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Anibal Diogenes, D.D.S., Ph.D., is an endodontist, the branch of dentistry that deals with the innermost part of the tooth called pulp, a connective tissue that has immunological, reparative functions.
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- Host, Classical Connections
Barry Brake is a composer, jazz and classical pianist who has been a part of San Antonio's music scene for decades. You can find his musings and musical exploits online here: http://barrybrake.com/
100 years to the day after it premiered in New York, San Antonio's Dirty River Jazz Band will be performing George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' at a special concert on Feb. 12 that will also feature classic standards from the 1920s. The group's pianist, Trevin Roming, stopped by our studio to perform live on KPAC 88.3 FM.
The Fiesta Flutes stopped by Classical Connections to share holiday music live on KPAC 88.3 FM and preview their concert on Friday, Dec. 15 at Zion Lutheran Church.
Hear the award-winning pianist Olga Kern performing live in the TPR studios, and in conversation with Barry Brake on KPAC's "Classical Connections."
Hear the Pearl Trio play music by Antonin Dvorak and Astor Piazzolla, live in our studio, as they preview the opening concert of Musical Offerings' 40th season!
Before traveling to New York this week to compete in the Naumberg International Piano Competition, pianist Martin Kesuma stops in the KPAC studio to perform some Mozart and modern music from Indonesia.
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- Editor and Producer of Statewide Newscasts for the Texas Newsroom
- Education
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Becky Fogel is the editor and producer of statewide newscasts for the Texas Newsroom. She previously worked for the shows Texas Standard and Science Friday. She got her start in radio at KWBU-FM in Waco.
UT said the students violated university policy by engaging in disruptive conduct and unauthorized entry. One of the students, who is four and a half years into a PhD, said he is not in a position to disrupt his degree.
The State Board of Education was originally going to consider the course when members meet this week, but the new chair delayed its consideration.
State agencies said the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not provide enough information in time for Texas to implement the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program in 2024.
A star-shaped fungus found only in Texas, Oklahoma and Japan is popping up in the Austin area this winter to the delight of mushroom enthusiasts.
The two teaching assistants were removed from their roles for sending a message that, in part, expressed disapproval of the university's response to the Israel-Hamas war.
The Texas State Board of Education is developing a process for vetting materials. Some advocacy groups are concerned the process will be politicized.
While protecting academic freedom and public employees' right to free speech is important, the judge wrote in his opinion, the state ban did not violate those rights.
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- Bioscience & Medicine Reporter
- Science & Medicine: APOBECs and the Fight Against Cancer
- Science & Medicine: Cancer 's Silver Tsunami
- Science & Medicine: Fighting Alzheimer 's at the Eye Doctor
- Science & Medicine: Strengthening Your Teeth
- Science & Medicine: Taking on America 's Number One Killer
- Science & Medicine: Targeting Lung Cancer
- Science & Medicine: Tooth Pain With a Purpose
Bonnie Petrie covers bioscience and medicine for Texas Public Radio and is the host of the Petrie Dish podcast, which explores science, medicine, and life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bonnie grew up on the Canadian border in northern New York, but has happily called Texas home for nearly 20 years. She is a 2017 Texas Radio Hall of Fame nominee in recognition of her work in Houston and Dallas before moving to San Antonio, and has received several Edward R Murrow, Associated Press, and other journalism awards throughout her career.
Most recently, Bonnie worked in Los Angeles and reported for public radio stations KPCC and KCRW. She is mom to a high schooler, two dogs, two cats and spends her free time solving family mysteries through genetic genealogy.
UT Health San Antonio oncologist Josephine Taverna envisions a revolution in lung cancer treatment.
Imagine going to the eye doctor and getting a cheap, non-invasive test that could help you fight dementia. A doctor at UT Health San Antonio is working on it.
He presided over UT Health San Antonio for 15 years, during which it became a top-ranked academic health center.
The journey began with the story of the Spanish boar that saved Castro's life.
Four years later, we are still firmly in the grip of this coronavirus, and it's unclear when - or if - we'll ever be free.
Imagine one day your child bites down on something and the enamel on one of their teeth starts to crumble. That can happen in a condition called molar incisor hypomineralization - otherwise known as chalky teeth.
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Brian Kirkpatrick has been a journalist in Texas most of his life, covering San Antonio news since 1993, including the deadly October 1998 flooding, the arrival of the Toyota plant in 2003, and the base closure and realignments in 2005.
He also served as news director and anchor at KTSA and Metro Networks, and was previously the "Morning Edition" anchor at Texas Public Radio. His early career included work as a news anchor and production assistant for the Texas State News Network/Dallas Cowboys Radio Network in Dallas, from 1988-1993. During his years at TSN, he helped cover the Luby's mass shooting in Killeen and the Branch Davidian standoff at Mount Carmel. Kirkpatrick read his first newscast on a small radio station in the Hill Country as a teenager in 1981.
Several more events by San Fernando Cathedral are planned through Sunday evening.
The police chief strongly suggested that visitors arrive a few hours early before the eclipse and be parked by noon. Parking locations will be marked around the city, including the Kerrville Sports Complex.
UK-based JCB manufacturing plans to build a nearly $266 million plant on San Antonio's South Side.
The Baptist Health System reached a milestone with its new $300 million medical facility at Westover Hills.
The best rain chances appeared to be from after midnight early Thursday morning until at least mid-afternoon on Thursday.
More than $137,000 was approved for flood safety improvements to a road where a woman and girl drowned on their way to school in October 2021.
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Camille Phillips has covered education for Texas Public Radio since 2017. She is also the host of The Enduring Gap, a limited series podcast exploring the Latino college gap in San Antonio, what can be done to close it, and what the rest of the country can learn from it.
In her time at TPR, Camille has focused on students, including the ways calls to ban books effects LGBTQ students, and a push from student advocates to end school policing.
She has also covered the growth of charter schools, the impact and causes of the teacher shortage, and the extra strain remote learning put on parents of students with disabilities.
Her work also regularly airs nationally on NPR, including her coverage of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, a change in state curriculum acknowledging slavery as a cause of the Civil War, and a course at St. Mary's University encouraging students to embrace their Spanglish.
In 2023, her work was recognized with a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media, the Eddie Prize from the Education Writers Association, and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards. Before coming to TPR, Camille worked for St. Louis Public Radio, where she was part of the news team that won a national Edward R. Murrow and a Peabody Award for One Year in Ferguson, a multi-media reporting project.
She has an undergraduate degree from Truman State University and a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Camille can be reached at Signal, WhatsApp, or via email at camille@tpr.org for news tips and story ideas. She's on Instagram @camille.m.phillips.
Pro-Palestinian student groups named in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order to public universities and colleges to revise free speech policies to address antisemitism say they're being singled out.
SAISD leaders initially said a third-party review of January's heater failures would "take a few weeks." They now say a report will be out "later this spring."
The governor ordered public colleges and universities in Texas to revise their free speech policies to punish antisemitism. He named pro-Palestinian student groups for discipline, including possible expulsion.
Starting this fall, students who live in neighboring counties will pay $180 per credit hour instead of $225. The cost per credit hour for Bexar County residents will remain $109.
According to the latest numbers from the San Antonio Independent School District, 456 students impacted by school closures won't be returning to the district in the fall.
San Antonians with common legal questions can get them answered Saturday, March 23, at St. Mary's University.
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As TPR's news director, Katz leads the organization's news and journalism efforts, overseeing the newsroom's day-to-day management and the development of a strategic vision for the news division. He also serves on the organization's executive leadership team.
TPR's news team currently has 20 staff members, including reporters dedicated to in-depth coverage of subjects including arts & culture, bioscience & medicine, education, technology & entrepreneurship, military & veterans issues and state government. Previously, Katz served as the news director of WSHU Public Radio in Fairfield, Connecticut, and as a reporter, producer, and on-air host at WUFT in Gainesville, Florida.
Joyce Slocum, who led both NPR and Texas Public Radio into a new era for public media, died Sunday from complications of colon cancer.
La Panadería - the popular San Antonio bakery known for handmade bread, pan dulce and community tables - aims to double its footprint across the city in the next year.
Federal officials accuse Texas of preventing the rescue of three migrants who drowned as they tried to cross the Rio Grande. Texas authorities deny the claim, saying their patrols found no one.
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande while attempting to cross the U.S. border. U.S. border authorities officials say the state of Texas blocked them from conducting a rescue operation.
Chief Daniel Rodriguez was taking pre-scheduled vacation time in Phoenix during the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022.
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- Environment & Natural Resources / How We Are Throwing Our Planet Away
- Environment & Natural Resources / Why the American Eclipse of 1878 Still Inspires
- Government / Politics / How Gutting the Voting Rights Act Increased the Voting Racial Gap
- Government / Politics / Looking for the off - Ramp from the Highway Trap
- Government / Politics / Texas Matters: the GOP V. H - E - B
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- Public Health / Pig Kidney Transplantation: What It Means for the Future
- Public Health / Was the COVID Pandemic a Turning Point
- Senior Reporter and Host, "the Source, " "Texas Matters"
David Martin Davies is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering Texas, the border and Mexico.
Davies is the host of "The Source," an hour-long live call-in news program that airs on KSTX at noon Monday through Thursday. Since 1999 he was been the host and producer of "Texas Matters," a weekly radio news magazine and podcast that looks at the issues, events and people in the Lone Star State.
Davies' reporting has been featured on National Public Radio, American Public Media's "Marketplace" and the BBC. He has written for The San Antonio Light, The San Antonio Express-News, The Texas Observer and other publications.
His reporting has been recognized with numerous awards. In 2022,2021 and 2020 Davies was recognized with first place awards for News/Public Affairs by the Public Media Journalists Association.
In 2019 Davies was honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award for his radio documentary exposing human sex trafficking. Davies was also awarded in 2019 by the Public Radio News Directors Inc. for best talk show. Davies was named the 2008 Texas Radio Journalist of the Year by the Houston Press Club. In 2019 he was recognized with a First Amendment Awards by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Association for Women in Communications San Antonio Professional Chapter honored Davies with the 2015 Edna McGaffey Media Excellence Headliner Award.
Davies is the author and creator of the comic "San Antonio Secret History." He is the co-author of the book "San Antonio 365"
What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change-all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous.
In 1878 a total solar eclipse crossed through the American West and captured the world's attention. A musical in development sings the stories of three scientists who looked to the sky with something personal to prove.
On Monday the moon will block out the sun and put parts of Texas into darkness. The day of the total solar eclipse is almost here. And we are being gripped by Eclipse mania. If you haven't made your plans, it's not too late to find a front-row seat to the greatest show not on earth.
The discussion of the climate crisis can be too abstract. Data warns us of an overheated future, but it's hard to communicate the seriousness and the urgency to take action. But look around now and you will see the changes to our seasons and from the accumulating damage from worsening weather disasters-and the people who are being forced to pick up the pieces if they can. Stories from the front line of the climate crisis from small town America
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes and chained us to our cars. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas, up and down I-35. Where is the off ramp from the highway trap?
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. need an organ transplant, but there is a shortage of donors. Could the solution be found in pigs? The early success of the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human points to a future when xenotransplantation could be routine.
This week on Texas Matters.How HEB is too woke for the GOP. Electric vehicles need places to charge. And covering state news just got a big boost.
The self-styled 'Sparkling City by the Sea' could be the first to dive into ocean desalination - but many local residents are opposed.
It was about this time four years ago that we were all witnessing the spread of COVID-19 and the response -masks, social distancing and a lot of uncertainty. We are still healing from that societal experience. We got some things right and some things wrong. What did we learn from the COVID pandemic?
The difference in turnout between white and nonwhite voters has soared since 2008, especially in regions once covered by strict Voting Rights Act protections. A new report from the Brennan Center shows since the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the white-Black voter turnout gap has widened.
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- Border and Immigration Reporter
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- President and CEO, in Hospice Care
- Presidenta Y Directora Ejecutiva De TPR, En Cuidados De Hospicio
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- Reporter and Producer for the Source
- Uvalde Police Chief Who Was on Vacation During Robb Elementary School Shooting Resigns
Uvalde police chief who was on vacation during Robb Elementary School shooting resigns
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- VP, Cultural & Community Engagement
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- Morning Edition / Fronteras Host
Olga Kern plays Rachmaninoff in studio: 'He knew what to do'
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- Editor of Noticias and Host of the BookPublic Podcast