Research

Virginia and Harry Fullwood Establish The Fullwood Family Professorship of Accounting
Professor Virginia Fullwood and former faculty member Dr. Harry Fullwood have graciously donated $100,000 to establish an Endowed Professorship in Accounting.
The Fullwood Family Professorship of Accounting will be the first fully funded professorship established specifically for the Accounting Department.…

Siobhan D. Flowers Awarded $20,000 Counseling Fellowship From NBCC and Affiliates
The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), recently selected Siobhan D. Flowers, of Fort Worth, Texas, for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program (NBCC MFP). As an NBCC MFP Fellow, Flowers…

Texas A&M University System Names Dr. Ray M. Keck as Interim President At Texas A&M University-Commerce
College Station, TX – John Sharp, Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, announced today that Dr. Ray M. Keck has been appointed Interim President at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Keck succeeds Dr. Dan Jones, who served as President at A&M-Commerce…

Graduate Students Return From QEP Sponsored Ukraine Trip
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) sent four political science graduate students to present research on United States and Ukraine relations at a conference in Ukraine in April.
Dr. Robert Rodriguez, assistant professor of political science, led the four students, Sarah…

University Awarded Funds from the Chancellor’s Research Initiative
Texas A&M University-Commerce is honored to be awarded $1.6 million from the Chancellor's Research Initiative (CRI) for the purchase of specialized scientific equipment for the new Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Medicine (BIRR) and recruitment of a new professor and two…

Political Science Graduate Students Travel Abroad to Present Global Research
Four dedicated graduate students in the political science department attended two international conferences this semester to showcase their impressive research. Sarah Hays, Tyler Henderson, Ricardo Garcia and Ashley Cotton traveled with Dr. Robert G. Rodriguez to the 2nd Pan-American Interdisciplinary…

New Scholarship Established for Student Excellence
Dr. Bo Han, assistant professor of business analytics at Texas A&M University-Commerce, and Dr. Shih Yung Chou, assistant professor of management at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, have joined forces to create the “Dr. Shih Yung Chou…

University Team Places Second in Calculus Bowl Competition
Twenty Texas A&M University-Commerce students recently participated in the Calculus Bowl Competition at the 96th Annual Conference of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The competition took place at Stephen F. Austin State University, where one A&M-Commerce…

Graduate Students Win Big at Graduate Student Research Symposium
Two Graduate students at Texas A&M University-Commerce won awards at this year's Federation of North Texas Area Universities' Graduate Student Research Symposium.
The Federation of North Texas Area Universities was established in 1968 with guidance from the Texas Higher Education…

Two QEP Team Members Win First Place at Graduate Research Symposium
The QEP team recently participated in two graduate research symposiums. On April 7, they presented for various judges at the A&M-Commerce Annual Research Symposium, and QEP was fortunate enough to have two of our very own graduate research assistants win…

A Community-Based Approach to Building the Capacity of Physics Teacher Preparation
The Department of Physics & Astronomy along with the Department of Curriculum & Instruction has been awarded $74,941 for a Capacity Building project within the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
The scholarship will ready the department for a Phase-I Noyce…

QEP Committee Monthly Meetings!
By: Christopher Woodard
The QEP committee has had three successful meetings as we come to the midpoint of the spring semester. During each meeting the committee discusses topics to help further the mission of the QEP. Discussions include more detailed…

University Students Attend TACSM
By Lexi Magruder
This year the Texas chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (TACSM) met in College Station, Texas, on March 2-4. TACSM partnered with Texas A&M's Distinguished Lecture Series to offer a program of top-notch speakers from…

Dr. Sakoglu Awarded ProQuest Inc. Research Grant
ProQuest Inc. has awarded Dr. Unal “Zak” Sakoglu a research grant to research and develop efficient Enterprise Information Management systems, which will be able to process large amounts of data.
“Developing efficient data management systems to efficiently organize, analyze and…

Transform your Ideas about the Library: Celebrate National Library Week April 10-16
By Preston Livingston
This week, the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries join libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating the dynamic changes that are happening in today's libraries. April 10-16 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the…

Dr. "Chuck" Arize Receives Lions Legacy Distinguished Professor of Business Administration Title
Dr. Augustine “Chuck” Arize was recently awarded the Lions Legacy Distinguished Professor of Business Administration title.
Since 1975, the College of Business at Texas A&M University-Commerce has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which…

Dr. Srinivas Nippani Awarded Regents Professor Award at Spring Convocation
Texas A&M University-Commerce held its Spring 2016 Convocation in honor of Dr. Srinivas Nippani being awarded with the Regents Professor Award.
The Convocation took place in the University Auditorium on March 29. In order for students, faculty, and staff to…

University Students Participate in the SAEA Undergraduate Quiz Bowl Competition
The Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) held its annual Quiz Bowl during its yearly meeting February 6-9 in San Antonio. Five students from Texas A&M University-Commerce attended to compete in the Quiz Bowl, including Austin Harrison, Eliseo Hernández, Jordan Oneal,…

Dr. Sakoglu Awarded With U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship
Dr. Unal “Zak” Sakoglu of the Computer Science Department was awarded with a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (ARFL) Summer Faculty Fellowship award for the summer of 2016.
Sakoglu won the award for his research proposal on “Applications of Infrared…

University Gets New Ranking by the Carnegie Classification 2015 Update
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of its students, administrators, faculty and staff, Texas A&M University-Commerce has been classified as Doctoral University-Higher Research Activity (R2) by the Carnegie Classification 2015 Update.
The 2015 Update of the Carnegie Classifications of…