Texas A&M University System scientists want cinephiles to know that the scenario in the movie Contagion is a very real one — and that if it did come to pass, they’d have a major role to play in solving the problem.
Higher Education
Coverage of universities, colleges, student issues, and education policy shaping Texas’ campuses, from The Texas Tribune.
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Higher Education
Budget Woes, Calls for Efficiency Imperil Physics Programs
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board wants to eliminate degree programs with low enrollment — like physics. Critics, including many professors, say that could do lasting harm to the state.
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Energy
Texas State University System to Manage Christmas Mountains
A mountainous tract of West Texas land that has been a point of contention between the General Land Office and environmental groups will serve a new purpose — a research and educational area for university students.
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Higher Education
Data App: Our Latest Public Employee Pay Update
This morning we’ve posted a 2011 update to our government employee salary database, which now includes 140 entities and salary data for more than 664,000 public employees.
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Higher Education
UT President Bill Powers: “We Are a House Divided”
University of Texas President Bill Powers isn’t mincing words in his State of the University address. He takes head-on the controversy that has dogged the state’s higher education community for several months.
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Higher Education
Ronald DePinho: The TT Interview
The fourth president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center on federal health care reform, the difficult budget pressures on his institution and others, the critical importance of academic research and the timeline for finding a cure for cancer.
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Higher Education
College Rankings a Mixed Bag for Texas Universities
Depending on whom you ask, the University of Texas is either the 45th best university in the country, or the 186th. Texas A&M? Either the 58th or the 178th. College rankings are pervasive, highly variable — and controversial.
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Higher Education
DePinho: Opposing HPV Vaccine “Unethical”
The new president of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston calls the political hot potato “one of the great scientific advances in the history of medicine.”
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Higher Education
As Ranks of Military Veterans Swell, Colleges Begin to Reach Out
After a decade of conflict in the Middle East, and with a boost from the expanded benefits of the post-9/11 GI Bill passed by Congress in 2008, the college enrollment of veterans is increasing — as are efforts to make sure they succeed in higher education.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
M. Smith on Rick Perry’s allergic reaction to federal school money, E. Smith elicits Ted Cruz’s take on David Dewhurst, Root and Ramshaw cover Perry’s first presidential debate, Ramshaw and Aguilar poke at Perry’s immigration record and how it plays among Republicans, Hamilton on the dash for top status among Texas colleges, Galbraith on an environmental ruling from the White House that got conservative applause and one that didn’t, Grissom has the latest on the Willingham arson case and the state’s plans to look at other fires and Aaronson’s widget for comparing the presidential candidates: The best of our best content from Sept. 5 to 9, 2011.