Health & Environment

  • Professor Leads International Team In Developing WHO Ethics Guidelines

    School of Public Health Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Amy Fairchild directs a committee of international experts in producing the first guidelines on public health surveillance. By Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Public health surveillance is a powerful tool for fighting disease outbreaks and identifying various…

  • $2 Million Gift Aims To Make CEHD A Leader In Human Performance

    Debbie and Mike Hilliard ’73 have committed $2 million to the Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance. By Ashley Green, Texas A&M University College of Education and Human Development With the goal of bringing more attention to Texas A&M and improving the impact the College of Education and…

  • The Tiny World Inside Your Pet

    Dr. Jan Suchodolski and second-year DVM student, Hannah L. Klein. By Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Staff The word “ecosystem” often evokes images of vast terrain and large expanses of wilderness, often at the continental or planetary scale. But, ecosystems aren’t always so massive. In…

  • Texas A&M Research Shows Muscles Can ‘Ask’ For The Energy They Need

    Jason Karpac, PhD, assistant professor at the College of Medicine and principal investigator on the project. By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Muscles require energy to perform all of the movements that we do in a day, and now, for the first time, researchers at the Texas…

  • Army, Navy Team With Texas A&M Colonias Program To Provide Health Care

    Military medical personnel conduct dental work on a patient. By Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M University College of Architecture Outside a pop-up medical clinic in Webb County, Texas, a wide-eyed woman stood in shocked silence, suddenly able to see the world in sharp focus for the first time after receiving a…

  • Fighting Back Against Antimicrobial Resistance With Ultraviolet Light

    By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem, as some infections that used to be easily cured are now immune to even our most powerful antibiotics. These resistant microorganisms are called superbugs, and their…

  • Texas A&M Transportation Wins Communication Award

    Associate Vice President Peter Lange, Transportation Services and Associate Director Debbie Hoffmann, Transportation Services were presented the award during the recent International Parking Institute (IPI) Conference & Expo held in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Courtesy IPI) By Melissa Marie Maraj, Texas A&M University Transportation Services Texas A&M Transportation Services was awarded…

  • AgriLife Partners With Tunisia To Improve Soil Management

    Dr. Amir Ibrahim, AgriLife Research wheat breeder, College Station, stands in a durum wheat field not far from the Mediterranean Sea. Ibrahim is leading a partnership between Texas A&M and Tunisian researchers. By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University AgriLife Improving the livelihood of small-acreage landholders is the goal of recent…

  • What’s The Difference Between Alzheimer’s Disease And Dementia?

      By Dominic Hernandez, Texas A&M University Health Science Center While often used interchangeably, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are not the same. Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s disease is a specific type of dementia that…

  • Texas A&M-Led Team Develops First Ground-Based Model Simulating Effects of Space Radiation

    The Texas A&M Computational Physics Group’s Jeff Chancellor ’17 prepares for his inaugural public presentation at Texas A&M Research Computing Week on new research with the potential to revolutionize materials research and biological experiments related to space travel. By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science Two years…