In The News
Stay up-to-date with the latest news and media coverage related to the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. This page features a curated list of articles, interviews, broadcasts, and press mentions from top national and regional media outlets, highlighting research breakthroughs, faculty achievements, student success stories, and impactful innovations from throughout the College of Engineering.
Neil Armstrong, Ohio teachers inspired astronaut Nancy Currie-Gregg
The Columbus Dispatch • Apr 12, 2026The pivotal explosion that made the nation pause in horror and forced NASA to overhaul its safety procedures failed to discourage Nancy Currie-Gregg from wanting to explore the atmosphere herself.
KBTXWATCH: A team of Texas A&M University students is preparing to launch a student-built satellite—a milestone a decade in the making.
FOX WeatherWATCH: Dr. Elaine Oran, a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University, joined FOX Weather to discuss a groundbreaking approach researchers are developing to combat fires. Known as “fire whirls,” this innovative method offers a cleaner, safer way to burn off oil, presenting a promising solution for more efficient and environmentally responsible oil spill cleanup.
Texas A&M Team Uses Drones to Map Ocean Currents
Dronelife • Mar 23, 2026"One of the unique features of Texas bays is that they’re very relatively large in surface area, 20 to 40 miles across and about three meters deep on average, but then they’re cut by these shipping channels that are 16-and-a-half meters deep,” said Scott Socolofsky, professor of civil and environmental engineering. “And those shipping channels obviously are important for shipping, but they pose a lot of challenges to numerical models that we would use to predict the currents in the bay.”
“To the best of our knowledge, this device is the first fully integrated, on-body, automated bacterial growth-monitoring platform for point-of-care UTI diagnostics,” explains Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, assistant professor and lead author of this research at Texas A&M University.
Nanoplastics Are Helping Toxic Metals Move Into the Lettuce We Eat, Study Finds
Food & Wine • Mar 11, 2026Researchers at Texas A&M found that nanoplastics triggered a stress response inside the plants — potentially affecting what makes its way into our salads.
Researchers Create ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ to Test the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
The Debrief • Mar 7, 2026“When AI systems start performing extremely well on human benchmarks, it’s tempting to think they’re approaching human-level understanding,” said Dr. Tung Nguyen, an instructional associate professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University and a contributor to the new benchmark. “But HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) reminds us that intelligence isn’t just about pattern recognition — it’s about depth, context and specialized expertise.”
"It's basically setting up Texas to be the center of two generations of future exploration," said Dr. Robert Ambrose, associate director of the Texas A&M Space Institute. "Not just…this next chapter for the moon, but Texas will be the center of the next chapter after that for Mars."
Texas A&M partners with start-up for potential HTGR research reactor
American Nuclear Society Nuclear Newswire • Mar 3, 2026Texas A&M University’s Engineering Experimental Station (TEES) is collaborating with Houston-based start-up ZettaJoule to explore the potential construction of a nonpower research reactor at the university’s College Station campus.
FuturityTexas A&M researchers are developing emergency injectable bandages that could decrease bleeding time by as much as 70% and revolutionize the future of trauma care.