TEEX breaks ground on new operations complex at Brayton Fire Training Field
Ground was broken Jan. 6 for a two-story, 14,000-foot operations complex at the Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station to be named in honor of longtime Fire Chief Henry D. Smith.

TEES, Texas A&M-Kingsville receive $1 million NSF grant for science, engineering and math students
Texas A&M University-Kingsville and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station have received almost $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a major five-year student recruitment and retention program.

Active for Life receives award from Archstone Foundation
Active for Life®, a program of the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health that seeks to increase the number of mid-life and older adults who are physically active, received an honorable mention in the Archstone Foundation’s 2005 Award of Excellence program.

2006 already a bad year for wildfires: TFS urges Texans to use caution
More acres burned during the first five days of 2006 in Texas than during all of 2005. When the size of a fire or conditions exceed local control, the Texas Forest Service is called in to help.

TTI establishes new research center in El Paso
The Texas Transportation Institute has established an El Paso research center that will focus on traffic management, border issues and air quality along the Texas/Mexico border and within El Paso.