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The results for the Athletic Fee Referendum held at the university have been released, and students voted by a 4-1 margin to increase the Intercollegiate Athletics Fee, starting in Fall 2017. The reason behind the referendum was to help balance…

Texas A&M University-Commerce student Myriam Cortez has been named a Nancy Larson Foundation Scholar and awarded a $1000 scholarship in recognition of her inspiring personal narrative, excellent academic record and spirit of community service. The Nancy Larson Foundation proudly supports…

Students and faculty will have a chance to inform the university about what they think of Gee Library's current activities in the 2017 Library Services Survey, which runs until April 23. The surveys are intended to let the library and…

The National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP), the nationwide organization focused exclusively on procurement in higher education, has announced the election of Travis Ball, of Texas A&M University-Commerce, to the office of 2nd Vice President, effective March 29, 2017. Installation…

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Dr. Laura Chris Green, director of the Bilingual/ESL Education program at Texas A&M University-Commerce have been awarded a one-time appropriation of $248,127 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. These funds were awarded…

The calculus teams of Texas A&M University-Commerce placed third and fourth at the Calculus Bowl Competition held at the 97th Conference of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America which took place in Commerce March 30 through April…

Four graduate students from Texas A&M University-Commerce have won awards at this year's Federation of North Texas Area Universities' Graduate Student Research Symposium, all in their respective categories: Education, Humanities, Social Sciences and Business; and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.…

Ten students from the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Texas A&M University-Commerce were inducted into the Iota Nu Chapter at Large of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. STTI membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and…

Jaret von Rosenberg will be the new head men's basketball coach, continuing his eighth season as a collegiate coach. Previously, Rosenberg served as an assistant coach at A&M-Commerce, helping to lead the Lions to the 2015 Lone Star Conference Championship…

Texas A&M University-Commerce Faculty Fellow Dr. Robynne Lock continues to be heavily engaged in her project entitled “Development of Studio Mode in Physics.” Studio Mode was implemented at this university beginning in Fall 2015 in University Physics I and II,…

Interim Associate Director and Associate Professor of Agribusiness in the School of Agriculture, Dr. Jose Lopez, along with six Agribusiness students attended the Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) 2017 Quiz Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, February 4-7, 2017, on a travel…

Sixty-three lucky students from 51 different universities across the state of Texas participated in the “Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol” event which took place, March 28, in Austin. The event included a variety of activities for students, such…

Drs. Martha Hurley and David Hurley received a grant from the College for All Texans Foundation (CFAT) as part of their Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Grant Program. The award in the amount of $170,000 was matched by Texas A&M University-Commerce for…

The Office of First-Year & Transition Programs at Texas A&M University-Commerce was fortunate to send over 34 orientation leaders to the National Orientation Director's Association (NODA) regional conference in Dallas on March 2, 2017. The mission of the National Orientation…

Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries' Gee Library has been selected to host “Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness,” a panel and iPad based traveling exhibit that focuses on themes of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian wellness,…

Dr. Jeff Kopachena, professor in Biological and Environmental Sciences, was awarded $92,605 by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, for Stage two of his project, “Ecological role of Red Imported Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta) and their influence on Monarch Butterfly…

Dr. Bill Aslan, former faculty member and Professor Emeritus, recently established two mathematics awards and increased the Aslan Family Graduate Endowment by $10,000. These combined gifts amount to $30,000. Aslan's recent contributions follow 23 consecutive years of support, benefitting Texas…

Andrew Young, the former Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations, Georgia congressman and mayor of Atlanta, and Dr. Robert Green, the author of the Civil Rights era retrospective, “At the Crossroads of Fear and Freedom,” will be…

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Texas A&M University-Commerce launched a new school application (app) platform on March 8, 2017. This app, which is part of the office’s TargetX implementation, is a university-branded mobile community for A&M-Commerce’s incoming freshman and…

In partnership with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, the Texas A&M University-Commerce political science department will host the 2017 Southwest Regional University Model Arab League (MAL) conference, April 6-8 in the Rayburn Student Center on the A&M-Commerce campus. The…