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…
By Grant Vassar, 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 the 25th-Year…
By Lesley Henton, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Just like the flesh-eating creatures themselves, the zombie phenomenon is showing no signs of dying anytime soon. The hit AMC show “The Walking Dead” has returned with the second half of season 7, so we asked Professor…
Political Science professor Dr. Kenneth Meier. Recent research on the patterns of publishing in political science lists Dr. Kenneth Meier, the Charles H. Gregory chair of Liberal Arts, among the most productive international political scientists. Using an original dataset consisting of more than 67,000 peer-reviewed articles in 96 high…
When Bryce Barros passed through the sliding doors of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M in fall 2015, his entrance was seven years in the making. “I knew I wanted to go to the Bush School since I was a freshman [in college],” Barros…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Photo by Francis Miller/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to integrate into an all-white public school in the American South in 1960,…
Aaron Franklin of Franklin’s Barbecue in Austin, discussing brisket cuts. (Photo by Dr. Jeff Savell, University Distinguished Professor and E.M. “Manny” Rosenthal chairholder in the department of animal science at Texas A&M). There was no shortage of beef nor legends of Texas barbecue at Camp Brisket…
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…
Eight Mays Business School students have been named 2017 YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund recipients, winning $40,000 in scholarships. Established in 1937, the Young Menswear Association (YMA) Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) is the premier educational fashion non-profit in the United States. FSF offers scholarships to the best and brightest students…