NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Mexico sees its energy future in fossil fuels, not renewables
Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
The New York Times (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-payan
Falling oil prices defy predictions. But what about the next chapter?
Mark Finley, fellow in energy and global oil at the Baker Institute for Public Policy's Center for Energy Studies, is quoted.
The New York Times (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the print edition of The New Zealand Herald and yesterday's Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-finley
'Technomancer' scientists make robot zombies out of dead spiders
An article features collaborative Rice research that repurposed deceased spiders as mechanical grippers. Co-authors Daniel Preston, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and graduate student Faye Yap are quoted.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in Dornob.com.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-preston-yap
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston Methodist to open health innovation center in the Ion
An article about a partnership between Houston Methodist and the Ion, a Houston-based tech accelerator owned by the Rice Management Co. (RMC), quotes Jan Odegard, executive director of the Ion, and Bryson Grover, investment manager of real estate development for the RMC.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-odegard-grover
Texans trust GOP for border and economic policy, but not on abortion and guns, polls show
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science, fellow in political science at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the City/State section in the Aug. 17 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-jones
WOAI-AM (San Antonio)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-jones
Spring teen surprised with new prosthetic leg made just for running, which insurance doesn't pay for
An article mentions that a mobility clinic was held at Rice's Waltrip Indoor Training Center for more than 20 people with lower limb loss or limb difference.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the Aug. 17 print edition of the Chronicle's Cypress Creek Mirror and a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-hc
Landlord that got $1M in COVID funds, then failed to pay water bill, fights evicted tenants in court
An article cites research by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research that found two-thirds of Harris County residents did not have $400 in savings to cover an unexpected cost.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front page of the Aug. 17 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-hc
BROADCAST
Ep. 1109B — Chemotherapies that target mitochondria: New leukemia killing compounds
A podcast features Natasha Kirienko, assistant professor of biosciences, whose collaborative research discovered potential new drugs that work in concert with established drugs to treat leukemia.
RadioMD.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kirienko
Oak leaves' wild secrets: What goes on inside galls
A podcast features Scott Solomon, associate teaching professor in biosciences, and Scott Egan, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. Egan also mentions his research with graduate student Pedro Brandão-Dias that led to the newly classified wasp species N. valhalla, which was discovered on the Rice campus.
City Cast Houston on Google Podcasts
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-solomon-egan-dias
Flood control goes green: How Houston is using nature to combat 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.
Texas Standard
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-blackburn
'The Frankie Boyer Radio Show'
Alumnus Dan Flanigan is featured in a broadcast about his career as a lawyer and writer.
WGCH-AM (Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-flanigan
Alec Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller, 'Inventor of the Future’
A broadcast mentions that scientists at Rice discovered buckminsterfullerenes, or "buckyballs," a new form of carbon, in 1985.
KQED Online (This segment also aired twice on KQED-FM in San Francisco and Sant Rosa, California, KQEI-FM in Sacramento and KCRW-FM in Los Angeles.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kqed
'NBC 5 News'
A broadcast features late alumnus Paul Burka, who died Aug. 14 at 80.
KXAS-TV (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-burka
Upending conventional wisdom on carbon pricing in the power sector, with Ryan Kellogg
A podcast features alumnus Ryan Kellogg.
Resources Radio
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kellogg
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
2D boundaries could create electricity
An article features collaborative Rice research into piezoelectricity, the phenomenon by which mechanical energy turns into electrical energy, across phase boundaries of two-dimensional materials. Co-authors quoted or mentioned include Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry; Hanyu Zhu, assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering; research scientists Anand Puthirath and Xiang Zhang; graduate student Rui Xu; and alumni Tianyi Zhang and Fu Zhang.
Newswise
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-ajayan-zhu-et-al
'Impossible' material on Mars: Rare mineral found — proof of more complex volcanic history
An article features collaborative Rice research that found that a volcanic eruption on Mars produced a rare mineral, a mystery that had puzzled scientists for six years. Kirsten Siebach, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and postdoctoral researcher Valerie Payré are quoted.
World Nation News
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-siebach-payre
Don Young net worth: How rich is this person in 2022!
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is quoted.
The Current
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-brinkley
Rydberg atoms: quantum electric field sensors
Barry Dunning, the Sam and Helen Worden Professor of Physics, authored an article.
Open Access Government
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-dunning
Industry engagement leaders share keys to expanding partnerships into philanthropy
Leah Aschmann, director of corporate and foundation relations, is quoted.
Tech Transfer Central
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-aschmann
Researchers at colleges and universities look to address the gun violence epidemic
An article mentions that the Baker Institute for Public Policy held a symposium on preventing firearm-related injury and death earlier this year.
Insight Into Diversity (This article also appeared in the print and digital editions.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-iid
Price-fixing case ensnaring MIT, Brown and other prominent schools will proceed
An article mentions that a federal lawsuit names Rice among 16 universities and colleges accused of working together to reduce the financial aid they give to students.
Boston Business Journal (This article also appeared in Triangle Business Journal.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-bbj
Price-fixing lawsuit against 568 Group of top-ranked universities can continue, judge rules
Higher Ed Dive
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-hed
4 cheap alternatives to buying college textbooks
An article mentions OpenStax, a Rice-based publisher of open educational resources.
Yahoo! Finance (This Go Banking Rates article also appeared in Yahoo! Sports Canada.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-yf
Work begins on next generation of battlefield obscurants
An article mentions that experts at Rice have partnered with Raytheon Technologies Research Center to develop passive asymmetry technology, which will allow one-way vision through obscurant materials.
DARPA.mil
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-darpa
Jennifer Curran elected to Energy Systems Integration Group board of directors
Alumna Jennifer Curran is featured.
Informed Infrastructure
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-curran
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Early childhood lead exposure, exacerbated by structural racism, results in lower reading scores
An article features collaborative research by Kathy Ensor, the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Urban Data Platform, and Daniel Kowal, the Dobelman Family Assistant Professor of Statistics.
Notre Dame News
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-ensor-kowal
Trinidad y Hermano, the only cigar factory in the interior of the island
Alumnus Diego Jesús Trinidad is featured.
Libre
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-trinidad
SPORTS
The Lone Star 50: No. 11 Ikenna Enechukwu a menace for Rice defense
Rice football player Ikenna Enechukwu is featured.
Dave Campbell's Texas Football
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-enechukwu
2022 Rice Owls football season preview: Offense
An article features Rice football ahead of its first game of the season against the University of Southern California Sept. 3. Head coach Mike Bloomgren is quoted, and assistant coach Marques Tuiasosopo is mentioned.
SB Nation
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-bloomgren-tuiasosopo
AP top 25 reality check: Pouring caution on that optimism
SouthernMinn.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-usc
Preseason college football power rankings: Alabama once again starts the season at No. 1
ABC 11 Online
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-usc
Streete-Thompson inducted into Southwest Conference Hall of Fame
An article mentions that former Rice track and field athlete Kareem Streete-Thompson was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Aug. 16.
GoUTSA.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-thompson
Betsy Mitchell inducted into Southwest Conference Hall of Fame
TexasSports.com (This article also appeared in BaylorBears.com.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-thompson
Heroes come in all sizes: The outsized impact of 'Little' Dickey Kerr
The late Dickey Kerr, former Rice head baseball coach, is featured.
The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America on NewsBreak
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kerr
A new era for North Texas volleyball
An article mentions that Rice's volleyball team is slated to play the University of North Texas Sept. 30.
MeanGreenSports.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-mgs
Historical look at Arkansas preseason rankings
An article mentions that Rice's football team tied the University of Arkansas in 1971.
Last Word on Sports
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-lwos
Long road ahead: UTEP basketball teams will face 20-game C-USA schedule
An article mentions that Rice's men's basketball team is slated to play the University of Texas at El Paso in January, while the women's team is slated to play the Miners Dec. 31 and Jan. 14.
El Paso Times (This article also appeared in KTSM Online.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-ept
Fall 2022 high school football preview: EBAL Mountain Division
An article mentions Rice running backs coach C.J. Anderson.
The Mercury News (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-anderson
Preseason football rankings for Dallas-area 5A schools ahead of the 2022 season
Rice is mentioned.
The Dallas Morning News
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-tdmn
Rams cut 5 players including QB Luis Perez: NFL tracker
Rice football player Austin Trammell is featured.
Sports Illustrated's Ram Digest
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-trammell
20 storylines to follow heading into the 2022 CFB season
An article mentions that Rice will join the American Athletic Conference.
YardBarker
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-aac
AAC football preview 2022: Can Cincinnati hold off Houston, UCF for a 3-peat?
The Athletic (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-aac
Fort Worth-area high school volleyball results and scores from Tuesday, Aug. 16
An article mentions that Stephanie Gutierrez has committed to play volleyball at Rice.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-fwst
St. Pete showcase highlights non-con slate
An article mentions that Rice's women's basketball team is slated to play the University of Houston Dec. 10.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-uhc
Wyoming's un-Sweet 16: No. 8 CSU's Bell twins vs. No. 9 Karl Benson
An article mentions that Rice was part of the Western Athletic Conference from 1996-2004.
KGAB Online
http://dateline.rice/aug-17-kgab