Around Texas

Robert Earl Keen, one of Texas A&M’s most famous former students, played his final concert in Aggieland on Sept. 2 at Aggie Park. Also, learn more about the massive park project that turned an unused area of campus into a beautiful space.

A Texas A&M student battles pancreatitis and creates a movement to help other children battle the same disease. Also, find out how the front lines of a wildfire are managed.

A Texas A&M student runs from College Station to Las Vegas to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club. Also, when NOAA abandoned its sea turtle rescue program on the Gulf Coast, an A&M Galveston professor took up the responsibility and now is working to build a multimillion dollar Sea Turtle Rescue Center.

One of the summer camps that Texas A&M hosts is designed specifically for adults with disabilities. Also, Metra Mehran, a native of Afghanistan and a graduate of A&M’s Bush School, escaped the Taliban with the help of a group of Aggies and friends in the intelligence community.

Each semester, students in the vet tech program at Texas A&M -Kingsville work with – and often adopt – local strays from the pound that are brought into the program. Also, Dr. Katherine Brown of Tarleton State University is one of the nation's top researchers when it comes to criminal justice and working with police departments.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Dance Director Jilissa Cotten broke her neck while boogie-boarding and had to re-learn how to walk and how to teach dance. Also, the Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M has served the coastal community for over 50 years through outreach and research.

The REACH Project was created to help “invisible Aggies,” the essential workers of the Texas A&M campus who care for the students, faculty and facilities. Also, a forester with the Texas A&M Forest Service explains how to use wood instead of steel to build multi-story buildings.

A unique center at Texas A&M teaches students the management, handling, behavior and veterinary care of exotic wildlife species. Also, meet an instructor of the Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M, as he transforms an elective course into a documentary series about history, medicine and the lessons from our past.

Dr. Rob Ambrose, a former NASA robotics expert, is now teaching at Texas A&M. Also, since 1972, Texas A&M Football has had just two head equipment managers; we will meet one of them.

The red-cockaded woodpecker is an endangered species that has found refuge in the urban ecosystem of the W.G. Jones State Forest. Their champion is Donna Work, a Texas A&M Forest Service Biologist who climbs 40-foot pine trees to check on the birds. Also, the team at the Texas A&M Tele-behavioral Care Program is using virtual counseling to help communities and schools across the Brazos Valley.

Dr. Wachsmann, a professor of biblical archeology at Texas A&M, took part in an amazing find at the Sea of Galilee in 1985. Also, when the pandemic hit, studying abroad was put on hold, but that didn’t stop two Texas A&M professors from giving their students a virtual study abroad experience.

In the final episode of the season, we tour the Texas A&M System’s RELLIS campus in Bryan to see what’s happening at the new Bush Complex Development Complex, and listen to Christmas music from around the System.