FEATURED ITEMS
Vanderbilt's Tommy McClelland named athletics director at Rice
An article features the news that Tommy McClelland will be Rice's new athletics director beginning Aug. 14. The Associated Press quotes President Reginald DesRoches and mentions former director Joe Karlgaard. Tanner Gardner, Rice's senior associate director and chief operating officer, is mentioned in two articles.
The Associated Press (Below is a sampling of articles that appeared in 100 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-desroches-mcclelland
Rice hires Tommy McClelland from Vanderbilt as new AD
ESPN
http://dateline.rice/july-31-desroches-mcclelland
Rice names Tommy McClelland as athletics director
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared on the front of the Sports section in the July 31 print edition.) http://dateline.rice/july-31-desroches-mcclelland-gardner
Tommy McClelland named director of athletics at Rice
TheAmerican.org
http://dateline.rice/july-31-desroches-mcclelland-gardner
'Houston's Morning Show'
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mcclelland (This segment aired three times.)
'NBC 6 News'
KTAL-TV (Shreveport, Louisiana)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mcclelland (This segment aired twice.)
KTRH-AM (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mcclelland
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Why are China and India still burning so much coal?
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Marketplace Morning Report with David Brancaccio (This segment aired multiple times on over 800 affiliate radio stations across the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-cohan
Coats of commitment: TTUHSC medical students celebrate rite of passage
An article features alumni Sawyer and Truman Archer.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-archers
Students recognized at White Coat Ceremony, enter medical school
The Daily Toredor
http://dateline.rice/july-31-archers
Miami dysfunction: That landslide win Mayor Suarez brags about? That's not the whole story | Opinion
An article cites a 2016 Rice study into the voter turnout rates of mayoral races when they were held the same year as presidential and midterm elections.
Miami Herald (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the July 30 print edition, and it appeared in Yahoo! News.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mh
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Texas was made for pickup trucks, but an electric revolution is underway. Will drivers buy in?
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. This article appeared on the front page of the July 31 print edition and was in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-collins
Summer on track to be among Texas' most extreme
Sylvia Dee, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences and a Rice Academy Senior Fellow, is quoted.
East Texas News (This article also appeared in DiComo Giornale.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-dee
Renovation saves modern River Oaks home that others gave up on
An article features the home of alumna Jacky Fischer. The house was designed by late alumnus Charles Tapley, a former Rice architecture professor.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-hc
'Sugar Land' answers important questions about 95 bodies discovered in 2018
An article mentions Rice's Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System archive.
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/july-31-moore-archives
It's time to throw shade at climate change (Opinion)
A slideshow features Rice.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article also appeared in the July 30 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-hc
Delightful, smile-inducing 'Much Ado About Nothing' continues Houston Shakespeare Festival
An article mentions that "Much Ado About Nothing" was performed at Rice in 2015.
Houston Press
http://dateline.rice/july-31-hp
10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for August
A roundup mentions that Rice will host the Bayou Startup Showcase Aug. 2, and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship will co-sponsor Angel Investing in the Energy Sector Aug. 30.
InnovationMap
http://dateline.rice/july-31-innomap
Texas-Squared Startup newsletter No. 410
A roundup features Rice news stories from the past week.
Texas-Squared Startup on Medium
http://dateline.rice/july-31-tss
ALMAAHH announces open call in celebration of writer Jorges Luis Borges
An article mentions that Rice's Grand Hall will host the "Borges and Texas" gala Nov. 29.
Glasstire
http://dateline.rice/july-31-glasstire
BROADCAST
'All in with Chris Hayes'
Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is interviewed about the criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
MSNBC
http://dateline.rice/july-31-brinkley
Black Information Network
Richard Stoll, the Albert Thomas Professor of Political Science at Rice, is interviewed about Travis King, a U.S. soldier who crossed into North Korea.
WWRL-AM (New York)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-stoll (This segment aired 18 times and was in a previous edition of Dateline.)
Survey reveals front runners in race for Houston mayor — 'What's Your Point?'
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science and fellow in political science at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Fox 26 Online (This segment also aired on KRIV-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-jones
KRLD-AM (Dallas)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-jones
Gov. Abbott signs property tax cut package; proposal to go before voters in November
John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and director of its Center for Public Finance, is quoted.
KETR Online
http://dateline.rice/july-31-diamond
'Fox 61 News'
WTIC-TV (Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-diamond (This segment aired twice.)
Harris County, Houston struggle with soaring housing costs: New report reveals alarming trends
An article features the 2023 State of Housing report by Rice's Kinder institute for Urban Research. Steve Sherman, research scientist at the Kinder Institute, is interviewed by KTRK.
Fox 26 Online (This segment also aired on KRIV-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-fox
'13 Eyewitness News'
KTRK-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-sherman
The best colleges in America, according to Niche
A roundup features Rice.
LocalSYR.com (This article also appeared in KTSM Online and WDTN Online.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-syr
The 15 best universities in North America — and their tuition costs
The National
http://dateline.rice/july-31-tn
Florida is home to 2 of the country's most beautiful college campuses: Report
Fox 35 Online
http://dateline.rice/july-31-fox35
Massachusetts college lands on list of America's most beautiful college campuses
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in Boston 25 Online.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-yn
KTRH-AM
Rice is mentioned.
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ktrh1
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ktrh2
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
The big picture
Anne Klein, professor of religion, authored an article. Publisher's Weekly mentions that Klein's new book "Being Human and A Buddha Too: Longchenpa's Sevenfold Mind Training for a Sunlit Sky" will be published in August.
Tricycle
http://dateline.rice/july-31-klein
Mind-body-spirit books call for action
Publisher's Weekly (This article also appeared in the July 31 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-klein
The Inflation Reduction Act is driving a clean tech industrial revolution
Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Spectra
http://dateline.rice/july-31-medlock
Ask the experts
Mallika Pung, lecturer in management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is featured.
Wallethub.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-pung
Green hydrogen gets greener with record-breaking solar device
An article features collaborative Rice research into next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors. Co-authors quoted include Aditya Mohite, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering; Michael Wong, the Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology, a professor and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering and of civil and environmental engineering; and graduate student Austin Fehr.
OilPrice.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mohite-wong-fehr
Integrated halide perovskite photoelectrochemical cells with solar-driven water-splitting efficiency of 20.8%
EnergyCentral.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ec
Major breakthrough could increase lithium-ion battery life by 44%
An article features collaborative Rice research on reducing lithium loss and lengthening battery life cycles in lithium-ion batteries. Co-author Sibani Lisa Biswal, the William M. McCardell Professor in Chemical Engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is quoted.
BGR.com (This article also appeared in Inferse.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-biswal
'I teach those birds'
Elizabeth Brake, professor of philosophy, is quoted.
The Wellington File blog
http://dateline.rice/july-31-brake
Sparking joy with words: A complete Marie Kondo book review
Scott Sonenshein, the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
The Tiny Life
http://dateline.rice/july-31-sonenshein
Killing disease and living longer
An article features research by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering.
Mind Matters
http://dateline.rice/july-31-tour
Buckyballs: The soccer ball-shaped molecules
An article features late alumnus and former Professor Emeritus Robert Curl and the late Richard Smalley, the former Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes, or "buckyballs," a new form of carbon.
Cosmos
http://dateline.rice/july-31-curl-smalley
Entenda a polêmica do novo supercondutor que 'vai revolucionar o mundo'
Doug Natelson, professor of physics and astronomy, is quoted.
Terra.com (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-natelson
Molto scetticismo su un presunto nuovo superconduttore ad alta temperatura
Le Scienze (An English translation is not available.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-natelson
Behind the scenes of a PGA of America summer internship
McMurtry College junior Liza DeCaprio is featured.
PGA
http://dateline.rice/july-31-decaprio
Dell Technologies co-COO Chuck Whitten will resign
Alumnus Chuck Whitten is featured.
CRN
http://dateline.rice/july-31-whitten
Biden is a boon to Mexican cartels
An article cites recent Rice research into the flow of migrants through Mexico to the U.S.
The American Conservative
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ac
US Department of Energy funds 6 quantum computing research projects
An article mentions that Rice will be part of a collaborative quantum computing project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
CityLife Capetown
http://dateline.rice/july-31-cl
Editor's note
An editorial mentions that artist Michael Stilkey created a book-based installation for the former Rice Gallery.
O. Henry Magazine (This editorial will also appear in the Aug. 1 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-o.henry
Discover the best universities in the US to learn architectural drawing
A roundup features the Rice School of Architecture.
SuperProf
http://dateline.rice/july-31-sp
10 most likable 'Friday Night Lights' characters, ranked
Rice is mentioned.
Collider
http://dateline.rice/july-31-collider
10 most safest cities in Texas 2023: Peace of mind in the Lone Star state
Southwest Journal
http://dateline.rice/july-31-sj
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Ruth J. Simmons named the 2023 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities
An article features Rice President's Distinguished Fellow Ruth Simmons, who has been named as the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2023 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities and give the talk "Facing History to Find a Better Future" at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Sept. 26.
The Tennessee Tribune
http://dateline.rice/july-31-tenn.trib
The invisible Malayali scientists ...
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, is mentioned.
Mathrubhumi
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ajayan
U of L and Simmons College partner on healthy neighborhoods project
An article features collaborative research by Michael Emerson, the Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy and co-founder of Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
University of Louisville News
http://dateline.rice/july-31-emerson
Food Bank promotes, hires three new managers and other Chattanooga-area career moves
Alumna Ashley Nichols is featured.
Chattanooga Times Free Press (This article also appeared in the July 30 print edition.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-nichols
Caltech class project turns seawater into hydrogen fuel
An article featuring Malik Paulino mentions that he plans to pursue a doctorate at Rice in the fall.
Pasadena Now
http://dateline.rice/july-31-pn
Santa Fe Opera: Luke Sutliff to perform Orfeo role tonight
An article features alumnus Luke Sutliff and mentions that he studied under Stephen King, the Lynette S. Autrey Chair of Voice at the Shepherd School of Music.
Los Alamos Daily Post
http://dateline.rice/july-31-sutliff-king
The next chapter: John Hester takes his retirement up into the sky
An article features alumnus John Hester.
Bakersfield.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-hester
'It’s a bit unreal': La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest connects emerging artists and experienced pros
Alumnus Coleman Itzkoff is featured.
Del Mar Times
http://dateline.rice/july-31-itzkoff
Innovative, embracing and excelling in all they do: UTC trio to be honored as 2023 UT System President's Award recipients
An article features Abeer Mustafa, former graduate housing manager at Rice.
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
http://dateline.rice/july-31-mustafa
Chengdu Universiade | American archer, also a beauty queen, relishes Universiade experience
Alumna Katherine Wu is featured.
Xinhua (This article also appeared in China.org.cn.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-wu
Who is the Trump-appointed judge who threw out Trump's 'big lie' lawsuit against CNN?
An article features alumnus Raag Singhal.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
http://dateline.rice/july-31-singhal
SPORTS
USA baseball names 13U/14U athlete development program roster
An article mentions Rice assistant baseball coach Paul Janish.
USA Baseball News
http://dateline.rice/july-31-janish
What to watch in Houston-area high school football for 2023 season
An article features Rice assistant football coach Jon Kay.
Houston Chronicle (Subscription is required. This article appeared in the July 30 print edition and was in a previous edition of Dateline.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-kay
Texas football's monstrous trio of quarterbacks breaks the internet with epic pre-Fall Camp pic
An article mentions that Rice's football team is slated to play the University of Texas at Austin Sept. 2.
MSN Sports (This article originally appeared in TAG24.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-msn
Texas notebook: Hopes high DL Alfred Collins lives up to his hype
San Antonio Express-News (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-exp.news
Source: North Texas has reached an agreement with DATCU to become its new stadium naming rights partner
An article mentions that Rice is part of the American Athletic Conference.
Denton Record-Chronicle (Subscription is required.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-drc
5 fun facts about the American Athletic Conference
FanBuzz
http://dateline.rice/july-31-fb
CFB win totals 1st look: Can Memphis claim its stake atop the AAC?
The Score
http://dateline.rice/july-31-ts
College football 2023 conference power rankings
Athlon Sports
http://dateline.rice/july-31-as
A Texas high school baseball team's secret recipe for state championships
An article mentions that Jackson Blank will play on Rice's baseball team next season.
Texas Monthly
http://dateline.rice/july-31-tm
Ireland looking to shock Croatia in sold-out clash at the National Basketball Arena
An article mentions Rice basketball player Sam Alajiki.
RTE.ie
http://dateline.rice/july-31-alajiki
Ireland buoyed for Croatia rematch
Irish Examiner
http://dateline.rice/july-31-alajiki
Wichita State men's basketball team releases non-conference schedule for 2023-24 season
An article mentions that Rice men's and women's basketball team are slated to play against Wichita State University in the upcoming season.
Yahoo! News (This article also appeared in Yahoo! Finance Canada.)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-yn
New dates, locations on tap for Dana Holgorsen Radio Show
An article mentions that Rice's football team is slated to play the University of Houston Sept. 9.
UHCougars.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-uh
Big 12 football schedule rankings 2023
College Football News
http://dateline.rice/july-31-cfn
Schedule Sunday: Ranking every game on the 2023 SMU schedule, No. 5
An article mentions that Rice's football team is slated to play Southern Methodist University Nov. 4.
247Sports.com
http://dateline.rice/july-31-247
Arkansas' latest commit gets extraordinary praise from Michigan's other Harbaugh
An article mentions former Rice football player Dan Dawson.
Best of Arkansas Sports
http://dateline.rice/july-31-boas
'KATU News'
Rice is mentioned.
KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon)
http://dateline.rice/july-31-katu (This segment aired three times.)
NEWS RELEASE
DesRoches announces Tommy McClelland as Rice's next director of athletics
Rice President Reginald DesRoches announced in a message to the campus that Tommy McClelland will be the school’s next director of athletics. McClelland currently serves as deputy athletic director at Vanderbilt University. Prior to Vanderbilt, McClelland was director of athletics at Louisiana Tech from 2013 to 2020. He will start at Rice Aug 14.
http://dateline.rice/july-31-news-release-desroches-mcclelland