engineering and technology

Patrick Brand ’81 sent an Aggie Ring into space with his father, Vance D. Brand, commander of Space Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-5 in November 1982.

John E. Bethancourt, a 1974 petroleum engineering graduate of Texas A&M University and executive vice president for Chevron Corporation, has been appointed to the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees.

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents established the new Texas Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS) on the campus of Texas A&M.

Recipients of the Linda and Ralph Schmidt ’68 Scholarship, to be awarded for the first time in fall 2007.

Houston, you have a problem: lots of lightning.