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Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025 Jun Liao, a professor in the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, was the lead editor for a recently-published book, “Integration and Bridging of ...

Texas schools will be allowed to implement harsher disciplinary actions for student misconduct. The bill extends in-school suspension durations and eases restrictions on out-of-school suspensions ...

High. But not No. 1. For this list, we only ranked the FBS schools in the state. For example, the University of Texas at Dallas is ranked No. 7 in the state, but since UTD doesn't have an athletic ...

LSU School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students come to the rescue and build a new crane for the Knock Knock Museum. See how they did it.

On Thursday, the School of Engineering celebrated their 100th anniversary of their inception. The school has pioneered some of the world’s breakthroughs over a century of discovery, innovation ...

Saint Louis University formed the School of Science and Engineering in 2022 to better meet the future needs of its students and faculty. The school brings together select departments from the College ...

School districts in New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and now Texas are alerting parents of the trend and urging them to warn their children against participating. Hays ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed a school choice bill into law on Saturday that will allocate $1 billion for a voucher program that allows parents to use public funds to pay for their ...

Families in Texas are now among a growing number of states who can use public funds to pay for a nonpublic education, including private schools and homeschooling. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...

University of Texas Permian Basin senior mechanical engineering students presented their research at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh for the first time in the ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls passing of school choice bill an "extraordinary victory" After nearly 11 hours of debate, the Texas House approved early Thursday a controversial bill that would ...