NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Only 4 US presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize
A book by presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities, is cited.
Biography
http://dateline.rice/brinkley
AI is not ready to fly solo in space
Sanjoy Paul, executive director of Rice Nexus and AI Houston, is quoted.
Science News
http://dateline.rice/paul
14 top US colleges featured in 2026 rankings across EDsmart, Forbes, US News and more
Rice is mentioned.
Times Business
http://dateline.rice/rankings
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Houston Texans co-founder and Senior Chair Janice McNair dies at 89
Through the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation, Janice and Bob McNair established McNair Scholars programs that recruit the best and brightest students and faculty to several university’s including Rice.
Houston Business Journal
http://dateline.rice/bizjou
Who was Janice McNair? Houston Texans co-founder and NFL owner dies at 89
The International Business Times
http://dateline.rice/mcnair1
Stonerside co-founder Janice McNair dies at 89
Blood Horse
http://dateline.rice/mcnair 2
Hello Houston
Christina Tringides, assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering, discusses her four-year project exploring one of the most common and aggressive forms of brain cancer.
Houston Public Media
http://dateline.rice/tringides
Trump wants to politicize scientific research. That’s bad news for Texas’ energy industry. | Opinion
Rice is mentioned in an op-ed on the politicizing of scientific research.
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice.edu/oped
Houston ICE shooting strains already tense relations between US, Mexico
Tony Payan, executive director of the Claudio X. Gonzalez Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.
Texas Tribune
http://dateline.rice/payan
News at 4 p.m.
A report from the Baker Institute for Public Policy is cited.
KPRC
http://dateline.rice/kprc
HBCU love: TSU receives landmark endowment to expand breast cancer prevention efforts
Research from the Baker Institute for Public Policy is mentioned.
Texas Metro News
http://dateline.rice/bipp
Harris County budget deficit could be as high as $300M
According to a recent study from the Baker Institute for Public Policy, that deficit could be anywhere between $100 million and $300 million.
KTRH
http://dateline.rice/budget
University of Houston launches UH Health to unite teaching and research
Heidi Russell, the L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy, the Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy and director of the Center for Health Policy at the Baker Institute.
Houston Chronicle
http://dateline.rice/russell
Houston's Bayou Collective to Host 'State of Black Philanthropy: Houston Edition' at Historic Deluxe Theater
Lyndsie Whitehead, associate director of philanthropy, is mentioned.
Houston Style Magazine
http://dateline.rice/whitehead
El Paso Symphony Orchestra Conductor shares vision behind the baton
Bohuslav Rattay, director of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and alum of Rice’s Shepard School of Music, is featured.
KTSM
http://dateline.rice/rattay
TRADE/PROFESSIONAL
Congress can finish the job on healthcare price transparency
Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, authored this op-ed.
The Hill
http://dateline.rice/oped
Michael Dell adds over $80 billion to fortune as AI boom and Trump ties put billionaire in spotlight
Douglas Schuler, associate professor of business and public policy at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is quoted.
Financial Express
http://dateline.rice/schuler
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
‘Nobody told me how dangerous it is’: How Trump sees threats to his life
Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice, is quoted.
Semafor
http://dateline.rice/brinkley2
Securitize appoints Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann and Manolo Sánchez to BOD
Adjunct Professor Manolo Sanchez is mentioned.
FinTec Buzz
http://dateline.rice/fintec
ICE agents killed a man in the street. Where is Houston’s outrage?
Statistics from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research is mentioned.
Europe Says
http://dateline.rice/kinder