NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Scientists create early embryos that are part human, part monkey
Kirstin Matthews, fellow in science and technology policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted and interviewed.
NPR's "All Things Considered" (This segment aired on more than 900 affiliate stations across the U.S. and more than 60 stations on ABC News Radio in Australia, and this article appeared in more than 200 other media outlets. This story appeared in yesterday's Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-matthews
For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are part human and part monkey
The Hill
http://dateline.rice/april-16-matthews
Human-monkey hybrid embryo created by joint China-US scientist team
Newsweek
http://dateline.rice/april-16-matthews
I got back on the bus yesterday. And it was fine.
Bill Fulton, director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, authored a column.
Medium
http://dateline.rice/april-16-fulton
Daily on Energy: China would have to cut coal carbon emissions in half by 2030 to fulfill pledge
Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at the Baker Institute for Public Policy's Center for Energy Studies, is quoted.
Washington Examiner
http://dateline.rice/april-16-finley
Saint Joseph Academy seniors gain university acceptance
Rice is mentioned.
Yahoo! News
http://dateline.rice/april-16-yn
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston-born astronaut commands of International Space Station
Several articles and broadcasts feature astronaut and alumna Shannon Walker.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared on the front of the City/State section in the April 16 print edition and yesterday's Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker
'13 Eyewitness News'
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker
'KPRC Channel 2 News'
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker (This segment aired twice.)
'Fox 26: The News Edge'
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker (This segment aired three times.)
'KHOU 11 News'
KHOU-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker (This segment aired five times.)
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker
http://dateline.rice/april-16-walker
Opinion: Larry McMurtry doubted his greatness as a writer. He was wrong.
Terrence Doody, professor emeritus of English, authored an op-ed about the late Larry McMurtry, alumnus and former Rice lecturer, who died March 25 at 84.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This op-ed also appeared in the April 16 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-doody-mcmurtry
Editorial: The pile-up at the border may not be Biden's fault, but fixing it is his responsibility
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.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the April 16 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones
Las Vegas Sands spends millions to push for Texas casinos despite the odds
Casino.org (This article also appeared in East Texas Radio.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones
Casino powerhouse betting big on Texas
MSN Lifestyle (This article originally appeared in Radio.com)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones
KLBJ-AM (Austin)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones (This segment aired twice.)
KRLD-AM (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones
Severe weather this summer could cause another Texas power crisis
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted, and he is cited in broadcasts by WBAP and Houston Public Media.
The Texas Tribune (This article also appeared in more than 50 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cohan
WBAP-AM (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cohan
Lessons learned from chemical disasters past (April 16, 2021)
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cohan
Energy transition will shake up, benefit Permian Basin
Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts fellow in energy and environmental affairs at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-collins
Kinetic Ensemble, Houston Contemporary Dance team for outdoor event
An article features alumna Bree Ahern, a graduate of Rice's Shepherd School of Music.
Houston Chronicle's "Preview" (Subscription is required. This appeared in the April 16 print edition and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-ahern
Acton 8th-grader named honorary council member
Rice is mentioned.
Hood County News
http://dateline.rice/april-16-hcn
For Selena, on her 50th birthday
An article mentions President John F. Kennedy’s “moon speech,” which was delivered at Rice Sept. 12, 1962.
Houstonia
http://dateline.rice/april-16-kennedy
5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week
A roundup features the April 6-9 Rice Business Plan Competition.
Innovation Map
http://dateline.rice/april-16-rbpc
BROADCAST
'Talk of Alabama'
Rice is mentioned.
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham, Alabama)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-abc33
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Attacks on critical race theory are 'attempt to maintain the status quo'
An article features remarks by Anthony Pinn, founding director of Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies and the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, who participated in the Baptist Joint Committee's virtual discussion "Religious Liberty Has Been White Too Long: Voices of Black Scholars" as part of the 2021 Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty April 14.
Baptist News Global
http://dateline.rice/april-16-pinn
Black scholars offer differing perspectives on religious freedom
Baptist Standard
http://dateline.rice/april-16-pinn
Bioengineer to use $2M grant to study gene editing for CF
An article mentions that Xue Sherry Gao, the T.N. Law Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a four-year National Institutes of Health R01 grant of more than $2 million to adapt tools developed by her lab that increase the accuracy of CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing to repair mutations responsible for cystic fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis News Today
http://dateline.rice/april-16-gao
The seven components of team effectiveness
An article features research by Eduardo Salas, chair and professor of psychological sciences.
Campus Lately
http://dateline.rice/april-16-salas
Future100: Architecture students explore new frontiers in visualization
An article features graduate student Tian Liu, who was nominated for inclusion in Metropolis' Future100.
Metropolis
http://dateline.rice/april-16-liu
Kelley tops Princeton Review 2021 Online MBA Rankings
An article mentions that Rice's online MBA program, MBA@Rice, is ranked No. 6 in the nation on the Princeton Review's 2021 Online MBA Rankings list.
Poets & Quants
http://dateline.rice/april-16-jones-school
'Symphonic Roar: An Odyssey of Sound from the Paris Conservatoire'
An article mentions the 84-rank Fisk/Rosales organ at Rice's Shepherd School of Music.
Gramophone
http://dateline.rice/april-16-shepherd-school
Smartphone camera senses patients' pulse, breathing rate
An article mentions that Rice researchers are developing a device that monitors vehicle drivers for heart attacks.
IEEE Spectrum
http://dateline.rice/april-16-ieeespec
Majority of Texas patients prefer medical cannabis over prescription drugs
An article features a study by Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy that found 61% of respondents in Texas who self-identified as medical marijuana consumers have used it to replace prescription medications.
Weed Life
http://dateline.rice/april-16-baker-study
'We're just wasting energy': UT Arlington research aims to commercialize new green technology
An article mentions that SeebeckCell shared a $20,000 in-kind prize at the 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition.
The Business Journals' NTX Inno
http://dateline.rice/april-16-rbpc
Baker Institute updates interactive China energy infrastructure map
An article features the China Energy Map developed by Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, an open-source, interactive chart of the country’s energy infrastructure.
Journal of Petroleum Technology
http://dateline.rice/april-16-baker-study
The role and potential of CPUs in deep learning
An article cites Rice research into accelerating large-scale deep learning systems.
HPCWire
http://dateline.rice/april-16-hpc
Business leaders concerned with Biden tax hike plan
An article features collaborative Rice research into the possible effects of increasing the corporate tax rate to 28%.
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cbia
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
GOP governor hopeful visits South Boston
Alumnus Glenn Youngkin is featured.
The Gazette-Virginian
http://dateline.rice/april-16-youngkin
MIT student startup co-founded by Koz native wins $502,000
An article mentions that a technology aimed at reducing pesticide use won second place at the Rice Business Plan Competition.
Times of India
http://dateline.rice/april-16-rbpc
University of Hartford leadership fails its athletes, coaches and alums
Rice is mentioned.
The Day (This article appeared in the April 15 print edition and yesterday's Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-td
How to meditate
An article mentions that Rice offers the course Foundations of Mindfulness on Coursera.
Sun Sentinel
http://dateline.rice/april-16-suns
SPORTS
WSOC: C-USA — Rice 0, Southern Miss 0 (Rice 5-3 PKs)
Rice's soccer team advanced to the Conference USA Women’s Soccer Championship title game by defeating the University of Southern Mississippi 5-3 on penalty kicks April 15. Owls Delaney Schultz, Bella Killgore and Catarina Albuquerque are highlighted.
Conference USA (A similar article also appeared in Top Drawer Soccer.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cusa
Soccer falls to No. 25 Rice in the C-USA semifinal to penalty kicks
University of Southern Mississippi Athletics News
http://dateline.rice/april-16-usm
WSOC: C-USA — Charlotte 2, WKU 0
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-16-cusa
SWIM: C-USA announces swimming and diving superlative awards
An article features Owl Imogen Meers, who was named Conference USA's Freshman Swimmer of the Year.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-16-meers
OTF: April 14 Athletes of the Week
An article features Rice track and field athlete Michelle Fokam, who was named Conference USA's Female Field Athlete of the Week.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-16-fokam
TEN: April 14 Athletes of the Week
An article features Rice's Mohamed Abdel-Aziz, who was named Conference USA's Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week.
Conference USA
http://dateline.rice/april-16-abdelaziz
Women's volleyball sweeps North Carolina A&T in NCAA second round
An article mentions that Rice's volleyball's team was forced to withdraw from the NCAA Tournament because of COVID-19 protocols.
GoPSUSports.com (Similar articles also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-psu
Twins minor league report: Depth camp opportunities
An article features former Rice baseball player Matt Canterino.
Twins Daily
http://dateline.rice/april-16-canterino
College football recruiting: 12 underrated 2022 prospects in Texas coaches are watching
Former Rice football player Bert Emanuel is mentioned.
The Athletic
http://dateline.rice/april-16-emanuel
Regular season closes Sunday
An article mentions that Rice's women's tennis team is slated to play the University of Houston April 18.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/april-16-uhc
Arizona picks Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd over former player Damon Stoudamire
An article features former Rice basketball director of player development Damon Stoudamire.
Recordnet.com (This article also appeared in the April 16 print edition of the Lodi News-Sentinel.)
http://dateline.rice/april-16-rn
NEWS RELEASE
Competition, not cooperation, will incentivize emissions reductions in China, says Baker Institute expert
The United States should compete with China on climate change initiatives rather than cooperate with its insincere regime, according to an analysis co-authored by Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Affairs at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
http://dateline.rice/april-16-news-release-collins