By Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Texas is highly susceptible to both natural and technological disasters due to the substantial concentration of industrial facilities and extensive coastlines. The combined threats of natural hazards, climate change and coastal population growth has led Jennifer Horney, PhD, interim…
People use boats to help bring items out of homes in an area where a mandatory evacuation is still under effect after flood water inundated them after torrential rains caused widespread flooding during Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on September 3, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty…
People stand in a flooded neighborhood as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By Ashley Ross, Texas A&M University Marine Sciences, for The Conversation “Your safest option is to stay put.” This…
AgriLife agents began taking in animals Aug. 25. By Kathleen Phillips, Texas A&M University AgriLife Donations of time and supplies have come in all types and sizes to the animal shelter and supply point at the fairgrounds in Angleton, but all come with a common feature — caring, empathetic…
Students and volunteers spent Saturday loading donated items onto trucks to provide relief for Hurricane Harvey victims. (Corey Stone/Flickr) By Sondra White, Texas A&M Division of Student Affairs BTHO Harvey, a grassroots organization comprised of Texas A&M University student volunteers, gathered enough relief supplies for victims of Hurricane Harvey…
The body of a female mosquito fills up and balloons as she sucks blood from a photographer’s hand at Everglades National Park in Flamingo, Florida. (Photo by Tom Ervin/Getty Images) By Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University AgriLife Among the inevitable fallout stemming from the ocean of water dumped on…
By Texas A&M University Research Communications and Public Relations The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded eight research grants to Texas A&M University totaling more than $9 million. The grants are among 60 new awards totaling more than $102 million that CPRIT recently announced…
Grace Tsai, a doctoral anthropology student at Texas A&M, is conducting a study, the Ship Biscuit and Salted Beef Project, that explores the reasons 17-century sailors survived at sea on extremely unhealthy diets. By Tyler Allen, the Texas A&M Foundation Historical evidence suggests 17th-century sailors defied the…
By Texas A&M University Athletics Texas A&M Athletics is partnering with Maroon Out and C.C. Creations in a t-shirt sale to aid relief efforts for people throughout the Gulf Coast impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The #BTHOharvey t-shirt sale is part of an initiative originally developed from…
By Maggie Rians ’18 “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” When Kelly Boatright, Texas A&M Class of 1992, first discovered these words by Ralph Waldo Emerson, they struck a chord, and she says they have guided her…
