The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant was awarded to a Texas A&M-led team that will develop a way to quickly detect which bacterial pathogens are present in a soil or water sample.
By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science After earmarking more than $500,000 this past spring to support cutting-edge interdisciplinary research activities in 2017, the Texas A&M University College of Science is poised to kick off 2018 with an additional $344,000 commitment toward its campus-wide collaborative research…
Oleander aphids. (Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin) By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are investigating an innovative new way to protect crops from pathogens, thanks to a four-year cooperative agreement worth…
By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture In the digital age, people rely more and more on advice — driving directions, weather reports, dining suggestions and fitness tips — generated by a computational process, or algorithm. Researchers at Texas A&M are examining these computations in an effort…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center When a soldier in the field is exposed to an infectious agent, it’s a race against time to get him or her back to a hospital for care. But what if that ticking clock could be paused, or at least…