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Graduating seniors from the Honors College and Honors Scholar Program were recently celebrated at the 2019 Honors Recognition Ceremony. The program highlights the impressive academic achievements of those honored. The A&M-Commerce Honors College is a learning community of students who…

The A&M-Commerce Department of Mathematics held a picnic and awards banquet to recognize students. Four students from the department received awards: L-3 Communications Excellence in General Mathematics: Nicholas Arsenault Excellence in Mathematics Education: Steven Lim Aslan Outstanding Graduate of Undergraduate…

Assistant Professor and Director of Wildlife and Sustainable Agriculture Dr. Kelly Reyna is well-versed on quail, having studied the species for more than 20 years. In March, Reyna and his team successfully coordinated a translocation of 250 wild California Quail…

Lydia Carrascosa, graduate admissions specialist for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, received the Graduate Enrollment Management Certificate while attending the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals 2019 Annual Conference in Toronto. This year marked the association's first…

Texas A&M University-Commerce will hold its Spring 2019 Commencement on May 10 and 11, where 1,571 students are eligible for graduate and undergraduate degrees. Among these candidates, 36 will graduate with honors, 118 cum laude, 160 magna cum laude and…

Micalyn Rowe, an Honors College senior, was recently accepted into four Ph.D. programs with a focus in astronomy and astrophysics. During her undergraduate career at A&M-Commerce, Rowe conducted extensive research in mathematics and astronomy, and successfully defended her honors thesis,…

Dr. Mickey Slimp, an alumnus of Texas A&M University-Commerce, published a book titled “How the Internet of Things is Changing Our Colleges, Our Classrooms, and Our Students.” Slimp received his Ed.D. in Educational Technology in 1986 from East Texas State…

The Thurman Family Agricultural Endowment at Texas A&M University-Commerce has been established by Steve and Kelly Thurman. The endowment will benefit students majoring in agribusiness and those participating on the Livestock and Meat Judging Teams. Steve is an alumnus of…

Dr. Edgar Manton, retired regents professor of the A&M-Commerce Department of Economics and Finance, served as the keynote speaker at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines meeting on April 13 in Dallas. Manton's speech, “Launching the Saturn/Apollo…

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…

The office of Institutional Advancement recently released a video to build public awareness for their Planned Giving program. The video explains some of the different ways to give and invites people to join The Society of 1889, which recognizes any…

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,…

Dr. Andrew Baker, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the 2019 Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship in Texas History by the Texas State Historical Association. The $2,000 fellowship is awarded annually for the best research proposal on twentieth-century Texas…

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan and June Finke visited campus on April 11 to sign an endowment agreement that will benefit nursing school students at A&M-Commerce. The Dr. Omer F. and Nell Kirkpatrick Endowed Scholarship is the third endowment that the…

The A&M-Commerce College of Business will host the 2019 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (SBECON) on May 15 from noon to 2 p.m. in the Alumni Center. This year's conference will continue the format begun in 2018 featuring “Lunch and…

The online Master of Science in Management program at A&M-Commerce has been recognized by OnlineMasters.com as one of the best graduate programs in the nation for 2019. The program was one of only two in Texas named to the list.…

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…

East Texas State University alum Keith Humphrey was recently named police chief for Little Rock, Arkansas. Humphrey graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from ETSU, now A&M-Commerce.…

A&M-Commerce alumna Dena Hamilton was named Blue Ridge High School's 2019 teacher of the year. Hamilton serves as the school's librarian. She graduated from A&M-Commerce in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.…

Dr. Larry Lemanski, director of the Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Research at A&M-Commerce, was recently featured in Greenville's Herald-Banner newspaper. The article highlights the ground-breaking research of Lemanski and his colleagues who aim to use a patient's cells to create…