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Bryan Davis and Chinemelu Elonu led all five starters in double figures Wednesday, carrying Texas A&M to an 84-73 win over No. 21 Baylor. The Aggies took an 11-point halftime lead and held off a late run by the Bears to win for the 11th time in 12 games. Texas A&M improved to 15-2 for the season and to 1-1 in Big 12 action. Davis and Elonu both had 17 points, Josh Carter and Donald Sloan had 15 each, and Derrick Roland had 10. The Aggies made six of their nine three-point attempts....

Priceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A&M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated space. Although it's not gold bullion or precious gems, this treasure dazzles oceanographers, geologists, geophysicists and other geoscientists who come from around the world to College Station to sample it. One piece is even on permanent display at the Smithsonian.The treasure is a library of more than 106 kilometers...

Colt McCoy passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more Thursday, powering fourth-ranked Texas to an easy 49-9 pasting of archrival Texas A&M. By accounting for four scores, McCoy bolstered his Heisman Trophy chances. In all, he completed 23-of-28 passes for 311 yards and added 49 yards on 11 rushes. Wide receivers Brandon Collins and Quan Cosby caught touchdown passes, with Collins making six catches for 103 yards and Cosby making six for 80 yards. Jordan Shipley caught four passes...

By Holly Huffman, The Eagle, Bryan, Texas Aug. 2--The Texas A&M System Board of Regents on Friday confirmed the dismissal of the School of Rural Public Health's founding dean, despite a plea from alumni who questioned the decision. Three members of the Texas A&M Hispanic Network alumni organization attended the meeting Friday to show support for Dr. Ciro Sumaya, who was told two months ago that he was being removed from his post. As founding dean, Sumaya had been at the Texas A&M Health...

By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle Jul. 26--AUSTIN -- The University of Texas System is looking to trade on high oil prices -- and potentially raise up to $1 billion for its endowment -- by selling future production from land it manages in West Texas. The regents this week authorized UT officials to negotiate with one or more parties to sell a portion of its oil and gas production at a fixed price over a set time period. The buyer would pay up front for the oil and gas produced in...

CULVER CITY, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Imageworks president Tim Sarnoff is proud to announce its second annual scholarship winners, presented this year to four students currently enrolled at academic institutions affiliated with IPAX, Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation's Professional Academic Excellence program. The IPAX scholarship top prize winner is Luis Rodrigo Huerta of Texas A&M. Through the IPAX scholarship fund, Luis will receive tuition money towards his...

By Holly Huffman, The Eagle, Bryan, Texas Jun. 18--Texas A&M University President Elsa Murano has tapped two deans from opposite fields and different regions of the country as the finalists for a top spot on her executive team. Jeffrey Vitter, the Frederick L. Hovde dean of the College of Science at Purdue, and Robert Newman, dean of humanities and associate vice president for interdisciplinary studies at the University of Utah, are vying to become Texas A&M's next executive vice...

At an event in New York City today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that it has surpassed 400 colleges and universities globally that are now actively teaching and developing mainframe courses and accredited certificates through its global Academic Initiative for System z program. This has jumped from just 24 colleges and universities in 2004 with now nearly 50,000 students completing mainframe training. The news comes as IBM today announced the world's most powerful computer, the IBM System z10...

In October 2008, the U.S. plans to stop production of its only coral snake antivenin. But Texas A&M University-Kingsville's Natural Toxins Research Center might have found a replacement, according to a news release from the center. The potential replacement is a Mexican-based product called Coralmyn, which, according to the news release, is even better than the existing product. Coralmyn is effective at neutralizing the effects of both the Eastern coral snake and the Texas coral snake,...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Eighty-six Squared has never been in a hurry. The Black Angus bull was born 15 years after cells from his genetic donor, Bull 86, were frozen as part of a study on natural disease resistance. When Bull 86 died in 1997, scientists thought his unique genetic makeup was lost. But researchers at Texas A&M University were able to clone him from the frozen cells in 2000. Now 5 years old, 86 Squared spends his days grazing on a rural area of the A&M campus. He...