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.