Dateline Rice for Oct. 26, 2018

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

The Facebook candidate: Beto O’Rourke’s social media savvy fuels long-shot Ted Cruz challenge
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 articles on upcoming mideterm elections.
USA Today (This article appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2OOrHOC
Kavanaugh battle dims Democrats’ dreams of flipping Senate
Washington Times
http://bit.ly/2RhA1mB
Will Donald Trump’s rally for Ted Cruz motivate Republicans or Democrats?
UK Progressive
http://bit.ly/2Rk8UaR

Short-term health insurance should worry you even if you don’t need it
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Health and Biosciences, authored an op-ed. Ho is also quoted in an article on efforts by President Donald Trump to increase regulation of the prescription drug market.
STAT
http://bit.ly/2OUqRzN
Trump takes on ‘global freeloading’ in drug market, but impact may be limited
KMPH.com (This Sinclair Broadcast Group article appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2OP2q75

You can actually die of a broken heart — new study explains how
Research by the lab of Chris Fagundes, an assistant professor of psychological sciences, that determined grief can cause inflammation that can kill, is featured.
MSN (Similar articles appear in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2OTLXi1
Grief kills
KPRC.com (Houston; this article also appeared in KTRH.com.)
https://ihr.fm/2RgVxrF
‘On Your Side Tonight with Jamie Boll’
WBTV-TV (Charlotte, N.C.)
http://bit.ly/2Rk9l4Z

CRISPR pinpoints gene that switches butterfly wing color
Former Rice graduate student Tracy Douglas is mentioned as contributing to research in the Science Daily article. Rice is mentioned in the Futurity article.
Futurity
http://bit.ly/2RgISFd
A single genetic switch changes butterfly wing color
Science Daily (A similar article appeared in Newswise.)
http://bit.ly/2RjnZJG

Democratic takeover could mean boost for NASA’s climate science
President John F. Kennedy’s “Moon Speech” given at Rice Sept. 12, 1962, is mentioned.
Politico
https://politi.co/2ORZ3w3
Living as missionaries
Christian Standard
http://bit.ly/2Rjqsnq

Zout water op Mars kan leven bevatten
Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, is quoted in an article about the discovery of salty waters on Mars, which is thought to potentially hold enough dissolved oxygen to support familiar forms of microbial life.
National Geographic Netherlands (An English translation is not available.)
http://bit.ly/2RgX0hF

HOUSTON/TEXAS

We’re scientists. We know the climate’s changing. And we know why.
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, co-authored an article detailing why scientists are so confident that human emissions of carbon dioxide are warming the climate.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Oct. 26 print edition with a different headline, “There is no debate about climate change,” and was included in a previous edition of Dateline when the article was posted online.) 
http://bit.ly/2D0L4xM

Look inside: MFAH’s conservation center
An article on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation mentions Rice is collaborating with the museum on art conservation efforts.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2z4gtuH

High Line designer to Houston: Save the former Houston Press building!
Alumnus Charles Renfro ’87 authored an op-ed.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Chronicle’s Gray Matters online magazine.)
http://bit.ly/2RkaNEt

Student voting rights fight erupts at Texas State University
Rice is mentioned.
Texas Tribune (This article also appeared in The Eagle, Governing and Houston Defender.)
http://bit.ly/2OTMuR3

Artist Matthew Ritchie examines the demons in the diagram of human history
The art installation “The Demon in the Diagram” by Matthew Ritchie, which was designed specifically for the two main gallery spaces at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts, is featured.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in more than 20 other media outlets, and it appeared in the Oct. 26 print edition with a different headline, “Does ‘Reality’ still bite?”)
http://bit.ly/2z3PsHN
On stage: Karen Gomyo performs Tchaikovsky, ‘The Wiz’ eases into Hobby Center
Houston Chronicle (This article appeared in the Oct. 26 print edition with a different headline, “Stage List,” and was included in a previous edition of Dateline when the article was posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2z2a972

Op-ed: Sugar Land’s dark past opens the door to a brighter future
Stephen Klineberg, professor of sociology and founding director of Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is mentioned.
Sugar Land Patch
http://bit.ly/2RkjHlj

Your next best bets for Houston’s most historic car dealership building once 1621 Milam gets demolished
The Rice Chapel is mentioned.
Swamplot
http://bit.ly/2Ri8th4

Top 11 food and drink events this month: November 2018
Salamat 2018, which will be held Nov. 3 in the Rice Stadium parking lot, is mentioned.
365 Things To Do in Houston
http://bit.ly/2OSaV0Y

Texas State libraries gain admission to alliance
An article mentions that Rice is part of the Greater Western Library Alliance, a consortium of research libraries headquartered in the Kansas City area.
San Marcos Daily Record
http://bit.ly/2RkwgNx

BROADCAST

‘CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin’
History Professor Douglas Brinkley discusses President Donald Trump’s response to bombs mailed to political figures.
CNN
http://bit.ly/2RhlveC

Scientists: Global cooling on the way
Patricia Reiff, professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
KPRC-AM (Houston)
https://ihr.fm/2ORxDXc
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://bit.ly/2Rh4p0x

KLBJ-AM (Austin, Texas)
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is cited in a discussion of early voting in Texas.
http://bit.ly/2RggzGO

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Rice team shows that thin nanotube films stop dendrite growth from Li metal anodes
The lab of James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, has shown that thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries. Tour is quoted, and postdoctoral researcher Rodrigo Salvatierra and graduate student Gladys Lopez-Silva are mentioned.
Green Car Congress (Similar articles appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2ONF2GV

Ice-age climate clues unearthed
Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and her colleagues have created a computational Lake Proxy System Model to translate data from deep beneath lake surface waters in a way that relates more directly to measurable climate model variables.
R&D (Similar articles appeared in Science Daily, Net News Ledger and BioPortfolio.)
http://bit.ly/2RkdA0l

Scientists uncover relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin
Rice University scientists studied how the density of microseismicity, or small tremors, related to the seismic structure of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Postdoctoral research associate Jonathan Delph is quoted and pictured. Alan Levander, the Carey Croneis Professor of Earth Science, and Fenglin Niu, professor of Earth science, are mentioned.
Elexonic (Similar articles appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2OPjOZ7

A new spin on MRI contrast
Rice nanoscientists have demonstrated a method for loading iron inside nanoparticles to create MRI contrast agents that outperform gadolinium chelates, the mainstay contrast agent that is facing increased scrutiny due to potential safety concerns. Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and of materials science and nanoengineering and the director of Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute, is quoted along with graduate student Luke Henderson.
Radiology Today
http://bit.ly/2RetCJ1

SHOWEAST 2018 Bingham Ray Spirit Award: Tim League, Alamo Drafthouse
Alumnus Tim League ’92 is featured.
Box Office Pro
http://bit.ly/2RfzBNS

Sink or swim: What happens after music school
Alumna Hannah Hammel ’17 is featured.
San Francisco Classical Voice
http://bit.ly/2Rh3Qnl

Cardboard art? That’s just thinkin’ outside the box
An article on artist Wayne White mentions his installation at Rice.
Art + Seek
http://bit.ly/2OUHUSA

Post-Trump rise of religious left: Real trend or wishful thinking? We’ll find out soon
Rice is mentioned.
Get Religion
http://bit.ly/2OMGZmS

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

‘Our age has no Chaucer’
Patrick Kurp, science writer at the Brown School of Engineering, authored a blog post that examines the work of the late William Bowman Piper, former professor in the Department of English.
Anecdotal Evidence
http://bit.ly/2OPxB26

Service to community is goal of candidate for county commissioner
Alumna Shelaswau Crier ’97 authored a guest column.
Statesman Journal
http://bit.ly/2Rc7H5g

Polymeric micelle-based nanomedicine innovator ready to take off for investors
Alumnus Anil Diwan ’86 is featured.
TWST.com
http://bit.ly/2Rc0ORs

Business briefs 10.26.18
Rice is mentioned.
Arizona Jewish Post
http://bit.ly/2Rfz6U0

Pattanayak presents research in Texas
Rice is mentioned.
Carleton Now
http://bit.ly/2Rfzodj

SPORTS

On TV/radio: Longtime Clippers voice Ralph Lawler reflects on 40-year career
Rice’s Oct. 27 football game against the University of North Texas is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2Rc2uKK
Viewer’s guide to college football: Full TV schedule for Week 9 games
Sports Illustrated
https://on.si.com/2Rftf0M
How to watch: Week 9 college football, with TV times, network, streaming
Atlanta Journal-Consitution
https://on-ajc.com/2RktUhF
College football: Rice versus North Texas | Start time, TV, odds, predictions
HERO Sports
http://bit.ly/2RfJbA5
College football injury report Week 9
GetMoreSports.com
http://bit.ly/2RkfDl5
Mitch Maher talks North Texas career, Mason Fine nearing or surpassing all his records
Underdog Dynasty
http://bit.ly/2RhatGl
Key matchups and predictions for Week 9 – Barry back and homecoming
GoPokes.com
http://bit.ly/2RgoaoO

Rabalais: Q&A: ‘College GameDay,’ CFP, Heisman race, what LSU must do to beat Alabama
The Rice football team is mentioned in articles on Louisiana State University’s football team.
Winchester News-Gazette (This article appeared in more than 20 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2RgVfkD
LSU deserves poll ranking, but it’s time for bettors to fade Tigers
New Orleans Times-Picayune
http://bit.ly/2RjduGm

Aggie baseball to play Rice in exhibition game Friday
The Rice baseball team faces Texas A&M University Oct. 26 at Reckling Park.
KBTX.com
http://bit.ly/2ReJNG8

UTEP volleyball hosts 2 matches at Memorial Gym
The Rice volleyball team is mentioned in two articles.
El Paso Herald-Post
http://bit.ly/2RfGH4J
Western Kentucky looks to get back on track versus UTEP, UTSA
Volleymob
http://bit.ly/2RbPkNC

Texas A&M basketball single game tickets and flex packs available Thursday
The Rice women’s basketball team is mentioned in two articles.
KBTX.com
http://bit.ly/2ReGRcH
Tough schedule awaits UALR women
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
http://bit.ly/2RiQBTj

NEWS RELEASE

Rice U. scientists form flat tellurium
Amey Apte and his Rice colleagues made tellurium, a rare metal, into a film less than a nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) thick by melting a powder of the element at high temperature and blowing the atoms onto a surface. He said the resulting material, tellurene, shows promise for next-generation, near-infrared solar cells and other optoelectronic applications that rely on the manipulation of light.
http://bit.ly/2RjeQ3U