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Career fair to break records

Katie Fuller September 8, 2014

More than 7,300 students are expected to attend this week’s engineering career fair — the largest student-run career fair in the nation. The Student Engineers’ Council, the organization...

Photo by Eva GilpinThe Shuttle Motion Simulator arrived at A&M in 2011 but lacks the funding to be assembled. 

Funds shortage has NASA simulator collecting dust

Eva Gilpin September 8, 2014

It was supposed to open summer 2013, but Texas A&M has yet to unpack components of NASA’s retired shuttle simulator, let alone assemble it. NASA and Texas A&M signed an agreement in 2011...

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A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope as it might look when completed  in 2023.

World’s largest telescope’ project rumbles on after strong summer

John Rangel September 8, 2014

Texas is one step closer to the forefront of astronomy after the world’s largest telescope took major steps toward construction this summer. The Giant Magellan Telescope is a project between 11 international...

photo by Jonathan Sheen
Craig Wilson, A&M researcher, said the monarch migration is in critical need of restored habitat.
 

A&M researchers, scientists push for monarch conservation

Danielle Docherty September 4, 2014

It is a biannual phenomenon at risk of disappearing all together, but monarch butterflies are again poised to pass through Texas on a 3,000-mile journey from Canada to their wintering grounds in Mexico. A...

 

Zachry building awaits renovations

Bradley D’Souza September 3, 2014

The Zachry move-out has begun. Roughly 30 percent of research labs housed in the Zachry Engineering Complex have relocated across campus and the remaining labs, academic departments and classrooms are...

The Engineering Research Building will house nanotechnology and energy research labs, among others, when it is completed.

Texas a&m’s Engineering overhaul

John Rangel September 1, 2014

The plan and its numbers are staggering — 25,000 engineering students by 2025 — but this semester Texas A&M will experience growth on par with its engineering expansion goals. Roughly 268,000...

A massive-enough object will bend light from a distant object to act like a gravitational lens. Telescope images are then warped into several patterns.PHOTO PROVIDED BY ASIAA EPO

A&M astronomers, partners discover farthest lensing galaxy

John Rangel September 1, 2014

Texas A&M astronomers and their international partners announced the discovery of the most distant gravitational lens this summer — a galaxy that existed 9.6 billion years ago whose mass is large...

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