The Texas A&M University-Commerce Department of Music was featured on WFAA's Good Morning Texas with a tuba and euphonium performance. Out of the twelve performers, eight were students and alumni of A&M-Commerce. “I'm very proud of everyone, not only for…

More than 80 high school singers from Mabank, Royse City and Poteet high schools joined the Chorale Men's Chorus and Mane Men's Choir at A&M-Commerce for a singing workshop on Friday, October 25. The event focused on tenor and bass…

Dr. Vaughn Wascovich and Tanner Harmening from A&M-Commerce's Department of Art attended the Texas Association of Schools of Art's (TASA) annual conference in San Antonio. Wascovich and Harmening presented a pinhole camera workshop at the conference. Their presentation was well-received,…

A&M-Commerce congratulates Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. John Humphreys on receiving a 2019 Emerald Literati Award by Emerald Publishing for his article in the “Journal of Management History.” Humphreys co-authored the article with researchers from five other…

The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at A&M-Commerce is proud to sponsor a guest lecture by Dr. Arlie Russell Hochschild on September 19 in Ferguson Auditorium at 11 a.m. Hochschild hails from UC Berkeley where she is professor emerita…

Texas A&M University-Commerce now offers a competency-based Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with an Emphasis in Law Enforcement Leadership specifically for first responders, law enforcement and peace officers with existing work experience, police academy training or other certifications. This…

Dr. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, A&M-Commerce distinguished professor of digital humanities and history, was recently invited to speak on the 2019 Organization of American Historians Woman Suffrage Centennial Commemoration Panel. The meeting was held in Philadelphia April 4-7. According to its website,…

A tribute concert featuring the works of Dr. Theodore Hansen, longtime faculty member in the Department of Music and a former department head, will be held May 4 at 5 p.m. in the A&M-Commerce Music Building's Finney Concert Hall. “Ted…

Regional and public history will be the focus of the 23rd Annual Cotton and Rural History Conference scheduled for April 27 at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville, Texas. Students and faculty from A&M-Commerce and Collin College, as well…

The A&M-Commerce Department of Political Science and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, hosted and participated in the Southwest Regional Model Arab League (MAL) Conference April 4-6. MAL is an international organization simulation that gives students the…

Composers, students and enthusiasts will be on campus April 11-13 to attend the Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Annual Conference at A&M-Commerce's Finney Concert Hall. Lions to Host Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Annual Conference Associate Professor and…

Junior high and high school students from four area schools competed in the 39th annual Texas History Day regional competition at A&M-Commerce on March 8. This year's theme is Triumph and Tragedy in History, and participants applied the theme to…

For the first time in at least four decades, the A&M-Commerce Chorale was invited to perform at the 2019 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Convention. Over 60 students, faculty and staff performed before a crowd of more than 1,000 at…

A gala performance featuring almost 200 students and a faculty soloist from the A&M-Commerce Department of Music will fill Moody Performance Hall in Dallas with enchanting melodies during “Music at the Moody” on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. “This gala…

A&M-Commerce will host the 2019 World History Association of Texas Conference on February 23 in the Rayburn Student Center at A&M-Commerce. The all-day event provides a forum for the discussion of all aspects of world history. “A&M-Commerce is honored to…

A&M-Commerce's Writing Program received a Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The award will be presented in March at the Conference's annual convention, held in Pittsburgh. “The Certificate of Excellence is one of the highest…

Coy Martin, budget coordinator and analyst for the College of Humanities, Social Sciences & Arts, has been named to the Advisory Board of The National Society of Leadership and Success for 2018-2019. “It was an honor to be selected out…

With the increasing population of South Asian immigrants in the United States, Oshadhee Satarasinghe, adjunct music instructor and A&M-Commerce graduate, saw an opportunity to add those influences to public school music education programs.  Her work has drawn national attention and…

Dr. Charles. W. Nelson, a professor in the Department of Music from 1969 – 1984, passed away on June 1. He was 92. In a message to the President’s Office, Dr. David Scott, head of the Department of Music, shared…

Creative Quarterly is an international journal focusing on promoting the work of the creative community. The quarterly journal represents current work in graphic design, illustration, photography and fine art. Each category is judged by an industry leader in that specific…

Political science professor Mark Menaldo has teamed up with Brent Cusher, associate professor in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University, to author a book called Leadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity: The Philosophy of Self-Knowledge…

28 projects from 16 A&M-Commerce Visual Communications (VisCom) students are featured in the 2018 Graphis New Talent Annual. An international publisher of books on communication design, Graphis presents and promotes the best submitted work in graphic design, advertising, photography and…

The A&M-Commerce Chorale will perform an a cappella concert at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Dallas on April 22. The performance will include a selection of music by composers such as Palestrina, Roger T. Petrich, Hyun…

The A&M-Commerce chapter of Phi Alpha Theta hosted the annual North and Northeast Texas regional conference on March 24, 2018. The event took place at the Sam Rayburn Student Center. Phi Alpha Theta is an honor society for undergraduate and …

A&M-Commerce hosted its annual symposium in the Rayburn Student Center on April 3, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The symposium combined the university's three research events, the Annual Research Symposium, the Graduate Research Symposium, and the Lion's Innovation Showcase,…

Lions After Dark, an A&M-Commerce student radio program on KETR 88.9 FM, was one of two finalists for the student radio entertainment program competition at the National Broadcast Society National Convention in Washington, D.C., March 3. “I’m very proud of…

On March 8th, the 56th Annual ADDY Awards were held at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, TX. Three VisCom students were awarded with gold medals: Karina Pérez-Fajardo (BFA ‘18) for her XXV International Congress of Entomology poster, Cooper Weinstein (BFA…

A&M-Commerce welcomed Kevin Hines as the 2018 Mental Health Matters Day Keynote speaker, for his presentation Cracked, Not Broken, on April 2 at 2 p.m. in Ferguson Auditorium. In 2000, two years after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Hines attempted…

COMMERCE, Texas — Bring a date and attend a special University Playhouse one night only performance of “Love Letters,” coming Friday, Nov. 7. This romantic comedy made popular by the late actor Charlton Heston and his wife, Lydia Clarke Heston,…

COMMERCE, Texas — The University Playhouse at Texas A&M University-Commerce will open the fall season with the debut of “Still Life with Iris,” an award-winning new play, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. “Through the magic of theater and child-like…