Geosciences Professor Develops System To Better Predict Droughts
A Texas A&M geography professor is developing a drought-prediction system that benefits everyone from a rancher in South Texas to a weekend gardener in Kansas. Steven Quiring has received a $486,000 award from the National Science Foundation to develop the first soil-moisture dataset for the Great Plains, one of the country’s most fertile but fickle climate regions.
Texas A&M Chemist Chosen To Chair NIH Nanotechnology Study Section
Dr. Karen L. Wooley, distinguished professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University, has been selected to serve a two-year term as chairperson of the Nanotechnology Study Section within the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review (CSR). Widely respected…
Lupton’s Nutrition Work Brings Recognition To Texas A&M, But There’s More Work On Her Plate
Editor’s note: This story, written by Nancy Mills Mackey, originally appeared in Spirit magazine, a publication of the Texas A&M Foundation. When Americans go to the grocery store, they think more and more about the nutritional value of the food…
Bass Elected As American Academy Of Arts And Sciences Fellow
Texas A&M Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Nautical Archaeology and founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, George F. Bass, has been elected a 2012 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and a leading center for independent policy research.
Datta-Gupta Elected Member Of National Academy Of Engineering
Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta, Regents Professor and L.F. Peterson ’36 Chair in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
