University of Houston

The good news for the Brooks family is that a team from Texas with Alvin Brooks on its coaching staff is guaranteed to be playing in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball championship game.

The first cargo-carrying robot marketed directly to consumers is on sale this holiday season. But how many people are ready to ditch their second car to buy a two-wheeled rover that can follow them around like a dog? Corporate giants like Amazon, FedEx and Ford have already been experimenting with sending delivery robots to doorsteps. Now Piaggio, the Italian company...

The Washington Nationals sent Seth Romero, last year’s first-round draft choice, home from camp for an unspecified violation of team policy.

The first day of classes for students in Houston on Monday was filled with the excitement of meeting new teachers and making new friends, while also allowing the nation’s fourth-largest city to return normalcy to an area still wending its way through the healing process following massive flooding from Harvey. Students “are excited to be back. Parents are excited to...

Many U.S. colleges and universities, seeing declining numbers of applications from overseas, are trying to reassure potential international students they will be welcome on campus despite what they see in the news. Schools are ramping up marketing efforts geared toward foreign students to combat growing fears that President Donald Trump’s stance on immigration reflects a United States that is becoming...

Georgetown University basketball legend Patrick Ewing will return to coach the team he led to a national championship in 1984, a source confirmed to NBC Sports.

A 33-year-old doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston, has found a six-installment novel by Walt Whitman and published anonymously in 1852 — a discovery that upends what previously was believed about the 19th-century poet’s early career.

Houston police said the son of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, 21-year-old University of Houston sophomore Carl Conyers, was found safe Friday morning.

Despite attempts to curb students’ consumption of alcohol, binge-drinking is becoming the norm on college campuses, NBC News reported. A group of young people spoke about the trend, called “drunkorexia,” for “Today” show’s Campus Undercovered series. According to the students interviewed, the habit altered their way of life, even leading to extended hospitalization, for one student. A study from the...

The University of Houston is investigating an incident caught on video of a fan being assaulted by security guards after rushing the field following Houston’s victory over Temple on Saturday.

The University of Houston president suspended the university’s Sigma Chi fraternity chapter in the wake of hazing allegations at the chapter.