Greater Texas Foundation provided the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service with a grant of more than $3 million that will establish a Rural Student Success Initiative to help increase access to college education for rural students in Texas. Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) is giving a grant of more than…
In-person shopping remains popular. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Kelli Hollinger, Center for Retailing Studies director and marketing lecturer, Texas A&M University, for The Conversation It surprises most millennials to learn that only about 10 percent of all retail purchases are actually made online. Each semester, when I ask hundreds of undergraduate business students…
By Texas A&M Foundation The Texas A&M Foundation announced that it will make $90.8 million available to Texas A&M University as a result of donations by former students and other supporters during the past fiscal year. The funds are a combination of this year’s gifts intended for immediate…
Sam Tomaso, senior in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, became a fan favorite by taking on the persona of 12th Man Jesus on Texas A&M gamedays. By Jennifer Reiley, Texas A&M University College of Engineering There are many ways to show the Aggie spirit. Sam Tomaso, senior in the…
By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Texas A&M Architecture-for-health Professor George J. Mann has made the most of the vision and good fortune that allowed him to find his calling early in life, and the fruition of more than 50 years of his hard…
Christmas shoppers look in to decorated store windows. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) By Kelli Hollinger, Texas A&M University Center for Retailing Studies Overall spending Early predictions from Deloitte indicate spending will be up in 2017. Sales increased by 3.6 percent in both 2015 and 2016. With a strong economy,…
As part of Native American Month, the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Diversity Advancement Committee (DAC) will be hosting “More Than a Word,” a film about Native American-based sports mascots. The screening will be on Tuesday, November 7 from 1:00pm—3:00pm and held in Evans Library Room 204E, followed…
Researchers on the R/V Point Sur manage water sampling equipment. By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M College of Geosciences Scientists now estimate that more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey flowed into the Gulf of Mexico following the storm, and a team of researchers from Texas A&M…
Dr. Lonesome Malambo flies a quad copter over a corn and sorghum research field. (Texas A&M AgriLife/Lonesome Malambo) By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University AgriLife Building three-dimensional point clouds from high-resolution photos taken from unmanned aerial vehicles or drones may soon help plant breeders and agronomists save time and…
By Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service One day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget resolution, paving the way for tax reform, Dr. Lori Taylor, an economist and Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy at…