A team of five graduate students from the Department of Geology & Geophysics placed fourth in the International Imperial Barrel Award competition.

Bradford Mark Clement has been appointed director of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University.

Col. James T. Matlock III was recently honored with the United States Air Force Legion of Merit Award.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Robert Reid of the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University died Friday, January 23.

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“Aggie 100” List

Oct. 31, 2008 • 7 min. read

The 2008 Aggie 100 List.

On Sept. 10, a switch will be flipped inside a huge underground laboratory in Switzerland that could answer some of science’s deepest mysteries.

Srikanth Sastry of India, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, was presented Texas A&M University‘s Eppright Outstanding International Student Award.

Thomas W. Powell has established $1 million endowed chairs in mathematics and marine engineering technology at Texas A&M.

A $100,000 gift from James and Rebecca Wilkes of Fort Worth has endowed a petroleum engineering scholarship.

Gregory A. Bird has endowed a $60,000 scholarship for petroleum engineering students at Texas A&M.