
ancient to modern history
Bush School To Host Symposium On Gulf War And Liberation Of Kuwait
Feb. 3, 2016 • 3 min. readThe Bush School will host the “Symposium on the Gulf War and the Liberation of Kuwait: Reflections after a Quarter Century” on Feb. 18.
Zachary Lawrence was selected for the prestigious position after he won in the senior yell leader election by the university’s 60,000-plus student body. However, his more lasting current claim to fame is that he is the great-great grandson of the man believed to be the very first Aggie.
MSC OPAS will present Grady Gaines & The Texas Upsetters in concert on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre.
A discovery of several ancient skeletons in a South African cave is being hailed as a new species of human relative.
Some Pacific Ocean Trenches Are Younger Than Believed
Aug. 26, 2015 • 3 min. readA Texas A&M University researcher has found that parts of the deep trenches in the Pacific Ocean are much “younger” than previously believed.
The Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University received four cannons from the wreckage of the Civil War vessel CSS Georgia.
A team of international researchers has found that modern-day humans entered North America as part of a single migration wave no earlier than 23,000 years ago.
The memorial in the Philippines will also recognize hundreds of Aggies who fought there.
Ice-Age Hunters Were In North America Earlier Than Believed
March 23, 2015 • 2 min. readNew research shows that prehistoric Ice-Age people hunted horse and camel 13,300 years ago in North America, much earlier than previously believed.
Texas A&M Professor Reveals Evolution Of Darwin’s Finches Through Genome Sequencing
Feb. 11, 2015 • 5 min. readDarwin’s finches, inhabiting the Galápagos archipelago and Cocos Island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution.