Dateline Rice for Oct. 23, 2019

Stefan De La Garza
– October 23, 2019Posted in: Dateline Rice

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Texas House Speaker facing political scandal says he won’t run again
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 or interviewed in numerous media outlets about Texas politics.
The New York Times (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition and in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://nyti.ms/363C9a7
Is House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s planned departure good or bad for Texas Republicans?
The Dallas Morning News (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition.) 
http://bit.ly/2Jfm0US
Group calls for Brown to resign as controller over land deal
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2N3QwCt
Secret recording ends Texas House speaker’s political career
KTRK Online (This segment also aired on KTRK-TV in Houston.)
https://abc13.co/3613RUA
Texas Public Radio 
http://bit.ly/2BDVfWg (This segment aired on 25 affiliate radio stations across Texas.)
Texas Public Radio
http://bit.ly/32G2A3p (This segment aired on 25 affiliate radio stations across Texas.)
Texas Public Radio
http://bit.ly/2W94FTa (This segment aired on 25 affiliate radio stations across Texas.)

The top online MBAs: The best options now on the market
Rice is mentioned.
Forbes
http://bit.ly/2N6VHRX

9 worries that keep the natural-gas magnates awake at night
An article mentions an energy symposium at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Forbes
http://bit.ly/2PaoqrJ

Morning Digest: Democrat who helped keep GOP in charge of New York Senate now running for Congress
An article cites a Rice poll on Houston’s mayoral race.
Daily Kos
http://bit.ly/2BFpFHm

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Costs go up when freestanding ERs move in, Rice study finds
An article features new research by 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.
Houston Business Journal (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/368uOWK
Freestanding emergency departments increase local market spending on care
News-Medical.net (This and similar articles also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/2p6flpl
Community Health Choice to end coverage at Kelsey-Sebold for 2020
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition of the Chronicle’s Cypress Creek Mirror Champions/Klein, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/2IY31ON

Nanoracks to launch test on way to manufacturing in space
David Alexander, director of the Rice Space Institute and professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition.)
http://bit.ly/33QPnEU

Army Corps’ proposal for sand dunes in newest ‘Ike Dike’ plan brings questions about cost, feasibility
John Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition of the Chronicle’s Bay Area Citizen, Pearland Journal, Friendswood Journal, Pasadena Citizen and Deer Park Broadcaster. This story also appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/31h3YrO

Rice University proceeds with parking garage/retail building for the Ion project
Rice’s redevelopment of the historic Midtown Sears building into The Ion, the centerpiece of an innovation district that broke ground July 19, is featured.
Virtual Builders Exchange
http://bit.ly/33WbQR2

These TX universities are among the best in the world: US News
An article mentions that Rice is ranked No. 50 in the world based on academic research and overall reputation metrics according to U.S. News & World Report.
Cedar Park-Leander Patch

http://bit.ly/2pHFiM2

Houston university declared No. 1 in Texas in new college ranking
An article mentions that Rice is No. 1 in Texas and No. 13 in the nation according to WalletHub.
CultureMap Houston
http://bit.ly/2BCP44B

Study ranks Rice 13th-best university in the nation

KTRH.iheart.com (This article also appeared in KPRC Online.)
https://ihr.fm/2JdvRuu
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://bit.ly/31Dpy9Z
2020’s best colleges and universities in America — WalletHub reports
Rocket News
http://bit.ly/35Z2V3m

Internships at The Post Oak School: Education beyond the classroom
An article featuring Luke Kirchner mentions that he has an internship creating a Rice graduate course on block chain cryptocurrency.
The Buzz Magazines
http://bit.ly/2qEhMQr

Houston’s identity threatened by gentrification of historically black neighborhoods
An article cites research by Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
The Cougar
http://bit.ly/363IHWf

Outside the Megaplex: Here are the Houston art house movies showing Oct. 18-24
A roundup of alternative Houston-area movie theaters mentions that Rice Cinema will screen “The Nightingale” Oct. 18 and “Filipinx Film Night: A Celebration of the Filipino American Experience” Oct. 19.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition of the Chronicle’s Bellaire Examiner and Sugar Land Sun and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.) 
http://bit.ly/2OYDEjx

BROADCAST
Capping the cost of insulin; hate incidents at the U of I; election security; Chicago Red Stars reach finals
Richard Baker, executive director for institutional equity at Rice, is quoted.
Illinois Public Radio’s “The 21st” (This segment also aired on WILL-FM in Danville, Illinois, and WILL-AM in Urbana, Illinois.)
http://bit.ly/2MIFm7j

With Proposition 8, Texas would set money aside for future flooding
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, is quoted.
KHOU Online (This Texas Tribune article also appeared KYTX Online, KTSA Online, Insurance Journal, Hays Free Press and the Brownsville Herald, and it appeared in a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/32GoQtR

’13 Eyewitness News at 6 a.m.’
Rice’s Mariachi Luna Llena is featured. Brown College junior Zach Alvear and Andrea Galindo, who provides research and administrative support for Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics, are interviewed.
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://bit.ly/341cME1

Gov. Newsom the moderate? On this spectrum, almost every Democratic legislator is further left
An article mentions that Rice, UCLA and the University of Southern California co-wrote an algorithm to determine the left-right ideological spectrum of state legislators.
ABC 10 Online
http://bit.ly/35XMTGT

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Expert: Opioid settlements come with limitations
Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Medical Xpress
http://bit.ly/2Jgq1bK

Rice study assesses college leadership training programs

An article features Rice research that suggests a need for the comprehensive evaluation of higher education leadership development programs. Lead co-author and graduate student Denise Reyes is quoted.
Science Codex (This article also appeared in NewsCaf, Long Room and University Herald.)
http://bit.ly/32HLIJx

‘Magnetic topological insulator’ makes its own magnetic field
An article features collaborative Rice research into the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can become a magnetic topological insulator even when it is not placed in a magnetic field. Co-authors Pengcheng Dai, professor of physics and astronomy, and Jae-Ho Chung, a visiting professor at Rice, are quoted.
PlasticStar.io
http://bit.ly/33Wlgw8

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
China’s growing influence in Venezuela uncertain, speakers say
Francisco J. Monaldi, fellow in Latin American energy policy at the Center for Energy Studies, the Center for the United States and Mexico and the Latin America Initiative at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and a lecturer in energy economics at Rice, is quoted.
Oil & Gas Journal
http://bit.ly/35Z0wWo

New CBE professor Bardhan to bring image-guided techniques to fight against disease
Alumna Rizia Bardhan is featured. 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 mentioned.
Iowa State University News
http://bit.ly/2By7nb8

Music on the Hill Artist Series presents Suzanne Hatcher
Alumna Suzanne Hatcher, a graduate of Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, is featured.
MyBuckhannon.com
http://bit.ly/2MFWI4I

Outgoing US attorney: Opioid crisis forced record number of Dayton cases
Alumnus Benjamin Glassman is featured.
Dayton Daily News (This article appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline when it was first posted online.)
http://bit.ly/35UVt9k

Israel gets a boost from Israel21c’s digital ambassadors
An article mentions that students from Rice attended the Israel21c Digital Ambassador retreat.
Israel21c
http://bit.ly/2PeUISy

SPORTS
World Series
Rice is repeatedly mentioned and former Rice baseball player Anthony Rendon is featured during a broadcast of Game 1 of the World Series. Former head baseball coach Wayne Graham is quoted in the Houston Chronicle and WKYC Studios.
SportsNet East (Ontario, Canada)
http://bit.ly/2pKRgo9
Rendón vuelve a Houston, para enfrentar a Astros
The Associated Press (An English translation is not available. This and similar articles also appeared in more than 60 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/33Uxxkr
Former Rice coach supports former player, Nationals’ Anthony Rendon, and Astros
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/33SGIlw
http://bit.ly/35Z5hiq
Anthony Rendon’s college coach saw early greatness in Nationals star
WKYC Studios
http://bit.ly/2qFkDZt
From southwest Houston, Nationals star Rendon longs for taquerias and a title on work trip home for the World Series
La Vida Baseball
http://bit.ly/2Jida93
WORLD SERIES: Astros fall to Nationals in Game 1
ABC 13 Online 
https://abc13.co/2qyDzc8
Spotlight on the Nationals: The top 4 Nationals players to look out for
Click2Houston
http://bit.ly/2PeNAFB
‘News 4 at 5’
WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)
http://bit.ly/31EcgKk
‘ABC7 News at 4’
WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.)
http://bit.ly/2MIYZfv
WTOP-AM (Washington, D.C.)
http://bit.ly/32GipHd

Southern Miss renews offensive rivalry with Rice
An article previews the Oct. 26 football game between Rice and the University of Southern Mississippi.
Meridian Star
http://bit.ly/35XXvFJ

Dungee named to Ann Meyers Drysdale watch list
An article mentions that Rice’s women’s basketball player Erica Ogwumike is a candidate for the 2020 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which recognizes the top shooting guard in women’s NCAA Division I college basketball.
Arkansas Razorbacks News
http://bit.ly/2Paxr43

Cougars Mailbag: Can UH reach 6 wins for bowl eligibility?
An article mentions that Rice’s men’s basketball team will play the University of Houston Nov. 19 at Tudor Fieldhouse.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.) 
http://bit.ly/31HeubM

UTSA Men’s Tennis
An article mentions that Owls Karol Paluch and Russell Conrad competed in the Rice Fall Invitational at the George R. Brown Tennis Center Oct. 18-20.
The Paisano
http://bit.ly/2qyEeu8

Undefeated, upstart Baylor ready for Texas-sized challenge
An article mentions that Rice’s volleyball team defeated the University of Texas at Austin Sept. 18.
ESPN Australia
http://bit.ly/31EfH3L
With No. 1 Baylor threatening its Big 12 supremacy, No. 4 Texas hosts a top-five volleyball clash
Austin American-Statesman
http://bit.ly/2p8PBIR

BattleHawks to open on the road; home debut Feb. 23
Former Rice football player Jack Fox is mentioned.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://bit.ly/31FVASK

UTSA defensive linemen Henry, Haynes post standout performances
An article mentions that Rice’s football team was defeated by the University of Texas at San Antonio 31-27 Oct. 19.
San Antonio Express-News (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition.)
http://bit.ly/2pKvdxT

‘Everyone was in it together’: 30 years after allowing 1,021 yards to Houston, the 1989 SMU team is still revered
Rice’s football program is mentioned.
The Athletic (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2N5XgzE

Texans work out 3 long snappers, former Rice RB Austin Walter
Former Rice football player Austin Walter is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition, and similar articles also appeared in more than 30 other media outlets.)
http://bit.ly/35Z7A5f
http://bit.ly/2p61Beg

NEWS RELEASES
New North American trade deal has minor impacts on textiles, apparel and agriculture, says Baker Institute expert
Changes coming to the textiles, apparel and agriculture sectors under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement are relatively minor, although they reflect somewhat greater protectionism, particularly with textiles and apparel, according to a report from the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://bit.ly/31CqUBP

Baker Institute experts available to comment on President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reestablished the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after it had been dormant for nearly three years. The PCAST appointments are a strong indicator of Kelvin Droegemeier’s leadership as Trump’s chief scientific adviser, according to experts in the Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://bit.ly/2BFRO0Y

About Stefan De La Garza

Stefan De La Garza is a news analyst in Rice University's Office of Public Affairs.