
Campus Community
News and updates in the Campus Community category.
Texas A&M’s Akshaj Kumar and Valerie McNeill leveraged their college experiences and entrepreneurship skills to pitch their startup to investors at the Austin-based conference on March 13-14.
Aggies and Longhorns align for petroleum engineering excellence
March 24, 2026 • 3 min. readTexas A&M and University of Texas at Austin petroleum engineering students teamed up for the Aggie-Longhorn Leading Innovation in Energy Symposium (ALLIES) to bridge the gap between academia and industry.
Aerospace engineering team designs lifesaving aircraft
March 23, 2026 • 4 min. readTeam Harmony was one of three out of 200 global teams to receive both the Stage 1 and Stage 2 prize — along with NASA’s University Innovation Award — for their quadrotor biplane design, moving closer to full-scale production.
Engineering faculty named University Distinguished Professors
March 20, 2026 • 5 min. readDrs. Vanderlei Bagnato, Enrique Lavernia and Julie Schoenung in the College of Engineering were among eight faculty recognized for their contributions to cutting-edge fields.
The Segers circuit: An Aggie scaling modern tech and its leaders
March 19, 2026 • 6 min. readTech trailblazer and Texas A&M alumnus Dennis Segers has transformed computing technology and brought breakthrough innovations to market, but his proudest achievement is guiding others to success.
Texas A&M students put industrial engineering principles into practice by bringing together chapters from across the region for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) South-Central Regional Conference in February.
Hueste now leading civil and environmental engineering department
March 10, 2026 • 3 min. readTexas A&M University staple and dynamic leader Dr. Mary Beth Hueste has brought her plethora of skills to the department helm since assuming the role in January.
Texas A&M University students addressed hunger and sustainability issues with creative and actionable methods at Invent for the Planet 2026.
Using the Rapid Prototyping Studio, the Texas A&M University Robotics Teams and Leadership Experience (TURTLE) Lab designed and built an electromechanical project that uses mechanical design in linkages to mimic biological locomotion.
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, ZettaJoule sign agreement to explore building transformative gas research reactor
Feb. 26, 2026 • 4 min. readThe very-high temperature modular reactor could attract $1B in research funding for Texas A&M Engineering.









