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  • Keeping The Tradition Alive: A Family Of Aggie Educators

    They have been around education their entire lives, so when the time came to choose a college major education was the clear choice for Jamie Holder’s children. Jamie Holder graduated from the secondary education program in 1986. After spending time teaching in the Brazos Valley, he was hired to…

  • Caring For Caregivers

    By Kelli Levey, Texas A&M University Mays Business School Leonard Berry, a marketing professor at Mays Business School, has stepped up his research of cancer care to encompass those closest to the cancer patients – the caregivers. Most often, the caregivers are family members, and are not professionals…

  • Higher Urban Population Densities Could Lead To Less Energy Use

    Population densities in urban areas worldwide will continue to drop until 2050 with significant consequences for energy use in buildings, according to a study by an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes a Texas A&M professor. Burak Güneralp, research assistant professor in the Department of Geography,…

  • AgriLife Lands $10 Million CDC Grant To Fight Diseases Like Zika

    The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a principal vector of the Zika virus. Photo by Gabe Hamer. Texas A&M AgriLife recently received a substantial monetary boost to bolster its aggressive fight to stem the spread of vector-borne diseases for the public good, said Dr. David Ragsdale, Texas A&M University entomology…

  • HSC Health Tips: How To Avoid Illness At The Office

    A recent study infected one person with a harmless virus in an office building with 80 people, and within two hours, the virus had contaminated the break room. With so many people sharing a space, germs are bound to spread. However, there are ways to protect yourself.

  • Is NAFTA Really The Disaster Trump Thinks It Is?

    Free trade is being blamed for a lot of the world’s woes, but is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) really the “worst trade agreement ever,” as President-elect Trump has stated? In an article titled “The NAFTA Intellect Disconnect: Actual Costs and Benefits versus Popular Perceptions,” published by…

  • Left Brain, Meet Right Brain: STEM In The Liberal Arts

    Texas A&M was ranked by BestColleges.com as first in Texas and 12th nationally to graduate the most women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. While this comes as no surprise to many, some may not realize the role the College of Liberal Arts plays in STEM…

  • New Texas A&M Research Center To Move Lifesaving Discoveries To Market

    Helping researchers more rapidly move potentially lifesaving discoveries from the lab to the marketplace will be the focus of a new research center recently approved by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The Center for Translation of Healthcare Technologies (CTHT), a partnership among the Texas A&M…

  • Liberal Arts Graduate Earns Top Score On Texas Bar Exam

    Lynne Powers ’12 Thanks to an elementary school mock trial program, Lynne Powers ’12 first became interested in practicing law in the fourth grade. When she took the Texas Bar Exam, she earned the highest score out of almost 3,000 people. She is only the third woman in the past…

  • Aggie Soccer Player’s Ambitious Goal

    By Richard Croome, Bryan-College Station Eagle Texas A&M University senior Sarah Shaw is most enthusiastic about the future. The twist is it’s not her own future that’s exciting her, which has been her approach to life since her elementary school days.