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The article discusses how the University of Houston has increased the number of underrepresented faculty members over a five-year period from 2014-2019. Topics covered include the grants received by the university for its faculty-diversity efforts, the steps that universities and colleges in the U.S. can take to advance faculty diversity without big money, and the additional challenge posed by the Covid-19 pandemic in recruiting and retaining underrepresented scholars.

The article discusses the social and psychological aspects of college residential facilities, and describes renovations at colleges such as Franklin & Marshall College, Southern Methodist University, and Michigan State University. Architect Daniel Kelley is quoted, and student retention, Elon University's neighborhood system, and school communities are discussed.

From Vermont to California, we found routes that will take you close to the sights, sounds and scenery surrounding U.S. rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Late-day sunlight bounced off the rapids [...]

Texas, the biggest oil-producing state, has turned to solar power and battery storage to see it through extreme weather. But with demand rising, much more power will be needed. During [...]

As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth's surface. Big tech companies across the United States [...]

In 2018 an international team of scientists -- from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond -- got their hands on a remarkable biological specimen: a skin sample from a [...]

TotalEnergies and Shell are contemplating the advantages of listing shares in the United States to strengthen what they say are low market valuations. Two European energy giants, TotalEnergies of France [...]

New regulations could spell the end for plants that burn coal, the fossil fuel that powered the country for more than a century. The Biden administration on Thursday placed the [...]

The president likes to talk about his climate agenda as an opportunity to create jobs. Polling shows that may be the wrong way to win over voters. President Biden has [...]

Before deciding whether to approve it, the Energy Department will analyze the climate impacts of CP2, one of 17 proposed LNG export terminals. The Biden administration is pausing a decision [...]

A proposed export terminal on the Louisiana coast highlights the tension between economic growth, geopolitics and the environment. On a marshy stretch of the Louisiana coastline, a little-known company wants [...]

A few years ago, interest in offshore wind energy was so strong that developers proposed spending tens of billions of dollars to plunk hundreds of turbines the size of skyscrapers [...]

Emma McConville was thrilled when she landed a job as a geologist at Exxon Mobil in 2017. She was assigned to work on one of the company's most exciting and [...]

Snoring and conflicting schedules are top reasons couples decide to sleep in separate bedrooms. Sex therapists and marriage counselors have their doubts about the arrangement. Last spring, as Valerie Weisler [...]

''The Chosen,'' a TV series about the life of Jesus, pulls off a crowd-funded miracle: a hit with a Christian fan base that is breaking into the mainstream. MIDLOTHIAN, Texas [...]

Matthew Shelton was contending with diabetes and periodic substance abuse when he moved in with his sister outside Houston in order to get his life together. Three months later, facing [...]

Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, said products like Google Photos and the Nest camera had violated Texans' privacy rights. The Texas attorney general filed a privacy lawsuit against Google [...]

There are few books, shows or other tools to help parents and teachers talk to preschoolers about global warming. ''Octonauts: Above and Beyond'' is one of the first to try. [...]

The U.S. benchmark oil price fell below $80 a barrel for the first time since the start of the year. The U.S. benchmark oil price tumbled below $80 a barrel [...]

The bill includes billions in tax credits for the production of renewable energy, drug-pricing reforms and a boost for the I.R.S. WASHINGTON -- After months of painstaking negotiations, Democrats are [...]

The United States is rolling out a reimagined suicide prevention number to address a national mental health crisis. But funding and staffing issues have left some questioning whether it's ready. [...]

The European oil company has been expanding into green energy even as many U.S. energy giants have kept their focus on fossil fuels. HOUSTON -- Shell said on Tuesday that [...]

Teenagers and young adults are turning to Snapchat, TikTok and other social media apps to find Percocet, Xanax and other pills. The vast majority are laced with deadly doses of [...]

American energy production has only inched up because executives fear that oil and gas prices won't stay high. HOUSTON -- Oil and gasoline prices are climbing. Energy company profits are [...]

The president is under pressure to bring down gas prices, but any new drilling would be years away. The fees that companies pay would rise sharply. WASHINGTON -- The Biden [...]

ESI Energy pleaded guilty based on the documented ''blunt force trauma'' deaths of golden eagles struck by fast-moving turbine blades, prosecutors said. A wind energy company pleaded guilty last week [...]

He was an All-Pro right tackle in the 1970s. But in retirement he was diagnosed with dementia, which he linked to repeated hits to the head. Rayfield Wright, a tough, [...]

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -- the number posted on student identification cards, atop Google search results and in warning labels on television shows -- is about to get a [...]

The $15.6 billion emergency aid package was stripped amid disputes over how to pay for it, injecting uncertainty into the president's pandemic response plan. WASHINGTON -- Faced with Republican resistance [...]

Summary summary summary To the Editor: Re ''U.S. officials limit treatments that don't work on Omicron, but doctors say alternatives are scarce'' (Coronavirus updates, nytimes.com, Jan. 24): The Food and [...]

Fermat's last theorem, a riddle put forward by one of history's great mathematicians, had baffled experts for more than 300 years. Then a genius toiled in secret for seven years [...]

President López Obrador wants to halt most oil exports and imports of gasoline and other fuels. Critics say he is reneging on Mexico's climate change commitments. DEER PARK, Texas -- [...]

OPEC Plus, the United States and others have been slow to ramp up output, lagging production goals. Nearly two years ago the world's oil producers slammed on the brakes and [...]

A more advanced screening method has turned a low-cost procedure into a pricier one, drawing complaints. After Christine Malik gave birth to her first daughter three years ago, a clinician [...]

School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed. When a junior high school student in western Oregon tested positive for the [...]

To the Editor: Re ''Shunning Shot, but Lining Up for Antibodies'' (front page, Sept. 19): I'd like to say that those are my treatments and I want them back. I [...]

One reader objects to the ''gall of the unvaccinated who now want me and millions of others to pay for their medical treatment.'' To the Editor: Re ''Shunning Shot, but [...]

Championed by doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, monoclonal antibodies for Covid are in high demand -- even from those who don't want a vaccine. Lanson Jones did not think [...]