Texas A&M's Wei Li and Jaimie Masterson are heading an ambitious project to help the small town of Nolanville, Texas become a “smart” city.

Dean Jorge Vanegas recently took on the mantle of president of the Pan American Academy of Engineering, an international organization that unites engineers from more than 18 countries in collaboration to design a better world.

In a new book, planning professor Forster Ndubisi advocates balancing human activity with ecological concerns to create sustainable, beautiful places.

Associate professor Andrea Roberts heads the Texas Freedom Colonies Project in an effort to preserve the heritage of Texas's all-Black communities.

Michelle Meyer, the director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, is studying the emergence of volunteer participation in disaster rescue.

Visualization professor Francis Quek is studying how to best teach STEM concepts to minority and/or rural students in Texas.

Flood researchers, including LAUP associate professor Galen Newman, are learning there's no "one-size-fits-all" solution to flooding.

Texas A&M's Colonias Program and its director, Oscar Muñoz, work with public and private agencies to help improve the lives of Texans living in colonias.

Opifex, Austin's only minority-owned construction equipment rental company, is headed by four former construction science students from TAMU's Construction Science Department.