Texas Forest Service holds all-hazard incident management team course
Texas Forest Service conducted the state’s first all-hazard incident management team course in San Antonio. The national course was funded through the Office of Homeland Security in conjunction with the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying feasibility of campus expansion
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi President Flavius Killebrew on Jan. 12 presented a feasibility plan for using the nearby Oso Beach Municipal Golf Course for future expansion of the university.

Prairie View A&M names College of Education for alumnus Whitlowe Radcliffe Green
The College of Education is one of several facilities at Prairie View A&M University that will bear the names of individuals who made significant contributions to the university. Green’s bequest of $2.1 million is the largest individual donation in the university’s history. 

Cold weather helping Valley agriculture producers
The mid-January cold blast responsible for so much chaos throughout the state may have helped agricultural producers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley by likely improving the quality of citrus, making sugarcane easier to harvest and reducing populations of insect pests in onions.

Early TAMIU students get $4.8 million aid advance
The spring semester at Texas A&M International University began on Jan. 16, but 3,684 students who registered early had already tapped into some $4.8 million in federal, state and donor-provided financial aid disbursed before then.