takes on the human shoulder
Rice and NASA collaborated on the development of the Soft Wearable Upper Extremity Garment, which can activate shoulder and elbow joints using a cable transmission system.
NASA
https://go.nasa.gov/2CoOfyD
NASA, Rice University develop ‘upper extremity’ wearable tech
Executive Gov
http://bit.ly/2F9PyCx

Scientists create mind-bending Rydberg polarons, atoms full of atoms
An article mentions a research collaboration among Rice, TU Wien and Harvard University. Thomas Killian, professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
Gizmodo
http://bit.ly/2t0i6tt
Exotic state of matter: An atom full of atoms
Science Daily (Similar articles appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2F6YJUl

Researchers find metal in ‘metal-free’ graphene catalysts
Detective work by Rice chemists has defined a deception in graphene catalysts that, until now, has defied description. James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, and graduate student Ruquan Ye are quoted. Mentioned are graduate student Luqing Wang; Boris Yakobson, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering and a professor of chemistry; and Rubén Mendoza-Cruz of Rice and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Science Daily (Similar articles appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2Co7Kr5

Mexico shifts focus to natural gas
Adrian Duhalt, postdoctoral fellow in Mexico energy studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Mexico Center and Center for Energy Studies, authored an article on Mexico’s fuel sector.
Natural Gas World
http://bit.ly/2CrqohO

5 reasons to adopt a customer mindset in schools
A Rice survey on parents’ satisfaction with public and charter schools is mentioned.
TrustED
http://bit.ly/2F5lDM7

Mikulska: Polityka musi wspierać rozwój rynku gazu
Anna Mikulska, senior research analyst for energy studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, participates in a Q&A on the liquefied natural gas market.
Biznes Alert (An English translation is not available.)
http://bit.ly/2sZThhh

Expedition conquista Houston
A screening of “Expedition” was held at the Rice Media Center.
Cinque Colonne Magazine (An English translation is not available.)
http://bit.ly/2sXvwXf

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Remembering the Honorable Barbara Jordan, the Texas trailblazer whose life and legacy are still breaking ground
Graduate student LaTreshia Hamilton authored an article.
African-American News
http://bit.ly/2Cpqw1g

Indian-American entrepreneur Neha Gupta providing education advice for youth through 2 ventures
Alumna Neha Gupta ’08 is featured.
India West
http://bit.ly/2Cpuuar

Signed, sealed … delivered?
Sean Wang, visiting assistant professor of accounting at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, was part of a research team studying the relationship between signature size and narcissism.
Washington University in St. Louis
http://bit.ly/2FaTint

Get ready: See when spring breakers will arrive this year
An article on spring break mentions Rice is off March 12-16.
Northwest Florida Daily News
http://bit.ly/2FaG7D5

Material ultrarresistente é obtido a partir de ideia do século 19
An article mentions schwarzite shapes were 3-D printed for the first time at Rice.
São José dos Campos (An English translation is not available. Similar articles appeared in Exame, Jornal Do Brasil and Sindicato dos Engenheiros.)
http://bit.ly/2sWuPO0

¿Sin pareja? Revise su ADN
Bin Huang, a postdoctoral fellow at Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, is mentioned as a co-founder of Pheramor, a genetics-based dating app.
El Espectador (An English translation is not available.)
http://bit.ly/2Co4bBr

SPORTS

Final games to decide Miners’ fate
An article on the University of Texas at El Paso men’s basketball team mentions the Miners face Rice March 1 at Tudor Fieldhouse.
The Prospector
http://bit.ly/2F9pbgd

Tech falls in match against Tulane
An article on Texas Tech University men’s tennis mentions the Red Raiders face Rice March 4 in Lubbock.
Daily Toreador
http://bit.ly/2CorWJz

ESPNU
Former Rice men’s basketball player Chad Lott, who now plays at Howard University, is mentioned.
http://bit.ly/2Cnu2cz (Click the video button to watch the broadcast.)

NEWS RELEASES

Wearable hospital lab: NSF awards $10M for bioimaging
The National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to a Rice-led team that hopes to create wearable and point-of-care microscopes that use on-chip illumination and sensing to non-invasively aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of nearly 100 health conditions that today require a biopsy or blood test.
http://bit.ly/2sWUaHC

Rice U. expert: Leaders need to understand fear of failure
Leaders — and especially those who aspire to be leaders — need to understand the powerful impact the fear of failure can have on themselves and others, according to Tom Kolditz, a leadership scholar and director of Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders. Kolditz discussed his insights during a keynote he gave at the United States Air Force Academy’s annual National Character and Leadership Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 22. He is available to discuss with the media the sources of fear of failure and how to manage that fear.
http://bit.ly/2t3ndsW