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Texas A&M GoWeb Honors CET for Transformational Learning, Innovation
Texas A&M’s GoWeb team has recognized the Center for Educational Technologies (CET) for its contributions to transformational learning at Texas A&M University with 2018 GoWeb Awards. The center was presented the 2018 GoWeb Award for Transformational Learning, and CET senior IT professional III Dan Shuta received runner-up recognition for a 2018 GoWeb Award for Innovation […]
Engineering New Possibilities
For decades, biomedical engineers have used their acumen to revolutionize healthcare through the development of devices, tools, equipment, techniques, and pharmaceuticals that have advanced the medical field in ways previously unimaginable. While patients around the world have benefited from this ingenuity, those patients almost exclusively have had one thing in common—they’ve all been human. Researchers […]
Horses with Heart
“That horse has a lot of heart.” There is no better compliment to bestow on a ranch horse. Far more than descriptive of its endurance and athleticism, the statement defines a horse’s physical and mental toughness and willingness to try, despite being maximally challenged or physically exhausted. These guys want to give their all, regardless […]
Texas A&M Graduate Student Earns NIEHS Superfund Externship Award
Krisa Camargo, a graduate research assistant in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Veterinary Integrative Biosciences department and a pre-doctoral trainee with the Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center, has been recognized with a 2018 KC Donnelly Externship Award. Granted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Superfund Research […]
Waylon’s Hero: Itching To Make A Difference
When Jill Lee noticed that her Labrador Retriever, Waylon, couldn’t walk and was heavily panting, she immediately knew that something was wrong. After further examination, she discovered that Waylon’s paws and nose were covered in painful scabs and pimples. “His paws were so itchy that Waylon was literally chewing his paw pads off,” […]
A Better Life for Bubbles
With a charming personality, Bubbles—a 3-month-old black, brown, and white Shih Tzu—lives up to her name. But it wasn’t her sparkling disposition that led to the moniker; Bubbles received her name because she was born with meningoencephalocele—a rare, abnormal sac of fluid, brain tissue, and meninges (the membranes that cover the brain and spinal […]
Healing Kash
The unprecedented devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey displaced countless people. Many were forced out of their homes to find shelter because of the extensive flooding, the damage from which claimed almost everything they owned. Port Arthur resident Charles Moss lost his home and many of his belongings in the storm, and, for a night, […]
Texas A&M, Cornell Collaborate to Advance Education Research, Expand Pipeline for Underrepresented Students
Texas A&M and Cornell universities have joined forces to advance research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in veterinary medical education and to expand the pipeline for underrepresented students in the field. Funded by a $300,000 federal grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), researchers from both universities […]
Texas A&M Study Links Breast Cancer, Body’s Internal Clock
For years, doctors have associated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations with an increased risk of breast cancer. But researchers at Texas A&M University have now identified another gene that may have an impact on breast cancer—associated with the body’s circadian rhythm. Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) professor Weston Porter […]
Three CVM Profs Awarded for University-Level Distinguished Achievement
Three faculty members at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences are among the 24 university faculty and staff to be recognized with a 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award by Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students (AFS). University-level Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented to Joanne Hardy and Michelle Pine for […]
