Sports
October 11, 2021
Happy Birthday, Jimbo Fisher: Here’s a Win Over Alabama
The day the Texas A&M coach turned 56, his Aggies delivered the upset of the 2021 college football season.
Texas A&M
Sports
September 27, 2021
Losing to Arkansas Was Texas A&M’s Reality Check
The Aggies had dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to the College Football Playoff, but life in the SEC ain’t all peaches and cream.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher Is Worth Every Penny of His Contract Extension
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
Sports
August 19, 2021
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck! The Year of the Aggies Is Upon Us
With a top-six preseason ranking and a spot in the conference UT wants to join, Texas A&M is the state’s dominant college football program.
Sports
August 17, 2021
Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
Health
April 9, 2021
This COVID-19 Vaccine Plant Shows Texas Is Becoming Biotech’s Third Coast
With the pandemic spurring officials to keep more high-tech drug manufacturing on U.S. soil, the state stands to benefit.
Sports
March 23, 2021
2021 March Madness: Can Three Texas Teams Make the Women’s Final Four?
Texas, Texas A&M, and Baylor are still alive—and in separate regions—with a chance to make the national semifinals in San Antonio.
Art
August 17, 2020
At UT and A&M, Visionary Takes on Yearbooks Celebrate the Beauty of Blackness
These distinct initiatives embody something I long wished for while studying at a predominantly white Texas university: a community of color connected through creativity.
Art
February 21, 2020
Texas Monthly Recommends: Taco Night at Zavala’s Barbecue
Plus, artist Shyama Golden, a podcast connecting Texas A&M AgriLife to an underground mango trade, and plenty more.
News & Politics
January 22, 2020
Texas A&M Slaps Back at Harvard Critics of Its Beef-Industry-Backed Research
Chancellor John Sharp pens a strongly worded defense of the integrity of his university’s work.
Health
January 22, 2020
Does the World Need Doctors With Engineering Degrees?
Texas A&M wants to transform medicine by training a generation of innovation-minded physicians.
Sports
January 14, 2020
How the Aggies, Longhorns, and Bears Stacked Up This Season
LSU may have won the national championship, but we’d rather focus on arguing over which college football team was the best in Texas.
Art
December 23, 2019
“What Were You Wearing?”: A Roving Campus Art Exhibit Addresses Misconceptions About Sexual Assault
The show has traveled to the likes of Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
Sports
December 6, 2019
Put Texas and Texas A&M in the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, You Cowards
Two 7-5 teams renewing a rivalry that’s never really coming back is what this season deserves.
BBQ
November 14, 2019
BBQ News Roundup: a Barbecue Magic Trick, a Meaty Summer Camp, and a Sausage Caper
Plus: highlights from Texas Monthly’s annual smoked-meat extravaganza in Austin.
Sports
October 11, 2019
Why Oklahoma and Alabama Would Be Nothing Without Texas
Sure, they’ve had the better football teams in recent years. But we’re still the better state.
Sports
September 27, 2019
Is Kyle Allen’s NFL Debut What You Expected, Aggies and Cougars?
The Panthers backup quarterback is only the second in NFL history to throw for six TDs and no interceptions in his first two games.
The National Podcast of Texas
April 15, 2019
Texas A&M’s Michael K. Young: “I Never Want People to Think I Have All the Answers”
On The National Podcast of Texas, the university president talks college debt, diversity, the importance of science, and the strategy behind Jimbo Fisher’s salary.
News & Politics
November 29, 2018
Texas A&M Says Howdy to the Army Futures Command
General John Murray and his staff recently got their first chance to size up the research possibilities in College Station.
Sports
November 28, 2018
Should the Law Require UT and Texas A&M to Renew Their Rivalry?
There's a history of state legislatures intervening in intrastate football rivalries.
The Texanist
November 17, 2018
The Texanist: Why Is Mother So Unhappy About My Non-Texan Girlfriend?
A young Aggie just wants everyone to like his Wisconsin-raised sweetheart.
Sports
October 19, 2018
Jimbo Fisher: The $75 Million Man
Texas A&M head football coach Jimbo Fisher tells us what Aggies will get for their money.
Sports
September 12, 2018
The Aggies Knock Off the Longhorns as Nation’s Most Valuable College Football Program
Not bad for a couple of .500 ball clubs!
The National Podcast of Texas
September 4, 2018
Jimbo Fisher: ‘Whatever I Tell You, You Can Take It to the Bank’
Podcast: Andy Langer speaks with Texas A&M’s new head football coach about pressure, leadership, and the culture of Aggieland.
News & Politics
July 17, 2018
Texas A&M and the Nation’s Nuclear Arsenal
Chancellor John Sharp talks to Texas Monthly about a recent $2.5 billion federal contract that makes A&M accountable for ensuring the nation’s nuclear weapons will work if they are ever needed.
Energy
June 8, 2018
Rick Perry Hands Texas A&M Lucrative Los Alamos Contract
The current head of the Department of Energy gave his alma mater a $2.5 billion gig, and they beat out rival UT’s bid.
Politics & Policy
May 17, 2018
Texas A&M Sued for Social Media Censorship
PETA claims the university is blocking criticisms of alleged animal abuse on Facebook.
Sports
March 12, 2018
Texas Takes Over March Madness
With seven Texas teams in the field of 68 and the Final Four's location in San Antonio, this March Madness has a certain Texas flavor.
Sports
December 1, 2017
Texas A&M Football Makes a Splashy Hire With Jimbo Fisher
The Aggies win the headlines. The rest remains to be seen.
Sports
October 6, 2017
Aggies Want “12th Man Jesus” to Lead Out the Team Against Alabama
They knew him as 12th Man Jesus. He appeared, and it was good.
Sports
May 5, 2016
An Aggie Coach Tweeted Away Part Of The 2017 Recruiting Class
Stay off Twitter, everybody.
Health
February 26, 2016
Texas A&M And The Gates Foundation May Have Created A Supercondom
It fights AIDS even when it breaks, helps a fella out, and claims to feel better than not using a condom at all.
Sports
February 19, 2016
Texas A&M Could Have Female Yell Leaders For The First Time
What a time to be alive.
Business
February 1, 2016
The Hyperloop Got Its Design Preview At Texas A&M This Weekend
The future of transportation took another step from science fiction to science fact.
The Daily Post
November 12, 2015
Texas A&M’s “12th Man” Licensing Business Is About To Get A New Customer
The school, which has owned the trademark on ”12th Man” since 1990, has a history of renting it out to NFL franchises.
The Daily Post
October 22, 2015
A Texas A&M Student Was Arrested For Posting An Anonymous Shooting Threat On Yik Yak
Don’t post anonymous shooting threats.
Sports
September 14, 2015
Kyle Field Was Ready for Its Close-up
Sights from Texas A&M's first game at the newly renovated Kyle Field.
The Culture
May 8, 2015
Corps Values
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
The Daily Post
March 2, 2015
George R. R. Martin Gave the Texas A&M Library Its Five Millionth Book
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
The Daily Post
January 21, 2015
Five of the Riciest Things That Rice Ever Riced
A few of our brainiest school’s most brazen assaults on common sense, good taste, and sacred Collies.
Sports
November 12, 2014
Texas A&M Students Shouted Down a Westboro Baptist Church Demonstration With Yell Practice
The 101-year-old Aggie tradition found a new purpose on Monday morning.
Sports
October 20, 2014
A&M Fans Went Through the Five Stages of Grief on Saturday
How else do you react to a 59-0 thumping?
Sports
September 25, 2014
Hindsight is +20: Looking Ahead (and Back) at College Football’s Early Gambling Lines (UPDATE)
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
The Daily Post
August 28, 2014
Are Texas A&M And UTEP Two Of The Top Ten Schools In America?
A new list of college rankings from Washington Monthly puts two Texas schools in the top ten—but not the two you might expect.
Food & Drink
April 15, 2014
Fixing the Fruits of the Earth
The sweet onion! The mild pepper! The maroon carrot! These and countless other tasty fruits and vegetables wouldn't exist but for the scientists of the Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.
The Culture
March 12, 2014
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
The Daily Post
January 31, 2014
Texas Business Report: Texas A&M Gets Supercomputing Powers
The university partnered with IBM to provide advanced supercomputing systems that can crunch data and solve problems loads faster than the school's current equipment.
Politics & Policy
December 14, 2013
A “Crisis” at Texas A&M
A fight over the interim president grips Texas A&M.