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Dec 5, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carol Lewis |Laura Isensee
Two female botanists—Elzada Clover and Louis Jotter—made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document the Grand Canyon’s plant life. In Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, author Melissa L.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Samia Bouzid |Katie Hafner |Laura Isensee
By the second half of the 20th century, physicists were on a mission to find the ultimate building blocks of the universe—what you get when you zoom in all the way to the tiniest bits that can’t be broken down anymore. They had a kind of treasure map, a theory describing what these building blocks are and where we might find them. But to actually find them, researchers needed to re-create the blistering-hot conditions of the early universe.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Julianna LeMieux |Laura Isensee
Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early 50s. She had always believed that if you did great science, you would get the recognition you deserved. But after years of humiliation—including being snubbed for promotions and finding out that her lab was smaller than her male counterparts—she realized that her beloved Massachusetts Institute of Technology did not value female scientists.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Ashley Brown |Michael Hagerty |Laura Isensee
LuLu Alvarez wasn't sure what career profession she wanted to pursue until she got an internship with an accounting firm. A nonprofit gave a presentation at her school one day and she decided to take a chance and be a part of their program. Genesys Works partners with nearly 40 high schools and eight districts in the Houston area to provide seniors with paid internships during their senior year of high school.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Rebecca Noel |Lucio Vasquez |Matt Harab |Laura Isensee
Parents gathered outside of Tomball ISD's administrative offices today to protest what they say was a bait and switch, as the district plans for the construction of a new campus for fifth and sixth graders on a lot located far from many residents. Of the around 30 attendees, many of them were from the Creekside neighborhood in the Woodlands, and said they supported a bond that passed in 2021 to build a new school in Tomball ISD.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Sarah Grunau |Patricia Ortiz |Matt Harab |Laura Isensee
A Houston man is in federal custody after “studying how to build bombs and posting online about his support for killing Jews,” FBI Director Chris Wray said on Tuesday. Houston resident Sohaib Abuayyash was referenced during a U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday, when Wray addressed looming threats on the United States amid a weeks-long war in the Middle East.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Sarah Grunau |Duaa Faquih |ShaVonne Herndon |Laura Isensee
A Fort Bend elementary school teacher is under investigation after being accused of misconduct with students, the school district said in a statement to parents Wednesday evening. “I am writing to make you aware that allegations of inappropriate conduct have been made against a teacher,” Rhonda Mason, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools at Fort Bend Independent School District said in the statement. “I assure you Goodman Elementary and Fort Bend ISD take these matters very seriously.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Robert Salinas |Abner Fletcher |Laura Isensee |Michael Hagerty
It's time for Friday night lights in Texas. While student athletes are preparing to take the field, the officials who call the games are hoping a new law gives them a reprieve from some of the more aggressive fans. Mike Fitch is the executive director of the Texas Association of Sports Officials. "We have had officials physically assaulted in the parking lot or sometimes as they are leaving the confines of the field or court. They have been chased. They have been followed out of the parking lots.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Bill Zeeble |Matt Zdun |Laura Isensee |Abner Fletcher
More than 100 Texas chaplains have signed onto a letter protesting a new state law that allows them to serve as counselors in public schools.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Patricia Ortiz |ShaVonne Herndon |Michael Hagerty |Laura Isensee
Harris County's Department of Education hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their brand-new Adult Education Learning Center on Wednesday. The center, located across the street from the department's administrative facility, is in the middle of one of the city's underserved communities on Houston's northside. It will be able to accommodate up to 1,200 students. HCDE's Superintendent, James Colbert, shared the story of his sister, who was once a GED student herself.
