SAN ANGELO, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Angelo State University issued the following news release: Angelo State University's Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (B.S.C.E.) degree program has earned accreditation by the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, retroactive to October 2018. According to the ABET website (https://www.abet.org/), "ABET accreditation assures confidence that a collegiate program has met standards essential to prepare graduates to enter critical STEM fields in the global more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news release: Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there also is another respiratory illness to prepare for, as flu season is just around the corner. A Baylor College of Medicine infectious diseases expert discusses handling flu while combatting COVID-19. "We take flu season very seriously every year, but this year it is especially important, since we're now experiencing two respiratory infections that can have s more PR

WACO, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Baylor University issued the following news: Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary has announced the selection of adjunct professor Jennifer Howell, Ph.D., as the inaugural director of the Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice Program, a grant-funded initiative by World Hunger Relief Inc. (WHRI) and the Baugh Family Foundation. The Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice Program, which is anticipated to begin in fall 2021, will offer a holistic approach to more PR

WACO, Texas, Aug. 31 -- Baylor University issued the following news: People who did not have a large heart rate response to a stress task surprised researchers later -- after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic -- when they showed more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to the crisis than others who also did the stress task and COVID-19 stress ratings. Researchers had anticipated that the reverse would be true -- that those with higher heart rate reactions to the stress task wou more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document on Sept. 3: Today, ahead of the Trump campaign's limited Texas bus tour, Biden for President and the Texas Democratic Party hosted a virtual press conference highlighting Donald Trump's failures for Texans -- from failing to manage the coronavirus crisis to letting Texas oil reach below zero dollars a barrel to attempting to repeal affordable healthcare coverage in the middle of a pandemic to creating a cha more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: In 1998, discovering a horse in the field with a fractured pastern joint was a grim affair, especially for an owner like Ake Eriksson, who says his horses are more family members than animals. Unfortunately that's what happened on June 19 of that year, when Eriksson learned that his horse, Choices Unlimited, had a shattered bone in his right-hind p more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Rice University issued the following news release: The world's scientific community must engage with a broad range of stakeholders to develop guidelines on embryo and embryoid research, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Human embryo and embryoid research has expanded in recent years due to technological advances. But inconsistent or ambiguous restrictions among the 22 leading research and development nations causes con more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Houston Baptist University issued the following news release: HBU has received $1.3 million in grant funding for its TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) program. Through the grant's renewal, TRIO SSS can continue serving its current cohort and future participants for the next five years (2020-2025). With the completion of the first grant cycle, TRIO SSS reflects on having served more than 200 students at HBU and helping over 100 participants graduate. TRIO SSS looks t more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: A team of scientists from nine universities and research facilities hope to find out how to make switchgrass -- a fast-growing perennial native to the U.S. -- into a biofuel powerhouse. It's part of new project from the U.S. Department of Energy. In nature, switchgrass sequesters carbon underground in its roots, produces cellulose that can be used to make ethanol and typically grows in soils that are unsuitabl more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 2 -- iHeartMedia issued the following news release on Sept. 1: Today, iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally, and The Recount, a groundbreaking new media platform at the intersection of politics and culture, announced a new partnership to co-produce a series of podcasts ahead of the historic 2020 election. The first three weekly shows - "Hell and High Water with John Heilemann," "Just Something About Her with Jennifer Palmieri," and "Battleground  more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 2 -- iHeartMedia issued the following news release on Sept. 1: iHeartMedia, the number one audio company in the United States, released today key findings about the benefits of radio's role as a trusted companion during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new survey found that listeners' trust in radio and its on-air personalities continues to grow as social media has become far less trustworthy over the past year. The new survey revealed that radio is number one in trust a more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 2 -- Lipscomb University issued the following news on Sept. 1: The Austin Graduate School of Theology (AGST) located in Austin, Texas, will merge with Lipscomb University, officials from both institutions announced today. Under the terms of the merger agreement, AGST will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lipscomb. Both institutions have been in existence for more than a century, share a common faith heritage and are accredited by the Southern Association of Colle more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release on Sept. 3: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Xencor, Inc. today announced a strategic collaboration to study investigational treatments for patients with a variety of cancer types. The parties will collaborate to design and execute additional clinical studies with Xencor's portfolio of XmAb(R) drug candidates, including novel bispecific antibodies and engineered  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 2 -- The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issued the following news release on Sept. 1: Effective today, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) now operates all aspects of Motor Fuel Metering and Quality in Texas. Senate Bill 2119 (86R) transferred oversight of Motor Fuel Metering and Quality from the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to TDLR. During a transitional period after the new law was enacted, TDLR contracted with TDA to ensure the more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issued the following news release: Beginning September 1, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation will oversee the Motorcycle Safety and All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Operator Safety programs. Senate Bill 616 (Texas Legislature 86th Regular Session) transferred the programs from the Texas Department of Public Safety to TDLR, which already oversees the Driver Education and Safety (DES) program. "We look forward to  more PR

NEWBERRY, South Carolina, Sept. 2 -- Newberry College issued the following news: Dr. Charles Horn, professor of biology, has described two new species of aquatic plants native to North America, segregates of a group Horn elevated to species level over 30 years ago. His findings were recently published in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas https://www.newberry.edu/images/pdf/Horn_2020_Heter.pdf. The first species, the Missouri roundleaf mud-plantain, has blue flowers and more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 3: Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), announced today that it will host an exclusive multi-market telecast of a debate between the Democratic and Republican party candidates for the United States Senate from Iowa, incumbent Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Theresa Greenfield (D-IA). "U.S. Senate Debate - Iowa" w more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 3: Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), announced today that it will host an exclusive multi-market live telecast of a debate between the Democratic and Republican party candidates for the United States Senate from North Carolina, incumbent Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and former North Carolina State Senator Cal  more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release: Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) announced that its Board of Directors approved an expansion of the Company's share repurchase authorization for up to an additional $300 million of repurchases of its Class A common stock. The expansion brings the total capacity under Nexstar's share repurchase program to approximately $384.2 million when combined with the approximate $84. more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 2: Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., has promoted South Dakota native, Mari Ossenfort to Vice President and General Manager of the company's broadcast and digital operations in Sioux Falls, SD (DMA #113) and Rapid City, SD (DMA #169). In her new role, Ms. Ossenfort will have full oversigh more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release: Representing the return of traditional, trusted, fact-based news reporting to cable television, "NewsNation," a three hour prime-time national newscast, debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET on WGN America, Nexstar Media Group, Inc's (Nasdaq: NXST) wholly-owned cable network which reaches approximately 75 million U.S. TV households. NewsNation will air from 8 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET, seven d more PR

WACO, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Baylor University issued the following news on Sept. 3: Baylor University today announced a $5 million gift from William E. (Ed) and Denise Crenshaw of Lakeland, Florida, in support of the Give Light Campaign and the University's Hankamer School of Business. A portion of the gift qualifies for the Baylor Academic Challenge program, creating two endowed faculty positions within the Hankamer School of Business that will receive dollar-for-dollar matching funds as well as s more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Rice University issued the following news release: The U.S. Postal Service was not created to be a traditional profit-making business, according to an accounting expert at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. Ramesh, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting at the Jones School, is available to discuss with the media the Postal Service's financial past and future, which has become a political issue ahead of the presidential election in November.  more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University physicist Jose Onuchic has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis. Onuchic, the first Rice faculty member to be named to the academy, is the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics and a professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of biosciences, and co-director of the National Science Foundation-backed Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. Onuchic is e more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Microscopic crystals in tantalum disulfide have a starring role in what could become a hit for 3D displays, virtual reality and even self-driving vehicles. A two-dimensional array of the material has unique optical characteristics that can be controlled in ambient conditions and under general illumination, according to engineer Gururaj Naik and graduate student Weijian Li of Rice's Brown School of Engineering. When  more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release: About 44% of African American women in the United States have at least one family member incarcerated, a disproportionate burden that a new study concludes leads to poor mental health. The findings come from a paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family based on research from Vanderbilt University, the University of Connecticut (UConn) and Rice University. Lead author Evelyn Patterson, associate professor of sociolo more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University researchers have received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop an open-source platform to meet the urgent need of developing and validating machine-learning (ML) based innovations for future wireless networks and mobile applications. The goal of the project led by Yingyan Lin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice's Brown School of Engineeri more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Nature's speed limits aren't posted on road signs, but Rice University physicists have discovered a new way to deduce them that is better -- infinitely better, in some cases -- than previous methods. "The big question is, 'How fast can anything -- information, mass, energy -- move in nature?'" said Kaden Hazzard, a theoretical quantum physicist at Rice. "It turns out that if somebody hands you a material, it is incre more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Deep learning is an increasingly popular form of artificial intelligence that's routinely used in products and services that impact hundreds of millions of lives, despite the fact that no one quite understands how it works. The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to a group of engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and statisticians who think they can unravel the mystery. Thei more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Three teams of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have been named winners of the 2020 John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Awards. Projects by this year's winners focus on smart wound dressing, genome analysis toward treatment of tuberculosis and gene therapy for neurodevelopmental disorders. The annual program that began in 2008 supports new collaborations among researchers at two or more Gul more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- St. Edward's University issued the following news release: St. Edward's University has added two 2020-2021 Fulbright winners to the long list of Fulbright awards amassed over more than a decade. Sarah Bostrom '20 and Sydney Gallagher '20 have been selected for Fulbright awards, a highly selective scholarship and grant program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. As Fulbright Students, they'll engage in teaching and cross-cultural learning during a year of exchan more PR

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Stephen F. Austin State University issued the following news release: A research article co-authored by a pair of professors in the Stephen F. Austin State University Rusche College of Business is featured in the latest edition of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, an Ivy League publication that's read around the world. Dr. Justin Blount and Dr. Stephen Shrewsbury, both in the Department of Business Communication and Legal Studies more PR

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Tarleton State University issued the following news release: Tarleton State University's bachelor's degree program in mechanical engineering has earned accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (www.abet.org), acknowledging that the program meets essential, discipline-defined standards for preparing its students to enter the global workforce. "ABET is the most widely recognized accreditation for engineering education in the U.S. and int more PR

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Tarleton State University issued the following news release: Dr. Laurie Sharp has been named dean of Tarleton State's new University College, effective immediately. A network of programs and services, the college works to coordinate meaningful first- and second-year experiences and support student success through degree completion. University College comprises the departments of Academic Advising, Career Services, Student Retention, Student Development and Mento more PR

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Tarrant County College issued the following news release on Sept. 3: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Higher Education Foundation today announced the award of $125,000 in student emergency aid grants to five Texas community colleges. Thanks to funding by The Kresge Foundation, Houston Community College, Dallas Colleges, Alamo Colleges, Tarrant County College and El Paso Community College will each receive $25,000 to assist students who are fa more PR

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 5 -- Tarrant County College issued the following news release: Several schools in the Dallas - Fort Worth area will receive a number of federal grants totaling $2,872,100 to serve their Hispanic and underrepresented student populations, U.S. Senator John Cornyn announced. The grant funding comes from the U.S. Department of Education's Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program, and it is anticipated that each grant will be sustained for a total of 5 years. "In Te more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: Researchers at Texas A&M University have produced a therapeutic derived from turmeric, a spice long-praised for its natural anti-inflammatory properties, that shows promise in decreasing ocular inflammation in dogs suffering from uveitis, an inflammation of the eye that leads to pain and reduced vision. Uveitis--a common condition in dogs, humans,  more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Petroleum engineering undergraduate students at Texas A&M University are required to work an internship in industry or research as a way to enhance their education. Considering the current pandemic situation and employment slump in the oil and gas industry, securing such a position proved a daunting challenge for students over the summer. Catherine Sliva, director of the undergraduate pr more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 2 -- Texas A&M University issued the following news release on Sept. 1: The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded five grants totaling $7.1 million to Texas A&M University, the Division of Research announced today. The grants are among 62 new statewide awards totaling more than $114 million that CPRIT recently announced in Austin. "Texas A&M is proud to recognize the outstanding faculty-researchers who have, along with their talente more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 3 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Texas A&M Engineering researchers have been awarded $1.3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). With the award, researchers will focus on the design, fabrication and testing of a lightweight and ultra-efficient electric powertrain for aircraft propulsion to reduce the energy costs and emissions of aviation. The Texas A& more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: How does the CEO of a performance chemicals company help fight the COVID-19 pandemic? By finding a way to manufacture masks with antiviral material. Phil McDivitt '87, president and CEO of Ascend Performance Materials, is working to develop comfortable, sustainable and durable materials that not only fight against COVID-19 but also are already used in hundreds of applications, from active more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: A researcher at Texas A&M University is launching a project to better understand how light can affect neurons in the brain. Dr. Alex Walsh, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently received a grant through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's (AFSOR) Young Investigator Research Program. The grant supports Walsh's research to better understand why more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a 20-state coalition in support of making funding available through any federal agency to support House Resolution 4172 (the National Child ID Act) in order to help parents, guardians and law enforcement better protect children from exploitation, abduction and human trafficking. By setting aside specific funds in the next stimulus package for the Child ID Program t more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on Sept. 3: Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a comment letter to Secretary Marlene Dortch of the Federal Communications Commission, supporting the National Telecommunications and Information Agency's Petition (the Petition) to the Federal Communications Commission to clarify provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 provides online platforms liability protection for thi more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 5 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on Sept. 4: Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued a letter to Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino, warning against a control order issued jointly by Judge Trevino and the county's health authority that specifically dictates how religious private schools may operate. The order, which attempts to prohibit in-person instruction at religious private schools until September 28, 2020, violates the United S more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3 -- The Texas Charter Schools Association issued the following news release: Soapbox, a natural products cleaning brand, donated 10,000 hand sanitizers the Texas Public Charter School Association. Seventeen Austin-area public charter schools serving 19,000 students will be utilizing the sanitizers as they work hard to provide in-person learning to Austin students. "Public charter schools in the Austin area are dedicated to providing families with access to in-person lear more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 2 -- The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued the following news release: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continues to monitor air quality and other conditions in Southeast Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. On Friday, Aug. 28, TCEQ deployed a mobile monitoring van, equipped with advanced rapid assessment survey technology, to report air quality data in real-time. The survey van has conducted multiple in-transit surveys for hydrogen sulfid more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document on Aug. 31: Today, Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech highlighting the undeniable fact that there is more chaos now, under Donald Trump, than ever before. Donald Trump has failed to keep our families safe -- and Texans are suffering as a result. Under Trump's presidency we're facing the following crises: COVID-19, economic devastation, police brutality, emboldened white nationalists, a reckoning on rac more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document on Aug. 31: Today, the Texas Democratic Party announced our "Texas Voter Registration Week," starting August 31st, where Texas Democrats and the MJ for Senate campaign will reach out to 1 million unregistered Texans in the course of one week to help folks register to vote in the 2020 election. To read more about Texas Voter Registration Week, click here (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/31/demo more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following statement by Chair Gilberto Hinojosa: * * * The Trump campaign knows Texas is competitive. Six out of the last nine statewide presidential polls show Joe Biden leading his Republican rival. Texas is the biggest battleground state in the nation, and his Republican operatives in Texas are well aware of this fact. On every single issue, in every single way, Donald Trump has failed Texas. Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilbe more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 2 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document: Assessing last week's storm damage from Hurricane Laura, Governor Abbott told coastal communities as a state we "dodged a bullet," but what he failed to mention is that the gun is still loaded. Though the 2020 hurricane season is already off to a record-start, experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict the number of storms and the intensity of those storms will only get worse more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document: For months, Governor Abbott has mishandled and botched the response to coronavirus pandemic. His botched efforts, misinformation, and now dirty statistics have jeopardized lives and livelihoods and caused the deaths of more than 12,000 Texans. This time, Abbott declared a backlog of COVID-19 tests that led to the state misreporting of Texas' positivity rate was caused by a backlog in test kits, which he a more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document: Hypocrisy only begins to describe a bizarre string of events involving the president and the group Texas Trump Victory who was caught sending vote-by-mail applications after temporarily blocking Harris County's attempt to expand vote by mail. The move comes amid the president railing against and attempting to sabotage the entire vote-by-mail system and encouraging voters in other states to commit voter fr more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, issued a disaster proclamation on May 31, 2020, certifying under Section 418.014 of the Texas Government Code that the threats and incidents of violence starting on May 29, 2020, which have endangered public safety, constitute and pose an imminent threat of disaster for all counties in the State of Texas; and WHEREAS, in each subsequent month effective through to more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Aug. 31: Governor Greg Abbott today announced the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will provide approximately $188 million in emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits for the month of September as the Texas continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Texas will continue to ensure access to nutritious meals as we mitigate the spread of COVID-19," said Go more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: The Center for Carbon Management in Energy at the University of Houston has awarded $275,000 in research funding for projects focused on carbon management and the energy transition. The projects cover a range of projects, from converting carbon to fuel and other useful products to a proposed new wireless monitoring system for carbon capture storage. The Center for Carbon Management in Energy was launched a more PR

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Sept. 2 -- The University of Alabama Birmingham campus issued the following news: Why is the COVID-19 virus more dangerous in people with comorbidities? Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and colleagues in Texas and San Francisco asked that question in a hypothesis paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32216698/) published online in Physiological Reviews on March 27. They reviewed, in detail, research literature for comorbidities like hyperte more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 2 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute at the University of Houston has partnered with the UH Cullen College of Engineering to add a third supercomputer to its stable of high-performance computers, dramatically expanding the computational power available to researchers at the University of Houston and across the UH System. The new cluster, dubbed "Carya," is a $2.5 million supercomputer from  more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 4 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: In a first of its kind study, a University of Houston researcher is examining two common drugs used for dementia in patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine the extent to which they don't mix well together and cause a cascading event of side effects, prompting the need for even more medications. The medications are cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) like donepezil, which curb dementia symptoms and antim more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 3 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: Despite significantly different immigration enforcement climates in Texas and Rhode Island, a majority of surveyed Latino high school students in both states fear someone close to them could be arrested and deported. And more than half in both states reported symptoms of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at levels significant enough to warrant trea more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: Within your genome, or entire set of genes, 50% is composed of transposable elements. For the non-scientific that means you are 50% parasite. Odder still, the parasites tend to jump onto sperm and egg cells in their driving need to replicate to the next generation, thus earning the nickname "jumping genes." For some egg or sperm cells (gametes), that invasion is devastating, causing strands of DNA to eithe more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 1 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release on Sept. 2: Diana Berman, Samir Aouadi and Andrey Voevodin of the department of Materials Science and Engineering, the University of North Texas, are applying their expert knowledge in tribology - the study of friction - to rethink the combustion engines that power aerial Army drones with a $780,000 grant fr`om the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. Current drones rely on ground vehicle intern more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 5 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: University of North Texas professor Anupama Kaul straddles the line between electrical engineering and materials science, which puts her in the perfect place to develop new solar cell technology for the Office of Naval Research under the Department of Defense. Kaul who directs the Nanoscale Materials and Devices Lab and the PACCAR Technology Institute intends to utilize emerging perovskite materials tha more PR

TYLER, Texas, Sept. 2 -- The University of Texas's Tyler Campus issued the following news release on Sept. 1: The University of Texas at Tyler announced that Dr. Luis Gautier, associate professor of economics, recently received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for research and teaching. "The Fulbright Scholar Award is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed on an academic, and we are extremely proud of Dr. Gautier," said Dr. Amir Mirmiran, UT Tyler provost. "As a Fulbright Scholar, he will more PR

ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 29 -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: Jonathan Asaadi, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, has earned the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award to support his work in high energy physics. Asaadi is one of just 76 scientists nationwide to receive the award from the DOE Office of Science this fiscal year. It will provide $750,000 over five years for Asaadi's pr more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on Sept. 2: For years, researchers have aimed to learn more about a group of metal oxides that show promise as key materials for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries because of their mysterious ability to store significantly more energy than should be possible. An international research team, co-led by The University of Texas at Austin, has cracked the code of this scientific anomaly, knocking down a bar more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 5 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: More than a dozen UNT alumni and students have joined forces for an ongoing virtual art auction to raise money for COVID-19 relief and racial justice. Alums Mariah Tyler ('14), Jake Dockins ('20) and Melissa Brito ('15) organized a group of artists back in May and launched the North Texas Artist Auction on June 19. So far, 21 local artists have joined the effort, most with UNT connections. Sales from th more PR