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  • Texas A&M At Qatar Helps Incoming Freshmen Prep For Success

    The engineering building on Qatar’s campus. By Texas A&M University at Qatar Two dozen students who will enter Texas A&M University at Qatar’s engineering degree programs in the fall are focusing on advancing their mathematics skills this summer ahead of their first semester as university students. The students are participating…

  • Survey Supports Theory 26 Percent Of The Universe Is In The Form Of Dark Matter

    Texas A&M University astronomer Darren DePoy served as the project scientist for the Dark Energy Camera, one of the most powerful survey instruments of its kind that is able to see light from more than 100,000 galaxies up to 8 billion light years away in each snapshot. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab) By Shana…

  • Embedded Sensory Particles May Better Detect Damage In Aircraft And Spacecraft

    An airplane prepares for takeoff. By Jan McHarg, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Most of us take flying in an airplane for granted. We book our tickets, sit through the long check-in lines, and if we’re lucky, take off on time to our chosen destination. Day in and day…

  • Mammoth Bone Discovery Could Change Understanding Of Early Human Settlement

    Morgan Smith, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology from Tallahassee, is conducting research that could change current beliefs about how early humans settled the U.S. By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Highlights Determining if humans and ancient mammoths coexisted at the Florida site could change how scientists understand…

  • The Long Journey: From Patient To Nurse

    Mason Hatch was inspired to treat patients after overcoming his own health obstacles. By Diane L. Oswald, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Mason Hatch has traveled much further than the 143 miles his odometer measured from his hometown of Warren, Texas, to Texas A&M College of Nursing in Bryan-College Station.

  • Texas A&M Joins Elite Group Of Host Campuses For Warrior-Scholar Project

    David Cornavaca (far right) will join 19 U.S. enlisted veterans in a weeklong course designed to ease the transition from military to student life. By Sondra K. White, Texas A&M University Division of Student Affairs While fall classes on the Texas A&M University campus don’t begin until later in August,…

  • Mays Strategic Philanthropy Course Partnering With Bush Library Foundation

    By Kelli R. Levey, Texas A&M University Mays Business School The Strategic Philanthropy course at the Texas A&M Mays Business School is partnering with the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation in the fall semester to manage its Community Grant Program. The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation exists to perpetuate the…

  • Galveston Grad Turned Coast Guard Officer Named Mrs. Texas U.S. 2017

    Ann Marie Reigrut, a 2004 graduate from Texas A&M University at Galveston and reserve officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, was named Mrs. Texas United States 2017. By Bob Wright, Texas A&M University at Galveston Marketing and Communications Texas A&M University at Galveston graduate Ann Marie Reigrut has an impressive…

  • Texas A&M Conserves Prehistoric Canoe To Keep Ancient Culture Afloat

    Around the time this canoe glided over the Red River in what is now northwestern Louisiana, which was most likely the 14th century, the harsh weather of the Little Ice Age was beginning and a Great Famine was ravaging Europe.

  • HLKN Welcomes First Female Department Head

    By Justin Ikpo, Texas A&M University College of Education and Human Development The Department of Health and Kinesiology (HLKN) welcomes Dr. Melinda Sheffield-Moore ‘87 as its new department head and first female department head. Dr. Sheffield-Moore holds a long and distinguished career in both the education and health sectors.