This spring, students from the University of Houston chapter of MAES began volunteering with the robotics program at Reagan High School, located in the Houston Independent School District. The high school students in the robotics club, under the instruction of Mr. Fernando Blasco, design and build robots using FIRST …

  In a tough year, donations nearly double to Latino Giving Houston. A growing membership helped raise 43% more in donations to support the group’s grant making efforts Houston, Texas – February 9, 2012 – Latino Giving Houston, an organization which formed in 2009, plans to award its largest grant …

The largest Latino social media professionals organization opens a Houston chapter. The city will also play host to the 2012 LATISM national conference.

The Fire diverges away from tradition, through its clever integration of multimedia capabilities. This does not necessarily mean that the device can go toe-to-toe with other tablets in terms of processing power or features, but it gives users a unique service.

Houston novelist and radio personality forms a caravan to smuggle “banned” books back into Arizona. The event is in support of the now disbanded Mexican American Studies program, whose students had their Latino literature confiscated.

Unlike many of the young, well-connected tech entrepreneurs portrayed in the media, Galvez, founder of HoustonBookExchange.com, didn’t get funding from a venture capital firm or startup incubator. Instead, this budding tech mogul took a more traditional route.

Young entrepreneurs are the game-changers that America needs right now. (They) are a dynamic resource for national recovery and growth. One Columbiana has set out to help the community while investing in her dream.

  The conservative website Mashregh reported this week that the police has recently instructed toy stores in Iran to take Barbie dolls off the shelves and released an announcement that they can no longer be sold. As a result of the new instructions, some of Tehran’s large toy stores have …

  Discouraged by the constant anti-immigration bills being introduced around the country, student activists at the University of Texas are determined get more minorities to the polls in this election year. The University Leadership Initiative will be hosting a citizenship drive. The event will allow eligible residents to work with …

  No it’s not Spanish for soup. The Stop Online Piracy Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, …