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As war waged nearby in bloody Al-Anbar province, Cody Bingham daydreamed of being out of the Iraqi desert and in a Texas A&M classroom
"When you're in-country, you have a lot of downtime to plan for the future," said Bingham, 28, who served t ...

Texas A&M team helps craft Medicaid care formula

The Department of State Health Services recently began using an assessment form created by a team of Texas A&M System researchers to better evaluate how much home care is required for children with special needs covered by Medicaid.
A team of ...

Texas A&M event to examine teaching with technology

A year away from being a septuagenarian, Texas A&M professor Dennie Smith taps his iPad to manage his Facebook and Twitter accounts.
So it was in the spirit of his embrace of technology that he used an educational grant to loan iPads to 36 st ...

Texas A&M reports record spring enrollment
Eagle Staff Report
Enrollment at Texas A&M University has hit a record high for the spring semester, with a total of 46,717 students on the roster as of the 12th day of classes.
That is an increase of 295 students from the number enrolled for t ...

Former A&M official Jay Kimbrough gets new state job

Four months after pulling out a knife while being dismissed from his position as a top A&M System administrator, Jay Kimbrough, a good friend of Gov. Rick Perry, has landed another high-level state job.
The former deputy chancellor of the 11- ...

Aggie loss tough to watch
Members of the Texas A&M basketball team react after losing 63-60 to Baylor in a close game Wednesday at Reed Arena.

Bryan-College Station battles to keep hosting 7-on-7 tournament

The Texas A&M football team hauled in another strong recruiting class Wednesday, and some say an on-campus high school football tournament helped them do it.
But an NCAA rule change will block the tournament from campus after 2012, worrying A ...

Kimbrough named to DPS assistant director position
Jay Kimbrough, a former deputy chancellor for the A&M System and a good friend of Gov. Rick Perry, has landed another state job, four months after he pulled a knife out while being dismissed from his post by a pair of lawyers.
He’ll be wo ...

Texas A&M researchers reject 'starving the beast' theory

"Starving the beast" was a notion embraced by conservatives in the 1980s: Cut taxes and a cascade of spending reductions would follow as the lifeblood -- money -- for spend-happy politicians evaporated.
But despite major tax cuts under the presi ...

Texas A&M slates tuition hearing for Feb. 15
Eagle Staff Report
A tuition hearing has been set for 3 p.m. on Feb. 15 in Room 601 of Rudder Tower. The public is invited to attend.
Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin will discuss plans for designated tuition for the 2012-13 academic year.
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Blocker building flooded on Texas A&M campus
Hundreds of students were evacuated from the Blocker Building on the Texas A&M University campus Monday morning due to flooding from a 4-inch pipe that burst on the second floor, sending water down through the walls and into the main lobby. All c ...