At about 7:30 last Friday night, Gary Varner got a call telling him that water had been discovered coming into the YMCA building on Texas A&M's campus. Varner, interim head of A&M's department of philosophy, immediately contacted the univers ... full story
Texas A&M University has planned a $120 million project for new and expanded facilities for its vet school, an effort administrators say is needed to avoid risking accreditation and respond to a shortage of veterinarians. If approved by the A&a ... full story
Texas A&M chemistry professor Oleg Ozerov discovered his passion for chemistry as a 12-year-old in Russia, while experimenting with small-scale explosive material with a friend whom he remains close to today. He became even more fascinated with ... full story
Merit raises for faculty and staff members -- which have not been given for more than two years -- are Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin's No. 1 priority, he said in an interview. He didn't explicitly say he would be recommending a tuition in ... full story
WASHINGTON -- A Texas A&M history professor is seeking access to long-sealed court records that he believes may help explain the motivation behind the Watergate break-in that ultimately drove President Richard Nixon from office. Luke Nichter is ... full story
Mary Frances Hruska nodded in agreement as her husband, Stan, started talking about his favorite Texas-Texas A&M memory on the hardwood. "They're always hard-fought," he said. "I remember when Acie Law won the game with that shot [in 2006]. To me that w ... full story
As war waged nearby in bloody Al-Anbar province, Cody Bingham daydreamed of being out of the Iraqi desert and in a Texas A&M classroom "When you're in-country, you have a lot of downtime to plan for the future," said Bingham, 28, who served two ... full story
The Department of State Health Services recently began using an assessment form created by a team of Texas A&M System researchers to better evaluate how much home care is required for children with special needs covered by Medicaid. A team of r ... full story
A year away from being a septuagenarian, Texas A&M professor Dennie Smith taps his iPad to manage his Facebook and Twitter accounts. So it was in the spirit of his embrace of technology that he used an educational grant to loan iPads to 36 stud ... full story
Eagle Staff Report Enrollment at Texas A&M University has hit a record high for the spring semester, with a total of 46,717 students on the roster as of the 12th day of classes. That is an increase of 295 students from the number enrolled for the ... full story
Four months after pulling out a knife while being dismissed from his position as a top A&M System administrator, Jay Kimbrough, a good friend of Gov. Rick Perry, has landed another high-level state job. The former deputy chancellor of the 11-un ... full story
Members of the Texas A&M basketball team react after losing 63-60 to Baylor in a close game Wednesday at Reed Arena. full story
The Texas A&M football team hauled in another strong recruiting class Wednesday, and some say an on-campus high school football tournament helped them do it. But an NCAA rule change will block the tournament from campus after 2012, worrying Agg ... full story
Jay Kimbrough, a former deputy chancellor for the A&M System and a good friend of Gov. Rick Perry, has landed another state job, four months after he pulled a knife out while being dismissed from his post by a pair of lawyers. He’ll be wor ... full story
"Starving the beast" was a notion embraced by conservatives in the 1980s: Cut taxes and a cascade of spending reductions would follow as the lifeblood -- money -- for spend-happy politicians evaporated. But despite major tax cuts under the preside ... full story
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