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Editor's note: With the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week on Michigan's affirmative action policy in college admissions, CNN asked George Washington Law School professor Jonathan Turley to have two of his law students, Yvette Butler and Vincent C. Cirilli, debate the ruling.

I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT IT MEANS AT 5:00. THANK YOU, STEVE. NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THE MORE EDUCATION A PERSON HAS THE BETTER THEY MAY RECOVER FROM A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.

The plaintiffs in the case are backed by the Project for Fair Representation, which also helped back Shelby County's challenge to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as well as efforts to overturn affirmative action policies at the University of Texas at Austin.

LIFE'S BEEN just full of fun and funny things for me. And, when you aspire to being a "story-teller," then you feel someone is rolling out the red carpet when a funny story evokes a column via your keyboard.

On the West Mall of the University of Texas at Austin, student organizations set up tables and hand out food or fliers to students crossing campus.

Controversial sociologist Mark Regnerus presented new research on marriage and sex at a conference of Southern Baptists on Tuesday, April 22, suggesting that religion and sex are tracking more closely than ever before.

Graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the carbon material graphite, has been hailed as a wonder material--strong, light, nearly transparent and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat--and it very well may be.

With multiple sound stages, globally recognized local filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez , and a large film program at UT, Austin should be the moving image capital of Texas.

Post a comment Macy Leonhardt, a 17-year-old senior at Floresville High School, has been selected to join the Co-Ed Orange Squad Cheerleading Team at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hearing African music is rare in the South Sound hearing African classical music is even rarer.

The major municipal elections in Minneapolis have wrapped up and the City Council has a new batch of members for the new term.

Asking children to come up with explanations-even to themselves-enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.

The fate of embattled University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall now rests in the hands of the same partisan hacks in the Travis County District Attorney's Office who railroaded former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on trumped-up "money laundering" charges in 2010 before the bogus conviction was ultimately thrown out on appeal several ... (more)

State Rep. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, a member of the House committee considering impeachment proceedings against University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall, received a $2,500 campaign contribution in late December from a political action committee that has received hefty financial support from the embattled regent, according to a Texas Ethics ... (more)

Gov. Rick Perry named UT-Austin government junior Max Richards as the student regent for the UT System Board of Regents on Tuesday.

An East Texas woman who has spent her entire life taking care of others needs your help to have open heart surgery.

Houston legal recruiters stay with their clients through the entire process of legal employment placement.

I'm the founder of Science 2.0A and co-author of "Science Left Behind". A wise man once said Darwin had the greatest idea anyone... In Science Left Behind I wrote a segment about a national discrimination issue that was eroding not only science, but the very notion of fairness in our culture.

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Georgia State Representative Stacey Abrams will receive the first-ever Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award at the 2014 We Are EMILY awards dinner on April 29 in Washington, D.C. Abrams, 40, is the first woman to lead the Georgia General Assembly and the first Black woman to lead the Georgia House of Representatives.