The William and Barbara Holman Book Arts Collection has found a home at the Texas A&M Libraries, thanks to a lead gift from Bruce and Patsy Nichols, along with support from the Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library.   «view»

Charles H. Gregory ’64, president and director of Rupley Holdings Inc. in Houston, will begin serving a seven-year role as a Texas A&M Foundation trustee on July 1.   «view»

An event on March 26 commemorated the acquisition of the University Libraries' 4 millionth volume, the 1617 edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha, parts I and II.   «view»

Col. Tom Parsons, Texas A&M University class of '49, former commander of the Corps of Cadets and Parsons Mounted Cavalry namesake, died March 23, 2009, in Houston. He was 80 years old.   «view»

It's taken two years, but The Texas A&M Foundation has raised $139 million for its "Operation Spirit and Mind" scholarship initiative. The accomplishment puts the fundraising campaign right on schedule for its $300 million goal, which university officials estimated would take four to five years.   «view»

Wall Street Journal: Colleges and universities led by Stanford, Harvard and Columbia raised a record $31.6 billion in fiscal year 2008, but their fund-raising outlook has darkened amid the economic crisis.   «view»

AP: The idea of cutting college tuition has sparked a political grassfire at the Texas Capitol. Two out of three senators are for it. Students are staging rallies. And overflow crowds are expected once the legislative hearings begin.   «view»

CNN: The National Center for Public Policy and Education says the cost of attending college rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2006. According to the Center, although the burden of paying for college has increased for all families, it is substantially more for low- and middle-income families.    «view»

Texas lawmakers are expected to consider a proposed bill that aims to ease the cost of a higher education, but universities say it could hurt them in the long run.   «view»

Murano recently issued an update of her priorities for the university: the Legislative Session, Academic Quality, Great Value, Globalization, Infrastructure, and Enlightened Governance.   «view»

Gov. Rick Perry has appointed three members to the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents for terms to expire Feb. 1, 2015.    «view»

Ask anyone who works at a public college or university about the impact of state support (or lack thereof), and they have stories to tell: of raises lost, of furloughs, of programs being eliminated and of positions frozen.   «view»

J.L. Huffines '44, former member of the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System, died Jan. 7, 2009 at his home in Dallas at the age of 85.   «view»

Jeffrey S. Vitter, provost and executive vice president for academics, has announced that Dr. A. Benton Cocanougher, dean emeritus of the Mays Business School, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, succeeding Richard "Dick" A. Chilcoat, who stepped down from his position at the end of 2008.   «view»

One of the first women to attend classes at Texas A&M and a friend of the Texas A&M Foundation, Mora Evelyn Waddell Boone died Dec. 11, 2008, just 12 days short of her 107th birthday.   «view»

During a telephonic meeting Thursday, The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved the appointment of two deans recommended by Texas A&M University President Elsa Murano with concurrence from A&M System Chancellor Michael D. McKinney, following extensive national searches.   «view»

J.L. Huffines announced his resignation from the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, effective December 6, 2008. Gov. Rick Perry appointed Richard Box of Austin to serve the remainder of Huffines' term.   «view»

Dr. Ed Davis addresses the recent downward trend in financial markets and the effects on assets held by the Texas A&M Foundation.   «view»

The Aggie 100 identifies, recognizes and celebrates the 100 fastest growing Aggie-owned or Aggie-led businesses in the world.   «view»

A Michigan-based textbook firm, Hayden-McNeil Publishing, has donated hundreds of lab manuals and notebooks to Texas A&M Galveston students who were displaced by Hurricane Ike.   «view»

The Texas A&M Foundation has established two funds to contribute to the recovery efforts at the Texas A&M at Galveston campus.   «view»

In what is being called the largest student-faculty transfer of its kind ever in academia, more than 1,500 Sea Aggies from Texas A&M University at Galveston and hundreds of faculty and staff put their coastal lives and careers in high gear and moved about 150 miles from the Texas coastline to the prairies of College Station to continue their college careers in a transition that was both remarkable and history making.   «view»

Former Texas A&M University System Regent Anne Legendre Armstrong died July 30, 2008, in Houston at the age of 80.   «view»

Dwain and Lynda Mayfield of Weatherford, staunch supporters of Texas A&M University, have endowed their second study abroad scholarship, this time exclusively for civil engineering students.   «view»

For those who may not have been paying close attention over the past 10 years or so, take my word for it: There is a major new player in the world of special collections, one that sees merit in strengthening its holdings on a sustained basis in a multitude of exciting areas while firmly establishing itself as a research center of first resort.    «view»

ARGUS Software, Inc., a global company specializing in commercial real estate software, recently gave a gift-in-kind worth $200,000 to Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. The gift provided 50 copies of their ARGUS Valuation DSC software, which students will be able to use in a campus computer lab.   «view»

Steven W. and Elaine Nance gave a $25,000 gift to the Texas A&M Foundation, which was founded in 1953 to match donors and their interests with the university's priorities. Their gift established the Michael '08 and Kristen '05 Nance Fish Camp Scholarship Endowment for students of Texas A&M University.   «view»

Nuclear security experts at Texas A&M University have been awarded the first $1.5 million installment of an eventual total of $7.5 million in funding to develop new sensor systems to detect nuclear or radiological weapons before they can be smuggled into the United States.   «view»

Howard Horne '47 knows about both business and personal success. He also knows his success was enriched by his years at Texas A&M University.   «view»

The Cushing Memorial Library and Archives and the Texas A&M University Libraries have acquired a first edition of George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio (1844) honoring the 95th birthday of Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey of Houston.   «view»

Olive E. and T. Michael "Mike" O'Connor of Houston honored the memory of their longtime friend with a $500,000 engineering endowment at Texas A&M University.   «view»

Charles H. Bowman '59 and his wife Lynn A. Holleran increased a $50,000 endowment gift made in 2005 in support of programs that enhance exchanges, cultural programming and students of the Middle East.   «view»

Ernst & Young cemented a strong relationship with Mays Business School at Texas A&M University with a recent gift of $500,000 to create the Ernst & Young Professional Program Learning Endowment.   «view»

The Sam C. Svoboda ’82 Endowed Scholarship Fund for Aggie Accounting Majors was established at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School with a $50,000 gift from his friends, clients and colleagues at Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches.   «view»

To honor the memory and spirit of their 6-year-old grandson who seemed destined to be an Aggie, Patricia and Warren (Pat) Kirksey of Lockhart have established the Spencer Patton Squire Memorial Scholarship in Education in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.   «view»

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a ruling that found officials at Texas A&M University cannot be held responsible for deaths and injuries in the 1999 bonfire collapse.   «view»

Over the last four years, endowments and foundations as a group have beaten both the S&P 500 and a mix of the S&P and the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index. Over the last 10 years, endowments worth more than $1 billion averaged returns of 11.4 percent per year compared with the S&P's 8.3 percent.   «view»

A new generation of donors is emerging where donations have become a much more involved process.   «view»

Bob J. Surovik, a 1958 accounting graduate of Texas A&M University, has been appointed chairman of the Texas A&#38M Foundation Board of Trustees.   «view»

John E. Bethancourt, a 1974 petroleum engineering graduate of Texas A&M University and executive vice president for Chevron Corporation, has been appointed to the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees for a seven-year term.   «view»

Leslie L. Appelt, a member of Texas A&M University's Class of 1941, died Sunday (April 22) at his home in Bastrop. Appelt, a long-time Houston businessman, had been a benefactor of Texas A&M for decades and was a trustee of the Texas A&M Foundation for 17 years. His gifts provided major funding for several facilities on the Texas A&M campus, including the Appelt Aggieland Visitor Center.   «view»

Texas A&M University commemorated the conclusion of its seven-year, $1 billion One Spirit One Vision fundraising campaign with a campus celebration on March 30 that included about 1,000 of the university’s top donors and corporate partners.    «view»

The Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees announced that John Stropp will serve as interim president of the Foundation while Dr. Ed Davis is on leave to serve as interim president of Texas A&M University.   «view»

Dr. Ed Davis, president of the Texas A&M Foundation, was named interim president of Texas A&M University during a special telephonic meeting of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.   «view»

Bernard C. Richardson, a 1941 Texas A&M graduate and long&#150time supporter of his alma mater, died Sunday evening at his ranch near Brenham.   «view»

After 38 years of public service, including the last two as chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, Chancellor Robert D. McTeer today announced his plans to retire by the end of this year.   «view»

Texas A&#38M University officials are reporting record enrollment, including the largest freshman class in the 130&#150year history of the institution.   «view»

Texas A&M University is ranked No. 5 nationally in The Washington Monthly magazine&#146s ratings of U.S. colleges and universities, moving up from seventh place last year.   «view»

Thomas J. Saylak, a 1982 Texas A&M University graduate and president of Merrill Lynch Global Commercial Real Estate in New York City, has been appointed to the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees.   «view»

Steven B. Moore writes: I'm pleased to inform you that, after months of negotiations, the university has reached an amicable agreement with the Seattle Seahawks resolving the controversy regarding the use of Texas A&M's 12th Man trademark.   «view»