Written by: Carly Donsbach College Station, Texas- Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences unveiled its new Wildlife, Fisheries and Ecological Sciences building on September 15. The 80,000-square foot structure is located on West Campus in the Agriculture and Life Sciences Complex on John Kimbrough Boulevard. This 5-story building includes two floors of… Read More →
Aggie Takes the Stage at Seattle AIFD Symposium 2017
Courtney Zuber ’17 took a leap of faith and landed on the stage of an international floral art program in Seattle, Washington this July. Her journey started, however, in a lab on the west campus of Texas A&M University in College Station where she joined a floral design club after seeing a flier about the… Read More →
Costilla-Reyes named Kirchner Food Fellow
By: Shraddha Sankhe The Kirchner Food Fellowship is an innovative, hands-on impact investment program that harnesses the power of millennials to find, fund and assist promising socially responsible agricultural businesses. The program is competitive and gives students an opportunity to learn entrepreneurial leadership skills to invest money into agriculture-oriented businesses that offer the promise of a sustainable solution… Read More →
10 Farewell Tips on Floral Design from Mr. Johnson, a Benz School Icon
Written by: Olga Kuchment Mr. Jim Johnson’s colleagues have asked for one more lesson, to commemorate his time at Texas A&M. After having spent 13 years as successful florist shop owner, having seen 31 years as first holder of the Benz Chair in Floral Design at Texas A&M University— and having inspired countless people around… Read More →
Pilgrim’s Pride $1 Million Gift to Modernize Texas A&M’s Poultry Feed Mill
Writer: Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. David Caldwell, 979-845-4747, caldwell@poultry.tamu.edu Texas A&M University’s department of poultry science feed mill in College Station provides tens of thousands of chickens with nourishment each day, but is more than half a century old and showing its age. Amid a layer of cobwebs, corn dust, soybean flakes and… Read More →
New ScottsMiracle-Gro Facility for Lawn and Garden Research opens at Texas A&M
Writer: Kay Ledbetter COLLEGE STATION – The ScottsMiracle-Gro Facility for Lawn and Garden Research, located at 3100 F&B Road in College Station, officially opened May 3. The new facility is part of a long-term agreement among ScottsMiracle-Gro, Texas A&M AgriLife and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “The partnership with ScottsMiracle-Gro greatly… Read More →
Pilgrim’s provides $1 Million gift for facility upgrades
Writer: Jeff Pool COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, the second largest poultry company in the U.S., headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, has given $1 million through the Texas A&M Foundation to establish the Poultry Science Feed Mill Support Fund. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University will use this gift… Read More →
Texas A&M Unlocks Complexities of Human Behavior with Biometrics at SXSW
AUSTIN, March 21, 2017 – Texas A&M University’s Human Behavior Laboratory, the world’s largest of its kind, will revealed the effects emotions have on human decision-making and the broad range of benefits provided by understanding and predicting such behavior during South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Week. The panel discussion, “The Human Lab: Revealing the Emotional Brain,” brought… Read More →
Big data is coming to agriculture
Unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous tractors and other technologies will continue to emerge as producers meet world food needs in the near and distant future, according to experts. Those experts believe technology will continue to emerge and make possible giant leaps throughout the next decade as agriculture industries and producers work to meet world food needs… Read More →
Texas A&M team discovers three new bird species in Africa
A Texas A&M University team has discovered three never before documented bird species, and there could well be more, the team’s leader said. Dr. Gary Voelker, professor and curator of birds in the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, headed the recent discovery of a trio of similar African… Read More →