DEI terms are being removed from some public colleges. According to a landing page from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17, titled “Responsibility of Governing Boards Regarding Diversity,

In recent years university presidents have been facing growing political pressures, student and faculty pushback and an increasingly demanding job.

The job abandoned by Jay Hartzell last week requires withstanding pressure from the highest offices in the state and criticism from the student body. I say: Bring it on.

A coordinated collaboration with Texas Robotics, UT’s Machine Learning Lab and the Amazon Science Hub in the last days of the festival will bring together industry stakeholders, academics and community members to learn about the rapid changes happening in AI and robotics.

AUSTIN, Texas — It is what President Donald Trump calls the " largest AI infrastructure project " in history, which will create more than 100,000 jobs. The leaders of Softbank, Open AI and Oracle are coming together to announce the formation of Stargate.

Center hires Charles Taylor, a leader in AI technology and founder of HeartFlow, to start collaboration between Oden Institute and Dell Medical School.

The University of Houston will resume operations Thursday after a historic snowfall, with some parts of Houston seeing up to 5 inches, as well as ice. The university will reopen per a Tuesday announcement. Alief ISD will also reopen with its school board meeting rescheduled for that day, per its initial announcement.

Although classes at UT have been cancelled Tuesday because of the threat of snow and ice, conditions are expected to improve throughout the afternoon.

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez has been appointed the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, replacing retiring Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Pope Francis appointed Vásquez on Monday after he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Austin in 2010. Vásquez had been a priest for more than 40 years before being ordained a bishop in 2002.

The rebuilt Pac-12 has eight members signed up for the 2026-27 athletics season: Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Oregon State, San Diego State, Washington State and Utah State. The conference must attract at least one more football-playing member before 2026 to reach the NCAA’s eight-team minimum to qualify as an FBS conference.

The director of the School of Human Ecology and professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at UT Austin was one of 22 selected

Stargate — the joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle — is starting its AI infrastructure plans with 10 data centers in Texas.