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COVID-19 Experts From Texas A&M System Fight Fear With Facts
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Scientists from The Texas A&M University System are helping the state, the nation and the world better understand, prepare for and respond to the outbreak of COVID-19. They fight fear with facts. They offer the calming context that comes...
Texas A&M System Delivers Guidance on COVID-19
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Due to concerns about the global outbreak of COVID-19, The Texas A&M University System issued Monday new restrictions on foreign travel that impacts the students, faculty and staff of its network of 11 universities and eight state...
Don’t Bet the Farm on Hemp just yet…
Texas A&M AgriLife Hemp Team advises curious growers SAN ANGELO, Texas — Texas farmers soon will be able to legally plant fields of hemp for the first time since the 1930s. Much has changed since then, but one thing hasn’t: Texas farmers can count on Texas A&M...
Texas A&M System Invests Half-Billion Dollars in Texas Medical Center
The Texas A&M University System is building a half-billion dollar complex in the Texas Medical Center area to house its groundbreaking Engineering Medicine (EnMed) program and provide desperately needed housing for medical and nursing students in Houston. The...
Hemp for horses? Tarleton researcher investigating benefits
Can CBD oil reduce stress and help manage obsessive compulsive behaviors? STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Hay may be for horses, but — now more than ever — so is hemp. Using CBD to treat horses with arthritis or anxiety has become mainstream since the 2018 Farm Bill legalized...
MEDIA ADVISORY: Feb. 6 Board of Regents meeting at Texas A&M International University in Laredo
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will convene in Laredo at 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 at Texas A&M International University’s Student Center, room 231. The board will immediately recess to executive session. The Board will...
Texas A&M University System cooking up its own brand of oysters
“We could even make a maroon one, if we wanted to.” COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Researchers at the Texas A&M University System soon could be developing a Texas A&M-branded oyster you’ll be able to order on the half-shell at your favorite seafood restaurant. “We...
Texas A&M Chancellor calls on Harvard to investigate its faculty members
January 22, 2020 Dr. Lawrence S. Bacow President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Dear Dr. Bacow, I write to inform you of my dismay over recent actions by Harvard faculty Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Frank Hu and...
Texas A&M’s Human Behavior Lab delves into the subconscious
Researchers work with TV news crew to analyze voters’ inner reactions to presidential debate COLLEGE STATION, Texas —We already know the subconscious stealthily guides us through life, but scientists at the Human Behavior Lab at Texas A&M University are developing...
Texas A&M Develops Tool to Predict Power Failures That Lead to Wildfires
California utilities testing Aggie software that has been successfully used by Texas utilities COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Imagine a tool that can discover problems on utility lines before outages, before power failures spark deadly wildfires, or before fears of...