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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 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…

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…

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…

The Texas A&M University-Commerce indoor track and field teams claimed two National Championships at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships March 9-10. The Lion men claimed 5th place, a program best, in the team standings, and the…

This spring, A&M-Commerce will participate in The Chronicle's Great Colleges to Work For program, which recognizes institutions of higher education for workplace quality and organizational culture. Through participation in the program's annual survey, administered by the consulting firm ModernThink, the…

Undergraduate students from Texas A&M University-Commerce's Department of Health & Human Performance and College of Education and Human Services placed second at the 2018 Applied Sport Management Association (ASMA) conference case study competition.  They were the only undergraduate team competing…

Students from A&M-Commerce's Department of Engineering & Technology competed in the TEXO Foundation's annual Associated Schools of Construction Region 5 student competition on February 16-19, 2018, in Addison, TX. Each year,  construction industry partners submit design projects, which teams of…

Dr. Isaac Gang, Assistant Professor for Computer Science and Information Systems, was awarded $99,890 for his project entitled “2017-2018 Texas Mathematics and Science Partnership Professional Development Network.” According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 73% of all the new…

The Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System honored the A&M-Commerce Lions football team at their board meeting held on Thursday, February 8. The Board issued a resolution highlighting the Lions' 2017 accomplishments, which included winning the NCAA…

On January 4, 2018, Dr. Betty Block, professor of Kinesiology in the Department of Health and Human Performance at Texas A&M University-Commerce, was named the 25th Fellow of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education. A National Association for…

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced Monday that a 13-member committee has been created to conduct a national search for the next President of Texas A&M University-Commerce. The committee includes two members of The Texas A&M University System…

Dr. Robynne Lock, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. William Newton, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, have been named PhysTEC fellows. PhysTEC is a national partnership between the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics…

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for areas north and west of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, as well as northern portions of DFW, including Denton and Collin Counties. Light freezing rain and freezing drizzle is expected in these areas…

Carlos Rivers, an analyst for the Texas A&M University-Commerce Institute of Competency-Based Education Operations Research, has been invited to join the National Advisory Board for Postsecondary Competency-Based Education and Learning Research. He will have a special role on the working…

Jessica Pauszek, Texas A&M University-Commerce, has won the 2018 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award for her work, “Archiving Class Identities: Re-circulating Transnational Working-Class Community Writing Through Augmented Reality.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within…

“The eclectic background of this East Texas football team might have made it an unlikely pick to bring home a national football championship. …And on Friday morning, the school came together to celebrate the team reaching the highest goal: winning…

June Finke '69 and Nathan Finke, Texas A&M University-College Station class of '70, have made a $100,000 gift to A&M-Commerce's nursing program. The endowment enhances ongoing efforts at A&M-Commerce to support research and scholarship in the field of nursing, such…

Derald Harp's Earth-Kind® team was named a 2017 Finalist for the Texas Environmental Excellence Award, the highest environmental honor given by the State of Texas. Harp, Professor of Horticulture in the School of Agriculture, is a member of the Texas…

Nikki Barnett, Student Case Specialist for Campus Life & Student Development, was awarded $189,707 for a “College Campus Initiative” by the Criminal Justice Division (CJD) of the Office of the Governor of Texas. The funds will allow the university to…