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Vitter: Louisiana a capital of charter schools Nov. 20: Sen. David Vitter and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley talk about the Louisiana's improving education system.

Imagine, for a moment, Texas with a growing fleet of electric vehicles. Our environment would be better off, because fully electric vehicles have no emissions.

Vitter: Louisiana a capital of charter schools Nov. 20: Sen. David Vitter and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley talk about the Louisiana's improving education system.

Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have turned some parts of that country into a war zone.

Warren Buffett met with students from Rice Universitya TMs graduate school of business yesterday.

Houstonians come in all colors, ethnicities, religions and lifestyles. In fact, to honor this diversity, the city just launched its first annual Citizenship Week to celebrate, said Mayor Bill White, how people of different backgrounds are integrated into the city, helping "to build cohesion and a more secure and vibrant community." So it was ...

Vitter: Louisiana a capital of charter schools A A Nov. 20: Sen. David Vitter and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley talk about the Louisiana's improving education system.

An 11 News / KUHF poll shows former city attorney Gene Locke and Controller Annise Parker are in a statistical dead heat, just a week and a half before early voting begins.

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry Also Included In: Medical Students / Training Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has committed four years' worth of funding for an innovative biomedical training program between Rice University and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

A surprising history can be found within the walls of the pale yellow house on Roselake Drive.

"My grandfather for one, my uncles have served, my older brother served during the Clinton administration." Cadet Brian Campbell is with the ARMY ROTC at the University of Houston, who's due to become a Commissioned Filed Artillery officer as soon as he graduates in December.

From left, David Lee, president of Nano3D Biosciences; Glauco Souza, chief technology officer and a co-inventor; and Dr.

Over the last few days, officials on both sides have spelt out the broad contours of the new relationship that they hope to see emerge from Singh's first state visit hosted by Obama.

WASHINGTON: Economic ties are expected to form the cornerstone of the new framework that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama hope to create to take the India-US relationship to a "new level" at their summit this month.

Last week, voters in Texas recognized the state's need for more top-level research universities when they passed Proposition 4. Tier 1 universities play a crucial role by performing the bulk of the nation's scientific research - work that drives economic growth and is crucial to solving major challenges in energy, health care and information ...

James McLurkin, a robotic engineer, separated fact from science-fiction in regards to the robotics industry.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute a $1 million Challenge Grant to refine cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make magnetic resonance imaging up to 40 times more sensitive than existing MRIs and help guide adult stem cells within the human body to repair damaged ...

Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition of the journal Social Problems.

But thanks to computations by Rice University professor Michael Deem and his colleagues, it appears there are -- or could be -- more types of zeolites than once thought.

Rice evolutionary biologists argue for new meaning of 'organismality' Rice University evolutionary biologists David Queller and Joan Strassmann argue in a new paper that high cooperation and low conflict between components, from the genetic level on up, give a living thing its "organismality," whether that thing is an animal, a plant, a bacteria a ...