COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M AgriLife announced that Steve Schulze has been appointed assistant vice chancellor of administration. Currently serving as chief human resources officer and director of special projects, Schulze will be succeeded in that position by Jennifer Humphries. Both appointments will be effective Feb. 1. Humphries currently serves as director of human resource [...]
COLLEGE STATION – Applications are being accepted through Nov. 7 for participation in the second class of the AgriLife Advanced Leadership Program, an 18-month cohort initiated by Dr. Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences, according to program leaders. The current cohort class began in May 2010 and will conclude in [...]
COLLEGE STATION — Four employees of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory have been given Director’s Excellence Awards along with a plaque and $100. The Student Award was given to Lauren Crumm, who worked in College Station’s Bacteriology Section until graduating from Texas A&M University in December. She was cited for “her enthusiasm (and) her [...]
Contact: Jason Cook, 979-862-7346,jason.cook@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Lelve G. Gayle, executive director of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory since 2002, announced this week that he is retiring on July 31. “We will greatly miss Dr. Gayle’s leadership,” said Dr. Elsa Murano, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences for The Texas A&M [...]
Writer: Edith A. Chenault, (979) 845-2886, e-chenault1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Noah Cohen, 979-845-3541, ncohen@cvm.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - Injuries such as the one that felled 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro are tragic. Research at Texas A&M Universitys College of Veterinary and Biomedical Medicine is focused on reducing that type of health issue — and some that arent quite so apparent. Theres [...]
Writer: Edith A. Chenault, (979) 845-2886, e-chenault1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Loren Skow, 979-845-3194,lskow@cvm.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - Horse trading could come down to a computer chip, thanks to research done at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Loren Skow, professor of integrative biosciences and a member of the faculty of genetics, and his collaborators are [...]
AMARILLO Close examination is taking place to determine what is needed to protect the region’s approximate $5.7 billion agriculture industry and prepare for a disaster, whether caused by terrorism or from Mother Nature. Private industry, higher education and government agencies are working to build a Panhandle Agro-Security Plan, in conjunction with the state’s Foreign [...]
Writer: Edith A. Chenault, (979) 845-2886,e-chenault1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Lelve Gayle, (979) 845-9000,l-gayle@tvdml@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - In the event of a disease outbreak, a rapid, massive response by health officials is critical — even if the patients are animals. That’s what makes a new mobile diagnostic laboratory developed by the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory important, said its [...]
COLLEGE STATION With the number of horse owners and related activities on the rise, equine industry experts say analysis and trend data is critical to better represent economic impact. The proposed Center for Equine Business Studies at Texas A&M University would provide some of the first-ever detailed data of the estimated $102 billion equine [...]
COLLEGE STATION Diseases that could obliterate livestock populations, infect humans in debilitating proportions and cripple a nation’s economy make for good weapons in enemy hands. But a collaboration of the nation’s top researchers is close to results that will yield an arsenal against several of the worst-known afflictions, according to Dr. Garry Adams, Texas [...]
