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But by failing to respond to larger criticisms, universities and colleges have become an easy target for critics of such things as their purported ideological leanings, said R. Ethan Braden, vice president and chief marketing and communications officer at Texas A&M University. “If you have a void in how you’re being understood, you have a choice,” said Braden: “You can either fill that void or someone else will fill it for you.”

Since 30-year mortgage rates and other key interest rates track the yield on 10-year treasury bonds, a selloff of treasuries could bring about higher monthly payments for home loans, Raymond Robertson, a professor of trade, economics and public policy at Texas A&M University, told ABC News. "It's a pretty big concern," Robertson said.

The study, led by researchers at Texas A&M University and published in Nature, could explain why many mental health conditions occur together, according to a press release.

Since July, the museum has had the Philadelphia partially cordoned off in a special conservation lab on the third floor of the East Wing. There, experts from the Smithsonian and Texas A&M are working with vacuums, brushes and dental tools to give it a state-of-the art cleaning and look for lost artifacts in areas they said have never been probed before. Visitors can watch the work through a large viewing window.

"Once we get more than about a quarter inch of ice on those lines, the lines either start sagging and failing, or more likely, you actually get the vegetation above it, the trees, to fall on the lines, and that causes potentially a larger number of outages," said Thomas Overbye, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University.

Texas leads the nation in supplying new residents to other states

The Associated Press • Jan 22, 2026

“The obvious and primary answer is size,” said Dudley Poston, professor emeritus of sociology at Texas A&M University. “There’s got to be more people leaving Texas than leaving other states because of the population size of Texas.”

Professor Audra Jones of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences says that recognizing stress early and responding appropriately is essential to keep your pet healthy and happy.

China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate

The Conversation • Jan 15, 2026

I have studied China’s demography for almost 40 years and know that past attempts by the country’s communist government to reverse slumping fertility rates through policies encouraging couples to have more children have not worked. I do not expect these new moves to have much, if any, effect on reversing the fertility rate decline to one of the world’s lowest and far below the 2.1 “replacement rate” needed to maintain a stable population.

Texas A&M has big plans for building small nuclear reactors for its program in College Station

Houston Chronicle • Jan 15, 2026

Texas A&M has big plans for small reactors as it expands the nation’s largest nuclear engineering program and partners with six startups to develop new power plant technologies.

Dr. Karl Kaiser, professor of marine and coastal environmental science in the College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies at Texas A&M University at Galveston is turning satellite-based remote sensing — technology typically focused on stars and planets — toward spotting microplastic pollution in the Gulf.