Faculty & Staff Success

TAMUC History Professor Busts Myths About The Salem Witch Trials
Part 3 of the Spooky Stories Series When we think about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, we may conjure horrific mental images of women being burned a...

A&M-Commerce Professor Offers Insight on Teacher Retention in Texas
Dr. Kathryn Dixon, professor and head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at A&M-Commerce, was recently featured in a Dallas Morning News article about teacher...

TAMUC Professor Discusses University’s Quail Repopulation Efforts in Article
A&M-Commerce associate professor Dr. Kelly Reyna is featured in an article by the Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph, where he discusses the critical issue of declining quail pop...

A&M-Commerce Professors Team to Publish Book on Mental Health
Drs. Dimitra Smith and LaVelle Hendricks have published their latest book “Changing the Stigma of Mental Health Among African Americans: Mov...

TAMUC Professor and Alum Promoted to Associate Dean of Grad School
Dr. Jennifer Dyer from A&M-Commerce's Department of Curriculum and Instruction has been selected as the associate dean of the Graduate S...

Retired TAMUC College of Business Faculty Honored with Emeritus Status
Two retired faculty members in the College of Business at Texas A&M University-Commerce were honored with the distinction of Professor Emeritus by the Texas A&M Univer...

Scary Stories and Staying Power—TAMUC Professor Shines a Spooky Light on a Children’s Horror Classic
Part 1 of the Spooky Story Series For many of us, a childhood rite of passage was to get our hands on a book from Alvin Schwartz's “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series. The spine-c...

A&M-Commerce Faculty Secure $100k College Readiness Grant
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has selected A&M-Commerce to receive a $100,000 College Readiness and Success Models gra...

A&M-Commerce Professor Selected as Researcher of the Year
The Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration (TCPEA) has selected A&M-Commerce faculty Dr. Kriss Kemp-Graham to rece...

TAMUC College of Science and Engineering Names Associate Dean
Dr. Kent Montgomery has been appointed associate dean for the College of Science and Engineering (CoSE) at A&M-Commerce. He has served as...

A&M-Commerce Researcher Joins East Texas Conservation Project
A&M-Commerce assistant professor of biology Dr. Bjorn Schmidt secured a grant for $20,240.52 to participate in a collaborative researc...

A&M-Commerce Faculty and Students Conduct Elite Athlete Research Abroad
A team of A&M-Commerce researchers recently partnered with USA Track & Field to conduct research at the 2023 Thorpe Cup competition in Germany. The trip was sponsored by...

Texas A&M System Honors Former A&M-Commerce Professor
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents bestowed Dr. Martha Foote with the title Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instructi...

TAMUC Science and Engineering Dean Builds Bridges for STEM Success
As a young girl growing up in rural Lee County, South Carolina, Dr. Andrea Toney Graham had “big dreams of doing big things.” Since then, she has b...

TAMUC Research Cited in Article Analyzing STAAR Test Results
A recent Fort Worth Star-Telegram article analyzing Fort Worth ISD's performance on the newly reformatted STAAR statewide test cites a 2019 s...

A&M-Commerce Researchers Publish Pioneering Cell Biology Article
Researchers from A&M-Commerce and Texas Woman's University (TWU) have uncovered new information about how G1P3/IFI6, a gene of the huma...

A&M-Commerce and A&M AgriLife Research Partner for New Professor Hire
The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) at Texas A&M University-Commerce has partnered with Texas A&M AgriLife Research to hire a faculty m...

A&M-Commerce College of Science and Engineering Locks in Multiple Research Grants
From decoding the mysteries of the universe to engineering innovative solutions to real-world challenges, the College of Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University-...

A&M-Commerce Counseling Professor Earns Humanistic Teaching Award
A&M-Commerce faculty Dr. Ajitha Kumaran is the recipient of the 2023 Humanistic Educator/Supervisor of the Year award, presented by the...

Amanda Lowe Selected as TAMUC Director of Alumni Engagement
Texas A&M University-Commerce has hired Amanda Lowe as the new Director of Alumni Engagement. Lowe will assume the role on Monday, July 31...