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.
General John Murray and his staff recently got their first chance to size up the research possibilities in College Station.
There's a history of state legislatures intervening in intrastate football rivalries.
A young Aggie just wants everyone to like his Wisconsin-raised sweetheart.
Texas A&M head football coach Jimbo Fisher tells us what Aggies will get for their money.
Not bad for a couple of .500 ball clubs!
Podcast: Andy Langer speaks with Texas A&M’s new head football coach about pressure, leadership, and the culture of Aggieland.
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.
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.
PETA claims the university is blocking criticisms of alleged animal abuse on Facebook.
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.
The Aggies win the headlines. The rest remains to be seen.
They knew him as 12th Man Jesus. He appeared, and it was good.
Texas A&M is booming: new construction, world-renowned academics, and sports teams on the rise. The man behind all this success is the pickup-driving, straight-talking politician turned system chancellor John Sharp.
A Longhorn gives the Aggies their due.
Robberies. Car accidents. Snake bites.
Stay off Twitter, everybody.
It fights AIDS even when it breaks, helps a fella out, and claims to feel better than not using a condom at all.
What a time to be alive.
The future of transportation took another step from science fiction to science fact.
The school, which has owned the trademark on ”12th Man” since 1990, has a history of renting it out to NFL franchises.
Don’t post anonymous shooting threats.
Sights from Texas A&M's first game at the newly renovated Kyle Field.
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
A few of our brainiest school’s most brazen assaults on common sense, good taste, and sacred Collies.
The 101-year-old Aggie tradition found a new purpose on Monday morning.
How else do you react to a 59-0 thumping?
Last year, Baylor was an eight-point underdog against the University of Texas prior to the season. Which lines will completely change this year?
A new list of college rankings from Washington Monthly puts two Texas schools in the top ten—but not the two you might expect.
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.
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
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.
A fight over the interim president grips Texas A&M.
A few of our favorite reviews of the "dinosaur erotica" a couple of A&M grads are writing.
Is is Rick Perry versus John Sharp when it comes to naming an interim president at Texas A&M?
Which will simply never happen. But that didn't stop the proposal from inspiring outrage.
Would new Longhorns AD Steve Patterson be willing to revive the rivalry? College Station says it's in no hurry.
Rookie pitching phenom Michael Wacha, the pride of Texas A&M and Texarkana, brings his milkshake to Fenway Park for Game 2 of the World Series.
With DeLoss Dodds reportedly announcing his retirement Tuesday afternoon, it's time to speculate about the Longhorns job that's actually more important than head football coach.
With both USC and UT on the decline eight years after their BCS championship game, the firing of Trojans coach Lane Kiffin inspired lots of talk about Mack Brown and the Longhorns. And it also got tongues wagging in College Station.
The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats for the first time in five meetings, but the game's been overshadowed by more questions about Mack Brown's future.
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
An excerpt from S.C. Gwynne's September cover story on Johnny Manziel, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on August 21. (Illustrations by Nathan Fox. Color by Jeromy Cox.)
Why we put Johnny Manziel on the cover as a superhero.
Johnny Manziel seemed like a superhero, the Manziel of Steel, able to leap tall linemen in a single bound. Is he something else?
UPDATED: In an exclusive interview with S.C. Gwynne, Johnny Manziel confirmed that Texas A&M suspended him last summer. His successful appeal changed college football history.
The latest Johnny Football social media non-story, in which the Aggies' Heisman Trophy winner disses College Station in a tweet (and then deletes it).
Mickey Herskowitz covered the Texas A&M "Junction Boy" and former Houston Gamblers, University of Houston and Houston Oilers coach at nearly every stop.
Last week the Texas A&M student government passed, then vetoed a bill that would allow students to opt-out of the $2 tuition fee supporting the campus's GLBT community. It isn't the first time A&M has shown hostility toward homosexuality.
