Space foods for astronauts to be produced with Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Wyle Laboratories and NASA recently announced plans for a venture that will produce more than 30 tastier and more nutritious ready-to-eat foods for future space flight missions.
Spread of modern humans occurred later than previously thought, profs say
The spread of modern humans out of Africa occurred 40,000 to 50,000 years later than previously thought, according to researchers including anthropologist Ted Goebel, associate director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M.
A&M-Commerce researchers develop portable LED germicidal detector for space
Texas A&M University-Commerce scientists and students are working on a device to detect bacteria and fungus under light-emitting diode lights using fluorescence in a project funded by a grant from NASA and Texas A&M Engineering’s Space Engineering Institute.
Rio Grande Basin Initiative Project receives national recognition
The Rio Grande Basin Initiative, a joint project between Texas A&M Agriculture and New Mexico State University, recently received the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Water Program 2007 Award as the Outstanding Integrated Activities for Water Resources.
WTAMU leading effort to develop regional ag-disaster plan
Researchers from West Texas A&M University are active in the Panhandle Agro-security Working Group, an association of officials from the university, the agriculture industry and from city, county and state emergency-management, animal-health and law-enforcement agencies focused on crisis response in agriculture.