Outside the Classroom

A&M-Commerce Professor Receives Advocate of the Year Award
Dr. Nathan R. Templeton, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at A&M-Commerce, received the Advocate of the Year awar...

A&M-Commerce Professor Featured on Early Childhood Podcast
Dr. Josh Thompson, professor of early childhood education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at A&M-Commerce, is featured...

A&M-Commerce to Host Premier Meeting of Physicists
Physicists far and wide will visit Texas A&M University-Commerce from March 23-25 when the university hosts the 2023 Joint Spring Meetin...

A&M-Commerce Kappa Delta Pi Chapter Celebrates 75 Years
The A&M-Commerce Zeta Mu chapter of Kappa Delta Pi recently celebrated its 75-year anniversary. The chapter was founded in 1948. Kappa De...

A&M-Commerce Faculty Member’s Analysis of Southwest Airlines Meltdown published in Star-Telegram
A&M-Commerce faculty member Brandy Runyan was featured in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article about the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis that resulted in a majo...

A&M-Commerce Society of Physics Students Chapter Maintains Top Status
The A&M-Commerce chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has received the national organization's Outstanding Chapter Award for the second consecutive year. The...

A&M-Commerce Editing Team Releases Newest Issue of Literacy Education Journal
The Texas Association for Literacy Education (TALE) has released the newest issue of the Texas Journal of Literacy Education. The issue is the first to be edited by a team of A&...

TAMUC Department of Counseling Honors Mesquite ISD School Counselors, Mental Health Professionals
The A&M-Commerce Department of Counseling honored more than 200 Mesquite ISD school counselors and mental health professionals on Friday, Dec. 9 at the K. David Belt Profes...

A&M-Commerce Faculty Members Co-Edit Literacy Association Yearbook
Drs. Juan Araujo and Kathryn Dixon are co-editors of the recently released Association of Literacy Educators & Researchers (ALER) Yearbook. The yearbook is an annual doubl...

A&M-Commerce Chemistry Faculty, Students Present at Regional Meeting
Students and faculty representing the A&M-Commerce Department of Chemistry gave 12 presentations at the 78th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting held N...

America’s Fastest-Growing Sport is a “Big Dill” at A&M-Commerce
Students, faculty, staff and community members certainly relish the opportunity to learn and play pickleball at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Dubbed America's fastest...

A&M-Commerce Students Attend, Compete at Regional Educator Conference
A&M-Commerce students, Susan Macias, Reagan Shaw and D'Andre Harrison (pictured left to right), participated in the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) Region 1...

A&M-Commerce Professors Co-Author, Illustrate Children’s Book
A&M-Commerce Professors LaVelle Hendricks and Dimitra J. Smith are co-authors of a new children's book, “Stan the Can Has No Magic: An edu...

A&M-Commerce Student Group Collects Holiday Cards for Troops
The A&M-Commerce chapter of the Texas Association of Future Educators hosted a table at the Rayburn Student Center on Nov. 17-18 to collec...

A&M-Commerce Team Gets in the Mix at Concrete Competition
A team of A&M-Commerce students competed in the Pervious Concrete Cylinder Competition, held Oct. 23 during the American Concrete Insti...

A&M-Commerce Faculty, Staff Share Expertise at Renowned Competency-Based Education Conference
Representatives from Texas A&M University-Commerce attended the CBExchange conference hosted by the Competency-Based Education Network in Amelia Island, Florida, fro...

A&M-Commerce Department of Counseling Recognizes, Honors School Counselors
Texas A&M University-Commerce and the Department of Counseling hosted a luncheon in Dallas on Thursday, October 20, to recognize school counselors and celebrate their vit...

TAMUC College of Innovation and Design Dean Featured in Interview
Yvonne Villanueva-Russell, Ph.D., who serves as founding dean of the College of Innovation and Design at A&M-Commerce, is featured in an...

A&M-Commerce Grad Student Receives Conference Grant
The Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading (TAIR) awarded A&M-Commerce student William Roby the TAIR Emerging Literacy Leade...

Lion’s Lecture Speaker Series Returns at A&M-Commerce
A&M-Commerce faculty, staff and students gathered on Sept. 29 to welcome the return of the Lion's Lecture Series presented by the Graduat...