Texas A&M team wins award for supporting global food security
Board for International Food and Agricultural Development announces 2019 Scientific Excellence Awards
Board for International Food and Agricultural Development announces 2019 Scientific Excellence Awards
FDA approves ultra-low gossypol cottonseed for human, animal consumption
Texas A&M AgriLife on Tuesday hosted a grand opening of the Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Dallas renovated campus, which aims to serve as a rural-urban interface connecting Texans to their food sources, environmental sustainability and healthy living. “Agriculture must become integral to urban culture,” said Patrick Stover, Ph.D., vice-chancellor of Texas A&M Agrilife, dean…
A conversation about recent findings regarding red meat consumption
Texas A&M AgriLife joins effort to digitize North American parasite collections
Writer: Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Suresh Pillai, 979-458-3229, s-pillai@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research’s National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University announced receipt of a research grant to investigate practical uses of eBeam technology to address environmental issues. Suresh Pillai, Ph.D., director of the center, and his team received…
Teaching animal science through interactive gaming COLLEGE STATION — For students studying animal science, interactive gaming can now help introduce concepts of working with cattle, before they’ve even stepped foot in a pen or pasture. Nicholas Free, animal science senior at Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences didn’t grow up handling cattle,…
COLLEGE STATION — The Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collection, or BTRC, maintained by the Texas A&M Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences has launched a gallery of images created using CT scans from their collection of specimens, including a bigeye thresher shark, an alligator snapping turtle, a clingfish and three other images. The gallery, on…
DALLAS — Denita Young will become the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new program specialist for 4-H Youth Development in the agency’s District 4 beginning Oct. 1. The district encompasses 22 North Texas counties, including Dallas and Tarrant. Young’s duties will include overseeing multidisciplinary youth development programming in health, science, technology, agriculture and civic engagement….
Texas A&M professor invents technology to harness black soldier flies for waste removal, protein for animals