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Gourd for good: Habitat for Humanity’s Pumpkin Patch is back
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Pumpkins of all kinds fill Habitat for Humanity’s annual Pumpkin Patch. Between the pumpkin picking, family photos and occasional marriage proposals, one fall tradition has become about much more than Halloween. The tradition brings people together while raising money to help build affordable homes for locals. Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humanity’s Pum
Hayrides, fall festivities, flying pumpkins
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It’s that time of year again, when the weather gets colder, classes get harder and the need to reconnect with nature begins to sprout in just about everyone’s minds. For those looking for a getaway from the chaos of campus, follow Wellborn Road south for about 10 minutes to find the Millican Reserve Conservancy. The...
Crossing bylines: Alabama
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While Texas A&M football dodged last week’s chaos across college football — 5 of the top 7 teams in the AP Poll all lost — with a 41-0 win over The Citadel, No. 13 Alabama was not so lucky, as it fell 26-10 to then-No. 14 Tennessee in a rivalry matchup. With the Aggies sitting...
A&M student wins World Armwrestling Championship
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Animal science senior AJ Adamek walked up to the stage and extended his arm onto the table. Across from him was Colombia’s representative, Leyder Alvarez. Whoever won the match would become a world champion. It took mere seconds for AJ to become the Junior Sub-95 Kilo Armwrestling World Champion. AJ spent his adolescence arm wrestling...
New faces in new places
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Ny’Ceara Pryor and Fatmata Janneh’s exits leave Texas A&M women’s basketball without its top-two scorers from the 2025-26 season. Without Pryor, the Aggies lost their primary ball handler, who averaged a team-high 16.3 points and 7.0 assists last year. As for Janneh, she entered the transfer portal following a season-ending knee injury against Auburn in...
Student-built drone carries twice its own weight
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A drone built by the Texas A&M Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory carried more than twice its own weight through a four-nautical-mile course at the first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Lift Challenge, a feat only 6 of 87 competitors accomplished. The first-year challenge pushed teams to design drones that carry far more than...
Aggies aim to turn tide
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“There’s going to be a beatdown,” Stephen A. Smith said on ESPN’s First Take in 2021. “A massacre is coming.” The “massacre” in question was Texas A&M football’s hosting of No. 1 Alabama, the defending national champions, on Oct. 9, 2021. After losing its then-freshman starting quarterback Haynes King to an injury in Week 2,...
Researchers map aardwolf chromosomes for first time
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Researchers at Texas A&M, partnering with the Twin Pine Conservation Institute, or TPCI, have developed the first detailed chromosome map of the aardwolf, a member of the hyena family, laying the foundation for further studies of the species and contributing valuable information to the field of genetics. The research, led by Terje Raudsepp, Ph.D., a...
‘Beyond 150’: 20-year strategic plan to guide university
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Unveiling a new strategic plan on Sept. 28, Texas A&M President Susan Ballabina, Ph.D., laid out the university’s shared vision, “Beyond 150,” which she says will guide the university’s decisions for years to come. As the third student body president and vice president sitting on the plan’s executive committee, industrial engineering senior Duncan Poling and
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