Research Links
Vision 2020 Initiatives
The Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies
The Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies was established at Texas A&M University in March 1996, to recognize, help develop, and coordinate the various telecommunications and information technology efforts and expertise at Texas A&M. The Academy fosters collaboration for academic programs, technology research, development and deployment. To address statewide needs and national challenges for information technology and telecommunications services, the Academy focuses on several key priority areas.
Bioinformatics at Texas A&M
Texas A&M University has an active and expanding interdisciplinary research and educational program in bioinformatics.
Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis
The Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis at Texas A & M University is a component of the Department of Chemistry. The Center is a research support facility partially funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research, that provides state-of-the-art capabilities for organic and inorganic analysis and structural characterization. Four specialized laboratories each address a specific area of interest.
Center for Environmental and Rural Health
Center for Information Assurance and Security
The Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) combines some of the most advanced expertise in the nation to address the broad spectrum of issues involved in the expansion and protection of information and communications infrastructure systems. The CIAS recognizes ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability for business, government, and commercial information systems is imperative to the nation's progress and security.
Center for Integrated Microchemical Systems
The Center for Integrated Microchemical Systems (CIMS) was formed on 1 September, 2000 by the Vice President of Research at Texas A&M University. The objective of the CIMS is to stimulate interdisciplinary research using integrated micro- or nano-scale chemical systems. We envision that such systems will be used for synthesis, separations, and detection.
Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation
The Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation focuses on the history of civilization as revealed through excavations of significant shipwrecks, sunken port cities, and ports at key junctures of history in both the Old and New Worlds. Its interdisciplinary efforts also include deep-water archaeology. In collaboration with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the Center provides a mechanism through which interdisciplinary research in maritime archaeology and artifact conservation is disseminated to the public and to graduate students in the Nautical Archaeology Program.
Center for the Study of the First Americans
The Center for the Study of the First Americans explores the questions surrounding the peopling of the Americas through research, education, and outreach programs. The center is involved in numerous research projects to understand when the first people entered the New World and to learn about the lifeways of these early immigrants. As part of this effort, the center is involved in the training of students who will go on to continue first-Americans research. The center also disseminates the results of this and other research to the general public through its outreach programs.
The China Archive is a data archive dedicated to support of scholarly, empirical research by anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and others in the fields of business, agriculture, and engineering. The goal of the Archive is to enable case research on Chinese domestic matters and China-U.S. relations, as well as to facilitate the inclusion of China in more broadly comparative studies.
Comparative Medicine Program (CMP)
The mission of the Comparative Medicine Program (CMP) administration is to enhance excellence in research and teaching through the provision of high quality animal care, at an affordable cost to the faculty, consistent with standards established by the "Guide for the Care & Use of Laboratory Animals" and all pertinent local, state, and federal laws.
Texas A&M University and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) signed a five-year agreement of cooperation in higher education and research in April 2001. The agreement emphasizes joint programs including collaborative research programs, faculty and researcher exchanges, non-degree student training, graduate student education, and post-graduate certification. Under this agreement Texas A&M and CONACYT have each dedicated US$200,000 per year for the Collaborative Research Grant Program to fund inter-institutional research proposals between Texas A&M and Mexican institutions.
Council of Principal Investigators
The Council of Principal Investigators (CPI) consists of individuals elected to represent Principal Investigators (PIs) from members of the Texas A&M research community. The Council is committed to the continued improvement of the research environment for students, faculty, and staff. Specifically, the CPI, and the PIs it represents, endeavor to work with administration to provide an effective and efficient research organization, to achieve the goal of being nationally recognized and competitive in research and teaching.
Gaines Junction
The Gaines Junction is the Online Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Journal of History named in honor of Matthew Gaines, one of the foremost African-American leaders in Texas during the second half of the 19th century. Published by the Sigma Rho chapter of Phi Alpha Theta with the support the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Department of History at Texas A&M University, new issues of the Gaines Junction appear in the spring and fall of each year.
Geochemical & Environmental Research Group
The Geochemical & Environmental Research Group serves the University and the state in matters pertaining to science and the environment. We support the mission of the College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies through an emphasis on applied oceanographic, geochemical, and environmental research. Regionally, nationally, and globally, we strive to link academic education and research in our College and in our University to the real-world needs of government and industry. As a team, we value initiative, innovation, and performance. We take pride in our flexible, state-of-the-art capabilities for research, analysis, and monitoring. We recognize that continued excellence in this arena requires our personal commitment at every level of training and experience.
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
The Glasscock Center is dedicated to fostering and celebrating the humanities and humanities research among the community of scholars at Texas A&M University and in the world beyond the academy. In addition to bringing scholars together around a particular theme for lecture series and conferences in alternate years, the Glasscock Center awards annually the national Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. The Glasscock Center also supports humanities students and faculty at Texas A&M University with a number of funding opportunities. Fellowships, a variety of travel and research grants, and co-sponsorship grants for related humanities activities are regularly available. The center also holds a monthly colloquium during the academic year, where faculty and graduate students present their works-in-progress to gatherings of interested colleagues.
Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI)
The challenges facing the petroleum industry as result of the downsizing of corporate research are unprecedented. The Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) is the managing partner of a Cooperative effort to conduct critical research in the development of petroleum technology. Research findings will lead to the application of new and innovative technologies in petroleum exploration and production to address the increasing demand for cost-effective production and enhanced recovery. As leading producers of petroleum engineers and petroleum technology, The Texas A&M University System, through GPRI, is uniquely positioned to have a direct impact on the quality of education and research in an area of vital economic importance to the world
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
The Hazard Reduction and Recovery center (HRRC) was established at Texas A&M University in 1998. The center engages in research in hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The staff of the HRRC is interdisciplinary in nature and includes the expertise of architects, information technology specialists, political scientists, strategists, emergency managers, planners, geographers, psychologists and sociologists.
Institute of Renewable Natural Resources
The IRNR is an organizational component of the Agriculture Program (AP) of the TAMU System. Its purpose is to coordinate, strengthen, and integrate inter-and multi-disciplinary approaches to renewable natural resource issues by providing a forum for quality research, teaching, and extension programs to explore the structure, function, and sustainable use of renewable natural resources in Texas, the nation, and the world.
Institute for Scientific Computation
The Institute for Scientific Computation is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the applications of digital computing in mathematics, engineering and applied science.
Laboratory for Molecular Simulation
The Laboratory for Molecular Simulation brings molecular modeling and computational chemistry closer to the experimental scientist by offering advanced training and assistance to those who already use these tools in their research, and beginning training to those who have not yet used them. Advanced modeling software is available to use mathematical methods to calculate the properties of individual molecules, solids, and liquids.
Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center
The Mexican American and Latino Research Center facilitates research across the state and nation on the social, cultural, economic, health, political, educational, and demographic issues facing Latino/a and Mexican American citizens.
The Microscopy and Imaging Center (MIC) serves a wide range of faculty and students of Texas A&M University. The MIC is a centralized research and teaching facility which provides light, electron, and scanning probe microscopy research services for both life and physical scientists. It has support staff knowledgeable in operation of these instruments, as well as in preparation techniques of specimens. users who need to analyze images have access to a range of input devices and highly versatile image acquisition, quantitation and reproduction. The staff also trains potential users who wish to conduct their own work on the equipment.
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
NSBRI research seeks solutions to health concerns facing astronauts on long missions. Patients on Earth suffering from similar conditions will benefit from these advances. Texas A&M University is a member of the NSBRI consortium.
Native Plants of South Texas Virtual Herbarium
This herbarium focuses on native plants from the northern portion of the South Texas Plains and the southern portion of the Hill Country. Collections were made from the area bounded by San Antonio on the east, Sonora on the west, Cotulla on the south and Junction on the north. Click on any of the categories below to access a list of common and scientific names, or use the color chart to find a flower. This herbarium was developed by a team comprised of faculty, a research technician, and undergraduate interns.
Office of Technology Commercialization
Private Enterprise Research Center
The mission of the Private Enterprise Research Center (PERC) is to provide Texas A&M University, the state of Texas and the Nation with analysis of important policy issues. For the last quarter century, PERC has been active in supporting economic education, academic research and conferences, and in studying critical public policy issues. The staff at PERC has been involved in studying issues related to revamping the way Medicare and Social Security are financed, in writing on the health care market, and in evaluating government spending.
The Protein Chemistry Laboratory is a core resource facility created and funded under the auspices of the Office of the Vice President for Research of Texas A&M University. We have recently relocated from the Old Chemistry Building on main campus to the Biochemistry Building on West Campus and are now "up and running." The laboratory has been established to support research in protein chemistry and molecular biology in the Texas A&M University System and to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation and technical expertise for the application of modern molecular biological technologies. The PCL is overseen by a committee that meets regularly to discuss issues relevant to the facility's operation.
Public Policy Research Institute
The Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) is an applied, policy-relevant research organization. PPRI provides scientific research and evaluation services to both public and private sponsors including various federal, regional, state, and community agencies actively engaged in determining public policy.
Race and Ethnic Studies Institute
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute's mission is to conduct and disseminate - at regional, national, and international levels - interdisciplinary and policy research pertaining to race and ethnicity across various public policy areas.
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Texas A&M Environmental Health and Safety Department
The Texas A&M Environmental Health and Safety Department administers safety and health programs for Texas A&M University and monitors safety initiatives throughout the Texas A&M University System.
Texas AgriLife Extension
Extension offers practical, how-to education based on university research. It's available to any resident of Texas. You may read it in the newspaper, hear it on the radio, attend an Extension workshop, order a publication, or just call your county Extension office!
Texas Engineering Experiment Station Research Services
TRS was established to support the research efforts within the Engineering Program and TEES, and to assist TEES researchers in obtaining external funding.
The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Texas Sea Grant Program
Sea Grant promotes and sponsors research, education and outreach programs aimed at the wise utilization and conservation of the nation's coastal and marine resources in order to develop and maintain a sustainable economy and a healthy environment.
Texas Transportation Institute
The mission of the Institute is to engage in research pertaining to all forms of transportation - including all phases of activities concerned with the movement of people, goods, and services - and to identify and help solve major state and national transportation problems. To fulfill this mission, TTI conducts interdisciplinary and multi-modal research extending into the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, enforcement, economic, environmental, and social aspects of transportation.
Texas Water Resources Institute
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) is a joint state-federal institute administered under Texas AgriLife Research and Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Texas and by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as one of the National Institutes for Water Resources. The institute, led by Director Allan Jones, provides leadership to stimulate and help find funding for priority research and educational programs in water resources with all Texas universities and in collaboration and partnership with local, state, regional and federal agencies. TWRI links academic expertise with agencies and stakeholders to provide research-derived, science-based information to help respond to diverse water questions and issues. TWRI sponsors two competitive grants programs for students. Some funds received from the USGS are used to provide up to $5,000 scholarships for graduate students studying water. The Mills Scholars Program provides awards of $1,500 to graduate students researching water issues at Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University-Galveston. TWRI produces communications materials, including its newsletter publications: “txH2O” and “New Waves,” to convey critical information and to gain visibility for university-based water research and educational programs.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
The World Shakespeare Bibliography on CD-ROM 1987-1994 provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced during 1987-94.
Undergraduate Science Research Club (UGRC)
University Research Council (URC)
The University Research Council (URC) provides advice and assistance to the Vice President for Research on development, research planning, and policy. The URC shall be chaired by the Vice President for Research. Members include the associate deans for research for each college, the Dean of Bush School, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Associate Dean for Research at Galveston, other individuals appointed by the Vice President for Research, representing the Library, the Faculty Senate Research Committee, the Council of Principal Investigators, and faculty members from each college who have broad experience in research or research management.
