48 stories found, listing (1 - 25)
Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
Eagle Staff ReportAbout 75 people attended a recent Gift and Estate Planning Open House hosted by the Texas A&M Foundation that educated participants about gift and estate planning. During the three-hour, come-and-go event at the Jon L. Hagler Ce ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
Last year was a good one for The Big Event, Texas A&M's student-run community service project.They had 12,000 students complete more than 1,200 jobs for the residents of Bryan and College Station in March, a record in the one-day event's 28-year ...
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Published Saturday, February 06, 2010
Robert Stikmanz sat across from a woman selling Japanese calligraphy on rice paper.The 54-year-old who was at Aggiecon, a science fiction and fantasy conference in College Station on Friday, knows about foreign languages; he conjured one. It's called ...
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Published Saturday, February 06, 2010
Friday would have been a bad day for Canada to start a war. The nation's only four-star general was busy at the Bush Library in College Station. But if it was gearing up for another fight, chances are the U.S. would be as well. The focus of the talk ...
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Published Friday, February 05, 2010
Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin said the university should emerge fine from a state-mandated budget reduction.But if revenues decrease and the student population grows, he warned, the future might not be as secure."Something has to gi ...
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Published Thursday, February 04, 2010
There may be no merit raises next year for faculty and staff at Texas A&M University, and layoffs are a possibility under state-mandated reductions officials are bracing for. Texas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin and Interim Provost Kar ...
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Published Thursday, February 04, 2010
Eagle Staff ReportAggiecon 41 is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Hilton Hotel and Convention Center in College Station. The event is billed as the longest-running, student-organized science fiction and fantasy convention in the country. Ti ...
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Published Thursday, February 04, 2010
Eagle Staff ReportTexas A&M Interim President R. Bowen Loftin will host a pair of open forums Thursday in Room 601 of Rudder Tower. The 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. events will have identical formats. The forums come as the university is scrambling to p ...
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Published Sunday, January 31, 2010
Eagle Staff ReportA celebration of Black History Month at Texas A&M will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday with a performance in Rudder Theatre titled Celebrating Black Arts by the Dallas Black Dance Theater. Tickets are $2 for students, faculty and staff a ...
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Published Sunday, January 31, 2010
Texas A&M student Michael Lagrasta (bottom left) and other Reed Rowdies cheer for the Aggies at Reed Arena on Saturday. The crowd of 13,648 was the largest ever to watch an Aggie game at Reed Arena. The Aggies defeated Texas Tech 85-70. ...
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Published Saturday, January 30, 2010
Texas A&M University students will be available to help low-income residents prepare tax returns while earning class credit. The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is partnering with the United Way of the Brazos Valley for the secon ...
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Published Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuition for Texas A&M University students may not increase next year. At most, it will grow 3.95 percent, Interim President R. Bowen Loftin told students Thursday.That range had already been known, but Loftin made the formal presentation to nearl ...
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Published Thursday, January 28, 2010
Administrators with local school districts, Texas A&M University and Blinn College said Wednesday that they are struggling to balance increasing enrollment with economic constraints.The officials met as part of the 2010 Economic Outlook Conferenc ...
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Published Thursday, January 28, 2010
Eagle Staff ReportA public hearing on Texas A&M's tuition plans is set for 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 601 of Rudder Tower.Texas A&M System Chancellor Mike McKinney has ordered Interim President R. Bowen Loftin and all presidents within the 11-un ...
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Published Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of Texas A&M's famed Corps of Cadets, decided more than a year ago he would never agree to report directly to the vice president for student affairs -- a former roommate of Gov. Rick Perry -- accordi ...
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Published Thursday, January 28, 2010
After surgeons removed pieces of bone and realigned the horse's leg by bolting it together, they turned their patient over for a custom shoe-fitting to a man most often seen working in a cowboy hat and leather chaps.Generations ago, someone like Jaso ...
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Published Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Checked your AQI forecast for Bryan-College Station lately?You're likely not alone if the answer was: "Huh?"But one day soon, the Air Quality Index might not be so meaningless to area residents. Found at www.airnow.gov, the map that color-codes air q ...
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Published Tuesday, January 26, 2010
On R. Bowen Loftin's first full day as sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency, one of the campus' most respected administrators tendered his resignation. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne, the 38th commandant of the Corps of Cadets, on Friday left th ...
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Published Monday, January 25, 2010
Researchers at Texas A&M have yet to see images of the beginning of the universe. But they're getting closer.Two A&M astronomers, along with fellow team members from the University of Massachusetts and two astronomical institutes, spent the l ...
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Published Sunday, January 24, 2010
R. Bowen Loftin spent his first full day as sole finalist for the A&M presidency the same way he has spent the previous seven months as interim president: meeting with people. He ate breakfast Friday with attendees of the Southwestern Black Stude ...
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Published Sunday, January 24, 2010
Black students were encouraged at a three-day conference that ended Saturday to become leaders in their communities."We want them to not only define themselves as leaders, but then also take what they learn and put it into action," said Byron Barber, ...
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Published Saturday, January 23, 2010
The Texas A&M System Board of Regents established a pair of transportation research centers this week within the Texas Transportation Institute, a state agency of the Texas A&M System. The Center for Strategic Transportation Solutions will fo ...
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Published Friday, January 22, 2010
It was anticlimactic. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. at Texas A&M, Regent Richard Box proposed a motion to the Board of Regents to name R. Bowen Loftin the sole finalist for the presidency. The nine-member body, without discussion, unanimously approved ...
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Published Friday, January 22, 2010
Student and faculty leaders expressed optimism about the selection of R. Bowen Loftin as the sole finalist for the Texas A&M presidency. "I'm ecstatic," said student body president Kolin Loveless, who also was a chair of the 16-person committee t ...
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Published Friday, January 22, 2010
Texas A&M volleyball player Mary Batis takes advantage of the sunny weather by running up and down the bleachers at Kyle Field on Thursday. ...
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