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For the third semester, the Counseling Center at A&M-Commerce will host the Becoming Socially Successful group for individuals who experience social anxiety. The group is designed as an eight-week program for 10 people to meet for two hours each week.…

The A&M-Commerce Counseling Center's Relationship Roadmap events will begin Feb. 6, concluding with an interactive game show in the style of “The Newlywed Game” on Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. in The Club of the Rayburn Student Center (RSC). Hosted…

The Texas A&M University-Commerce Wind Ensemble and Chorale will be performing the world premiere of James Syler's “The Temptation of St. Anthony” on March 25 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. After premiering Syler's “Symphony in…

The Texas Transportation Researcher, a publication of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), recently featured an article on the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor induction ceremony for Cotton Belt president Harold J. McKenzie. The ceremony was held at the 8th…

Texas A&M University-Commerce alumna, NoViolet Bulawayo, has had her name placed on the shortlist of finalists for yet another international literary award. The Etisalat Prize for Literature celebrates first time African writers of published fiction books, and if she wins,…

A&M-Commerce's College of Business and Entrepreneurship will host its third annual Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (SBECON) on Feb. 19, 2014, in the Rayburn Student Center. The theme of the conference is “Celebrating Entrepreneurship in Northeast Texas: Lessons from the…

On Jan. 28, Texas A&M University-Commerce brought the university community together to pay tribute to the memory of the Caddo Indians who lived in the Commerce area until their relocation to the Oklahoma Territory. The ceremony was held on the…

Three Texas A&M University-Commerce graduate students recently presented posters at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering and Biology in Medicine (EMBS) Annual Symposium. The IEEE EMBS Symposium is hosted by the Dallas IEEE chapter as a platform…

Dr. Bob Williams, associate professor of agricultural science and technology at A&M-Commerce, has been named an inductee into The Texas A&M University System's Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators. The academy acknowledges individuals who exhibit excellence in teaching and is supported…

In a dialogue-driven world, Dr. Lucy Pickering, director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory, is working to improve the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices that allow individuals with speech impairments to partake in conversations. In the study, “Linguistic Characteristics of…

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Associate Chair, Dr. Shonda Gibson and Adolfo Benavides, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs attended the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS COC) Summer Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation July 21-24…

In the study “An Analysis of the Potential Economic Impact of Huanglongbing on the California Citrus Industry,” assistant professor of agribusiness, Dr. Jose A. Lopez, and graduate student Samantha Durborow conducted an economic analysis of the impact of the disease…

A place comprised of the perfect mesh of the “real world” and a virtual reality created by computer programmers is currently under construction. Dr. Shulan Lu, associate professor of psychology, and Dr. Derek Harter, associate professor of computer science and…

At nearly 50, Texas leads the nation in the number of convictions overturned as a result of DNA evidence, where 80 percent of those wrongful convictions were, in part, the result of eyewitness misidentification. In the research project “The Influence…

Dr. Larry Lemanski's interest in embryonic cardiac development initiated his study of the Mexican axolotl, an aquatic salamander with a cardiac lethal mutation that can cause its heart to fail to beat. Through experimentation, Lemanski, Distinguished Research Professor and head…

For many people, conversations over coffee are for small talk—the weather, dinner plans, the humdrum details of daily life. For Drs. Nikolay Sirakov and Salvatore Attardo, oftentimes conversations over coffee are for exploring how computers can recognize weapons and assess…

Dr. Ben Jang holds the distinguished honor of being the first person in A&M-Commerce's history to receive a U.S. patent for his work with RF non-thermal plasma techniques to modify catalyst materials for industrial processes. After five years of determination…

A&M-Commerce placed at No. 9 in the Online College Database's recent ranking of “Top Colleges in Texas: Fighting for Families and Children.” The list of 51 schools orders the institutions' social work programs by the number of graduates, affordability, quality…

Rutgers University professor Richard Miller poses a question to his audience of literature and languages students and faculty members: “In a world of superabundant information, how do we train students to engage in this world?” By “this world,” he means…

A&M-Commerce's Literature and Languages Department welcomed two southern writers as part of the author series initiated by Department Head Hunter Hayes last year. Novelist Michael Farris Smith and poet R. Flowers Rivera read from their works and chatted with students…