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Tiger As A Pet? Forget It, Expert Says

It’s the Chinese Year of the Tiger, and it might be tempting for some folks to fulfill a lifelong dream to go out and buy one, or another exotic animal such as a lion or even a chimp.
But there’s a good reason why they’re called “wild animals” – they were born in the wild and [...]

Saudi Aramco President Named Texas A&M Outstanding International Alumnus

Khalid A. Al-Falih, leader of the world’s largest petroleum company, has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Texas A&M University Outstanding International Alumnus Award, to be presented March 10 at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Alumni Center at Texas A&M.
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin said the selection of Al-Falih for one [...]

Former Texas A&M Architecture Student Designed Some Of World’s Tallest Buildings

When the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, officially opened in Dubai amid a flurry of fanfare, former Texas A&M architecture student Adrian Smith was among the honored guests. It was he who designed the shimmering spire that soars more than a half mile above the desert in the United Arab Emirates, rising to an [...]

The Big Event – Job Sites And Participants Needed

“The Big Event,” the community service project conducted annually by Texas A&M University students, is scheduled for March 27 this year and its student organizers invite residents in the Bryan-College Station area to suggest home work projects for the estimated 14,000 Aggies expected to turn out to lend their helping hands. They anticipate taking on [...]

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Texas A&M Introduces Mobile Web Site For Smart Phone Users

February 9, 2010 Featured Topics No Comments

Texas A&M University introduces TAMUmobile Web – a mobile website optimized for easy access to popular campus services and information from any cellular phone or mobile device. Mobile users can access TAMUmobile Web from any mobile device by typing http://m.tamu.edu into their mobile browsers.
TAMUMobile Web provides mobile access to the university calendar, campus bus schedules, [...]

Aggie Solar Decathlon House Gets New Life As “SU CASA”

February 9, 2010 Featured Topics No Comments
Aggie Solar Decathlon House Gets New Life As “SU CASA”

The Texas A&M Solar Decathlon groHome, an Aggie-designed residence powered by the sun, is the centerpiece of San Antonio’s new Mission Verde Center @ Cooper, a multipurpose education, training and research center for renewable and energy-efficient technologies, water management and conservation.
Now dubbed “SU CASA,” for Sustainable Urban Center for the Advancement of San Antonio, the [...]

Galveston Cave Researcher To Be Featured On “Nova”

February 8, 2010 Featured Topics No Comments

Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston and one of  the world’s foremost underwater cave researchers, will be among several scientists featured in a National Geographic television program Tuesday (Feb. 9) titled “Extreme Cave Diving.”
The program, which airs at 7 p.m. Central time, is part of the popular PBS series [...]

Saudi Aramco President Named Texas A&M Outstanding International Alumnus

February 8, 2010 Featured Topics No Comments
Saudi Aramco President Named Texas A&M Outstanding International Alumnus

Khalid A. Al-Falih, leader of the world’s largest petroleum company, has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Texas A&M University Outstanding International Alumnus Award, to be presented March 10 at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Alumni Center at Texas A&M.
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin said the selection of Al-Falih for one [...]

Former Texas A&M Architecture Student Designed Some Of World’s Tallest Buildings

February 4, 2010 Featured Topics 3 Comments
Former Texas A&M Architecture Student Designed Some Of World’s Tallest Buildings

When the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, officially opened in Dubai amid a flurry of fanfare, former Texas A&M architecture student Adrian Smith was among the honored guests. It was he who designed the shimmering spire that soars more than a half mile above the desert in the United Arab Emirates, rising to an [...]

Tiger As A Pet? Forget It, Expert Says

February 2, 2010 Featured Topics No Comments
Tiger As A Pet? Forget It, Expert Says

It’s the Chinese Year of the Tiger, and it might be tempting for some folks to fulfill a lifelong dream to go out and buy one, or another exotic animal such as a lion or even a chimp.
But there’s a good reason why they’re called “wild animals” – they were born in the wild and [...]

Faculty Focus

Sigma Xi Honors Veterinary Professor

February 4, 2010

Sigma Xi Honors Veterinary Professor

In 1996, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice received the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award. Seven years later Norman Borlaug, billed the father of the Green Revolution, received the award.
This year an A&M professor in the Veterinary Integrative Biosciences department in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences joined the group [...]

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Candy DJ Leads Double Life

February 3, 2010

Candy DJ Leads Double Life

Matt Niblett’s a full-time student, a well-known radio voice
Everything about Candy 95.1 radio station looks like any other office on any other day … until the commercial break – the silence is broken with a loud “Hey, this is Niblett on Candy 95.” More

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