The March 23 Dateline Rice roundup features news and announcements from the Rice community. The Rice Business Plan Competition will be held May 11-13, bringing together promising student ventures from top universities worldwide to compete for prizes. Other news items include an announcement of Vivakor’s new board of directors, Rice men’s basketball coach Scott Pera discussing the Owls’ season and the ongoing NCAA Tournament, and tributes to Michael Wilford and Texas Table Tennis Club. In addition, research into how deep neural networks learn to perform tasks involving complex physics is featured, as is an article on reducing accents to land jobs. Finally, an obituary on Michael Wilford mentions he worked on an addition to Rice Architecture’s Anderson Hall in 1981 and formerly taught in the department.
Rice University has announced Lane Martin as the director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute and Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. Provost Amy Dittmar and Luay Nakhleh, Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering, have both welcomed Martin’s appointment. Vice President for Research Ramamoorthy Ramesh also commented on the news in an article in InnovationMap Houston. In other news, Katherine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, has been quoted regarding proposed legislation requiring Texas teachers to be trained to administer overdose drugs. Meanwhile, Houston Chronicle has reported that Rice alumnus Alejandro Chaoul has been mentioned in an article about The Jung Center and its efforts to provide support for post-pandemic stress and burnout. Also in Houston Chronicle, Professor of Piano at the Shepherd School of Music, Jon Kimura Parker, has been mentioned in an article about the Cliburn contest for aspiring pianists. Finally, The News (Port Arthur) reports on the growth of veteran-owned Clifford Distilling in its first year in Port Arthur, with the Rice Veterans Business Battle also mentioned in the article. The Baker Institute for Public Policy’s carbon capture, usage, and storage map of Texas is also noted in an article in The Texan.
Ensemble intercontemporain will perform at Rice on March 23rd at an event presented by DaCamera, as reported by Houston Press. OutSmart featured an obituary for alumnus Elizabeth Jean Tudor, who passed away on January 22nd at the age of 67. Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities Douglas Brinkley discussed the recent meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin on “CNN Newsroom.” Fellow in Latin American energy policy and director of the Latin America Energy Program at the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Francisco Monaldi, was cited in a broadcast on Venezuela by CTNT-TV (Trinidad). Bloomberg’s “The David Rubenstein Show” interviewed alumnus Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. Lydia Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and a professor of bioengineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, was featured in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for receiving the 2023 IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal. Finally, Rice research that found bacteria associated with gum disease can worsen rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups was featured in an article by Physical Therapy Products, quoting Vicky Yao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science. This article was also featured in Zenger, Inkl, and Vida.
Retention and graduation rates of online MBA programs
Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business is among the top schools in the country in terms of students finishing programs within three years, according to a Poets and Quants article. The report compared the retention and graduation rates of online MBA programs, showing that the average program retention rate was 75.7% and the average graduation rate was 64.2%. Rice University stood out in both categories, with a retention rate of 91% and a graduation rate of 84%.
Reducing accents to land jobs
An article in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers highlights Rice’s Intensive Oral Communication Program, which helps students with accents reduce their speaking barriers to land jobs. Director of the ACTIVATE Engineering Communications Program at Rice, Tracy Volz, explains the benefits of the program. The article also features former Rice lecturer, Katerina Belik, who now works as a language consultant in Houston.
Jan Goetgeluk earns MBA from Rice
Tech Times mentions that Jan Goetgeluk, the CEO and founder of Virtuix, a company that creates omni-directional treadmills for virtual reality experiences, earned his MBA from Rice University.
Tribute to Michael Wilford
Architectural Record pays tribute to the late architect, Michael Wilford, who passed away recently. The article mentions that Wilford worked on an addition to Rice Architecture’s Anderson Hall in 1981 and formerly taught in the department.
Collaborative Rice research on AI and complex physics
365NewsX features collaborative Rice research into how deep neural networks learn to perform tasks involving complex physics. The article lists Pedram Hassanzadeh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, alumnus Adam Subel, postdoctoral research associate Yifei Guan, and graduate student Ashesh Chattopadhyay as co-authors.
Rice defends affirmative action while Supreme Court cases are pending
TrainersAsia features a statement from Rice President Reginald DesRoches, Provost Amy Dittmar, and Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Alex Byrd, who defend affirmative action while Supreme Court cases are pending. The article also notes that this statement was originally published in Inside Higher Ed and was included in a previous edition of Dateline.
ICC’s arrest warrant against Putin and US hypocrisy
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Rice University in the News
Here are some recent news stories featuring Rice University:
Texas Table Tennis Club grows international reputation
Enrique Quezada, a doctoral student at Rice, was quoted in an article about the Texas Table Tennis Club.
Southwest Management District News
http://dateline.rice/march-23-quezada
Rice alum is now the youngest director of player personnel in college football
Peter Chung, a Rice alumnus, was featured in an article about his career in college football.
Rush Hour Times
http://dateline.rice/march-23-chung
Historic courtroom opens for classical guitar series
An article about the Shepherd School of Music at Rice mentioned that Brett Terrell was part of a master class series.
The Times
http://dateline.rice/march-23-terrell
Vivakor announces new board of directors
Albert Johnson, who earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Rice, was mentioned in an article about Vivakor’s new board of directors.
Suncoast News Network (This article appeared in more than 10 other media outlets.)
http://dateline.rice/march-23-johnson
Our quest for health equity lecture by Dr. Wayne Riley
Dr. Wayne Riley, who earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Rice, was mentioned in an article about a lecture he gave on health equity.
Black Video News
http://dateline.rice/march-23-riley
‘Houston’s Morning Show 9 a.m.’
Scott Pera, the men’s basketball coach at Rice, discussed the team’s season and the ongoing NCAA Tournament in an interview on KRIV-TV.
KRIV-TV (Houston)
http://dateline.rice/march-23-pera
Aggies finish off Rice for third and final time
An article featured the Rice baseball team’s 8-7 loss to Texas A&M University on March 21 in College Station.
The Battalion
[http://dateline.rice/march-23-baseball](https://rice.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b0eed4f789e2674d85a12b0a&id=5b
Rice Business Plan Competition Announces 2023 Teams
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business are set to host the 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition on May 11-13 at Rice University campus. The intercollegiate competition brings together the most promising student ventures from top universities worldwide to compete for prizes in front of active investors, entrepreneurs, and Houston’s business community.
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