NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
The inflation prices that broke us
Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Vox (This article also appeared in MSN Money and the Globe Echo.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-dholakia
Will it soon be too hot for Texas football?
An article features collaborative Rice research that surveyed coaches and athletics officials in Texas about how they are planning to address the risks their students face as the climate changes. Co-author Sylvia Dee, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, is quoted.
Futurity (This article was also featured in the "Futurity Today" newsletter.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-dee
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston Health Department earns CDC designation as Center of Excellence for wastewater epidemiology
Several articles feature the announcement that the COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program between Rice, the Houston Health Department and other local institutions has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a National Wastewater Surveillance System Center of Excellence. Loren Hopkins, professor in the practice of statistics, President Reginald DesRoches and Kathy Ensor, the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Urban Data Platform, are quoted.
City of Houston News
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-hopkins-desroches-ensor
Houston Health Department earns CDC designation as Center of Excellence for wastewater epidemiology
Click2Houston
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-c2h
Houston to begin monitoring monkeypox case levels through wastewater
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-hc
'KPRC Channel 2 News'
KPRC-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-kprc
'Fox 26 News'
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-kriv (This segment aired five times.)
Rastrearán presencia de la viruela del mono en aguas residuales de Houston
Telemundo Houston (An English translation is not available. This segment also aired on KXLN-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-tm
Democrats seek to reshape global supply chains for clean energy through spending bill
Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts fellow in energy and environmental affairs at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-collins
Why this new San Jacinto College building is getting plenty of attention
An article mentions that Rice's new Hanszen College is a large-scale mass timber project designed by Kirksey Architecture.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-hc
BROADCAST
'TWC News All Night'
Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about a proposal to establish a wind farm off the coast of Galveston.
Spectrum News Austin (This segment aired twice.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-medlock
'TWC News All Morning'
Spectrum News Austin (This segment aired 11 times.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-medlock
'Houston's Morning 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 interviewed about Texas' political landscape regarding abortion rights.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-jones
FTC says Opendoor must pay $62 million after cheating homesellers
David Zhang, assistant professor of finance at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Fox 26 Online (This segment also aired on KRIV-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-zhang
KNX-AM (Los Angeles)
Patrick Hartigan, professor of physics and astronomy, is interviewed about recent news that Earth is spinning faster.
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-hartigan (This segment aired eight times.)
KGO-AM (San Francisco)
David Brockman, nonresident scholar in the Religion and Public Policy Program at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about the rise of Christian nationalism.
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-brockman
University engineers use dead spiders as mechanical grippers
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.
WGAL Online (This article also appeared in more than 20 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-preston-yap
Rice University researchers are turning dead spiders into 'necrobots'
Houston Chronicle (This article also appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-preston-yap
'News 9 Daybreak'
WMUR-TV (Manchester, New Hampshire)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-wmur
Harris County takes issue with latest election audit (Aug. 4, 2022)
Stephen Fox, lecturer of architecture, is interviewed about the design of some of downtown Houston's most iconic buildings.
Houston Public Media (This segment also aired on KUHF-FM in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-fox
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Eni Award: 2022 winners named
An article mentions that 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, and Peter Nordlander, the Wiess Chair in Physics and Astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, are recipients of the Eni Awards' Energy Transition Award for the their innovations for decarbonizing the energy system. The award will be presented in Rome in the fall.
Eni.com (This article also appeared in Market Screener.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-halas-nordlander
Eni Award: Ecco i vincitori, da rinnovabili a decarbonizzazione
Ansa.it (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-halas-nordlander
Mixed reality headset helps measure forests
An article features Rice research developing VegSense, a Microsoft HoloLens set up as a mixed-reality sensor to measure understory vegetation. Co-authors quoted include Lydia Beaudrot, assistant professor of biosciences, and graduate student Daniel Gorczynski.
GCN
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-beaudrot-gorczynski
BEYA STEM world rocks on exceptional service to human spaceflight missions
Alumna Rosa Ávalos-Warren, the Human Spaceflight Mission Manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is featured.
U.S. Black Engineer
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-warren
Angarita joins Vow'd Weddings as VP
Rice is mentioned.
Ledger
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-ledger
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Researchers 3D-print first high-performance nanostructured alloy that's both ultrastrong and ductile
An article mentions that experts at Rice collaborated on the featured research.
Georgia Tech University News Center
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-gtu
Rising Deerfield High senior promotes happiness, well-being in app
Rice is mentioned.
Patch (Deerfield, Illinois; this article also appeared in MSN Health.)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-patch
Franci Neely reflects on the philanthropic efforts she's most proud of
An article features Franci Neely, a member of the Baker Institute for Public Policy Board of Advisors.
Native News Online
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-neely
SPORTS
'Wake Up! with SallyMac & Lina'
Several broadcasts feature the start of Rice football's fall training camp. The first segment interviews head coach Mike Bloomgren, and Rick Mello, deputy athletic director, is interviewed in the second segment. The Owls are slated to play their first game of the season against the University of Southern California Sept. 3.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-bloomgren
'Houston's Morning Show'
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-mello
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-owls
Cameron Dicker ain't here anymore; who's got the leg up for Texas' kicking duties?
An article mentions last season's football game between Rice and the University of Texas at Austin.
Austin American-Statesman
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-aastatesman
FAU women's soccer announces 2022 schedule
An article mentions that Rice's soccer team is slated to play Florida Atlantic University Sept. 29.
University Press
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-up
2022 summer Junior Nationals: Day 3 finals live recap
An article mentions that Rice swimmer Arielle Hayon competed in the Junior Nationals tournament.
SwimSwam
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-hayon
SF Giants add positional versatility in trade with the Tampa Bay Rays
An article features former Rice baseball player Ford Proctor.
Fansided
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-proctor
NEWS RELEASES
Rice lab’s 'drug factory' implants cleared for human trials
Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing "drug factory" implants created in the laboratory of Rice bioengineer Omid Veiseh. Veiseh and collaborators showed they could use the implants to eradicate advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice in as little as six days.
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-news-release-veiseh
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 2 startups
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator's second annual class will put a spotlight on 17 early- to mid-stage startups that collectively have already raised more than $54.5 million. The annual 10-week program, which kicks off alongside the university's Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum in September, is Houston's preeminent clean energy startup accelerator.
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-news-release-rice-alliance
Water can't touch this sanded, powdered surface
The labs of Rice professors C. Fred Higgs III and James Tour, co-corresponding authors of a paper in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, showed that sanding a surface increases its ability to shed water without getting wet. But grinding in a powder at the same time gives it hydrophobic superpowers.
http://dateline.rice/aug-4-news-release-higgs-tour