Undergraduate students aboard the RV Trident in Galveston Bay on Nov. 4, from left to right: Kelsey Gibbons, oceanography major; Cassie Oswood, OCNG 491 student; Ana Ramos, oceanography major; Samantha Longridge, oceanography major; Victoria Scriven, oceanography major; James Chapman, oceanography major; Cody Padlo, OCNG 491 student; Brian Buckingham, TAMU-GERG…
By John Adams, From Bastogne to Texas, Inc. Editor’s note: Dr. Tarlow will be available to media at 1 p.m. ahead of his presentation. A longtime staple of the Texas A&M community is returning to campus, and he’s bringing remarkable stories of Texans who helped free thousands of people…
By Texas A&M University School of Law This fall, Texas A&M Law welcomed two legal scholars to its Dispute Resolution Program. Nancy Welsh, previously professor of law and William Trickett Faculty Scholar at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law, has joined the faculty as professor of…
By Ashley Green, College of Education and Human Development On top of a hill in the center of Nicaragua sits a small town that quickly captured Paige Ferrell’s heart after her first visit four years ago. Ferrell, who graduated with a master’s degree in special education from Texas…
By Jennifer Reiley, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Editor’s Note: The 2018 program is from June 3-Aug. 5, and the application for the program is available until Dec. 4. For engineering students in search of humanitarian work while studying abroad, Engineering Rwanda offers both and more. “Not…
By Jan McHarg, Texas A&M University College of Engineering A big problem for autonomous robots is the challenge of navigating large environments that are void of a global positioning system (GPS). Suman Chakravorty, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Estimation Decision and Planning Lab at…
A Darwin’s Finch (also known as the Galapagos Finch) in the Galapagos Islands. (Shutterstock) By Megan Palsa, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Highlights A species of Darwin’s finches evolved before Texas A&M researcher Leif Andersson’s eyes Hybridization between two distinct species led to the…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Stand2Learn, a startup company based on the work of Mark Benden, associate professor of environmental health and occupational safety at the Texas A&M School of Public Health and CEO of Stand2Learn, represented Texas A&M University at the inaugural University…
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Silver Taps will be held at Texas A&M University Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 10:30 p.m. to honor the memory of four Aggies who died recently. Being honored are John William Holden Jr., a graduate student from Houston majoring in petroleum…
Casey Papovich, will test the first official round of James Webb Space Telescope testing before the $8 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope launches.