Texas A&M School of Public Health researchers found that states with a primary texting ban on all drivers on average saw an 8 percent reduction in emergency department visits resulting from a motor vehicle crash.
People stand in a flooded neighborhood as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture City planning staff in Norfolk, Va., a coastal city of 243,000,…
By Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University Health Science Center When people think of the oil and gas industry, typically public health is not the first thing that comes to their minds. However, this is an extremely important domain for public health researchers as S. Camille Peres, PhD,…
Robert Wunderlich, director of TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety, leads the opening session of the 2017 Traffic Safety Conference. By Texas A&M Transportation Institute Staff The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) 10th Traffic Safety Conference is historic in that it was the first time attendees helped shape the state’s latest…
By Lesley Henton, Texas A&M University Division of Marketing & Communications A plane crashes at Easterwood Airport, social media starts buzzing, and Texas A&M University staff, local law enforcement, emergency management teams, firefighters and public information officials swing into action. As information begins to trickle out, news media…
Texas A&M University will simulate a campus emergency on Wednesday (May 24) beginning at 9 a.m. off Nuclear Science Road. The university periodically conducts various types of simulated emergencies to test personnel and procedures in the event of an actual campus emergency. Such exercises help determine how to…