AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton led 15 states in an amicus brief filed in the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York, defending the Department of Education's reaffirmation of Title IX's commitment to protecting students from actual harassment while upholding free speech and fair process. The Department of Education's "Final Rule" bolsters the anti-discrimination purposes of Tit  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 18 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a guidance letter to religious private schools in Texas, informing them that local public health orders attempting to restrict their reopenings violate the United States and Texas Constitutions and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Moreover, local orders seeking to restrict the reopening of religious private schools or institutions is inconsistent with Go  more

DALLAS, Texas, July 22 -- A.H. Belo, a local news and information publishing company, issued the following news release: A. H. Belo Corporation (NYSE: AHC) said that it will release second quarter 2020 financial results before the market opens on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. A conference call will be held on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. CDT. The conference call will be simultaneously webcast on A. H. Belo Corporation's website at www.ahbelo.com/invest. An archive of the webcast will be avai  more

NEW YORK, July 18 -- ABC News, a news division of Walt Disney Television, issued the following news: A new episode of "What Would You Do?" includes a scenario on the current immigration crisis, filmed in El Paso, Texas near the United States-Mexico border. The scenario airs after a federal judge recently ruled that authorities must release migrant children from ICE detention facilities due to COVID-19 concerns. The episode also features Sara Haines in an emotional, postpartum depression scenari  more

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, July 23 -- Alabama State University issued the following news release: An academic panel has recognized Alabama State University's dean of Library and Learning Resources as one of the nation's top library administrators. ASU's Dr. Janice R. Franklin has been awarded the Ann Barnett Service Award by Texas Woman's University (TWU) for exemplary adherence to the principles and purposes of librarianship and professional education as demonstrated by "sensitivity and responsiven  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 21 -- The Alamo Colleges District issued the following news release: At a special meeting, the Alamo Colleges District approved Derek Fuller, a 25-year law enforcement veteran and former chief of the FBI Police Department, as the new chief of the Alamo Colleges Police Department. Before joining ACPD, Fuller served as the assistant special agent-in-charge of the FBI Albuquerque Division, where he was responsible for the leadership and management of all bureau criminal in  more

ANDERSON, South Carolina, July 21 -- Anderson University issued the following news: Anderson University is launching a College of Engineering that will offer programs in electrical and mechanical engineering beginning with the fall, 2021 semester. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie is joining Anderson University as the founding dean of the new college, where he will serve as vice president for industry relations and University distinguished professor. Dr. Guiseppi-Elie, most recently the Texas Engineer  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 21 -- The Austin Community College District issued the following news on July 17: Austin Community College (ACC) has distributed more than half of the $6.9 million in federal aid it received specifically for student emergency support from the Department of Education as part of the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. Every student who applied and was eligible to receive ACC CARES Act Student Aid funds during the spring and summer semester application periods re  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 21 -- The Austin Community College District issued the following news on July 17: The Austin Community College District (ACC) Board of Trustees voted to approve the budget for FY2021. The $416 million budget maintains existing operations and currently approved initiatives without making any cuts. "Our approach at this point is wait and see -- let's make sure we can fund all existing operations and give it a few more months until we have the clarity needed to make longer-ter  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 23 -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news release: Dr. Martin Matzuk has been named chair of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been serving as interim chair since March 2019. Matzuk is professor of pathology & immunology, molecular and human genetics, molecular and cellular biology, and pharmacology and chemical biology at Baylor. He also is the director of the Center for Drug Discovery and member of the NCI  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 23 -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news release: Dr. Nancy Moreno has been appointed chair of the new Department of Education, Innovation and Technology at Baylor College of Medicine. Baylor's Board of Trustees approved the appointment this week, effective immediately. Moreno has served as associate provost of faculty development and institutional research at Baylor College of Medicine since 2015 and also is director of Baylor's Center for Educationa  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 21 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 25 attorneys general, led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, in filing an amicus brief supporting federal regulations requiring "graphic image" warning labels, which consist of color images that depict the dangers of smoking, on cigarette packages. The coalition filed the brief in R.J  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 23 -- ConocoPhillips, a producer of oil and gas resources, issued the following news release: ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire additional Montney acreage in Canada from Kelt Exploration Ltd. for cash consideration of approximately $375 million before customary adjustments, plus the assumption of approximately $30 million in financing obligations for associated partially owned infrastructure. This acquisition is 140,000 ne  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: The University of Houston has received a $100,000 gift from the Cullen Trust for Higher Education to aid University students and members of the community who are in immediate need of food assistance. The gift supports efforts at UH and the Houston Food Bank to raise awareness on the growing issue of food insecurity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Houston Food Bank is now distributing more than twice the a  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: With just 15 weeks to go until Election Day, Allen West has succeeded in his hostile takeover of the Republican Party of Texas. Yes, that Allen West. West, a disgraced one-term Florida congressman who couldn't do much other than stir up conservatives into a frenzy and sucker them out of their money, has now done the same with Texas Republican leadership. Now, with 106 days until Nov. 3,   more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: As coronavirus continues to rage in North Texas, voters deserve to know where Beth Van Duyne stands on Texas Republicans' lawsuit to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act - including its protections for Texans with pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration has joined with Texas Republicans to urge the Supreme Court to overturn the law, "pointedly arguing that the Affordable Ca  more

IRVING, Texas, July 18 -- ExxonMobil, an international energy company, issued the following news release on July 17: Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. Laboratory tests indicate the patent-pending membrane could be used to replace some heat-intensive distillation at r  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 23 -- Rice University issued the following news release: The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has partnered with Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), a program of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and School of Social Sciences, to conduct a comprehensive study on educational equity across the district. Recognizing its responsibility to continually improve academic achievement for all students, HISD and HERC will examine equitable   more

BEAUMONT, Texas, July 18 -- Lamar University issued the following news: Culinary students enrolled in Lamar University's Culinary Arts Program have new state-of-the-art equipment. LU's Hospitality Administration Program was awarded a grant from the Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation and used the funds to purchase and install three new pieces of commercial kitchen equipment in the culinary lab. Funds from the grant were also used to increase safety on the production line. Stainless steel f  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Marketing Professor Judith Anne Garretson Folse recently co-authored an article with Texas A&M Mays Business School Dean Eli Jones, Baylor University Assistant Professor of Marketing Stephanie Mangus, and Texas A&M Professor of Marketing Shrihari Sridhar that was accepted for publication by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. "The Interplay Between Business and Personal Trust on Relati  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 18 -- Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh joined a coalition of 25 attorneys general filing an amicus brief supporting federal regulations requiring "graphic image" warning labels--consisting of color images that depict the dangers of smoking--on cigarette packages. The coalition filed the brief in R.J. Reynolds v. FDA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, supporti  more

HELENA, Montana, July 21 -- Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued the following news release: Attorney General Tim Fox announced he recently joined a coalition of attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting federal regulations requiring "graphic image" warning labels, which consist of color images that depict the dangers of smoking, on cigarette packages. The coalition filed the brief in R.J. Reynolds v. FDA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, supporting   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 18 -- The Austin Community College District issued the following news: Construction on Austin Community College District's (ACC) Highland Campus reached another milestone this week. On Wednesday, July 15, ACC's Facilities and Construction team and project crews added the college's name to the external-facing wall of the new Highland Campus South Parking Garage. The letters spell out ACC Highland on the seventh level of the southeast end of the garage. Each letter is about   more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, July 22 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news: New Mexico State University is among the institutions participating in a three-year National Science Foundation-funded project to promote cyber expertise among research universities, community colleges, minority-serving institutions and other organizations in the Southwest. The $1.4 million grant per year brings together Texas A&M University, the lead institution, with partners in Texas, New Mexico and A  more

IRVING, Texas, July 22 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release: WHTM-TV (ABC27), Nexstar Broadcasting's television station serving Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York, PA (DMA #47), announced that it will host an exclusive Town Hall meeting examining the topics of race relations, the "Black Lives Matter" movement, how to recognize personal prejudice and how to promote positive dialogue about issues of social justice. The Town Hall meeting, titled  more

COMMERCE, Texas, July 24 -- Texas A&M University's Commerce Campus issued the following news release on July 23: The Department of Engineering and Technology at Texas A&M University-Commerce is introducing enhancements to the Master of Science in Technology Management program. Technology management has been deemed an emerging field of study by the U.S. Department of Education. The revamped program, which began in 1997, will provide more flexibility for students while responding to continually   more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 21 -- Rice University issued the following news release: A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants. Think of the new strategy developed at Rice University as "wrap, trap and zap." The labs of Rice environmental scientist Pedro Alvarez and Yalei Zhang, a professor of environmental engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, introduced microspheres wrapped in graphe  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 18 -- Rice University issued the following news release: New research from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business shows that a change in leadership before a startup's initial public offering (IPO) can increase its valuation and performance. Yan "Anthea" Zhang, professor and the Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Chair of Strategic Management at the Jones School, and co-author Salim Chahine of the American University of Beirut analyzed data from 1,156 venture capitalist-ba  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 24 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has released its latest China Energy Map, an open-source, interactive chart of the country's energy infrastructure. The map was created by Shih Yu (Elsie) Hung, a research manager at the Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, and Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at the institute. "We are releasing the Baker   more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 24 -- Rice University issued the following news release: The ultimate global financial cost of COVID-19 could top $15 trillion, but governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new paper from an international team of scientists including Rice University's Ted Loch-Temzelides. Compared with the $2.6 trillion already lost  more

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, July 18 -- Sam Houston State University issued the following news: A seemingly unlikely partnership between the Geographic Information System (GIS) Unit at the Houston Police Department (HPD) and English students from Sam Houston State's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has produced powerful results. When the HPD GIS Unit was formed, they were tasked with solving two prevalent problems facing the department: situational awareness by leaders and access to informatio  more

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, July 22 -- Stephen F. Austin State University issued the following news release: While COVID-19 and Stephen F. Austin State University's response to the pandemic were top concerns during the July quarterly meeting of the Board of Regents, actions taken were geared toward the future of the university. Regents heard reports regarding the university's plans to open campus for the fall semester and approved the budget for the upcoming academic year. "This is the most complica  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Under the Company's proposal pending at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Entergy Texas customers will see a 4.1 percent reduction in the fuel portion of their bills for three months, which could begin as early as August. For the average residential customer using 1,000 kWh a month, the fuel charge will be reduced from about $23.34 per megawatt-hour to $18.67 per megawatt-hour, a savings of $4.67 a month. "We   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 -- The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issued the following news release: The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) has issued cease and desist orders against one individual and two alleged Houston-area illicit massage businesses where alleged unlicensed activity had occurred. "People working in professions and industries without the proper license can pose a risk to your health, your safety, and your wallet. Illicit massage businesses trade on  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 18 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is supporting a Texas A&M University College of Engineering project to improve the cybersecurity and energy efficiency of commercial buildings. The Securing Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Cyber Defense and Resilient System project, led by Dr. Zheng O'Neill, received $3.5 million from the DOE's Building Technologies Office to rese  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 18 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Four faculty members of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University were recently recognized with international awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Dr. Dan Hill, Regents Professor and Noble Chair, was awarded honorary membership, the highest honor given by the SPE, for a lifetime of technical and service contributions. "It is particular  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 24 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: In a new study, researchers from Texas A&M University and industry have designed a smart technology that can help utility companies better serve communities affected by blackouts. The researchers said their single device works by improving energy delivery between home solar-power systems and the electrical grid. "Our innovation lets solar energy consumers be less dependent on the externa  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 21 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release on July 20: From the moment Flapjack was adopted as a puppy from the Houston Humane Society in 2008, he became an integral part of his new family. "He was super smart from the time we got him," said Flapjack's owner Robert Schmidt. "He was very inquisitive and he seemed tuned in with the world, not just in a puppy or a dog way, but in a sentient way  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 18 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: A new faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University recently received a multi-million dollar grant to support groundbreaking cancer research. In May, Dr. Tanmay Lele received a $5 million Recruitment of Established Investigators grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to further knowledge about cancer and how it progre  more

COMMERCE, Texas, July 18 -- Texas A&M University's Commerce Campus issued the following news release: Dr. Juan Araujo, associate professor and assistant head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Dr. DeMarquis Hayes, associate professor and head of the Department of Psychology and Special Education, have been named assistant deans of the College of Education and Human Services at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Dean of the college, Dr. Kimberly McLeod, said the search committee d  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General?Ken?Paxton filed a friend-of-the-court brief in defense of Minnesota's ballot order statute, which places candidates on the ballot based on party affiliation, with the party netting the lowest number of votes in the preceding election listed first. Eighteen other states have statutes that order candidates based on party affiliation, and Texas's statute was upheld just two weeks ago.   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott announced that the State of Texas will allocate an additional $118 million in federal funding to support higher education in Texas, including $93 million to help students continue or restart their progress toward earning a post-secondary credential or degree. The funding announced today follows the $57 million that Governor Abbott and legislative leaders recently allocated to offset pot  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott announced that the City of Bonham, having completed the multi-step training and certification process, has been designated a Film Friendly Texas community by the Texas Film Commission, which helps to grow local jobs and local economies by promoting the Lone Star State as the premier destination for film, television, commercial, animation, visual effects and video game production. "I co  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 21 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Abbott announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has sent five U.S. Navy teams to four locations in South and Southwest Texas to help combat the spread of COVID-19. Beginning today, one U.S. Navy Acute Care Team will provide support at the Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen and four U.S. Navy Rural Rapid Response Teams will support hospitals in Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and Rio Grande City.   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Terry Adams to the First Court of Appeals for a term set to expire on December 31, 2020, or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. Terry Adams of Houston is an attorney and owner of The Law Office of Terry Adams. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas Court Rules Committee - Appellate Sub-Committee, Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, The Federalist  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Steve Duskie to the 426th Judicial District Court in Bell County for a term set to expire on December 31, 2020, or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. Steve Duskie of Killeen is a partner and co-owner of Lindley, Wiley & Duskie, PC. He is a board member of the Bell County Bar Association, member of the State Bar of Texas, American Association for Justi  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Emily Garcia and Alma D. Rodriguez, Ed.D. to the State Board for Educator Certification for terms set to expire on February 1, 2021 and February 1, 2023, respectively. The board develops certification and continuing education requirements and standards of conduct for public school teachers. Emily Garcia of Dallas is the Executive Director of Urban Teachers. Previously, sh  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Vince Santini to the 457th Judicial District Court in Montgomery County for a term set to expire on December 31, 2020, or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. Vince Santini of Conroe is a senior litigation attorney for The Voss Law Firm, P.C., and a former assistant district attorney for the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. He is a member   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed James H.C. "Jamey" Steen to the Texas Lottery Commission for a term that will expire on February 1, 2025. Additionally, Governor Abbott has named Robert Rivera as Chair of the Texas Lottery Commission. The commission controls and supervises the operations of the state lottery and bingo, ensuring that all games are conducted fairly and in compliance with state law. James H  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott held virtual meetings with mayors, county judges, emergency managers, hospital executives, state legislators, and other local officials from Cameron and Hidalgo Counties to discuss the unified efforts to combat COVID-19 in these communities. The Governor and local leaders discussed the ongoing needs of the Valley and the ways the State of Texas can continue to assist these communities as  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following statement after Tesla announced the construction of Gigafactory Texas in southeast Travis County, an electric vehicle manufacturing facility that will create at least 5,000 jobs and generate over $1 billion in capital investment: "Tesla is one of the most exciting and innovative companies in the world, and we are proud to welcome its team to the State of Texas. "Texas has the best workforce in the nation and we've built   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott laced numerous resources on standby across the state in anticipation of severe weather spurring from a Tropical Depression in the Gulf - including heavy rain, dangerous rip currents, and flash flooding. This Tropical Depression is expected to impact the lower third of Texas, including the upper Rio Grande Valley, the Coastal Bend, and the Texas Hill Country, throughout the weekend. "As   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott urged Texans to remain vigilant and closely monitor weather conditions as a tropical development in the Gulf is expected to impact parts of Texas this weekend. The storm may lead to dangerous flash flooding, especially in the upper Rio Grande Valley, the Coastal Bend, and the Texas Hill Country. The Governor is also preparing state resources to assist communities with potential flooding   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 18 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson, Vice Chair Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, and House Appropriations Committee Chair Giovanni Capriglione and Vice Chair Oscar Longoria announced that the State of Texas will allocate $200 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the Texas Education Agen  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 24 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Researchers from University of Hawaii received top awards for the 2020 Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC), an annual conference that explores current practice and experience in advanced research computing including modeling, simulation and data-intensive computing.The researchers consisted of UH faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students working in areas of cyberinfrastruc  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, July 22 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: As a doctoral student in the adult and lifelong learning program at the University of Arkansas, Daniel Parker researches effective ways to teach adults. He recently published an article in the top-tier journal Frontiers in Psychology with Elizabeth Roumell, an associate professor at Texas A&M University. The article -- "Functional Contextualist Approach to Mastery Learning in Vocational Education and Trai  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 18 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: Lithium-ion batteries are recognized for their high energy density in everything from mobile phones to laptop computers and electric vehicles, but as the need for grid-scale energy storage and other applications becomes more pressing, researchers have sought less expensive and more readily available alternatives to lithium. Batteries using more abundant multivalent metals could revolutionize energy storage.  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 22 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release on July 21: A new report from the University of Houston's Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) found that foreign-born and native-born Latinos living in the metro area combine for an economic impact of more than $980 million a year. Foreign-born Latinos who have arrived within the last five years are better educated than their predecessors. They also have an outsize effect on the regional economy, maki  more

RICHARDSON, Texas, July 20 -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news release: Dr. Kyle Fox, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received a five-year, $586,654 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to explore how the mathematical field of topology can be used to design more efficient and faster algorithms to solve difficu  more

RICHARDSON, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news release: Even healthy brains become less efficient as they age, but they do so at different rates for different tasks in different people. Understanding what contributes to this decline, and the ways in which that decline varies, can provide significant insight into the function of the brain. In a new study, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas documented how some parts of the brain perfor  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off. It turns out that the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the same advantage entering cells. It possesses the code to waltz right in. On July 24 in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) reported how the coronavirus ac  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19), which includes the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, announced results July 22 of its second national observational study. The study compares the outcomes of cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 to the treatments they received. Patients who were treated with the antiviral drug remdesivir fared   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 -- The University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs issued the following news: The Austin Area Sustainability Indicators (A2SI), an initiative led by LBJ Professor Patrick Bixler at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, was recently selected for the 2020 Community Project Impact Award from the Community Indicators Consortium (CIC). The honor recognizes "a project that is grounded in, and supported by, the community and use data to analy  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 21 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on July 20: A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs. The quarter-mile-long core is from an important part of the Triassic period when life on our planet endured a series of cataclysmic events: mountain-sized asteroids struck Earth at least three times, chai  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: Responding to a need to quickly develop billions of doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, a scientific team at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully redesigned a key protein from the coronavirus, and the modification could enable much faster and more stable production of vaccines worldwide. The new findings are described in the journal Science. Most coronavirus vaccine candidates train the human  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 21 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: Genes and cardiovascular health each contribute in an additive way to a person's risk of dementia, researchers including Sudha Seshadri, MD, and Claudia Satizabal, PhD, of UT Health San Antonio reported July 20 in the journal Neurology. The study was conducted in 1,211 participants in the Framingham Heart Study and involved collaborators from Boston University. Partic  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 18 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) have discovered a new class of proteins that protect synapses from being destroyed. Synapses are the structures where electrical impulses pass from one neuron to another. The discovery, published July 13 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, has implications for Alzheimer'  more

DENTON, Texas, July 21 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: The University of North Texas Center of Sport Psychology and Performance Excellence, in collaboration with Wayne State University, has released results in an ongoing study examining the overall health, performance and psychological wellbeing of collegiate athletes during the pandemic. In March, the NCAA canceled sports seasons and many students had to leave their campus housing due to the surge in COVID-  more