Around Texas

Heroes from the Texas A&M System responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11. Twenty years later, the current leader of Texas A&M Task Force One talks about how the terrorist attacks shaped the team. Also 20 years ago, Aggies organized an effort to show support for first responders by wearing red, white and blue to a football game. In 2021, Aggies organized a similar display.

The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is now home to the locomotive that carried the late president’s body to College Station. And Harley-Davidson Motorcycles works with trainers from the Texas A&M System to train police on how to tactically maneuver the popular brand of police bikes.

A student-designer from Prairie View A&M and construction science students from Texas A&M collaborate on a museum exhibit that honors African American heritage. And see how the tree-lined campus at Prairie View A&M has been reborn under the leadership of President Ruth Simmons.

Giving new meaning to the term rescue dog, many of the canines that serve on Texas A&M Task Force 1 came from shelters. Meet one of them. Also, students in a unique master’s program at Texas A&M-Kingsville get to use the famous King Ranch as their laboratory.

The Texas A&M Forest Service is working to find new ways to balance a fragile ecosystem and save the Ponderosa Pines of the Davis Mountains in West Texas. Also, up in the Panhandle, a musical production as big and bold as Texas has brought folks to the Palo Duro Canyon for 50 years.

The farrier at Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine was kicked in the chest by a horse. Strangely, it might have saved his life. Also, the Texas A&M Forest Service limits wildfire damage with lessons learned from the massive fire in Bastrop in 2011.

Memo Salinas, a senior at Texas A&M, is the university’s first Hispanic Yell Leader. Hear his story of inspiration. Also, meet Dr. Kelly Reyna. He is known as “The Quail Professor.” Hear about his life’s journey which includes time on a nuclear sub and his work as the world’s preeminent quail researcher.

Dr. Edla Sanchez, who runs the top natural toxins research lab in the nation at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, takes us back to Falfurrias High School, where she first discovered her love of science — and she’ll show us some of the deadly snakes she works with every day. Also, the planetarium at Texas A&M University-Commerce has a freshly minted PhD with a love for Astronomy.

Texas A&M System biologists work to eradicate the feral hogs that are tearing up Texas farms, ranches, parks and golf courses. And Dr. Jeff Tomberlin, an entomology professor at Texas A&M, discusses his work with black soldier fly maggots that might just help save the world by providing a zero-waste option for organic recycling.

A former U.S. Navy rescue swimmer sails around Cape Horn for PTSD awareness and makes a film about the treacherous journey. And see how acupuncture and other treatments for people can help our four-legged friends too.

Texas A&M-Galveston's Dr. August "Gussie" Rother, who heads up the Department of Maritime Transportation, tells about life at sea, and Texas A&M celebrates 100 years of one of its most famous traditions by presenting some old footage of the original 12th Man himself, E. King Gill.

The Texas A&M University System celebrates the holidays through music. Hear the Singing Cadets from Texas A&M in College Station, organ music from Texas A&M International University in Laredo and jazz from Texas A&M-Kingsville.