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The city’s grand vision for the southeast corner of downtown is called Project Marvel. It’s an ambitious multi-billion-dollar project that will turn the area around the re-imagined Alamodome and the bulldozed Institute of Texan Cultures into a new home for the Spurs and an entertainment destination. But some say the ITC building should be saved and that public transparency is needed for all of this.

UTSA had planned to open a new Office of Campus and Community Belonging on Jan. 1 that would have held onto all of the staff from the Office of Inclusive Excellence but changed course in a Tuesday statement from the university president.

Over 2,700 works by over 600 regional and international artists are displayed throughout the university as part of the UTSA Art Collection. The endowment honors over 20 years of work from the collection's curator, Arturo Infante Almeida.

The building on Dolorosa Street will house the university's new School of Data Science and National Security Collaboration Center. It's the first piece in the university's 10-year plan to expand its presence in downtown San Antonio.

Fans of the UTSA football team are encouraged to arrive early for Saturday's season opener at the Alamodome against the University of Houston.

The Alamodome and its contractors are hiring for the upcoming UTSA and XFL football seasons and the Alamo Bowl.

UTSA associate professor Sonya Alemán explains how the virtual course "Selena: A Mexican American Identity & Experience" prompts broader conversations about Latino issues and culture.

UTSA archaeologists have found possible evidence of earth ovens used by pre-historic people on the grounds of Natural Bridge Caverns, north of San Antonio.

COVID-19 testing clinics around the country are closing, and federal funding for free clinical testing is drying up. But wastewater surveillance could step in to play a crucial role in keeping track of where the virus is and just how much is really circulating out there. In this episode, host Bonnie Petrie takes us to a wastewater treatment plant in Converse, Texas and talks to scientists trying to build a surveillance and sequencing program in South Texas.

Scientists who track COVID-19 in wastewater say regular surveillance of the sewers could be an effective early warning system for new variants and potential surges.