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Daniel Hellfeld, Jonathan Scherr and Matthew Garza, students from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, traveled to Tokyo for the 4th International Symposium and Seminar on Global Nuclear Human Resource Development for Safety, Security, and Safeguards titled “Nuclear Safety in the Post-Fukushima Era” from Feb. 17-26.

The 2015 Richard Tapia Conference, “Diversity at Scale”, was held Feb. 18-21 in Boston. About 800 people participated in the 2015 Celebration of Diversity.

Zachry Group, headquartered in San Antonio, has given a lead gift of $25 million to the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Reverse engineering is at the heart of numerous applications, such as vulnerability exploit, malware analysis, compatible product development, low level system design and debugging, and legacy software maintenance.

Monty Mueller was a highly successful management consultant and partner with Accenture from 1984 to 2003.

Dr. Dylan Shell, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Texas A&M University, received a CAREER grant from the NSF Information & Intelligent Systems' Robust Intelligence Program to investigate the limitations of traditional ways of programming groups of robots to cooperate in order to solve problems together.

Dr. Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's (TEES) Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) and the Center for Emergency Informatics, was named one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for 2015 in the April issue of Government Technology*, an online publication and division of e.Republic, Inc.

Dr. Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, gave an invited talk to the Public Forum of the United Nations World Disaster Risk Reduction Conference in Sendai, Japan.

Daniel Navid Mohsenizadeh, a post doctoral student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the First Place Post-Doctoral Award at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society.

Christopher Bertagne, a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, working under the advise of Dr. Darren Hartl with co-chair Dr. John Whitcomb, was awarded second place in the SPIE/ASME 2015 Student Paper Competition.

Shawna Fletcher was recently hired as the director for Women in Engineering for the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was recently visited by Aarti Shahani, a reporter from NPR’s All Tech Considered program, who interviewed Dr. Hong Liang to discover more about her robotic research involving cockroaches.

A new material that triggers cells to begin forming bone could enable a more effective treatment for hard-to-heal bone breaks and defects, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who is part of the team developing the biomaterial.

Dr. César Malavé, holder of the Sugar and Mike Barnes Department Head Chair in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, was the speaker for the first session of the 2015 Climate Matters Conference held at Texas A&M.

Three graduate students from the Dwight look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University received the STLE-Houston Session Scholarship.

Dr. P.K. Imbrie and Dr. Teri Reed, along with their co-authors, have been selected to receive the William Elgin Wickenden Award of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Dr. Nick Duffield, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was chosen by the Google Faculty Research Awards Program as a recipient of financial support for his proposal, "Traffic Measurement from High-level Names in Software Defined Networking."

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Duane McVay holder of the Albert B. Stevens Chair in Petroleum Engineering.

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Jenn-Tai Liang holder of the John E. & Deborah F. Bethancourt Professorship in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.

Texas A&M Engineering’s graduate program ranked 12th overall and seventh among public institutions in the latest U.S. News & World Report survey, “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2016.”

The new website for the Texas A&M Energy Institute is live at energy.tamu.edu. The Energy Institute is led by Dr. Christodoulos Floudas, the Erle Nye '59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence.

Five graduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University attended the 37th Annual Conference on Guidance and Control in Breckenridge, Colorado in February.

Dr. John Junkins, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, delivered the plenary lecture at the 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, on Feb. 25, 2015.

Dr. Arul Jayaraman, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Ray Nesbit Professorship, is the principal investigator for a $2 million research grant funded by the National Institutes of Health to study “Modeling and Analysis of the Role of Microbiota Metabolites in T-Cell Differentiation."

Aashwin Mishra, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded second place in the annual poster competition at the 67th Meeting of the American Physical Society DFD held recently in San Francisco.

Dr. Hong Liang, professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is garnering international media attention for her research involving robotic cockroaches.

Dr. Ravi Iyer is the senior principal engineer, CTO, and director in New Business Initiatives (NBI) at Intel Corporation.

Dr. Robin Autenrieth, department head and A.P. and Florence Wiley Professor III, is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members, Dr. Xingmao “Samuel” Ma, Dr. Arash Noshadravan, and Les Pittman to the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering.

A workshop on big data was recently organized at Texas A&M University to foster connections across disciplines that intersect this area and help people to identify opportunities for collaboration.

Dr. Nick Duffield, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was announced as specialty chief editor of the newly created journal Frontiers in ICT.

The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University held its annual Professional Day recently.

Alexandra Wisniewski ’10 and Michael Nance ’08 of Houston, Texas, have joined together to create the Alex Wisniewski ’10 and Michael Nance ’08 Endowed Scholarship.

Dr. M.M. Faruque Hasan, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, wants to capture the invisible.

The Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGSA) presented the 2015 Texas A&M University Chemical Engineering Research Symposium March 13 at the campus’ Memorial Student Center in College Station, Texas.