Sustainability at Texas A&M University

"Aggie 100"
Despite many businesses struggling to make ends meet over the past few years, the Mays Business School’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University today announced the recipients of the 5th Annual “Aggie 100,” which honors Aggie-owned or Aggie-led businesses that experienced significant growth from 2006 to 2008. Representatives from almost all 100 companies attended the luncheon event held at The Zone Club at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field.

Flags On Campus To Fly At Half-Staff
U.S. and Texas flags on campus have been lowered to half-staff to honor the memory of the personnel killed in the Fort Hood tragedy Thursday.

Library Use Surges At Texas A&M
Closure of Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center (MSC) for renovation and expansion is having at least one welcome consequence: Aggies are showing up in record numbers at the university’s libraries and taking even greater advantage of the literary and related opportunities there.

Aggies Help Struggling School Children
Paige Melancon enrolled at Texas A&M University intending to become a doctor. A tutoring job through the Read & Counts program made her think twice about her career path.

Sneak Preview Of “WWII In HD”
A sneak preview of the opening segment of an upcoming History Channel series titled “WWII in HD” will be shown Monday (Nov. 9) at 6:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre.

Prof To Predict Weather On Mars
(VIDEO) Istvan Szunyogh, a Texas A&M professor of atmospheric sciences, has been awarded a NASA grant to analyze and forecast Martian weather.

Twitter Buzz Boosts Texas A&M
Texas Aggies are tweeting their traditional greetings – from “whoop” to “gig 'em” – at a rate of thousands of Twitter devotees a day, and the number of followers on the overarching Texas A&M University account, TAMUTalk, is also rapidly increasing.

Five Nominated As Rhodes, Marshall Scholars
Five outstanding undergraduates at Texas A&M have been nominated for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, the two most prestigious and highly-coveted academic scholarships available to United States students.

Foreign Relations President To Speak
Dr. Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, will present the William Waldo Cameron Forum on Public Affairs Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library Center.

Health Care Panel Discussion
As Congress prepares to debate historic changes to the healthcare system, business leaders are trying to determine how the pending legislation will affect them. The Full-Time and Executive MBA Programs of Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School will host a panel discussion next week to shed more light on the topic.

Cepeda-Benito In “Top 100 Influentials”
"Hispanic Business" magazine has named Antonio Cepeda-Benito, dean of faculties and associate provost at Texas A&M University, to the publication’s 2009/2010 list of the nation’s 100 “most influential” Hispanics.

Bonfire Remembrance Week
A week-long remembrance of the Bonfire tragedy at Texas A&M University 10 years ago that claimed the lives of 12 Aggies, and in which 27 others were injured, will be observed on campus beginning Nov. 13.

Weizmann Institute of Science

A Potential Anti-cancer Agent
Pateamine A (PatA), a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may reveal yet another anti-cancer mechanism.

Foundation Helps Galveston Aggies
John Paul Schilling, a veteran wounded in Iraq, enrolled this fall at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) thanks to a scholarship from the McDaniel Charitable Foundation. The Texas City-based McDaniel Charitable Foundation’s Lyons Scholars Program assists incoming TAMUG freshmen from Galveston County.

25th Anniversary Of Albritton Bell Tower
Twenty-five years ago this month, Texas A&M University dedicated what has become one of the most readily identifiable landmarks on its campus – the Albritton Bell Tower.

MBA Students Get Down And Dirty
On Monday (Nov. 2), the second-year MBA class will participate in a gauntlet of exercises at Disaster City to learn to deal with demanding emergency situations. The Texas Engineering Extension Service’s (TEEX) Disaster City — located about two miles from Texas A&M’s campus — is 52 acres of devastation and destruction used to teach first responders the skills necessary for search and rescue.

Athletics Task Force Named

“Aggie 100” Honorees To Be Revealed
The 100 fastest-growing Aggie-owned or Aggie-led businesses in the world will be recognized Nov. 6 at the 5th Annual “Aggie 100” program, sponsored by the Mays Business School’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University.

Technology May Cool The Laptop
(VIDEO) Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor.