The Houston-based Robert A. Welch Foundation is giving $100 million to Rice University to establish the Welch Institute, which will focus on the development of advanced materials. It's the largest…
Entrepreneurs and small business owners are well-known for innovating, taking risks and bouncing back from crisis again and again. 2020, though, has been exceptional. Nearly every facet of the…
Many of us have specific ideas of what racism looks like, but we often don’t realize how pervasive it can be. Indeed, people of color face both individual and systemic racism in often subtle ways in…
This year, the one-two punch of COVID-19 and an energy downturn has knocked Houston’s economy into a tough spot.
Without conventional energy jobs to bolster a recovery, the region will now have to…
The global pandemic has caused innumerable shifts to the way that people live, work and do business. One such change is how we connect with others. Since March, people have been called to master…
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) has launched its first bus rapid transit route in Uptown Houston.
The long-awaited Silver Line runs five miles from the Northwest Transit…
