Rice University’s Baker Institute for public policy is establishing a new center for energy studies (CES) to expand the institute’s energy research and policy programs, university leaders announced.“CES will build on the Baker Institute’s leading position in energy geopolitics, as well as engage in new research and broaden its focus on domestic energy and environmental issues,” said Kenneth Medlock, the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker fellow in energy and resource economics, who has been appointed senior director of CES. “The long-standing and very successful Baker Institute’s energy ...