The University of Houston began as Houston Junior College (HJC). On March 7, 1927, trustees of the Houston Independent School District Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution that authorized the founding and operating of a junior college. The junior college was operated and controlled by...
A month later, encouraged by Kengla, a trio of UT architecture professors conducted seminars on planning and constructing shelters in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans. However, despite all of the activity, the response was less than enthusiastic. Too many Austinites didn’t take the ...
The University of Houston began life as Houston Junior College on March 7, 1927, with the help of Dr. Edison Ellsworth Oberholtzer. The two-year college was operated and controlled under the guidance of the Houston Independent School District and was located in the San Jacinto High School ...
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AR:Awesome, that’s one of my favorite venues. I hope you have an amazing time there, but since you got to Houston have you been able to do anything fun? Or just in Texas in general? HH:Today we went and got, what I would assume, is a pretty authentic Texas Barbecue. Which if ...
The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) is the oldest and largest college in the university. It was founded in 1821; at the beginning of the university's history, there was no distinction between this college and the university. The School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA), and...
She then spent time as a lab technician at the University of Houston studying transposable elements and piRNA evolution in flies. Her interests now pertain to the diversity and function of non-coding RNAs derived from repetitive sequences, specifically those from human centromeres. Outside of the...
As a state public university, the University of Texas at Dallas is subject to Texas House Bill 588, which guarantees graduating Texas high school seniors in the top 10% of their class admission to any public Texas university. In 2009, 36% of incoming freshmen finished in the top 10th of ...
Rice University has a shield with three Athenian owls on each corner the shield and inverted V vectors that divide it. The owl stands for honor, influence, and wisdom, and chevrons represent the coat of arms of the families Rice and Houston. ...