NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Method gets more rare earth elements out of waste
Articles feature research by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering, that uses flash Joule heating to extract rare earth elements from industrial waste. Co-authors mentioned or quoted include postdoctoral researcher Bing Deng, graduate students Xin Wang and Zhe Wang, alumnus Duy Xuan Luong, undergraduate student Robert Carter and Mason Tomson, professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Futurity (Similar articles appeared in more than 25 other media outlets.)
https://bit.ly/3LuHo7m
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Rice University will move founder's statue to account for racist history
The Rice Board of Trustees has announced that the university will relocate the Founder's Memorial and add to it more information about its subject, William Marsh Rice, including his ownership of enslaved people. A new monument will be erected in the Academic Quadrangle to commemorate Rice's integration. President David Leebron and Robert Ladd, chair of the Rice Board of Trustees, are quoted.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3Loi2Ia
Two Republican legislators face familiar foes in suburban Houston-area districts
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. He is also quoted in an article featuring research on support for election reform in Texas and on radio broadcasts about politics.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News.)
https://bit.ly/3uHm48B
Support for election reform strong in Texas, UH survey finds
University of Houston News (This article also appeared in Mirage News.)
https://bit.ly/3GCHciI
Texas Public Radio
KSTX-FM (San Antonio)
https://bit.ly/35X4t24 (This segment aired five times across the Texas Public Radio network of stations.)
‘Texas Standard’
KUT-FM (Austin)
https://bit.ly/33dFxCq (This segment aired twice on KUT, KSTX-FM in San Antonio and KERA-FM in Dallas.)
WOAI-AM (San Antonio)
https://bit.ly/367FAkt
Rice University gas leak fixed, buildings safe to re-enter
Several articles feature a gas leak on campus Feb. 10.
KHOU
https://bit.ly/34A0sjU
Multiple Rice University buildings evacuated due to gas leak
KHOU
https://bit.ly/34LRhN0
Raw video: Aerials of Rice University after gas leak caused evacuations
KHOU
https://bit.ly/3uQzzmi
KHOU-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3rJHwIa
https://bit.ly/3uJjDSQ
https://bit.ly/3LrZnLD
Gas leak prompts evacuations at Rice University, officials confirm
KPRC
https://bit.ly/3LvvcTF
Gas leak prompts evacuations at Rice University
KRIV
https://bit.ly/3HMleLk
‘Fox 26 News’
KRIV-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/360TXa5
https://bit.ly/3HPBb3x
https://bit.ly/369myKz
Rice University gas leak fixed, buildings safe to reenter
KRBE
https://bit.ly/3Bj1Vam
UTSA graduates to the head of the class with new Tier One designation
An article mentions that Rice has Carnegie Tier One designation.
CultureMap San Antonio
https://bit.ly/3Bddfom
BROADCAST
‘KPRC Channel 2 News at 4 p.m.’
Jorge Barro, fellow in public finance at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, discusses inflation.
KPRC-TV (Houston)
https://bit.ly/3rGhTIk
S3, Ep. 11: Race and religious freedom
Anthony Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and founding director of Rice's Center for African and African American Studies, is featured.
BJC
https://bit.ly/34xtT60 (Scroll to “Segment 2.”)
Research!America special discussion with Neal F. Lane, Ph.D., senior fellow in S&T policy
Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed.
Research!America
https://bit.ly/34TrRgB
Episode 51: Ecological economics: Herman Daly ‘Science History’ podcast
Alumnus Herman Daly is featured.
“Science History” podcast
https://bit.ly/3BcSQQl
‘Fox 8 News at 4 p.m.’
A broadcast mentions that the Clutch app, which aims to help college students turn their skills into businesses, is open to Rice students.
WGHP-TV (Greensboro, North Carolina)
https://bit.ly/3Bjfy9w
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Rice University: Richard Baraniuk named to National Academy of Engineering
Richard Baraniuk, the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of statistics and computer science, is featured.
India Education Diary
https://bit.ly/3JfwjVE
Study: Black and Latino churchgoers turning to pastors for mental health services
An article features a new collaborative Rice study co-authored by graduate student Dan Bolger that found Black and Latino Christians often turn to their pastors for mental health care or information on mental health resources, even when those clergy feel ill-equipped to offer help or advice.
Black Enterprise (Similar articles appeared in Black Media Daily and Ministry Watch.)
https://bit.ly/3LsbfgE
New insight into unconventional superconductivity
An article mentions that experts at Rice collaborated on the featured research.
Science Daily
https://bit.ly/3GK7WxV
Simulation shows how blood flows through the heart
The view inside a beating heart is one not seen — or even seeable — until now, thanks to a new simulation. Tayfun Tezduyar, the James F. Barbour Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering, is quoted. Mentioned are former Rice research associate Kenji Takizawa and former visiting Ph.D. student Takuya Terahara, both now at Waseda University in Japan.
Medical Xpress
https://bit.ly/3rHLLUD
Rice University: Clearly, this heart beats strong
India Education Diary
https://bit.ly/3uMSAGn
Human miniature brain models may boost drug screening for neurological diseases
Omid Veiseh, assistant professor of bioengineering, and graduate student Samira Aghlara-Fotovat are mentioned.
Scienmag
https://bit.ly/34Tf7Gs
Houston Environmental News Update Feb. 9, 2022
A roundup of events mentions that Rachel Kimbro, dean of the School of Social Sciences, will discuss her book “In Too Deep” Feb. 17 during a Kinder Institute Urban Reads event.
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
https://bit.ly/3dXKJMY
Rice University: Rice Shepherd School alumna picks up first Oscar nomination
Alumna Germaine Franco ’84, who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for her work in Disney’s “Encanto,” is featured.
India Education Diary
https://bit.ly/3rRKPgJ
Rice University: Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6
An article previews the upcoming “Opening the Archives of the Impossible” conference at Rice. Jeffrey Kripal, associate dean in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, is quoted.
India Education Diary
https://bit.ly/3Bd7yqu
Will California’s new zoning promote racial and economic equity in Los Angeles?
Bill Fulton, director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
Urban Institute Blog
https://urbn.is/3GDRLSt
Maria Nicanor named director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
An article features Maria Nicanor, executive director of the Rice Design Alliance, who will be the next director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York beginning March 21.
Office Insight (A similar article appeared in Arquitectura Viva, and Nicanor’s move was also mentioned in a news roundup by Art Review.)
https://bit.ly/3GIO65W
A metal that heals itself
Rice research on a special alloy-coated steel that can repair itself is featured.
Heat Treat Today
https://bit.ly/3gCEGOX
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
The Olympics of college trivia is back
An article mentions that Brown College senior Jasmine Manansala competed in the 'Jeopardy!' National College Championship.
The Daily Campus
https://bit.ly/34PVOxM
TPC #705: Martha Fowler (brain tumor migration)
Graduate student Martha Fowler is featured.
One News Page
https://bit.ly/3HLdCZK
5 last-minute and inexpensive ideas for impressing a date — courtesy of It’s Just Lunch Houston
James Turrell's "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace on the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion is featured.
DatingAdvice.com
https://bit.ly/33eK8EB
Silicone harness improves COVID protection of standard surgical masks
Articles feature collaborative Rice research that found that adhesive silicone harnesses allow light surgical masks to match and sometimes exceed the federal safety standards for N95 and KN95 masks. Jacob Robinson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering, and graduate student Jeannette Ingabire are quoted in Medgadget.
Medgadget
https://bit.ly/34s5tLv
Creato speciale fissativo per mascherine mediche: si attacca al viso e dà maggiore protezione
Sputnik Italia (An English translation is not available.)
https://bit.ly/3BgG8jt
SPORTS
North Texas takes road win streak into matchup with Rice
The Rice men’s basketball team’s Feb. 12 game against the University of North Texas is previewed.
The Item (This Associated Press article also appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
https://bit.ly/3LojfPI
Katy ISD athletes sign with colleges/universities across the United States
An article mentions that Michael Amico has signed to play football at Rice.
The Katy News
https://bit.ly/3rGZsTD
‘Top Ten’
A segment on Hurricane Harvey features former Rice football player Paine Matiscik.
The Weather Channel
https://bit.ly/3HJKIJB
LOOK: USC quarterback Caleb Williams lands interesting new NIL deal
An article mentions Rice’s Sept. 3 football game against the University of Southern California.
On3
https://bit.ly/34Q23Sm
Today in Houston history, Feb. 11, 1968: Oilers announce plans to play at the Astrodome
An article mentions that the Houston Oilers played at Rice Stadium.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
https://bit.ly/3JjheCD
NEWS RELEASE
Clearly, this heart beats strong
We all want to know what goes on in the heart of a significant other, and never more than on Valentine’s Day. Well, here’s one way to look at it. The view inside a beating heart is one not seen — or even seeable — until now, according to Rice mechanical engineer Tayfun Tezduyar, who says such visualizations can help clinicians understand the mechanisms that push blood through the body and fix things when they go awry.
https://bit.ly/361f2Bf