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choices can change the course of history what if george washington had decided to be president for life smaller choices can upend our daily lives as well for example what if raymond mitchell 24 of katy texas hadnt decided to end a successful career as an oil and gas attorney to pursue his dream of studying history at texas a&m university well never know my passion for history began as a child somewhere around aged eight or nine mitchell said ive joked over the years that i had three true loves as a kid: baseball history and star wars and not necessarily in that order it was always my favorite subject in school and has remained a passion of mine all of my life mitchells passion for history led him to minor in it at the university of missouri (1992); however it wasnt until 2020 that he earned his masters degree in history from sam houston state university the years in between saw him occupied in the field of law i had wanted to be a lawyer for most of my young life so i never really questioned the decision to go to law school after undergraduate he said after 20-plus years however i was becoming very jaded with the profession and the oil and gas industry and knew i needed to get back to something that i would truly enjoy hence my return to history and academia a bonus of mitchell returning to campus attending texas a&m at the same time as his daughter hannah an environmental studies major who graduates in 2023 its definitely been a unique experience he said its allowed us to have a lot of one-on-one time together to talk about school life etc while pursuing his graduate degree mitchell is working as a graduate teaching assistant which he also loves my favorite part of teaching is sharing my knowledge and love of history with others he said history is the story of us and can be made relatable approachable and usable to everyone you just have to find a way to reach your audience its safe to say that for mitchell history was the best choice for his future i stress to my students that nothing in history happens in a bubble; everything that happens has been affected by what occurred before it and will affect everything that happens after it he said
we all have a story our lifes seconds add up to more than minutes on a clock or hours in a day they add up to the tale of who we are what we do and the legacy we leave behind charean williams86 tackles the unique challenge of telling nfl players stories her professional rolodex includes hall-of-famers like john lynch warren sapp larry allen jerry jones and many more football legends if williams haul of awards including the 2018 bill nunn memorial award for long and distinguished reporting in the field of pro football is any indication she tells these stories quite well while also writing the playbook for women in nfl coverage like the game she loves williams career can be analyzed in four quarters a play-by-play review of her professional journey so far reveals a glimpse into the legacy williams will one day leave behind in the college of liberal arts at texas a&m university for now though you can catch her setting the bar for sports journalists eager to follow in her footsteps on nbc sports
early in the morning on april 29 2020 a massive lightning strike flashed across the sky south of college station and a casual observer would have had no idea that it stretched more than 400 miles across multiple states dr timothy logan assistant professor in the department of atmospheric sciences at texas a&m university observed the origins of the megaflash and recalls that stormy night as a busy evening for meteorologists and weather enthusiasts logan operates the houston lightning mapping array network (hlma) this month the world meteorological organization (wmo) announced the megaflash was officially certified as the world record for the longest reported distance for a single lightning flash: a horizontal distance of about 768 kilometers or 477 miles according to lightning scientists megaflashes are those flashes that are at least 100 kilometers in distance and do not occur in ordinary thunderstorms they need large electrified clouds that discharge at low enough rates to allow for single horizontal flashes spanning great distances these conditions are created by mesoscale convective systems (mcss) which have overhanging anvils and rainy stratiform zones however few mcss produce lightning at extreme levels and such rare storms have been detected at only a few sites in the past in recent years the improved availability of space-based observations has enabled scientists to observe extreme lightning in more regions across the globe in this case a combination of ground-based and space-based platforms was utilized to help confirm the observation of the megaflash randall cerveny michael peterson and timothy lang who analyzed the geostationary lightning mapper (glm) data from the goes-16 satellite reached out to me and asked me to help confirm the megaflash with the hlma logan said the hlma helped determine the origin of the megaflash and the goes-16 satellite helped monitor the whole distance of it after the observation of the megaflash logan is now conducting an unprecedented analysis to investigate the positive and the negative charge layers within a storm which he believes will help researchers forecast storms during the tracking aerosol convection interactions experiment (tracer) campaign knowing the distribution of electric charges of a specific layer within a storm will provide a lot of details on the cloud microphysics which will help to better predict the storm behavior observational data produced by hlma could help scientists gain better insights on how and why a megaflash happens all data is accessible for free on the hlma site for other researchers to use logan said and the public could also gain helpful information for avoiding lightning areas by looking at the real-time data provided by the page
sediment cores taken from the southern ocean dating back 23 million years are providing insight into how ancient methane escaping from the seafloor could have led to regional or global climate and environmental changes according to a study from two texas a&m university researchers dr yige zhang assistant professor in the department of oceanography at texas a&m and doctoral student bumsoo kim have had their work published in the current issue of nature geoscience the oceanographers examined cores sediment samples from deep parts of the ocean floor from the oligocene-miocene era roughly 23 million years ago from areas near tasmania and antarctica in the pacific sector of the southern ocean there are billions of tons of carbon stored beneath the ocean floor as gas hydrates ice-like crystals composed of water and natural gas past releases of methane are believed to be related to huge earth events such as global warming and subsequent climate shifts for a long time people thought that methane released from the ocean floor could go into the atmosphere and directly contribute to the greenhouse effect leading to rapid warming and even mass extinctions zhang said but this idea is no longer popular in the last decade or so because we lack direct evidence of methane release in earths history also modern observations show that even when methane gases are released they rarely make it to the atmosphere however kim and zhang are now able to document past methane release by using markers that consume methane these methane-eating substances are preserved in sediments for tens of millions of years the researchers said they could provide direct evidence of methane release from different places in the southern ocean we saw that a methane release occurred during a peak glaciation about 23 million years ago zhang said glaciation is the formation movement and recession of glaciers and the process mostly commonly occurs in antarctica and greenland when large ice sheets form they draw in a tremendous amount of water that could lower the sea-level by tens to hundreds of feet zhang added that the methane gas release and its after-effects led to ocean acidification and hypoxia (a lack of oxygen in the water) something that has been observed after the deepwater horizon incident in 2010 when large amounts of methane were released in the gulf of mexico one implication of our study is that if gas hydrates start to decompose in the future due to ocean warming places like the gulf of mexico could suffer severely from ocean acidification and expansion of the low oxygendead zones kim said the project was funded by texas a&ms t3 grants and texas sea grant
two graduate programs in the texas a&m university college of science are among the top 10 for public institutions across the country according to us news & world reports most recent national survey of graduate programs in the sciences since 2019 statistics led the way at no 6 among public institutions and no 13 overall in the report 2023 best graduate schools released tuesday (march 29) a seven-spot jump in the latter category from the previous survey released in march 2018 in addition chemistry is ranked no 9 among public institutions and no 21 overall buoyed by its traditional strength in inorganic chemistry which continues to rank no 2 among publics and no 5 overall within the disciplines specialty programs meanwhile mathematics is no 15 among all us public programs and no 32 overall while physics and astronomy is no 23 publicly and no 41 overall biology rounded out the survey at no 34 among publics and no 68 overall three additional texas a&m science specialty programs rank among the public top 10: applied mathematics (no 6 public no 14 overall) nuclear science (no 7 public no 9 overall) and topology (no 9 public no 20 overall) another is listed among the top 20: analytical chemistry (no 16 public no 17 overall) us news professional school rankings the result of individual surveys of thousands of academics and professionals nationwide are based on both program quality as viewed by experts and the actual quality of a programs students faculty and research because each graduate program is different the rankings methodology varies across disciplines learn more about the criteria for science or find further general information via the us news website see us news complete rankings for science and a related texas a&m today feature for rankings of additional texas a&m graduate programs and specialty areas learn more about how texas a&m fares in similar surveys and publications # # # # # # # # # # about research at texas a&m university: as one of the worlds leading research institutions texas a&m is at the forefront in making significant contributions to scholarship and discovery including in science and technology research conducted at texas a&m generated annual expenditures of more than $113 billion in fiscal year 2020 and ranked 14th in the national science foundations higher education research and development survey texas a&ms research creates new knowledge that provides basic fundamental and applied contributions resulting in many cases in economic benefits to the state nation and world to learn more visit research@texas a&m
on tuesday april 5 the brazos valley community can learn about aggielands historic german roots from a top scholar of the german belt of texas at an event on the texas a&m university campus the department of international studies is sponsoring the event titled all güt things: on the history of texas german and german texans event festivities include a screening of the 35 minute documentary all güt things: the texas german story followed by a discussion led by hans boas a leading expert on those who speak texasdeutsch a dialect of german spoken by a few thousand texans all güt things: on the history of texas german and german texans will be held in harrington education center room 105 at 6pm on april 5 event organizer and international studies lecturer david brenner said the community should attend to learn about the real history of german language and culture in texas ten percent of the population in the state or 3 million people regard themselves as being of german descent brenner shared people should attend not only to learn the truth but to meet the actual researchers carrying out the research on this significant segment of residents in texas texas a&m is located just north of the historic german belt of texas where thousands of german immigrants first settled between the late 1830s and the late 1890s evidence of this large migration is found in the names of families towns and businesses throughout the lone star state all güt things: on the history of texas german and german texans is an opportunity to learn more about this unique history and its continued significance the event provides more of a basis for understanding the rich multicultural backgrounds of texas residents brenner said the early waves of german immigrants to texas between the 1830s and 1890s came to texas seeking economic opportunity adventure and (in a few cases) political asylum they experienced great hardship when arriving here only to establish themselves and prosper within a couple of generations in short they exemplify the great american immigration narrative
icons of civil rights activism came together at texas a&m universitys annenberg presidential conference center last week to discuss their struggles for justice at the intersection of race class and gender hosted by the college of liberal arts the march 24 pioneering women of color panel featured in-person appearances by martha cotera and yvonne swan as well as written comments from frances beal all three women played prominent roles in the second wave of american feminism and other social justice movements of the 60s 70s and beyond the program moderated by texas a&m professor and melbern g glasscock chair in american history elizabeth cobbs kicked off a conference entitled the second wave: revolutionary women of color which featured additional panel discussions on friday highlighting the lasting impact of the work done by these women and many others
people often think history is made by a man or by somebody whos an official whos in government [and] has been given the power to exert leadership cobbs said but historians know that leadership comes from all different kinds of places and sometimes the bravest and most important most consequential leadership comes from everyday people cotera a prominent figure in the chicano civil rights movement and author of the 1977 book the chicana feminist noted that even within movements for justice and equality women often had to fight for a seat at the table she recalled a 1969 conference of the raza unida political party in houston in which a young man shouted at her to get off that stage and go home and do the dishes a lot of us realized at that moment that these men in the chicano movement thought that chicano liberation was literally chicano liberation and not liberation for everybody cotera said i realized there was nothing else to do but to organize the women to write to train to educate to raise the consciousness of everybody men and women that work is still ongoing today cotera said as she continues to fight for the same values of equality and fair treatment for women that she has held close to her heart since she was a girl
ive always said ive been a feminist all my life she said i cant remember a time when i wasnt a feminist swan had a very different journey widely known today as a successful advocate for the rights of women and native americans swan was born and raised on the colville indian reservation in northern washington she said her parents made it a point to treat all of their children equally regardless of gender but as an adult she would ultimately become all too familiar with the unique struggles faced by women in american society in 1973 swan was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1972 shooting death of william wesler a resident of her neighborhood in spokane who had attempted to molest her son swan shot wesler after he entered the home of her babysitter shirley hooper whose daughter had previously been raped by wesler swan and her children had gathered at hoopers home after police told her that they would not be able to arrest wesler until after the weekend i was convicted on may 13 1973 which was mothers day for protecting myself and eight children in that home swan said she said her experience while on trial made her keenly aware of the damaging effects of racism and sexism within the american justice system after years of legal battles she went before the washington supreme court which ultimately ruled in her favor and remanded her case for a retrial the courts ruling was a landmark decision that helped establish the specific rights of women to defend themselves and their children from male attackers swan said the help she received from her female defense team was largely responsible for her feminist awakening
i was proud of being sinixt swan said my dad was chippewa cree and assiniboine sioux i was proud of that but when i learned from my lawyers and the defense committee members the pride of being a woman i was doubly empowered presenting beals message for the audience was author and professor ula taylor of the university of california berkeley a life-long activist known for co-founding the third world womens alliance and authoring the highly influential pamphlet double jeopardy: to be black and female beal has spent decades advocating for peace racial justice and womens liberation with a particular emphasis on access to safe abortions prior to becoming a mother fran had had two abortions taylor said both were illegal and both almost killed her these experiences and that of her friend cassandra who had died from a botched abortion placed the importance of having safe options at the forefront of her thinking taylor noted that beals stance on reproductive rights was controversial within the often male-dominated racial justice movements of the era but she felt it was crucially important to get her message across it took courage for a black woman to talk about safe abortions taylor said it took courage to make distinctions between the choice of having a safe abortion and the forced sterilization of indigenous women african-american women and puerto rican women during a formal welcome to thursdays speakers communication professor and associate dean for inclusive excellence and strategic initiatives leroy g dorsey said their visit to texas a&m could not have come at a more important time im sure we might all agree that this conference is particularly critical at this juncture in american history with misguided and pernicious attacks on virtually anything related to race and womens rights dorsey said this conference represents a special moment as it serves as a reminder about the important role that the women being honored here tonight on stage have played in securing those rights we celebrate their inspiration and we are guided by the light that they cast
hello spring! what better way to welcome the new season than embracing warm weather and fresh flowers the college of liberal arts has put together a list of colorful blooms to look out for while making your way around aggieland this spring! use the images and hints below to complete our spring blooms scavenger hunt 1 maroon bonnets when you visit west campus you can find the state flower with an aggie twist in an outdoor educational space if youre a former present or future aggie visiting this spring these maroon bonnets are a perfect introduction to the aggie spirit! 2 peach tree blossoms while youre searching for the maroon bonnets you may run into these gorgeous tree blossoms make sure to ap-peach-iate their beauty! 3 solid maroon pansies these pansies line a famous walkway in the heart of campus with many different patterns and colors (including maroon!) these flowers are sure to brighten your day! 4 lily of the valley these little blooms may be easy to miss but a sharp eye while walking along military walk will see these bell-shaped lilies in front of a pink-brick building with their gorgeous shape and detailed pattern these flowers are tiny but mighty! 5 pansies visiting these blooms wont be a waste of time! as you enter campus from wellborn youll be greeted by a sea of pansies located in the center of a traffic circle 6 daffodils known as one of the first signs that spring has arrived youll daffinately have to visit these springtime blooms while being educated at this center! 7 sweet williams since this popular spot is a living memorial youll have to admire these blooms from afar! nonetheless their elegant nature encompasses the tradition and respect of the building they surround 8 texas mountain laurels last bud not least while youre strolling past this building with a deep connection to the liberal arts and humanities make sure to look up at these texas mountain laurels with their vibrant color and grape-like scent the blooms tend to attract butterflies! answer key the gardens the gardens military walk coke building clock tower harrington education center memorial student center liberal arts & humanities building
when a popular girl band wrote a song titled cowboy take me away in the late 90s they probably didnt mean for the lyrics to be taken literally by the united states president and media the chicks previously known as the dixie chicks captured small-town sentiments with songs like wide open spaces travelin soldier landslide and other tongue-in-cheek hits their descent from country music fame happened just as quickly one unpopular opinion uttered by lead singer natalie maines in 2003 about then-president george w bush set the chicks on the path to become one of country musics greatest disappearing acts could one comment really be what led to the chicks fall from grace on march 30 at 7 pm axs tv will uncover the mystery of what happened to the chicks with a little help from texas a&m philosophy professor claire katz who will guest in musics greatest mysteries (season two episode two) axs tv sought katzs help solving the chicks disappearance after coming across a scholarly article she wrote in 2008 which was inspired by a documentary about the bands disappearance called shut up and sing something about how theincident was being discussed bothered me and i couldnt quite put my finger on it katz shared so i did what all good humanities scholars do in this instance i read a lot walked a lot and then wrote my way through it until i figured out what i thought was missing in the analysis of the story about them katzs 2008 analysis ultimately concluded that the role gender played (evidenced by the gendered epithets) was at the root of the chicks disappearance from the music scene she continues to research the role gender played in the chicks story and said her research on the subject is even more important today the response to maines comment was so violent so severe and quite frankly so alarming katz explained in civil society is this how we respond to statements with which we disagree death threats and in the end the chicks were right it turned out that there were no weapons of mass destruction segments of the us government manipulated the narrative to gain support to go to war what happened to the chicks is a reminder that people do not like statements that make them uncomfortable; that disrupt a belief they hold dear and that they might have to give up this is a lesson that is unfortunately still needed today in her interview with axs katz draws from her continued research on the topic to help answer questions like what happened and why it was significant were the chicks the first victims of cancel culture and more contrary to how many people describe their story as a story of redemption i use the language of vindication and liberation katz said the chicks were liberated as women and as artists i dont mean to downplay the severe response to them the pain and loss of income and quite frankly the fear from such a vicious response but they were forced to redefine themselves to think about who they are and who they want to be vis-a-vis the music industry and their fans after airing the segment will be available online at axstv