Bryan Bracewell, owner of the Southside Market barbecue joints, returns to Texas A&M every year to help his old professors and help people learn the trade at Barbecue Summer Camp and Camp Brisket.
The “Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach” program, or VERO, is a partnership between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and West Texas A&M University. Set in the Texas Panhandle, VERO’s 2+2 program involves two years of study at West Texas A&M and two years in College Station. It also will provide veterinarians to fill spots the nation’s most productive animal agricultural region.
Texas A&M is rolling out the newest autonomous vehicle technology to bring health care to rural Texans, said Dr. Wei Li, Ph.D., professor of urban planning at Texas A&M.
The van will take you to the doctor or bring a doctor to you by way of a telehealth video conference. They are starting with Nolanville, Texas, but more communities could be added soon.
“It is basically a doctor’s office on wheels,” said Texas A&M student Will Bennett.
Texas A&M is creating a new kind of physician: one with an engineering mindset to quickly find solutions to today’s most pressing medical problems. Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D. & M.D. and head of Engineering Health, calls them “physicianeers” who are going to change the future of medical education.
In four years, graduates of this new and unique program will earn M.D.s and master’s degrees in Engineering from Texas A&M.
Alex Richter, a mechanical engineering student at Texas A&M University, designed and fabricated acrylic barriers to help protect students and staff at a local grade school from COVID-19 infection. He made the barriers at the Automated Fabrication & Design Laboratory at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas.
“The threat of not having a Corps of Cadets is something that everyone was worried about,” says Genesis Hatten, member of the Corps.
Hatten and other students worked closely in 2020 and 2021 with Commandant Joe Ramirez and Texas A&M University officials to ensure that COVID-19 would not derail Corp activities as the coronavirus threatened the country.
Before Dr. Kathy Banks began her tenure as the 26th President of Texas A&M University, she spent time with Chancellor John Sharp to talk about the RELLIS Campus, national security and other innovative technologies.
The ‘Around Texas’ season finale also featured Col. Ross Guieb, executive director of the Bush Combat Development Complex, who discussed the challenges of military modernization and how the Army will get prepared for the future.
The VOOM Foundation is made up of volunteers including doctors, nurses, health workers and Texas A&M University college students who share a desire to make life better for people in far-away Nigeria.
In this episode of ‘Around Texas with Chancellor John Sharp,’ we meet a few of the student VOOM Ambassadors and hear from VOOM’s founder, Dr. Vincent Ohaju, a native of Nigeria and a trauma surgeon in Texas.
In this episode, you will learn about a new program for veterinary students, called VERO. It stands for “Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach.”
VERO is a partnership between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and West Texas A&M University. The partnership our veterinary students to work closely with cattle producers in the Texas Panhandle.
Also on the show, you will visit Southside Market and Barbeque in Elgin. You will meet owner Bryan Bracewell and hear about how Texas A&M has helped his business and others like it.
Also, Dr. Jeff Savell, a Distinguished Professor in Meat Science at Texas A&M, will talk with Chancellor Sharp about “Camp Brisket” and “Barbecue Summer Camp” – two popular programs that he puts on, here at Texas A&M.