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The Texas Legislature passed a bill last week that would help pay for construction of the “Ike Dike” that would protect portions of the upper Texas coast – especially the Houston-Galveston area – from a major hurricane.While it still…

When an area is struck by disease, chaos can often consume a community as it tries to organize in the midst of fear and confusion.Martial Ndeffo, an assistant professor in the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine &…

If you have witnessed the rainbow pattern that dances on the surface of a CD or DVD, then you have seen diffraction at work. The disk acts as a diffraction grating, an optical element that disperses light into various colors or…

If you’re confused about opinion journalism and what it is, you’re not alone. Many Americans are. But even so, the editorials, opinion columns and letters to the editor that fill the op-ed pages could help bridge political divides in the…

A professor at the Texas A&M University Bush School teaching site in Washington, D.C., Yuval Weber, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee today at 12 p.m. CDT.Weber will present “Understanding Authoritarianism and…

Three Aggies have been selected as the 2021 recipients of the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. This year’s three recipients are being honored posthumously.The 2021…

Between Zoom meetings and as late as 9 p.m., Texas A&M University at Qatar Dean César O. Malavé treks across Doha to visit the homes of May graduates. Joined by two other employees – one drives, the other navigates – Malavé arrives to…

When celebrities make commencement speeches, it often makes the news, but at Texas A&M University, it’s a day to spotlight Aggies and their unique and sometimes challenging journeys to graduation day.This year’s graduates have…

Cells sense and respond to the mechanical properties of the cellular microenvironment in the body. Changes in these properties, which occur in a number of human pathologies, including cancer, can elicit abnormal responses from cells. How…

The Center for Coffee Research and Education — a program of the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of Texas A&M AgriLife — has announced the 12th Man Coffee project. The project involves three Texas A&M…