Dateline Rice for Oct. 25, 2019

Stefan De La Garza
– October 30, 2019Posted in: Dateline Rice

FEATURED ITEM
How a university took on the textbook industry
OpenStax, a Rice-based publisher of open educational resources, is featured. Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founder of OpenStax, is quoted and pictured, and James Turrell’s “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace on the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion is pictured.
EdSurge (This article also appeared in Business Computing World.)
http://bit.ly/2WcEZVy

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Argentina’s foregone election and the Fernández administration
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, authored an op-ed on Argentina’s upcoming presidential election and is quoted on the subject by KERA. He is also quoted on Texas politics by the Dallas Morning News and on Chilean politics by Texas Standard.
The Hill
http://bit.ly/33ZkDSrf
KERA-FM (Dallas)
http://bit.ly/2PjggNV (This broadcast also aired on KSTX-FM in San Antonio and KUT-FM in Austin, Texas.)
Now that Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen won’t return, what happens to his $3 million PAC?
Dallas Morning News (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2Jfm0US
Chile’s violent protests have a lot to do with economic inequality
Texas Standard
http://bit.ly/33ZZOpV

Missing in action: The business school deans at Harvard and Wharton
Rice is mentioned.
Forbes
http://bit.ly/32NostI

HOUSTON/TEXAS
Rice launches new center for African American studies
Rice has announced the creation of a new center in response to increasing interest and expertise in African and African American Studies on campus. Anthony Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion, who will serve as founding director of the Center for African and African American Studies, is pictured and quoted. President David Leebron is pictured, and he and University Representative Y. Ping Sun are mentioned in a CultureMap Houston article.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News.)
http://bit.ly/2JojfRv
Houstonians swing opera and baseball at HGO’s dramatic opening night
CultureMap Houston
http://bit.ly/31NTeRK

Brad Jordan puts his Geto Boys past behind him to run for city council
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2Jk29nw

Reporter’s Notebook: Memories of Venezuela
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 in two articles.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2pcj5pe
Chevron wins 90-day Venezuela sanction waiver extension
Oil and Gas People
http://bit.ly/343FeFi

Startup hub launches downtown as innovation corridor advances
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.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/343mQMO

TCU beats cross-town rival on new list of top 10 universities in Texas
Articles mention that Rice is ranked No. 1 in Texas and No. 13 in the United States according to WalletHub.
CultureMap Fort Worth
http://bit.ly/2pcZK7v
2 Dallas universities name new list of top 10 schools in Texas
CultureMap Dallas
http://bit.ly/2WaBeA2

County takes hard line with recent state cannabis laws, CBD market grows despite lack of regulations
Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Community Impact Newspapers
http://bit.ly/31Oes1Q

Oak Ridge North private school develops STEM program with Texas A&M
Rice is mentioned.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News, Laredo Morning Times and Courier of Montgomery County.)
http://bit.ly/2WfRRug
http://bit.ly/340gwp0

BROADCAST
‘KPRC Channel 2 News at 6 p.m.’
Jimmy Disch, associate professor and director of sports analytics, is interviewed about the World Series.
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://bit.ly/33ZImSr

TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
The winner-takes-all tech corporation
Moshe Vardi, University Professor and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, a professor of computer science and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice, authored an article.
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
http://bit.ly/2Ne6mKF

Do health care costs rise or fall with freestanding emergency departments?
A Q&A 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. Study co-author Yingying Xu, an economics doctoral student at Rice, is mentioned.
MedicalResearch.com
http://bit.ly/2Pge3mh

ACM, IEEE Computer Society Recognize Charles E. Leiserson for Advances in Parallel Computing Systems
An article about the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award mentions it is named for the late Ken Kennedy, founder of Rice’s computer science program.
Association for Computing Machinery
http://bit.ly/31IF6cx

Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Bereshit with Rabbi David Whiman
An article mentions that Rabbi David Whiman formerly taught at Rice.
Jewish Journal
http://bit.ly/2pcj5pe

Class of 2019: Capt. John Bonds
Alumnus John Bonds is featured.
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
http://bit.ly/2Jm12E8

Louisiana’s annual Festival of Words bringing three acclaimed writers to Grand Coteau Nov. 1-2
Rice is mentioned.
Louisiana Book News
http://bit.ly/2MKIC1K

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
W. Caleb McDaniel’s ‘Sweet Taste of Liberty’
Caleb McDaniel, associate professor of history and author of “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution,” is featured.
The Page 99 Test
http://bit.ly/2NfSi3h

This Week at Baylor: Oct. 27-Nov. 2
Baylor University’s School of Music will host Leone Buyse, Mullen Professor of flute at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music, as part of its Lyceum Series Nov. 1-2 in Waco.
Baylor University News
http://bit.ly/361UHY7

Is glue the answer to climate change?
Andrew Barron, professor emeritus of chemistry, is mentioned.
True Viral News
http://bit.ly/2BJdHwM

World Class: MCE among top five emerging entrepreneurship centers in the world
Rice’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is mentioned.
Gazette
http://bit.ly/2p9vlqw

Obituary: David William Miller, CMU history professor, expert on Ireland
Alumnus David Miller died Oct. 20 at 79.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (This article also appeared in the Oct. 24 print edition.)
http://bit.ly/366ncUA

Women Leading The AI Industry: ‘Inaction is also a choice, and inaction has impacts’ with Dyan Gibbens and Tyler Gallagher
A 2015 drone camp at Rice is mentioned.
Authority Magazine
http://bit.ly/2NbAJkZ

Sound and touch collide
Tony Ro, former professor of psychology, is featured.
Medium (This article originally appeared in Nautilus.)
http://bit.ly/2pRRtWu

SPORTS
College football preview: Southern Mississippi at Rice
Rice’s Oct. 26 football game against the University of Southern Mississippi is featured or mentioned in multiple media outlets.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://bit.ly/2BEVPTF
http://bit.ly/2MLG03E
Choosing C-USA: Week 9
Underdog Dynasty
http://bit.ly/2pQ6XdK
WDAM-TV (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
http://bit.ly/2JntxRF (This segment aired twice.)
http://bit.ly/2p4mfLZ (This segment aired twice.)

Punting it from Presbyterian Panther to Rice Owl
Rice football player Adam Nunez is featured. Head coach Mike Bloomgren is mentioned.
The Buzz Magazines
http://bit.ly/32NsB0M

Fox Sports 1
Former Rice baseball player Anthony Rendon is featured. He is mentioned in an NCAA.com article.
http://bit.ly/369S9r8
World Series 2019: Here’s where the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals played college baseball
NCAA.com
http://bit.ly/31KVglQ

NEWS RELEASE
Rice U. expert available to discuss Sunday’s Argentina presidential election
As Argentinians prepare to go to the polls this weekend to select a new president, Rice’s Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and a professor in the Department of Political Science, is available to comment on what we can expect to unfold.
http://bit.ly/2pQdkO4

About Stefan De La Garza

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