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From: Linda Thrane [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: May media report

Satish,

Congratulations on being our most-quoted expert in the news media during the month of May. As indicated in the attached report, you had more than 660 media placements last month, thanks to your willingness to share your expertise to help the media report on the BP oil spill in the Gulf. While that number itself is impressive, so is the variety of placements in the national broadcast media, including CNN's "Rick's List," NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams," ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer" and MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."

We're very grateful for your generosity of time and expertise.

Regards, Linda

Linda Thrane, Vice President for Public Affairs

• As the Deepwater Horizon disaster and resulting oil spill made local, national and international headlines in May, Rice News and Media Relations issued alerts to the media featuring the expertise of Rice experts.

• Satish Nagarajaiah, professor in civil and environmental engineering and in mechanical engineering and materials science, earned more than 660 media placements in the month of May.

• That is the highest number of media placements in one month by any individual since Public Affairs began tracking metrics in 2007.

• Through Nagarajaiah’s media appearances, Rice had hundreds of millions of exposures, reaching a circulation audience of almost 375 million people.

• Those placements account for an advertising equivalency of more than $7.1 million.

• April 30: Nagarajaiah was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. The coverage garnered an estimated viewership of 5,208,992.

• May 5: The Houston Chronicle did a special live blog session with Nagarajaiah to answer reader questions.

• May 11: He was featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer and live on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show .

• May 12: He was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America.

• May 12: He was quoted in an Associated Press story that appeared in about 285 media outlets.

• May 17: Nagarajaiah was quoted in a Reuters story that appeared in about 70 media outlets throughout the world, including the Economic Times of India, Irish Times, Scientific American and Yahoo! News.

• May 26: He appeared on CNN Rick’s List and has returned to the program twice since then. Host Rick Sanchez joked that he has interviewed Satish often enough to learn how to pronounce his last name.

• May 28: Nagarajaiah again appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Nagarajaiah was quoted in the media 660 times on various aspects of the BP oil rig explosion and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and efforts to plug the leak. Following is a list of media outlets in which Nagarajaiah appeared:

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