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Nov 20, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Jack Lee
A bomb cyclone and strong atmospheric river are expected to fuel downpours across Northern California this week, with flood watches and wind warnings in effect starting Tuesday night. *Forecast: California braces for storm as atmospheric river intensifies.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jack Lee
5 hours agoAt the recently concluded two-day G20 Summit in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, the gathered leaders advocated for “Climate Finance,” even as the G20 nations account for almost 85% of the world economy and contribute to more than 3/4th of global climate-warming emissions. Meanwhile, the ongoing 2024 …
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ricethresher.org | Jack Lee
The 16th annual Rice Energy Finance Summit was held at Jones Business School Nov. 15. Speakers from the energy industry discussed topics including renewable energy, the Texas power grid and the future of energy policy under a second Trump administration. The morning featured a keynote address with Doug Lawler, CEO of Continental Resources, a fossil fuel exploration company specializing in fracking.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
snexplores.org | Sarah Zielinski |Elise Cutts |Jack Lee
Bruce the kea is missing his upper beak. This makes the olive green parrot look a little like he’s always surprised. But scientists are even more shocked at what he can do in spite of his injury. Bruce has been missing the upper part of his beak since at least 2012. That’s when he was rescued as a fledgling. This young bird, just at the age he was learning to fly, went to live at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch. That’s in southern New Zealand.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Jack Lee
Back-to-back atmospheric rivers in California raise the potential for flooding and other impacts. Here's what that could look like.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
ricethresher.org | Jack Lee
A team of Rice biologists have observed the red-shouldered soapberry bug’s rapid evolution in response to Hurricane Harvey on campus. Evolution is typically understood to be a slow process occurring over the course of thousands of years. However, associate professor of biosciences Scott Egan said human influences can cause evolutionary adaptations to occur much faster. Such phenomena, Egan said, led his lab group to turn their attention toward the bug around 2016.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
ricethresher.org | Jack Lee
Amid a national blood shortage exacerbated by ongoing climate emergencies, Rice Emergency Medical Services partnered with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center to host a blood drive Sept. 12 in the new O'Connor Building for Engineering and Science. Christina Gligorova, donor recruitment account manager at the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, said the blood drive at Rice would help address a pressing shortage of blood at Houston-area hospitals.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thebatt.com | Jack Lee
The Texas A&M system has settled with Kathleen McElroy, Ph.D., over her botched hiring, awarding her $1 million in damages. McElroy will continue working as a tenured professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. John Sharp, chancellor of the A&M system, wrote in an Aug. 3 email sent to all A&M-affiliated accounts that he acknowledged the university’s wrongdoings. “It is time to come together, put our house back in order and vow to never let this happen again,” Sharp wrote.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thebatt.com | Jack Lee
In a July 21 document emailed to select Texas A&M faculty, Hart Blanton, Ph.D., head of the Department of Communications and Journalism, stated former university President M. Katherine Banks was dishonest about Kathleen McElroy’s botched hiring during the July 19 emergency Faculty Senate meeting and claimed his signature was forged on the second written offer sent to McElroy by the university.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thebatt.com | Jack Lee
Texas A&M President M. Katherine Banks tendered her resignation to Chancellor John Sharp Thursday evening, effective immediately. “The recent challenges regarding Dr. McElroy have made it clear to me that I must retire immediately,” Banks wrote.
