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Ags teaming up to perform classic play

Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Four Texas A&M University programs have teamed up to produce A Midsummer Night's Dream. The departments of performance studies, computer science, engineering and the A&M dance program are putting on the Shakespearean play.Flying robot fairies ... full story

Search for A&M leader narrows

Published Friday, November 06, 2009
At least eight candidates remain in the running for Texas A&M's presidency, officials said Thursday. They include both men and women, but an exact breakdown wasn't immediately available, said Richard Box, chair of the 16-person search committee l ... full story

A&M researchers part of global horse genome project

Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Texas A&M researcher Terje Raudsepp said she didn't dream of sequencing the horse genome during her first visit to the U.S. in 1995 for a conference that spawned the Horse Genome Project. But according to an announcement made Thursday, an interna ... full story

List for A&M presidency down to 8

Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
An official said Thursday that eight candidates remain in the running for Texas A&M’s presidency.They include both men and women, but an exact breakdown wasn’t immediately available, said Richard Box, chair of the 16-person search committee looki ... full story

Breakthrough on genome research involves A&M researchers

Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
Texas A&M researchers are part of an international team that has completed the genome sequence for horses, a milestone that could improve breeding, treatment of disease and performance traits, officials said. Loren Skow, Bhanu Chowdhary and Terje ... full story

Foreign relations expert to lecture

Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
A limited number of free tickets are available for a lecture by the president of the Council on Foreign Relations at 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at Texas A&M University. Richard Haass also will conduct a question-and-answer session and sign copies of his book ... full story

Flaws ID'd in A&M facility

Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
DALLAS -- Texas A&M University's tentlike athletic complex wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code, according to an engineering firm hired by the university to evaluate the $35.6 million structure.The analysis ... full story

Vigil to honor bonfire collapse victims

Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
A candlelight vigil at 2:42 a.m. Nov. 18 -- the 10-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of bonfire -- will culminate a weeklong remembrance of the event, officials said Tuesday. Jacob Robinson, like many on the committee formed to mark the catastr ... full story

Loftin says he would accept A&M presidency Photos

Published Sunday, November 01, 2009
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin said that he would accept the university's presidency post if it were offered to him and that it would be an honor to lead his alma mater.Loftin suggested that he was a candidate for the position but di ... full story

Ags saluted for service in armed forces Photos

Published Sunday, November 01, 2009
His grandfather served in the Corps of Cadets and graduated from Texas A&M University in 1915, so, Vince Gilliam said, when he started looking for colleges to attend, it wasn't a complicated search. "There was only one school for me," he said. Gi ... full story

Groups saluting military at game

Published Saturday, October 31, 2009
-- Eagle Staff ReportDuring Saturday's Texas A&M football game against Iowa State University, the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band will perform America the Beautiful, student group Silver Wings will raise the Spirit Flag, and the 12th Man TV at the sout ... full story

Bonfire links

Published Friday, October 30, 2009
1999 bonfire commission report2002 bonfire planning review2002 bonfire projected costsRay Bowen's 2002 bonfire announcement ... full story

Bonfire talk sparks debate

Published Friday, October 30, 2009
An emotional debate about bonfire's return to Texas A&M burst to the surface Thursday, as about 70 people gathered for an open forum on the topic. Bonfire hasn't burned on campus since 1999, when a stack of logs tumbled, killing 12 and injuring 2 ... full story

Nobel laureate to address Aggie grads

Published Thursday, October 29, 2009
A Nobel laureate will be the commencement speaker for Texas A&M University's fall graduation. Dudley Herschbach, a Texas A&M physics and chemistry professor, will speak at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 17 in Rudder Theatre. The San Jose, Calif.-native wo ... full story

Free lemonade -- sort of Photos

Published Thursday, October 29, 2009
Matt McClellan hands a cup of lemonade to fellow A&M student Lauren Cox on campus Wednesday during "E-lemon-ate The Debt," a tongue-in-cheek program sponsored by Concerned Youth of America. A cup costs 25 cents, but the customer fills out an IOU, ... full story

A&M acts on arts building

Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009
A $46 million humanities building -- which officials say reaffirms Texas A&M's commitment to the arts and humanities -- will move forward, the university's interim president announced Tuesday. Plans for such a building had been put on hold for th ... full story

Announcement related to Vision 2020 expected from A&M officials today

Published Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin is expected to make a major announcement today about a construction project on campus. The remarks scheduled for 3:15 p.m. will be in the lobby of the Coke Building, across the street from the east s ... full story

Will bonfire burn again?

Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Texas A&M students are intensifying efforts to bring bonfire back to campus, a month after the Aggie governor said the tradition would return and weeks before the university marks the 10-year anniversary of the fatal collapse. Bonfire has not bur ... full story

Participants sought for memory study

Published Sunday, October 25, 2009
Researchers in Texas A&M University's psychology department are looking for volunteers to participate in studies on attention and memory.Participants must be 65 or older, and the sessions typically last one to two hours. Volunteers will be paid f ... full story

Yell leader adviser sidelined for video

Published Saturday, October 24, 2009
The way some see it, they were a group of guys -- four of Texas A&M's five yell leaders -- goofing off and being college kids on the way to last week's football game against Kansas State. But according to university officials, posting a two-minut ... full story

30 considered for A&M presidency

Published Friday, October 23, 2009
Texas A&M has more than 30 candidates for the university's presidency, including nationally recognized names and individuals who have been "highly placed" in federal government, officials said Thursday. Not on the list are Texas Gov. Rick Perry, ... full story

Sharing the love Photos

Published Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Westley Brenner, 22, a senior math major at Texas A&M, stands by a table of artwork spontaneously created by passing A&M students during "One Lovepalooza" held outside G. Rollie White Coliseum on Tuesday afternoon. The event, which included l ... full story

Tickets available for Rice presentation at A&M

Published Monday, October 19, 2009
Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will speak at Texas A&M University Nov. 9 in conjunction with the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.George Bush, 41st U.S. president, will host Rice, 66th secretary of ... full story

Police probe Ag's death

Published Sunday, October 18, 2009
On Saturday, Patrick Noel Jernigan II should have been playing video games with his mom, hanging out with his sister and cuddling with his 3-year-old daughter, Olivia. He never made it to his home in Cleveland, Texas. The Texas A&M University stu ... full story

Obama salutes B-CS volunteers Photos
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
President Barack Obama urged residents to become active in improving their communities during a 22-minute speech at Texas A&M University on Friday, naming local residents and organizations as examples of how people can make a difference. "When it com ... full story

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