News-Media Coverage
- Andrew Dessler (Arts and Sciences), KERA News, about what the El Niño climate pattern is and how it affects everyday life.
- Andrew Dessler (Arts and Sciences), Reuters, about how climate change is fueling more intense wildfires in Canada.
- Benjamin Neuman (Arts and Sciences), Caló News, about how the highly contagious measles virus weakens the immune system and the importance of vaccination as U.S. health experts respond to the highest measles case count in decades.
- Andy Thomas (Arts and Sciences), Chemical and Engineering News, about the development of a highly pure lithium dendrite material that reacts 20 times faster than conventional lithium powder, offering a more efficient way to prepare organolithium reagents for chemical synthesis.
- Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford (Public Health), The Epoch Times, about the development of a mouse model showing that a common mouse virus can cause lasting Parkinson's-like brain damage and motor symptoms, offering a new tool to study how viral infections may contribute to the disease. (Romanian)
- Charles Gilliland (Texas Real Estate Research Center), The Land Report, about findings that Texas rural land prices reached a record average of $5,214 per acre in 2025, driven by strong demand — particularly for data center development — despite broader economic uncertainty.
- Daniel Hajovsky (Education and Human Development), Yahoo News, about study findings that auditory processing, vocabulary and general knowledge are the strongest predictors of reading success, highlighting the importance of identifyingand supporting the specific skills children need to become confident readers.
- Daniel Olney (Texas Real Estate Research Center), KXAN, about how Austin's renter-friendly market is the result of an apartment construction boom that outpaced demand, creating a surplus of units that has increased concessions for renters but is expected to diminish as population growth absorbs the excess supply.
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Border Report, about how the phased reopening of U.S. imports of Mexican cattle, while maintaining strict safeguards against New World screwworm, is expected to help ease historically tight cattle supplies and could modestly lower beef prices by mid-2027.
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), TheStreet, about using machine learning and statistical modeling to predict seasonal beef price trends, and the likelihood that prices will ease after the Fourth of July as production increases and consumer demand shifts.
- Dwayne Whitten, Wendy Boswell and Susan Oldroyd (Business), mt/sprout, about findings that women are far more likely than men to believe female leaders face higher standards and greater bias in the workplace, highlighting a widening perception gap about gender equality in leadership. (Dutch)
- G. Cliff Lamb and Karun Kaniyamattam (Agriculture and Life Sciences), ESRI, about the development of a commercial-scale AgriTech Innovation Hub at the McGregor Research Center that tests technologies and improves the efficiency, profitability and resilience of U.S. cattle production.
- Gabriel Eckstein (Law), Pakistan TV Experts Corner, about the ongoing dispute between Pakistan and India over the Indus Water Treaty.
- Heather Lench (Arts and Sciences), Psychology Today, about research suggesting that play is a lifelong biological drive, and adults who regularly engage in joyful, intrinsically rewarding activities can reduce stress, strengthen social connections and support their overall well-being.
- Jaime Grunlan (Engineering), PCIAW, about the development of a non-toxic, flame-retardant coating for airline cabin crew uniforms.
- Jessica Atkin (Agriculture and Life Sciences), IDR, about how researchers successfully produced chickpea seeds in lunar soil simulant for the first time by using vermicompost and beneficial fungi, advancing efforts to grow food for future Moon missions.
- Jinbo Wang (Arts and Sciences), Energies Media, about how the use of NASA's SWOT satellite revealed that previously undetectable small ocean currents are far stronger and more widespread than expected, a discovery that could improve climate and weather models while helping engineers design more resilient offshore wind farms.
- Kevin Wann (Arts and Sciences), Smithsonian Magazine, talker.news and Earth.com, about findings that people carried large-seeded avocados from South America into Central America about 5,000 years ago, revealing how ancient cultivation shaped the fruit's diversity and highlighting the importance of preserving native avocado varieties.
- Kirby Goidel (Government and Public Service), KBTX, about how public support for ending twice-yearly clock changes is strong, but regional differences and past experience make permanent daylight saving time unlikely to advance in the Senate.
- Leif Andersson (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Earth.com, about the discovery that rapid reshuffling and recombination of mutations in the MC1R gene drove the remarkable diversity of feather colors seen in domestic chickens over the past 10,000 years.
- María Antonia Izurieta Burbano De Lara (Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies), Popular Science and KBTX, about the rediscovery of smooth hammerhead sharks in the Galápagos for the first time in more than 20 years and the investigation of a potential nursery habitat to better understand the species' movements and guide conservation efforts.
- Matthew Powell-Palm (Engineering), Web Pro News and MIT Technology Review, about how researchers successfully supercooled pig kidneys to -4°C for up to 72 hours without ice damage, enabling faster recovery after transplantation than conventional ice storage and demonstrating a technique that could significantly extend organ preservation times for human transplants.
- Ning “Patricia” Ning and Jifan Li (Arts and Sciences), Scienmag, about the development of a new algorithm that enables faster, more cost-effective genomic surveillance by improving the detection and tracking of emerging viral variants across global networks in near real time.
- Phillip Kaufman (Agriculture and Life Sciences), San Antonio Express-News, about how the USDA's large-scale release of sterile screwworm flies appears to be helping contain the New World screwworm outbreak in Texas, though continued monitoring and expanded fly production remain essential. (Paywall)
- Rajan Varadarajan (Business), MarTech, about how artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how consumers and businesses make decisions, requiring marketers to rethink long-standing strategies and assumptions while adapting enduring principles to an AI-driven marketplace.
- Sam Brody (Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas), Houston Chronicle, about the development of a machine learning-based flood risk tool that reveals many more Harris County properties may face significant flood risk than current FEMA maps indicate, helping homeowners make more informed decisions. (Paywall)
- Samba Reddy (Medicine), Chron, Bioengineer.org and Military.com, about the preclinical discovery that sodium butyrate, a gut-derived molecule, reduced inflammation, protected brain cells from maladaptive circuit wiring and reduced seizures for post-traumatic epilepsy patients.
- Sarah Hamer (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Medscape, about the importance of studying COVID-19 transmission between people and animals.
- Shaunna Clark (Medicine), The Educated Patient, about findings that women taking active combined oral contraceptive pills reported higher levels of emotional eating than during inactive pill days, suggesting the hormones in birth control pills may independently influence eating behavior.
- Shiren Wang and Jingjing “Jenny” Qiu (Engineering), Interesting Engineering, about the use of autonomous micro- and nanobots to make the recovery of lithium from seawater more efficient.
- Stephen Safe (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Medical Daily and Medical News Today, about the identification of a cellular receptor activated by coffee compounds other than caffeine that may help explain coffee's long-observed associations with healthy aging and reduced disease risk.
- Steve Putna (Semiconductor Institute), The Texas Tribune, about Texas A&M's Semiconductor Institute, which is helping drive Texas' expanding semiconductor industry through a new state-funded research and workforce development center that will train future engineers and support innovation in chip manufacturing.
- Sujata Balasubramanian and Sarah Hamer (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Travelers Today, about the uptick in flea-borne typhus cases in Texas and warnings that the disease, which is often mistaken for the flu, can become life-threatening if not treated promptly.
- Valerie Hudson (Government and Public Service), Deseret News, about how a recent proposal to allow organ donation to directly cause death in some Canadian medically assisted dying cases raises serious ethical concerns about expanding the country's euthanasia laws.
- Yanling Mayer (Texas Real Estate Research Center), KBTX, about changes in the Bryan-College Station housing market, including more homes for sale and fewer houses selling quickly.
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