By Sam Peshek, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Texas A&M Foundation Receives $20 Million Commitment To Name Hagler Institute For Advanced Study Texas A&M University has announced that its Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study will be renamed the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas…
By Lorian Hopcus, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Students in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University were recently announced as a semi-finalist team in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. The multi-national team, comprised of students and professors, is now one…
By Texas A&M University School of Law With support from the Charles Koch Foundation, Aggie Law’s criminal justice and advocacy scholars are turning classroom study into experiential learning. Grant funds support student research, including the drafting of policy papers, and also the expansion of their advocacy networks throughout…
Nicolas Werth By Susan Robertson, Texas A&M University Bush School Noted French historian Nicolas Werth will give a lecture entitled “The Great Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1933, a Genocide?” at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. The lecture is sponsored by the Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs at the Bush…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Firefighters are exposed to a range of potentially traumatic stressors in their jobs, and many cope perfectly fine. However, a not-insignificant percentage of them develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Texas A&M researchers are trying to figure out why—and what…
By Grant Vassar, Texas A&M University Mays School of Business The saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, and in the case of the inaugural Spirit of Texas Festival, it couldn’t be any truer. The free festival aims to round up Guinness World Records in Aggieland for…
Jon L. Hagler ’58. By Monika Blackwell, Texas A&M Foundation Texas A&M University has announced that its Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study will be renamed the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University in honor of Jon L. Hagler, a 1958 graduate of the university. Already…
Deepwater plumes in the Pacific Ocean can carry iron particles 2,500 miles. (Shutterstock) By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Iron particles coming from hydrothermal vents along volcanic mountain ridges deep in the ocean persist for more than 2,500 miles across the Pacific, according to a study led…
Germanwings, Airbus A320-211 D-AIPX aircraft landing at International Airport ‘Makedonia’, it is the aircraft that crashed in the Alps. (Shutterstock) By Shana Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science An international team of researchers led by Texas A&M University mathematician Goong Chen has used the latest in visualization…
Grant Vassar, Texas A&M University Mays School of Business Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School has named three of its most distinguished former students as 2017 Outstanding Alumni. The honorees are Gregory M. Cokinos ’79, Cydney Collier Donnell ’81 and Carri Baker ’84. They will be honored at…
