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Joseph John Eleison was born in North Bergen, N.J., on Jan. 24, 1919, and died on March 7, 2014, near Cortez, Colo.

President Barack Obama talks with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recipients in the East Room of the White House on April 14. Jonathan Pillow , a professor of psychology and neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin , has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Filmmaker Chris Dowling , an alumnus of the radio-TV-film program at The University of Texas at Austin, wrote and directed family drama Produce , which debuted at the Dallas International Film Festival last week.

China's smoke-belching coal plants and heavy traffic may be signs of a bustling economy but health experts fear the country's dirty air is hurting its infants China's smoke-belching coal plants and heavy traffic may be signs of a bustling economy but health experts fear the country's dirty air is hurting its babies.

Following the release of a special counsel's report laying out possible grounds for University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall's impeachment, a legislative committee is proceeding cautiously as it determines its next steps.

Rappahannock Concert Association's final program for the 2013-14 season will be a piano and baritone duo with Jason Paul Peterson and David Small.

It will be a night of firsts for performing arts in Austin, Texas! The First Annual Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards will be held at the Long Center, tonight, April 17 at 7:30pm.

The hunt is on for a new AISD superintendent, but that doesn't mean the district is leaderless.

Over the last few days many people have been curious about the maroon colored bluebonnets that have been blooming around the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

How did planets originate? This is a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries, but one which they have been able to tackle directly only in the last few decades, thanks to two major developments: breakthroughs in telescope technology and ever-increasing computing power.

This shows the percentage of the cultivated coffee area managed under different technology or shade levels.

Pastor Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest and author of the book The Purpose-Driven Life , will speak at Westmont College's commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3 on Carr Field.

The case of Farrah Fawcett's missing portrait is getting a redo. The University of Texas is appealing a Los Angeles Superior Court jury verdict from December that an iconic portrait of the late actress by Andy Warhol belongs to her on-again off-again lover, actor Ryan O'Neal.

Uprising's guest expert Robert Jensen, author and a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today's news headlines: News reporting on the NSA's spying program has garnered top journalism honors for the Guardian and Washington Post.

While giving a foreign policy speech sponsored by various groups at the University of Texas, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that terrorists training in ungoverned swaths of Syria could "soon" attack American interests around the world - or even on the nation's home soil.

Flower beds containing brightly-colored Bluebonnets are now home to a variant known as Alamo Fire, which is a shade of maroon.

The University of Texas at Austin will open a center to offer research, programs and workshops to help the public better understand the threats of identity theft, fraud and privacy.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency the greatest danger to nuclear security comes from terrorists acquiring sufficient quantities of plutonium or highly enriched uranium to construct a crude nuclear explosive device.

Los Angeles International Airport Enforcement Special Unit police officers use a bomb-sniffing dog to check baggage.

Mary Ellen Poole has been appointed director of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.