Dr. Nelson M. Duller '48, retired Aggie physics professor, believed in making coursework exciting. To liven up classes during 50-plus years of teaching and mentoring Aggies, he would sing to students.    «view»

A $2 million gift in tribute to Nobel laureate and Texas A&M faculty member Dr. Norman Borlaug will help build on his legacy of using agricultural technology to improve lives on a global scale.    «view»

A visionary partnership between Kathleen and William Urban of Kingston, Wash., and two charitable organizations has created a $1.25 million civil engineering endowment at Texas A&#38M University.    «view»

Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Fred and Vola Palmer of Granbury, Texas, the fight against cancer, a disease that plagues humans and animals alike, has found a unique source of support with the $1 million endowment of the Dr. Fred A. and Vola N. Palmer Chair in Comparative Oncology at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.    «view»

Dr. H. Joseph Newton, professor of statistics and dean of the College of Science at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the George P. Mitchell '40 Endowed Chair in Statistics, announced Dr. Simon J. Sheather, head of the Department of Statistics.    «view»

Dr. William R. Bryant has led an accomplished 45-year career in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, which he largely credits to the 150 graduate students with whom he's worked. His previous students, in turn, credit Bryant's significant influence on their professional success. To honor their former professor and mentor, 23 former students and colleagues collaborated to establish the William R. Bryant Oceanography Chair for Teaching, Research and Mentoring Excellence.    «view»

"If you’re ever going to make big advances, you’ve got to be willing to try things that are risky," says Dr. John Morse, holder of Texas A&M’s Scherck Chair in Oceanography.    «view»

The future, for James C. Sacchettini, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, is held in a three-dimensional puzzle of crystallized proteins.    «view»

Since his arrival at Texas A&M University in 1974, R.J.Q. Adams has had the honor of holding not one, but two, endowed positions, which he says have been instrumental in his research and publications about modern British history.    «view»

A Texas A&M University psychology professor with a solid record of funded research and numerous teaching awards has been named the newest recipient of the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts. Psychology Professor Jack R. Nation will officially begin holding the position Sept. 1.    «view»

Dr. Gerard Cote, holder of the Charles H. and Bettye Barclay Professorship in Engineering has been named head of the Department of Bioengineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.    «view»

Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering Dr. G. Kemble Bennett announced that Dr. Thomas K. Wood has joined the Texas A&M Engineering faculty as professor and inaugural holder of the Mike O'Connor Chair II in Chemical Engineering.    «view»

Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering Dr. G. Kemble Bennett has named Dr. Jorge Seminario, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, inaugural holder of the Lanatter and Herbert Fox Professorship in Chemical Engineering.    «view»

Professors Ann Lee Kenimer and David E. Bergbreiter have been named "Presidential Professors for Teaching Excellence" at Texas A&M University – designations that include $25,000 after–tax cash stipends believed to be the highest–valued awards in the nation presented annually by a single institution to honor its faculty.    «view»

Internationally recognized astronomer and cosmologist Nicholas B. Suntzeff has been appointed professor of physics and inaugural holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University, announced H. Joseph Newton, dean of the College of Science.    «view»

Christopher N. Pope, professor of physics and director of the George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been named a "distinguished professor," a designation reserved for a select few faculty member.    «view»

Kenneth J. Meier, distinguished professor of political science at Texas A&M University, would like to see political science find something it has lost: a tradition of research with the field of public administration.    «view»

Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering Dr. G. Kemble Bennett has awarded Dr. Won–jong Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, one of two Dietz Career Development Professorships.    «view»

Cynthia and George Mitchell '40, renowned supporters of Texas A&M, have given generously to a number of programs over the years.    «view»

Harry E. Bovay Jr. established an endowment that serves a unique purpose through engineering ethics.    «view»

Peter and Lisa Currie have always cared about the impact of business education and the practices of teaching and research, prompting the Houston couple to establish a $1 million endowment for faculty at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School.    «view»