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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.

The Luci and Ian Family Garden at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas features some whimsical touches such as these butterfly chairs.

Filmmaker Annie Silverstein has had her student short film Skunk accepted in the Cinefondation section of Cannes Film Festival.

Aspen's acclaimed Theater Masters will present its eighth annual "Take Ten," an exciting, fast-paced evening of eight 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students from across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights Competition today, April 22nd - 26th at Off-Broadway's The American Theater of Actors .

Texas schools that received the most in donations ... Nationwide, cash gifts to colleges and universities are up despite a shrinking pool of donors.

It's a commonly held thought: the more involved a parent is with their student's education, the better they'll perform.

Susan R. Klein , Donna Lee Elm and Aleza S Remis have posted Waiving the Criminal Justice System: An Empirical and Constitutional Analysis on SSRN.

The University of Texas at Austin launched construction of their new Dell Medical School on Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new school.

Chatter is the first thing you notice in Josh Newton's class at Townview High School's Science and Engineering Magnet.

A professor of physics at the U. of the District of Columbia took a scientific interest in teaching and, in his work with one student in particular, found humanity in the... Wallace Hall may face impeachment for what some call a vendetta against the president of the University of Texas at Austin.

Elizabeth McCracken's writing is characterized by humor, gasp-worthy metaphors, and a careful, playful attention to language.