(Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment) By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences, in conjunction with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment What does soil have to do with climate change? Managed well, soil’s ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much greater than previously estimated,…
Top: Lauren Replogle, Texas A&M University; Malarie O’Brien, Coastal Carolina University. Bottom: Katie David, Tulane University; Patrick Saylor, Dartmouth University. (U.S. Navy) By Taylor Fuechec, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences For three sweltering months this summer, Lauren Replogle called the Naval Oceanographic Office home. A Texas A&M Department…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Carrie L. Byington, MD, dean of the Texas A&M College of Medicine, senior vice president of the Texas A&M University Health Science Center and vice chancellor for health services at The Texas A&M University System,…
By Research Communications and Public Relations The Texas A&M University System AGEP Alliance—Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Prairie View A&M University—will receive a $2.8 million grant over 60 months from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop, implement and study a new…
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The narrow beams represent the gamma-ray burst while the rippling space-time grid indicates the isotropic gravitational waves that characterize the merger. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are a possible source of the light that was seen at lower…
The Milky Way as seen over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope, home to the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera and some of history’s first images of a binary neutron star merger, taken by Texas A&M University astronomer Jennifer Marshall. (Matt Dieterich)…
Paul E. Hardin was the first to define the feedback loop in gene expression that comprises the core “circadian,” or 24-hour, timekeeping mechanism in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science As the second day of a new month dawned, three…
By Elena Watts, Marketing and Communications Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of “Hidden Figures,” addressed an audience on the campus of Texas A&M University earlier this month about her journey as a first-time author. Her presentation was part of the 2017 Common Ground Reading Initiative sponsored by the Texas…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Screenings are the best way to detect cancer early, and early detection is more likely to lead to better outcomes. However, for those individuals without health insurance, screening tests can often be prohibitively expensive. To help women access these…