News-Media Coverage
- Ambika Chandra (Agriculture and Life Sciences), FOX4, about ways to sustain grass on sports fields and golf courses, and how different turf is withstanding various climates across countries.
- Andrew Dessler (Arts and Sciences), WDEF, about how climate change is increasing electricity bills in Texas and will continue to worsen, increasing hardships for some populations.
- Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ana Diaz Artiles, Dimitris Lagoudas (Engineering) and Deanna Kennedy (Education and Human Development), along with aerospace engineering undergraduate Santiago Carrasco, Houston Chronicle, about how Texas A&M's new centrifuge will support NASA-funded research by simulating lunar and Martian gravity to study how the human body responds to low-gravity environments and help prepare astronauts for long-duration space missions. (Paywall)
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Harvest Public Media, about how persistent drought, high production costs and the reemergence of the New World screwworm have kept U.S. ranchers from rebuilding the nation's historically small cattle herd, contributing to record-high beef prices despite strong consumer demand.
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), NPR, about how transparent food price reporting is essential for competitive markets but can create opportunities for collusion.
- Edward Lemon (Government and Public Service), Politico, about how Turkmenistan seeks symbolic international recognition and U.S.-Central Asia economic ties have shifted from American investment in the region to encouraging Central Asian investment in the U.S. (Paywall)
- Farida Sohrabji (Medicine), American Community Media, about how women should be included in more stroke research since evidence shows they face unique stroke risks, symptoms and outcomes that remain underrepresented in clinical trials and healthcare.
- Heather Lench (Arts and Sciences), Fast Company, about how boredom arises when activities do not align with a person's goals, and intentionally channeling boredom into creative habits can strengthen creativity over time.
- Heidi Campbell (Arts and Sciences), Religion News Service, about how Christian outreach in virtual spaces reflects a decades-long shift toward treating digital platforms as a new frontier for evangelism, and why missionaries should adapt to the culture of online communities rather than trying to reshape them.
- Ivis Garcia (Architecture), KBTX, about a study highlighting how low-income families bear the greatest burden of repeated flooding due to unaffordable insurance, limited savings and few opportunities to relocate, underscoring the need for policy and land management reforms.
- Jessica Atkin (Agriculture and Life Sciences), NewScientist, about techniques that use fungi-amended lunar regolith simulants to successfully grow crops like chickpeas, advancing efforts to develop sustainable food systems for future lunar bases.
- Justin Scheiner (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Popular Science, about the outcome of sending hundreds of grape seeds to the International Space Station, where the seeds will spend approximately six months exposed to cosmic radiation before returning to Earth for planting and study.
- Ken Muneoka and Larry Suva (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), ZME Science, about findings that sequential treatment with two growth factors redirected wound-healing cells to regenerate amputated mouse toes, which offer new insights that could one day improve tissue regeneration and reduce scarring in humans.
- Kirby Goidel (Government and Public Service), KBTX, about explanation of a series of Supreme Court rulings involving presidential firing authority, mail-in ballot rules and President Donald Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll civil case.
- Lynn Krebs (Texas Real Estate Research Center), Dallas News, about how increasing Dallas' senior and disability property tax exemption would not necessarily reduce city revenue because property tax rates are adjusted during the budget process to generate the amount of revenue the city needs. (Paywall)
- Mark Benden (Public Health), HealthTech, about development of an artificial intelligence-powered "digital human" system that uses facial expressions, biometric data and response timing to detect early signs of dementia, with the goal of enabling earlier intervention and more consistent patient screening.
- Muthukumar Bagavathiannan and Gustavo Silva (Agriculture and Life Sciences), The Scoop, about how cereal rye mats that struggle to produce a bountiful biomass could still provide farmers with good weed suppression benefits.
- Nathan Tichenor (Bush Combat Development Complex), The Business Journals, about Texas A&M’s Ballistic Aero-Optics and Materials Range, a state-of-the-art enclosed hypersonic and directed-energy testing facility that was constructed to advance aerospace, defense and national security research.
- Narangerel Altangerel (Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering) and Philip Hemmer (Engineering), Quantum Computing Report, about development of a laser-based spectroscopy platform called Thermostable Raman Interaction Profiling that offers a faster, label-free approach to evaluating drug candidates for diseases such as COVID-19, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
- Peter Fix (Arts and Sciences), Spectrum News 1, about preservation of the Revolutionary War gunboat Philadelphia at the Smithsonian.
- Phillip Kaufman (Agriculture and Life Sciences), ScienceNews, about how reemergence of the New World screwworm threatens livestock and the cattle industry, prompting federal agencies to expand control measures, though experts say eradication could take more than a year.
- Phillip Kaufman (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Texas Monthly, about how the current screwworm resurgence reflects the limitations of relying on a single sterile-fly production facility in Panama, and how expanded production capacity and sustained long-term investment are essential to eradicate the pest again.
- Richard Kreider (Education and Human Development), Lao Dong, about how creatine, when paired with exercise and proper nutrition, may help older women maintain muscle strength while also supporting bone health, brain function and mood as they age.
- Robert Chapkin (Agriculture and Life Sciences) and Stephen Safe (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), MSN, about how coffee consumption may have protective effects on biological aging, potentially slowing age-related decline and supporting healthier aging markers such as cellular function and longevity-related biomarkers.
- Robert Valeris-Chacin (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), PR Newswire, about findings that the Pictor PictVet® assay accurately detected immune responses to Mycoplasma bovis in cattle using non-invasive nasal swab samples, highlighting its potential for livestock health monitoring.
- Robin Page and Leann Horsley (Nursing), Community Impact, about maternal health and the nursing workforce in Brazos County.
- Samuel Cohn (Arts and Sciences), Los Angeles Times, about how the United States can remain prosperous for another 250 years by avoiding historical mistakes through maintaining an effective government, reducing inequality and investing in universities and technological innovation.
- Shannon Van Zandt (Architecture), Grist, about how the Sandy Creek, Texas, flood recovery shows how low-income residents are disproportionately harmed by disasters because they are more likely to live in flood-prone areas, and whystronger land-use regulations and greater investment in vulnerable communities are needed to reduce future risks.
- Soren Jordan (Government and Public Service), The Texas Tribune, about how Texas Republicans’ ivermectin and food labeling policies face practical and ideological barriers because regulatory uncertainty and liability concerns discourage participation and measures conflict with traditional conservative skepticism of regulation.
- Wade Ryberg (Natural Resources Institute) and Toby Hibbitts (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, about research examining how deep, sandy soils provide Houston toads with underground refuge from heat and dehydration, helping identify the habitat conditions needed to restore the vast, connected landscapes for the endangered species.
- Walter Kamphoefner (Arts and Sciences), The New York Times, about how German immigrants strongly supported the American Revolution, playing a significant role in shaping U.S. history, and how the German-language Declaration of Independence reflects the nation's longstanding commitment to linguistic and cultural diversity. (Paywall)
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