TTI’s Pecos Research
and Testing Center opens for business
The Texas Transportation Institute and two partner organizations have turned
a 5,800-acre former tire testing facility in Pecos into a world-class transportation
research and testing center
Four consecutive Mesquite
ISD superintendents are A&M-Commerce
grads
Texas A&M University-Commerce has ranked second in Texas in superintendent
production for the past 10 years. And in an era when the average tenure of school
superintendents in Texas is less than five years, the Mesquite Independent School
District has not only had just four school superintendents since 1964—but
all four are graduates of A&M-Commerce.
Sea Aggie men’s and women’s
sail teams win Harvest Moon Regatta
The Texas A&M University at Galveston offshore sail team
beat 160 other boats to win the 19th annual Harvest Moon Regatta in Galveston
in October. For the first time, the team also entered its all-female crew,
which finished first to win the prestigious Luna Trophy.
TEEX’s Disaster
City hosts first specialty canine course
Twenty-one
canine search and rescue teams and 16 search team managers from nine states
and Canada deployed to the Texas Engineering Extension Service’s Disaster
City™ in mid-November as part of a new Disaster
Canine Search Specialist course.
Trees provide $456 million in annual benefits to Houston region
A new Texas Forest Service study finds that trees in the eight-county area region
around Houston provide $456 million in air pollution removal and other functions
annually and would cost $205 billion to replace.