Tagged: Texas A&M

Texas Universities
12:15 pm
Thu May 2, 2013

A&M OKs $450M Remodel Of Kyle Field Into Texas' Biggest Stadium

Credit kylefield.com

Originally published on Thu May 2, 2013 9:06 am

Update: The Texas A&M Board of Regents approved the university’s $450 million plan to redevelop Kyle Field into the biggest stadium in Texas (by seating capacity). Demolition work on the existing stadium is slated to begin in November this year, with plans for a grand opening in time for the 2015 football season.

You can read a press release, and view a photo gallery here.

Original post (May 1): Football is big at Texas A&M and it could be getting bigger – even bigger than it is at UT Austin.

Read more
Texas A&M
4:45 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

$91 Million Vaccine Manufacturing Facility Coming To Texas A&M

Credit rickperry.org
Gov. Perry hosted the announcement at Texas A&M, his alma mater

Texas is the next expansion state for the development of flu vaccines, thanks to a $91 million federally-funded program.

GlaxoSmithKline will use the facility at Texas A&M to work on the next generation of flu vaccines, based on a trademarked proprietary cell-culture line instead of using fertilized chicken eggs.

Read more
Community Safety
1:47 pm
Mon February 4, 2013

Why Do People Drive Distracted When They Know It's Dangerous?

Credit Texas A&M Transportation Institute
TTI is responsible for one of the nation’s most extensive texting-while-driving studies – one that demonstrated how texting behind the wheel doubles a driver’s reaction time.

USAA has teamed up with Texas A&M to find out why people take their eyes off the road when they don’t have to.

The cooperative survey is an attitudinal study designed to learn what behaviors distract drivers, and why they continue to engage in distracted driving even when they know it’s dangerous.

Read more