Big data on parasites takes big leap forward
Texas A&M AgriLife joins effort to digitize North American parasite collections
Science & Tech
eBeam Center receives $899,000 research grant from EPA
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…
Texas A&M student develops video game for working cattle
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,…
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections’ oVert project on display at Texas A&M
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…
Young to take North Texas 4-H specialist position
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….
Zero waste: Maggots as recyclers and protein sources
Texas A&M professor invents technology to harness black soldier flies for waste removal, protein for animals
Cheater, cheater: Human Behavior Lab studies cheating as innate trait
COLLEGE STATION — Is cheating a product of the environment or a character trait? Dr. Marco Palma, director of the Human Behavior Lab at Texas A&M University and professor in the department of agricultural economics, and Dr. Billur Aksoy, assistant professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, took a closer look at cheating…
Texas A&M researchers to develop climate-smart sorghum
Improved yield, greenhouse gas mitigation, water quality are ultimate goals Contacts: Dr. Nithya Rajan, 979-845-0360, nrajan@tamu.edu Dr. Bill Rooney, 979-845-2151, wlr@tamu.edu Dr. Ronnie Schnell, 979-845-2935, ronschnell@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M researchers believe the development of climate-smart crops is the key to improving nitrogen-use efficiency and reducing fertilizer nitrogen loss in agricultural fields. The crops…
Texas A&M to bridge rural/urban divide with food, agriculture science
Vice Chancellor Stover takes his message to Vernon, Stephenville Writers: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – About a thousand new faces show up in Texas every day, moving into the Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio and Houston, and they have little to no connection to the state’s agriculture-based culture and economy….
Selling lambs or goats? AgriLife has an app for that
Writer: Susan Himes, 325-657-7315, Susan.Himes@ag.tamu.edu Contacts: Bill Thompson, 325-657-7306, wjthompson@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Reid Redden, 325-657-7324, Reid.Redden@ag.tamu.edu SAN ANGELO — The Lamb and Goat Market Forecast app for iPhone helps producers pick the best time to sell by projecting marginal revenue per head. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the San Angelo State University information technology…
