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Texas A&M Division of Research, Research Bulletin, Produced by Research Communications

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026


How to Submit an Item to Research Bulletin 

  • Send: Research-related news about Texas A&M faculty, staff or students at our colleges, schools or member agencies, including honors, publications, presentations and appearances in news media. 
  • Note: The Research Bulletin does not publish links to scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles. If your work appears in a journal, please first work with your college or school communications team to develop a news story, then submit the link to that story for inclusion. 
  • Include: A URL that links directly to your news coverage, research story or professional achievement 
  • Email: rcomm@tamu.edu 

Announcements


News-Media Coverage

  • Elsevier, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler (Agriculture and Life Sciences), about research findings that psychosocial and community factors are strongly associated with diet quality among rural adults, underscoring the importance of social and environmental influences on healthy eating. 
  • Homeland Security Today, Daniel Altman (Government and Public Service), about a road map for rebuilding public confidence after federal use-of-force incidents. 
  • Houston Public Media, David Schrank (Transportation Institute), about the 2025 Texas Top 100 Congested Road Segments list and why several Harris County roadways are included. 
  • Infobae, Karl Kaiser (Galveston), about the development of a groundbreaking method using satellite imagery to detect and monitor oceanic microplastics, which offers a new tool to track and analyze pollution on a global scale. (Spanish) 
  • Ipiracity, Koteswara Rao Yerra and Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato (Engineering), about combining photodynamic therapy with antibiotics to combat Klebsiella pneumoniae while reducing the need for high drug doses. (Portuguese) 
  • Medical Dialogues, Michael Golding (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), about how high-dose antioxidant use in men may negatively impact sperm DNA integrity and potentially affect offspring development. 
  • NJ Spotlight News, Emily Binks-Cantrell (Education and Human Development), about the science of reading implementation in public schools throughout the state of Texas and lessons learned as New Jersey begins to adopt similar practices with its new education commissioner. 
  • Spectrum News, Elaine Oran and Scott Jackson (Engineering), about the development of a state-of-the-art detonation facility that aims to enhance safety and effectiveness in testing explosive materials, supporting both defense and scientific applications. 
  • Spectrum News, Jonathan Jensen (Education and Human Development), about SSPAIN.ai, an artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics tool that forecasts renewal and revenue from sponsorship for sports teams, leagues and events. 
  • The Cool Down, Sam Brody (Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas), about how the Houston Association of Realtors discontinued a flood-risk scoring tool for home listings that was developed by Texas A&M researchers. 
  • The Epoch Times, Bradley Johnston (Agriculture and Life Sciences), about how reducing saturated fat consumption is most relevant for patients with high cardiovascular risk, rather than healthier individuals. 
  • University of Houston Law Center, Gabriel Eckstein (Law), about how legal and policy frameworks affect environmental, energy and natural resource management.

Articles From Colleges and Schools


Accomplishments


Funding


Professional Development

  • Research Development Services offers faculty development programs and research funding workshops to assist in the process of applying for grants.   
  • Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) offers virtual workshops that meet the face-to-face requirements of University SAP 15.99.99.M0.04. Please note that it is the responsibility of each college or school (with support or information from individual principal investigators) to ensure that all student and postdoctoral researchers associated with them are compliant with the RCR training requirements.   
  • High Performance Research Computing offers an ongoing series of short training courses for beginning, intermediate and advanced researchers.   
  • University Libraries presents a series of online workshops in research-related subjects, such as managing citations, managing research data, searching databases and publishing and copyrighting.    

Events

  • The College of Education and Human Development will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Voices of Impact (VOI) on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center’s Bethancourt Ballroom. The speaker series will feature 12 researchers sharing their expertise on issues impacting society today. This year’s topics include how to prepare future teachers to use AI, a solution to address the adult literacy crisis in Texas, a breakthrough in stem-cell therapeutics that could help with life-saving treatments, and more research from the College of Education and Human Development.   

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