Dateline Rice for Feb. 12, 2019

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Scientists remember the Mars rover Opportunity as hope fades for its resurrection
Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, is quoted in an article about the legacy of the Mars rover Opportunity.
Gizmodo (This article also appeared in Gizmodo Australia, Sebastian Gogola’s Interests, Centre Daily Times and News Live.)
http://bit.ly/2WWOc4m

Ancestry sites are newest frontier for law enforcement
Kirstin Matthews, a fellow in science and technology policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed in a television broadcast about a Houston-based ancestry site’s recent initiative to allow law enforcement to search its genetic database.
MSN (This originally appeared at KHOU.com and aired on KHOU-TV in Houston.)
http://bit.ly/2WYVRzd

College students’ beginning salaries: Expectations versus reality
An article about college graduates’ expected starting salaries features Rice.
Fox Business
https://fxn.ws/2RXyjXy

Metabolic plasticity helps metastatic cancer cells survive hostile environments
Rice research to understand how cancer cells survive hostile environments and adapt when their attempts to metastasize are blocked by drugs or the body’s immune system is featured. José Nelson Onuchic, the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Herbert Levine, adjunct professor of bioengineering; and postdoctoral fellow Dongya Jia are quoted. Former postdoctoral researcher Mingyang Lu and alumnus Linglin Yu are mentioned.
News-Medical.net (This article was featured in the Feb. 12 edition of the National Science Foundation’s Science360 Newsletter and on the Science360 homepage, and it was included in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://bit.ly/2I5gAOs

HOUSTON/TEXAS

As Venezuelan opposition prepares to appoint a board to Houston’s Citgo, creditors circle
Francisco J. Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Center for Energy Studies, the Mexico Center and the Latin America Initiative at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and a lecturer in energy economics at Rice, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (This article appeared in the Feb. 12 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2WZRjIW

Light rail for San Antonio? Even longtime backers have given up
Kyle Shelton, director of strategic partnerships at Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
San Antonio Express-News (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2WZ0WYc 

Native to Bryan-College Station wins her 2nd Grammy Award
Alumna Sasha Cooke ’04, who won her second Grammy Award Feb. 10 for the recording of the opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” is featured and pictured.
The Eagle
http://bit.ly/2WYdhM8

Opera star, husband maintain innocence in sexual assault case
An article mentions alumnus Samuel Schultz ’09, who has accused David Daniels and Scott Walters of sexual assault.
Houston Chronicle (This article appeared in the Feb. 12 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2WWx2Ui

Campus Chronicles weekly roundup Feb. 12-17
A Houston-area events roundup mentions that the Rice Media Center will screen “Tejano” Feb. 13, and that more than 40 musicians from Rice’s Shepherd School of Music will perform “Inuksuit” Feb. 16 at Rice’s live oak grove.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2WUr9ai

Boyarmiller: Houston evolves as a gateway market and regional industrial hub
Rice is mentioned.
Southeast Texas Record
http://bit.ly/2WVnB7G

BROADCAST

‘CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin’
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is interviewed by CNN about recent comments by President Donald Trump, and he is quoted in a letter to the editor of SCNow.com about former President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “malaise speech.”
CNN
http://bit.ly/2WVgUCA
Transcripts
CNN
https://cnn.it/2WUkVXY
Letter to the editor: We are our own biggest problem
SCNow.com (This article also appeared in WBTW Online.) 
http://bit.ly/2WYiwvl

Houston mayoral race focused on flooding, trash, finances
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is interviewed about the early start to Houston’s mayoral race.
KPRC Online
https://ihr.fm/2WVjKre
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://bit.ly/2X1pRKu (This segment aired two additional times.)

President Trump making a run for the border
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of the institute’s Mexico Center, is interviewed about crime rates in El Paso, Texas.
WOAI Online
https://ihr.fm/2WY5pKJ
http://bit.ly/2WYVIf2 (This segment aired nine additional times.)

Full show: Sexual abuse at Southern Baptist Churches, and Holocaust survivor Jacob Eisenbach (Feb. 11, 2019)
An episode of “Houston Matters” mentions that Stuart Eizenstat, author of “President Carter: The White House Years,” will speak Feb. 12 at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The broadcast also mentions that Jacob Eisenbach, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the Holocaust, will speak at Rice Feb. 17.
Houston Public Media
http://bit.ly/2WVjrN6
Author: Carter administration is most underappreciated of the last century
Houston Public Media
http://bit.ly/2WYkiN1
Holocaust survivor warns the dangers of bigotry are still with us
Houston Public Media
http://bit.ly/2X0Cjdt

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL

Working proteins make good use of frustration
Peter Wolynes, the D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science, professor of chemistry, of biochemistry and cell biology, of physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted.
Phys.org (This article also appeared in Bioengineer, Technology Networks,
7thSpace Interactive, Long Room, Scienmag and Tech Explorist.)
http://bit.ly/2WYWjND

Lefty or righty molecules lend a hand to material structures
An international team including Rice scientists used synthetic materials that naturally assemble themselves from small building blocks to form distinct patterns. Co-author Edwin Thomas, the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, is quoted.
Phys.org (This article also appeared in 7thSpace Interactive, Space Daily, Long Room and Scienmag.)
http://bit.ly/2X0BcLd

Nitrogen gets in the fast track for compound amalgamation
Rice scientists have given organic chemists a boost with their latest discovery of a one-step method to add nitrogen to compounds for drugs, pesticides, fertilizers and other products. László Kürti, associate professor of chemistry, and postdoctoral researcher Zhe Zhou are quoted. Postdoctoral researcher Qing-Qing Cheng is mentioned.
Journal Worldwide (This article also appeared in R&D Magazine and AZo Materials.)
http://bit.ly/2X1AGMC

Origins opinion surveys evolve from ‘how’ to ‘who’
Elaine Howard Ecklund, professor of sociology and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice, is cited in an article about a new survey of American Christians’ beliefs in evolution and creationism.
Christianity Today
http://bit.ly/2WWLtrs

Men spend more for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day gift-giving behaviors tend to align with and reinforce gender identity, according to Constance Elise Porter, visiting assistant professor of marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Tech Explorist
http://bit.ly/2WYtyAL

Pointed window fronts Lincoln Chapel by Studio 512 in Texas Hill Country
An article featuring a design by architecture firm Studio 512 mentions that founder Nicole Blair attended Rice.
Dezeen
http://bit.ly/2WZMnDy

8 awesome Presidents Day weekend trips to take this year
James Turrell’s “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace on the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion is featured.
Jetsetter
http://bit.ly/2WVy9Uh (Scroll down to “6. Houston, Texas.)

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

Here’s why homeschooling children is not that good an idea
Laura Kabiri, lecturer of kinesiology, is quoted in an article about her research that determined home-schooled children in organized sports do not participate in sufficient activities to be physically fit.
The Siasat Daily (This article also appeared in Big News Network and ANI News.)
http://bit.ly/2WX21zM

Stanford investigates faculty contact with Chinese scientist who edited baby genes
An article about gene editing in humans mentions Michael Deem, the John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and a professor of physics and astronomy, and that He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claimed he produced the first genetically engineered twins, attended Rice.
Silicon Valley (This Bloomberg article appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://bayareane.ws/2X1CPb8

SPORTS

WBB: Feb. 11 Players of the Week
Rice women’s basketball player Erica Ogwumike was voted Conference USA Co-Player of the Week.
ConferenceUSA.com
http://bit.ly/2WYdH5a

South Carolina women rise in AP poll before Monday matchup with UConn
An article about the Associated Press women’s college basketball rankings mentions Rice.
Charleston Post and Courier (This article also appeared in 20 additional media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2WR34kC

2019 preseason field of 64
The Rice baseball team is included in D1Baseball.com’s projected NCAA tournament field.
D1Baseball.com
http://bit.ly/2WXXfC5

Marshall returns home tied for 6th place
The Rice men’s basketball team is mentioned.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
http://bit.ly/2WVzVVu

K-State track finishes strong at Texas Tech Shootout
An article mentions that Kansas State University’s women’s tennis team was defeated by Rice Feb. 10 at the George R. Brown Tennis Center. Owl Linda Huang is mentioned.
Manhattan Mercury
http://bit.ly/2X0TATR

Men’s tennis sweeps Alcorn State, extending winning streak to 3
An article mentions that the Rice men’s tennis team will compete in the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic Feb. 22 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Daily Mississippian
http://bit.ly/2RY5quu

Humble ISD Athletic Signing Day
An article mentions that Myron Morrison plans to play football at Rice.
The Tribune
http://bit.ly/2WXksEp

Texas ranks No. 35 nationally in preliminary S&P+ rankings
The Rice football team is mentioned.
SB Nation
http://bit.ly/2WUAvTs

Spack, Redbirds haul in impressive running back trio
The Rice football team is mentioned.
ChicagoNow 
http://bit.ly/2RXRBMm

Carlisle remembers his Longhorn days
An article mentions a 1962 football game between the University of Texas at Austin and Rice.
Athens Daily Review
http://bit.ly/2RXwJoA

Beaumont native, MLB slugger Jay Bruce connects with Lamar baseball
Former Rice baseball player Ford Proctor is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2RTjGEN

Bassey takes Freshman of the Week award
An article mentions that former Rice men’s basketball player Marcus Evans earned Conference USA Freshman of the Week honors 10 times, a league record.
College Heights Herald
http://bit.ly/2RToOJ2

NEWS RELEASES

Valentine’s Day gifts position men as heroes, says Rice U. expert
A new survey finds men spend more than women and they’re more willing to rack up credit card debt for Valentine’s Day gifts. In fact, research shows that some behaviors tend to align with and reinforce people’s gender identity — and that includes Valentine’s Day gift-giving behavior, according to a marketing and customer relationships expert at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
http://bit.ly/2RU4Fmd

Laser-induced graphene gets tough, with help
Laser-induced graphene (LIG), a flaky foam of the atom-thick carbon, has many interesting properties on its own but gains new powers as part of a composite. The labs of Rice chemist James Tour and Christopher Arnusch, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, introduced a batch of LIG composites in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano that put the material’s capabilities into more robust packages.
http://bit.ly/2RXFhMc