FEATURED ITEMS
Rice University launches new centers, aims to address pressing global issues
An article features the news that Rice will create or invest in the following five centers: the Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience, which will be led by Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology, and James Elliott, professor and chair of sociology; the Center for Environmental Studies, which will be led by Joseph Campana, the William Shakespeare Professor of English; the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, which will be led by Sophie Esch, associate professor of modern and classical literatures and cultures and program adviser for the Initiative for the Study of LatinX America; the Rice Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences, which will be led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson, the Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator and assistant professor of chemistry; and the Synthesis X Center, which will be led by Han Xiao, the Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator and assistant professor of chemistry, biosciences and bioengineering. Community members quoted or mentioned include President Reginald DesRoches; Amy Dittmar, Howard R. Hughes Provost and professor of economics; and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, executive vice president for research and professor of materials science, nanoengineering, physics and astronomy. The article also mentions that Rice recently announced the development of the Institute for Clean Water Technologies, Entrepreneurship and Research, the Center For Neural Systems Restoration and the Woodside-Rice Decarbonization Accelerator.
Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-new.rice.centers
Rice University launches five research centers to tackle global challenges
Houston Style Magazine (This article also appeared in Erie News Now, KAKE Online, KEYT Online, KIFI Online, MagNews24, Daily Briefers and ZeNuzz.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-new.rice.centers
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Falling aircraft sales pull down durable goods orders, but there’s more to the story
John Diamond, the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy's Center for Public Finance, is quoted.
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal (This segment aired on more than 600 affiliate stations across the U.S.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-diamond
A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it's having the opposite effect.
Bob Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science and fellow in urban politics at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (This Votebeat article also appeared in 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-stein
Toward truly compostable plastic
Rachel Meidl, fellow for energy and environment at the Baker Institute for Public Policy's Center for Energy Studies, is quoted.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-meidl
Texans discuss health of state's democracy at Tribune event
Melissa Marschall, professor of political science, is quoted.
Yahoo! News (This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune, and it appeared in Yahoo! News UK.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-marschall
7 top-rated ETFs to buy now
An article quotes Alan Crane and Kevin Crotty, associate professors of finance at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business.
U.S. News & World Report (This article also appeared in MSN Money.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-crane-crotty
California lawmakers want to crack down on corporate landlords. Could it backfire?
Steve Sherman, research scientist at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, is quoted.
San Francisco Chronicle (This article also appeared in MSN Money.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-sherman
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Top book and author events in Houston this month: March 2024
An article mentions that Rice's Fondren Library will host the Friends of Fondren Library Gala and Auction at River Oaks Country Club March 15.
365 Things To Do in Houston
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-365
BROADCAST
Ahead of March primaries, new poll shows how Harris County voters feel about Democratic candidates
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, professor of political science and fellow in political science at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in two articles, and he participated in a discussion on Houston Public Media's "Houston Matters." The show also mentions the Spring Fling, which will be hosted by Rice's Moody Center for the Arts March 2.
KHOU Online (This segment also aired on KHOU-TV in Houston.)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-jones
Lessons from another school takeover (Feb. 28, 2024)
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-jones-moody.center
Calls for Texit: Why some in Texas want the state to leave the US
Firstpost
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-jones
'Great Day Houston'
Alum Ryan Levy is featured.
KHOU-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-levy (This segment aired twice.)
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Federal data reveals a surprising drop in renewable power in 2023, as slow winds and drought took a toll
Daniel Cohan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Rice Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Inside Climate News
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-cohan
Ten questions for Tomás Q. Morín
A Q&A features Tomás Morín, assistant professor of creative writing.
Poets & Writers
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-morin
Other materials stories that may be of interest
A roundup features Rice research into chirality in 2D materials.
The American Ceramic Society
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-acs
Real numbers of MBA admissions: Average GMAT scores at top US MBA programs
Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business is mentioned.
Clear Admit
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-ca
GTC Vorro Technology names Melissa Peterson as general counsel
Alumna Melissa Peterson is featured.
Oil and Gas Online
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-peterson
Rhymefest reimagines the beauty of the Black diaspora on his new album 'James & Nikki: A Conversation'
An article mentions Bernard "Bun B" Freeman, former distinguished lecturer at Rice.
BET
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-bet
¡Hola amigos! The Agency arrives in Mexico City
Alumnus Ricardo Umansky is featured.
The Agency Journal
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-umansky
SPORTS
Tigers face Rice Owls Wednesday night in Houston
An article mentions that Rice's baseball team is slated to play Louisiana State University Feb. 28.
LSUSports.net
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-lsu
Feb. 26 baseball national rankings, report
LSUSports.net
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-lsu
Men's basketball looks to build on winning streak at Rice
An article mentions that Rice's men's basketball team is slated to play Temple University Feb. 28.
OwlSports.com
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-temple
Women's basketball ties single-season wins record in 4OT victory over East Carolina
An article mentions that Rice's women's basketball team will play the University of North Texas March 2.
MeanGreenSports.com
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-unt
Houston Dash unveil new kits, including 'Space City Blue' jersey with familiar color scheme
An article mentions that Rice's football team wore jerseys last season with a "Luv Ya Blue" color scheme to honor the former Houston Oilers, who played at Rice Stadium from 1965-67.
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-hc
Florida Atlantic's Jalif named Men's Tennis Player of the Week
An article about the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings mentions Rice.
TheAmerican.org
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-the.american
NEWS RELEASES
Public school enrollments will continue to decline unless they become customer-focused, Rice study suggests
Nationally, public schools lost over 1.2 million students to private and charter schools over the first two school years of the COVID-19 pandemic with Texas witnessing a 2.2% decline. Public schools can reverse this decline and revitalize themselves by embracing customer focus, according to a study of more than 10,644 K-12 parents by researchers from Rice and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-news-release-mittal
Data-processing tool could enable better early stage cancer detection
Cancers begin with abnormal changes in individual cells, and the ability to track the accumulation of mutations at the single-cell level can shed new light on the early stages of the disease. According to a paper in Nature Communications, a team of Rice researchers led by Luay Nakhleh has developed a platform for integrating DNA and RNA data from single-cell sequencing with greater speed and precision than more recent, state-of-the-art technologies. The method, mapping cross domain nucleic acid or MaCroDNA, relies on a classical algorithm to identify matching pairs of data from DNA ⎯ the genetic blueprint of a cell ⎯ and RNA ⎯ a cell's instruction manual for protein assembly.
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-news-release-cancer-detection
Miguel Harth-Bedoya to lead Rice Shepherd School symphony, chamber orchestras March 2-3
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, music director laureate of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and director of orchestral studies at Baylor University, will lead the Rice Shepherd School of Music symphony and chamber orchestras March 2 and 3, respectively.
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-news-release-shepherd.school
Energy and computing collide at annual Rice event
The 17th annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference hosted by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute March 5-7 is the premier meeting place for the energy industry to engage in conversations about challenges and opportunities in high performance computing (HPC), computational science and engineering, machine learning and data science.
http://dateline.rice/feb-28-news-release-ken-kennedy