A&M-Commerce hosted the 5th Humor Research Conference in its new space in downtown Dallas. The conference focused on humor and pedagogy.…

The 2015 Library Services Survey, developed by the Association of Research Libraries at Texas A&M University, will be available to take until April 20. Participants in the survey have the chance to win an Xbox One, Beats Headphones or an…

Dr. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky was awarded the 2015 John H. Jenkins Fellowship Prize from the Texas State Historical Association. The association gives the fellowship annually for the best research proposal regarding Texas history. Dr. Brannon-Wranosky's proposal focuses on a suffrage book…

Texas A&M University-Commerce recently received approval for a user grant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “Grants like this add to the reputation of A&M-Commerce in mentoring, training and producing excellent students who will excel after finishing their degree here,”…

Kailee Johnson will present her research on behalf of Texas A&M University-Commerce at Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Texas Capitol on March 4. Johnson's research focuses on breast cancer, specifically how to sensitize cancer cells to the human immune…

Dr. Donna Walker-Nixon, 1979 graduate from East Texas State University and recipient of the Minnie Stevens Piper Award, has co-edited a collection of fiction, poetry, art, songs, photos and creative non-fiction entitled “Her Texas.” The anthology is multicultural, multiethnic and…

Dr. Carlos Bertulani, professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to Brazil. The Fulbright Scholarship is an international education exchange program sponsored by the United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs that is designed to…

The Earth-Kind Rose team has earned the Texas A&M AgriLife Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Collaboration. The team created by Professor and AgriLife Extension Horticulturist for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Dr. Steve George included associate professor of…

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) awarded Texas A&M University-Commerce a grant under the Nursing Innovation Grant Program Building Lab and Simulation Capacity opportunity, and Department of Nursing faculty, Cheryl McKenna and Barbara Tucker, are the primary investigators for…

Dr. Martha Hurley joins Texas A&M University-Commerce from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, as the new department head and professor of sociology and criminal justice. With a master's degree in sociology and a Ph.D. in criminal justice, Dr. Hurley…

By Jennise Streaty Dr. Maria Fernandez-Lamarque's research proposal for an upcoming book has been selected to receive a grant from the HISPANEX program under the Ministry of Culture, Education, and Sports of Spain. Lamarque is an associate professor in the…

J. Walter Kutz, an alumnus of East Texas State University and an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, continues to nurture the passion he developed at our university and translates it into his work…

Wesley Adams and Chance Brown, both graduate students in the Texas A&M University-Commerce College of Science and Engineering, were recently awarded NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Awards for the 2014-2015 year. “Only 20 fellows were chosen this year and…

The Center for IT Excellence (CITE) will be performing a customer satisfaction survey for all faculty, staff, and students beginning on September 29 and running through October 10. The survey will help CITE to better understand its customers' needs and…

by Christine Sheehan   Generally, when one thinks of “humor” one thinks of clowns, comedians such as George Carlin or Robin Williams, or of practical jokes and slapstick. Seldom does “dean” come to mind. In this respect, CHSSA's own, Dean Attardo,…

Alumna Dr. Laura Di Ferrante and current Ph.D. student Elisa Gironzetti have created an online applied linguistics journal. This is a groundbreaking publication as it is one of the few open-access journals that are available for free. Readers can download…

Even in an extended recession, the university's literature and languages department can claim a 100 percent placement ratio for doctoral students. Mary Couzelis, who defended her dissertation this spring, was hired as a tenure-track professor of children's literature at Morgan…

Two new grants, totaling $545,000, have been awarded to Texas A&M University-Commerce for the Department of Physics and Astronomy to continue their research on reactions with rare isotopes and neutron capture reactions in stars.  Both grants have been awarded for…

Domingo Ibarra, chief of police for the Magnolia, Texas police department and soon-to-be graduate of the Texas A&M University-Commerce applied criminology program, has been selected as one of the top 30 law enforcement executives from across the country. Later this…

On April 26, 2014, Texas Woman's University hosted the 5th annual Federation Graduate Student Research Symposium.  For the category of Math, Science and Technology, graduate students of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences won first, second and third prizes…