COVID-19 PANDEMIC
'The NewsEdge: Early Edition'
A broadcast mentions that Houston-area universities, including Rice, are competing to register the most students and alumni to receive a vaccine.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-kriv
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Rice University announces student body expansion
An article and broadcast detail Rice's plans to expand its student body by 20% by 2025, which will include a 12th residential college, a new engineering building, a building for the visual and dramatic arts and a new student center. President David Leebron is quoted in the broadcast by KTRH.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in ABC 13 Online, and this segment aired four times on KTRK-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-yahoo!
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-leebron (This segment aired six times.)
Texas lawmakers are using the blackouts to make fossil fuel dreams come true
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Gizmodo
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-cohan
This cannibal shows selfishness evolves
Rice research on insects has revealed that less selfish behavior evolved under living conditions that forced individuals to interact more frequently with siblings. Co-author Volker Rudolf, professor of biosciences, is quoted.
Futurity
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-rudolf
Why people don't always speak up at work
An article cites a 2019 Rice study into the effect of the language leaders use when declining to endorse employee suggestions.
Forbes on Medium
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-forbes
28 fully funded Ph.D. programs
Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business is featured.
Yahoo! News
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-jones-school
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Opinion: Insurance reforms would protect most vulnerable patients
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, is quoted.
Austin American-Statesman (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-ho
Gigantic space hurricane with 4,000 mph winds stalled above Earth, new research shows
Patricia Reiff, professor of physics and astronomy and the associate director of the outreach program at the Rice Space Institute, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the March 31 print editions of the Chronicle's Bellaire Examiner and Memorial Examiner and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-30-reiff
Greentown Houston announces grand opening, clean energy accelerators open apps, and more innovation news
A roundup mentions that the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship has opened applications for the inaugural cohort of its Clean Energy Accelerator.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-rice-alliance
Moon bases could feature mile-high skyscrapers
Graduate student Asa Stahl authored an article.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-stahl
Jindal grad programs among highlights in US News & World Report rankings
An article mentions that Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering is ranked No. 29 in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report.
The University of Texas at Dallas News
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-utd
BROADCAST
The future of voting in Texas
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, is interviewed.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-stein
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Kumon or Montessori? It may depend on your politics, according to new study of 8,500 parents
Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a study co-authored by Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Science Daily
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-mittal
Three women making a splash in electrical engineering
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 featured.
All About Circuits
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-halas
Researchers convert old tires into graphene to strengthen concrete
Rice scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted.
Slash Gear
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-tour
'Frugal design' brings medical innovations to communities that lack resources during the pandemic
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, professor of bioengineering and director of the Rice 360º Institute for Global Health, co-authored an article.
Stuff
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-richardskortum
Texas: Survey finds that 61% of self-identified medical cannabis consumers report substituting it for 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.
Norml
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-baker-study
Oracle announces Cloud Lift migration service for moving workloads to its cloud
Rice is mentioned.
Silicon Angle
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-sa
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
FL1 DAILY: Selling infrastructure is a lot more challenging if it's not personal (podcast)
Bill Fulton, director of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is featured on a podcast.
FingerLakes1.com
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-fulton
SPORTS
Rice adding West Coast elements to its offense this spring
An article features Rice's football team. Head coach Mike Bloomgren is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the March 31 print edition.)http://dateline.rice/mar-31-bloomgren
'NewsWest 9'
A broadcast mentions that Rice's women's basketball team won the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, the first such title in school history.
KWES-TV (Odesssa, Texas)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-wnit-champs (This segment aired twice.)
Reflections on life on the Hilltop with cross-country senior Michael Chaplin
An article mentions that the Lone Star Conference track meet will be co-hosted by Rice.
Hilltop Views
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-hv
Texas A&M baseball team shuts out eighth-ranked Texas 2-0 at fuller Blue Bell Park
An article mentions that Rice's baseball team defeated Texas A&M University 2-1 March 23.
The Eagle
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-tamu
Aggies shut out No. 5 Longhorns in midweek rivalry matchup, 2-0
TexAgs
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-ta
Men’s tennis goes 1-1 over weekend, women drop lone match to North Texas
An article mentions that Rice's men's tennis team is slated to play the University of Texas at San Antonio April 4.
The Paisano
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-tp
No. 7 men's tennis preview: No. 6 Texas A&M
An article mentions that Rice's men's tennis team played the University of Texas at Austin March 12.
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-ts
Turati named Big 12 women's tennis player of the week
An article mentions that Rice's women's tennis team played the University of Texas at Austin March 27.
TexasSports.com
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-ts
Bohls: Texas taking its sweet time, still pursuing Chris Beard
Former Rice football player Calvin Anderson is mentioned.
Austin American-Statesman (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-anderson
UTSA baseball opens conference play, takes three of four over Rice
An article mentions that Rice's baseball team lost three out of four games in its weekend series against the University of Texas at San Antonio at Reckling Park.
The Paisano
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-tp
Peterson dedicates NCAA success to friend who died
Former Rice basketball player Drew Peterson is featured.
Libertyville Patch
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-lp
NEWS RELEASE
Carter Center and Rice’s Baker Institute launch panel discussion series on US election reform
Next week, The Carter Center and Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy are launching "The Carter-Baker Commission: 16 Years Later," a series of five virtual events focused on key issues affecting U.S. elections and potential reforms. The panel discussions will look at key recommendations made in the 2005 Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform and will use them to frame deeper discussions about emerging electoral reform issues.
http://dateline.rice/mar-31-news-release-baker-panel