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Nursing Professors Recognized at Sigma 30th Anniversary Celebration and Award Ceremony
Iota Nu, at-Large chapter of Sigma, held their 30th anniversary celebration and awards ceremony on April 10 at the UT-Tyler campus. At the ceremony, Dr. Carole McKenzie, nursing department associate professor, received the “Excellence in Nursing Education” award. Dr. Halli…
A&M-Commerce Calculus Team Wins First Place at MAA Calculus Bowl
A&M-Commerce students placed first and second at the 98th Annual Conference of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Calculus Bowl Competition that took place at El Centro College on April 5. Nineteen teams from universities and…
Political Science Professor Co-Authors Book on Authentic Leadership
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…
Dr. Sharon Kowalsky Awarded Fellowship to Conduct Research in Helsinki
Dr. Sharon Kowalsky, Associate Professor of History and Director of Gender Studies, has been selected as a visiting fellow for the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki for 2018-2019. She is one of only 16 scholars worldwide selected for…
Record Number of Visual Communications Student Work Featured in Graphis New Talent Annual
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…
A&M-Commerce Department of Health and Human Performance Hosts First-Ever Emory Community Health Fair
Students from the Department of Health and Human Performance at A&M-Commerce will conduct the first-ever Emory Community Health Fair on Saturday, April 28 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The fair, which will address the lack of substantial health resources…
A&M-Commerce Environmental Awareness Society Leads Stream Clean-Up
A group of 35 student volunteers, headed by the A&M-Commerce Environmental Awareness Society, recently took the initiative in improving their community. On March 24, 2018, they cleaned up the litter-filled stream behind Fix & Feed Hardware, Lulu's Burgers, and the…
A&M-Commerce Chorale to Perform at the Cathedral Shrine in Dallas
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…
Dr. Brittany Hott Granted Funds for Education Research in Local School Districts
Dr. Brittany Hott, associate professor of special education, received a grant in the amount of $3,559. The award from the American Educational Research Association's Education Research Service Projects (ERSP) Initiative will fund the study of rural special education programs. The…
Higher Education and Learning Technologies Faculty Receive Awards for Research Paper from Korean American Research Association
Dr. Katie Koo, and Dr. Kibum Kwon, Assistant Professors for the Department of Higher Education and Learning Technologies, received the 2018 Young Scholar Best Research Award for their research from the Korean American Education Research Association (KAERA).
Dr. Koo will…
A&M-Commerce History Department Hosts Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference
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 …
Graduate Students Recognized at North Texas Area Research Symposium
Two A&M-Commerce students were recognized for their research presentations at the 2018 Federation of North Texas Area Universities Graduate Student Research Symposium held at Texas Women’s University on Friday, March 23, 2018.
Agribusiness student Armine Poghosyan was awarded the second…
A&M-Commerce Hosts 2018 Annual Research Symposium
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,…
A&M-Commerce S.E.E.D.S. Office Receives Grant for Mentorship Program
The Serving Engaged Empowered & Diverse Students (S.E.E.D.S.) office at Texas A&M University-Commerce has received a grant of $62,310 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to develop a “Texas Work-Study Mentorship” program at the university.
Unlike the Texas…
Student-Run ‘Lions After Dark’ Wins Runner-Up at National Broadcast Society Conference
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…
A&M-Commerce Wins Big at TIPA with Ten Awards
Fifteen students representing the A&M-Commerce student newspaper, The East Texan, won ten on-site contest awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) Conference, which took place in Dallas on March 21-24. The ten awards were a program best and they…
VisCom Seniors Impress at Dallas ADDY Awards
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 Partners With Greenville ISD To Launch New Assured Admission Initiative
A&M-Commerce and Greenville ISD leaders made history March 6!
A crowd of students, educators and administrators gathered at Greenville High School to celebrate the new “First Choice” initiative. The program is designed to turn Greenville Lions into A&M-Commerce Lions by…
A&M-Commerce Bangladeshi Student Association Brings Immigration Attorney Harry Joe to Campus
Texas A&M University-Commerce's newly formed Bangladeshi Student Association has invited prominent Dallas-based immigration attorney Harry Joe to speak on campus on April 2. Addressing international students on campus, Joe will focus on the challenges facing foreign students in seeking employment…
Mental Health Advocate and Suicide Survivor Kevin Hines featured as Mental Health Matters Day Keynote
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…