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Kellie Casavale, director of the Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, spoke to Texas Standard about how these guidelines are written, and how they’re applied. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
Thousands trample on Zilker Park’s grass during ACL. Here’s how the city brings it back to life.
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Oct 14, 2025Pablo Agustin Boeri, a turfgrass extension specialist with Texas A&M University, said the people, vehicles and stage equipment that go into building the music festival can alter the lawn and underlying soil, often resulting in long-term effects, like limited growth potential and soil erosion, that extend well beyond the duration of the event.
Around 9 million people lose Medicaid each year because of paperwork mistakes. Is that preventable?
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Sep 10, 2025How to address this issue of bureaucracy and red tape is a question that researchers like Laura Dague have been wrestling with. She’s a professor of health policy at the Bush School at Texas A&M University and coauthor of a new working paper on this subject. She joined the Standard to discuss their findings.
Texas A&M researcher helps feed the hungry with edible cotton seeds
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Aug 29, 2025Keerti Rathore, a research plant biotechnologist at the Texas A&M University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, has worked for more than 30 years to develop an edible cotton seed. Now he’s on the cusp of seeing his work help feed people on the other side of the world.
Bugs are known to get snug in a rug. But do they actually sleep?
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Aug 20, 2025Wizzie Brown, a program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and our go-to insect expert, is helping answer questions from kids about bugs.
Researchers identify ‘shocking’ number of power outage hot spots
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Aug 18, 2025Power outage hot spots are more severe than previously known, according to researchers at Texas A&M who used AI to build a map of at-risk areas around the U.S.
These are the types of careers that pay better than average and as Daniel Oney would tell you, the Lone Star State is a pretty good place to find these types of jobs. Oney is research director with the Texas A&M Real Estate Center and he has a new story breaking down the trends. He joined the Texas Standard to discuss.
What will be one of the world’s most powerful telescopes enters final design phase
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • Jun 30, 2025The Giant Magellan Telescope is currently under construction at a new observatory in Chile. Fifteen institutions are working to realize its construction, including Texas A&M.
Researchers work to make it easier to extract rare earth elements from old devices
Texas Standard - KUT-FM • May 30, 2025Texas A&M engineers have won a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to perfect a method of extraction that could save time and money.
The Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University says that “conditions have shifted in favor of homebuyers” as what has historically been a spring home buying season gets underway.