5 Things You Need To Know — Week Of Jan. 16

10th Annual MLK Breakfast To Feature Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to integrate into an all-white public school in the American South in 1960, will be the featured speaker at the 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center Bethancourt Ballroom Thursday (Jan. 19) at 9:30 a.m.

President Obama Appoints Texas A&M Librarian To Key National Commission

President Barack Obama has appointed Rebecca Hankins of Texas A&M University to serve as a member of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Hillel At Texas A&M Hosts Holocaust Survivor And Former Student Jan. 25

Holocaust survivor and Texas A&M former Student Thomas Gabor ’61 will speak at Rudder Theater Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.

Texas A&M Study Abroad Mini Fair Jan. 25

The Texas A&M Study Abroad Programs Office is hosting a Study Abroad Mini Fair on Wednesday, January 25th in the MSC 12th Man hallway.  Students are encouraged to stop by between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Texas A&M Galveston, France Collaborate On Remote Seaweed Monitoring Study

Dr. Alain Mermet, the scientific attaché at the General Consulate of France in Houston, visited Texas A&M University at Galveston to plan a research program that will improve the ability to predict the movement and severity of seaweed landings on beaches from the Caribbean islands to the Gulf Coast.