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FILE: August 14, 2012: A view of the U.S. power grid from inside of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas's command center in Taylor, Texas.

The Sam Rayburn Museum's New England Colonial style chandelier has been successfully restored and rehung in the museum's foyer.

Research led by an anatomy professor at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine indicates that echolocation - the sonar-like system based on high-frequency vocalizations and their echoes - was present in a 28-million-year old relative of modern-day toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

Stephen Slawek, a University of Texas at Austin professor, will play the sitar part in Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra with the Oakland East Bay Symphony on March 28. Photo: Amitava Sarkar In 1985, celebrated sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar flew Stephen Slawek to Kansas City, where Shankar was performing his Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra , a ... (more)

When I started my journalism career a decade ago at The Dallas Morning News , I sat - awestruck and more than a little bit terrified - in the cubicle across from one of Texas' great investigative reporters, Terri Langford.

Over our 40 years as a travel magazine, we've been "Wowed by Wildflowers," sowed "The Seeds of Spring," joined in the "Dance of the Wildflowers," and gawked at "The Great Texas Bloom Boom."

Lenzi Sheible is well versed on Texas' divisive abortion debate. The 19-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin made the three-hour drive from Houston to Austin multiple times last summer to protest House Bill 2, the strict abortion regulations Republican lawmakers proposed and later passed.

Keystone Symposia is convening its first conference on "Big Data in Biology," at the Fairmont San Francisco hotel March 24-25.

Several of the University of Texas at Austin's graduate schools and programs earned high rankings in the U.S. News and World Report's 2015 edition of its Best Graduate Schools list.

President Obama has cast himself as the leader of a global coalition opposed to Russian aggression in Ukraine, but it's not clear exactly where he is leading it.

Leon Chen of Tiff's Treats, pictured here, and Tiffany Taylor Chen sat down with the Austin Business Journal on Tuesday for this month's Face to Face interview.

A graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin is looking for photography editors to participate in an anonymous survey about the editing process surrounding images of war and conflict.

Kilgore College is proud to announce its recipients of the annual National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Awards.

When the U.S. shale boom is over - however many decades off that might be - will the country find another abundant source of natural gas to tap? Texas researchers are among those trying to find out.

The expansion would enclose the southern end of the stadium with a multilevel stand.

DALLAS Friends said Ford Yates is either crazy, or just kind. "I try to be kind through my craziness," said Yates, 19. He spent the weekend packing for spring break, but the college freshman isn't heading to the beach with fraternity brothers from UT Austin.

From the Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin, TX ; Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX ; and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX .

C: $20 person, $15 for high school students before March 28; $25 person, $20 high school students on race day E: Registration is at 7 a.m., and the race begins at 8 a.m. The Junior Wildfire Run begins at 8:45 a.m., and awards will be passed out at 9:15 a.m. The first 60 people to register are guaranteed a free T-shirt.

George Saunders has won The Story Prize for 2013 for his short story collection, Tenth of December .

Frankly Music, violinist Frank Almond's chamber music series, turns impresario this week by presenting the top-notch MirA3 Quartet in concert Tuesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. Founded in 1995, MirA3 has been the quartet in residence since 2003 at the University of Texas at Austin.