The UTSA Office of P-20 Initiatives will host “The P-20 Summit: “Parent Engagement” from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m on Saturday, May 30 in the Buena Vista Street Building at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The summit is free and open to the public; free parking will be available.

Sara Ramírez    |    Women's Studies Institute

If you're a college student wondering how your study and party habits will affect your GPA, wonder no longer. Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues have built the first app that automatically predicts college students' grade point average based on their smartphone data.

For most of their lives, bilinguals might not show any real benefits. The true edge may come far later.

House Bill 4 sets aside $130 million over two years for school districts whose pre-kindergarten programs meet certain standards. Early education was among five emergency items Abbott declared earlier this year.

When VIDA Middle School in Vista, California, received a grant to hand every one of its 680 students an iPad with a free 4G connection, parents were excited. They were also a little nervous. "We have a large population of students who walk," says Principal Eric Chagala. "The fear was, you are putting a $700 or $800 device in my 11-year-old's hand, and they have to get home."

By the time he entered second grade, Eric had already witnessed graphic violence and watched as his family fell apart. He’d been moved to a new state and a new home, but he wasn’t thriving, especially in school. Eric’s reading level was measured in single digits — that is, below the 10th percentile for children his age.

Like lots of little kids, Jeremiah Nebula — the main character of a children's book called Large Fears — has big dreams. He wants to go to Mars. But Jeremiah is also pretty different from the characters that Myles Johnson, the author of the Kickstarter-backed book, met in the stories he read when he was growing up. Jeremiah is black, and he really, really likes the color pink.

Last week, a woman named Ingeborg Rapoport finally got a chance to defend her doctoral dissertation 77 years after writing it. Did I mention she's 102 years old?

Dinosaurs have gotten a lot of attention in the last few years, but there’s a group of creatures who arrived just after that which haven’t quite had their due in the attention department. I got a peek recently at a new San Antonio exhibit featuring them. “We have Mammoths, we have Mastodons, we have Sabre-Tooth Cats, Dire Wolves.”

Whether they're in a posh London school or in the slums of Kenya, in the midst of war or in a battle against bullies, kids take playtime very seriously.

University of Miami study of zebrafish reveals how dysfunction of SHANK3 or SYNGAP1 genes play a role in the development of autism spectrum disorder

Drawing from the McNay Art Museum's expansive print collection, curator Lyle Williams has assembled about two dozen images of the revolutionary leader for "Viva Zapata!" on view through August 16 in the Lawson Print Gallery. Many of the prints in "Viva Zapata!" have entered the McNay's permanent collection through the generosity of Ricardo Romo, president of UTSA.